That mysterious string of characters someone just pasted into Slack? That's a YubiKey's OTP slot firing. Here's how to disable it via the ykman CLI or YubiKey Manager GUI, and why it won't affect FIDO...

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I created an OpenID Connect and OAuth spec graph in a Mermaid diagram in a GitHub repository.

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I have observed several avoidable missteps when people try to build a brand-new engineering team from scratch, and I believe there are a few rules of thumb that can help.

Since I am not a scalable replacement for ChatGPT or Google, and because I felt this would be helpful beyond my own company, I felt compelled to write this post due to the sheer volume of questions I ...

I was trying to run SpinRite 6.1 on some drives from an old Drobo 5N NAS that bit the dust a few years back, but I didn't have an x86 machine handy, but after a bit of research I found a very elegant ...

All has been quiet on the blogging front, since life has been busy: on top of my wife and I moving houses in August, as part of the COO Leadership Development Program (LDP) at Autodesk I had the oppor...

I would be remiss if I wrote my next blog post without reflecting on a recent amazing and profound experience I had in Tokyo, as part of Autodesk's COO Leadership Development Program.

Python has become the lingua franca for developing various AI/ML solutions (and more), but getting started with setting up a proper Python environment can be tricky and involve several hours of resear...

Back in the early part of my career, I found myself thrust into an environment that in retrospect was entirely predicated upon a waterfall design methodology. We would do big design up front, in excru...

I have pushed the content of this blog post to GitHub Pages with zero use of a personal access token (fine-grained or otherwise) or even an SSH key. How is this possible?

Chefs have a saying: mise en place, or

Time and attention and energy are utterly precious and fleeting resources. Following that, there are few things you can do that are more egregiously and flagrantly detrimental to a colleague's time, a...

Whether for your your team, or for your product or service, a designated code name provides maximum flexibility in the face of what is an ever-present constant in our lives: change.

Point solution infrastructure as code (IaC) templates get very tiresome very fast, because they're not reusable.

In a previous post, I discussed the topic of vendor lock-in with cloud providers, and why I thought it was over-emphasized. I'd like to further highlight my stance using a real-life example of actual ...