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Long-pressing a Yubikey Nano will generate a 44-character random-looking string like "ccccccjlkgjlevtdernkbbnrrvhcvgbljgchbgbdbvgk" as an OTP token because it emulates a keyboard. This is really annoying for Yubikey Nano, which you can leave plugged into your laptop at all times, and gets sporadically triggered by my lap, which my laptop sits on for a long time. I wanted to disable this. Unfortunately, Yubikey Manager is deprecated, so the existing Reddit documentation doesn't help. Instead: - Install Yubikey Manager - Click "Toggle Applications" (see https://imgur.com/a/rhvcPlE) - Uncheck "Yubico OTP" (see https://imgur.com/a/rhvcPlE)

Use the Yubico Authenticator for Desktop on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computers to generate OATH credentials on your YubiKeys.

Python 3.10 (or later) library and command line tool for configuring a YubiKey. If you’re looking for a graphical application, check out Yubico Authenticator. tl;dr: to disable the keyboard oops every time I hit the yubikey: brew install ykman && ykman config usb --disable otp

A novel-writing tool created by a novelist.

3/4 oz Scotch (1/2 oz Famous Grouse + 1/4 Ardbeg 10 Year) 3/4 oz Amaro Braulio 3/4 oz Giffard Banana Liqueur (Tempus Fugit) 3/4 oz Lemon Juice

3/4 oz Dry Vermouth (Noilly Prat) 3/4 oz Cynar 3/4 oz Amaro Ramazzotti 3/4 oz Amontillado Sherry (Lustau) 3 dash Cardamom Bitters (Bitter Housewife)

AI does not, therefore, diminish the craft; it widens it, deepens it, and makes more of the work explicitly intellectual. The work becomes differently difficult because it demands more sophisticated forms of expertise: judgment over recall, architecture over syntax, orchestration over implementation. These are not easier skills to develop or demonstrate, they are simply different ones, and perhaps ultimately more demanding.

This was originally posted on X and blew up. To plant my flag, to say that these are things I believed in September 2026, here it is on the blog, non-ephemeral. Some of these predictions are just observations, they’ve long been true at companies like Amp. Others will take some time to play out.

The main problem with using your git hosting location is that your code is now coupled to a hosting provider. That is, if you move your git hosting to GitLab then you have to change your code! Otherwise, you’ll be fetching the old verison. This can result in you being unable to change git hosting provider because the amount of overhead in switching. So you literally end up with your code coupled to GitHub. Which sounds completely nuts, but it’s something that is pretty much defacto in the Go community.

This was the flagship keynote for the framework’s premier gathering, and it felt less like an affirmation of Rails’ future and more like an intellectual abandonment of its foundational craft, delivered by a creator increasingly insulated from the core community that used, supported, and helped build Rails alongside him.

New reporting by Fortune revealed the disastrous results of Shopify’s all-out scramble to embrace AI nearly a year ago. After telling workers that using AI tools is a “baseline expectation” in the workplace, Lütke is now changing his tune as workers spew out AI-generated emails, memos, and code without double-checking it beforehand. “We call those ‘slop grenades’ that people toss at each other,” Lütke said in an interview on the Knowledge Project podcast. “That’s definitely a bad thing.”