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Adam Lear

New York, NY

Developer at Stack Overflow. Canadian working in the American idiom.

Once upon a time:

  • community manager at Stack Overflow
  • elected moderator on Stack Overflow and Software Engineering
  • desktop software developer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Email me a link to your favorite Wikipedia article: adam@stackoverflow.com.

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Global auth is dead! Long live universal login

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