Posts tagged "Software Engineering"

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WebAuthn for Dummies Like Me

January 25, 2026 • software engineering, security, authentication, webauthn, cryptography

For a new project at work, we didn’t want to do passwords. The two candidates were magic links and WebAuthn, and we ended up going with magic links—but I got curious about WebAuthn anyway, so I built a demo app to understand it.

Still More YAML

December 26, 2025 • software engineering, meta-work, infrastructure, devops, career development, engineering management

My friend Alexa is a graphic designer. Last week I asked her what percentage of her time she spends on meta-design. She asked me what that meant.