It’s pretty easy if you don’t mess up like me. So I won’t be telling what to do(Ok I will), but rather what not to do!

Sooooo, I like backend now. Primarily because of Node.js, I love that thing. And as you might know, this blog streams my laptop’s speaker output, so using websockets was an obvious choice. Now, I would not want someone else to take over and hence would deploy some authentication mechanism.

You open terminal, enter a command, it asks for password, you swipe your thumb over the fingerprint sensor and voila, the command executes. Sounds perfect, except I don’t have a fingerprint sensor, nor do I have a phone with one. What I do have, is a normal phone on which...