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