I manage Site Reliability Engineers at Aiven and talk about Software Engineering in the Engineering Kiosk Podcast.
Checkout my articlesWriting is an invaluable skill that needs to be trained like every other muscle. Writing forces you to think more about a topic, how to express this clearly and enable others to consume your thoughts asynchronously and at their speed. Check out my training progress and thoughts below.
Modern login systems require a second factor (2FA) to log in, in addition to the standard username and password combination. A Time-based one-time password (TOTP) as a 6-digit number is often used. Password managers like 1Password, KeePass (or respective forks) and others offer the ability to store (and generate) the 2FA TOTP. For a long time, I was asking myself: Why is it recommended to have a Username, Password, and 2FA in the same storage (like 1Password)? Isn’t this against the basic idea of a second factor (regarding the storage places to gain access to)?
For the last 11 years (2012 - 2023), I was the main organizer of the local tech meetup Web Engineering DUS in Düsseldorf, Germany. At the end of 2023, my peer Dominik Siebel and I handed over the Meetup ownership to Dario Tilgner to continue to run the meetup with a new perspective, new spirit and a new refreshing approach. This blog post summarizes critical learnings from the past 11 years of local tech meetup activities.
A list of articles that i highly recommend to read, because they changed the way i think, speak and behave.