I'd rather be programming
Update: This post made the front page of Hacker News! Check out the discussion on HN . Those of you who are avid readers of my Stack Overflow profile know that I am the creator of JGuitar.com , a popular guitar chord and scale calculator website. I'm also a longtime fan of Apple products. So you can imagine my surprise and delight when I received this message in my inbox this week from a JGuitar…
If your website features a username+password authentication system, you owe it to your users to offer 2-factor authentication (or 2fa for short) as an additional measure of protection for their accounts. If you're unfamiliar with 2fa, it's that step in the login sequence that asks the user for a (typically) 6-digit numeric code in order to complete user authentication. The 6 digit codes are either…
After a protracted quiet period, I'm rebooting my blog. Applause all around (from the 2 people who stuck around all these years waiting for a new post). As for the reasons I failed at blogging the first time around and what I can do to succeed this time, that will be the subject of a future post. As a first step in the reboot, I decided to migrate my blog off a self-hosted Pebble /Tomcat setup and…
Of all the " Hello Worlds " I've cranked out as a programmer, this is perhaps the only one where the title has really been apt. Yes, I finally drank the delicious blogger kool-aid and decided to take a leap into blogdom. I guess this means I'll start using words like blogosphere, blogophilic and blogophobic. If I'm really successful, I'll even coin a new term in this blog. Here, let me try...…