Using GPG can feel like a miniature nightmare of being stuck in a maze. There are too many options, and it’s hard to know which are “safe” or reasonable. …

I went to the effort to print out my Vaccine QR code, but hang on, isn’t this 2021? Let’s put this into Apple Wallet. Step 0: Get your vaccine! Get your Vaccine QR Code Download Pass2U Wallet from the App Store In Pass2U Wallet, click the Hamburger menu, select “Pass Store”, Select the “Popular” tab, then search for “Vaccine” and select the CA Digital COVID record. You’ll be asked to fill out your details, and scan your QR code. Pass2U will likely ask you for $2. I think it’s worth it.

Berkeley had a problem. Cars coming off the I-80/580 interchange were overwhelming a narrow residential street, causing delays and accidents. A citizen petitioned the City Council to create a 4 way stop at Gilman St and Peralta Avenue. This was approved by the council, referred to the City staff, and…

It’s been raining a lot in Oakland recently, and somehow the keypad on the condo security panel shorted out and no longer works. This means that my old method of using Twilio to dial a passcode to let me into the building no longer works. I can open a call…

Feature flags are an essential part of the modern web application. Decoupling the activation of features from deployment means there are fewer things to worry about at deploy time, teams can deliver features to customers, and segment features to specific audiences. Client Side flags present a security problem — what…

This article is a response to Clay Shentrup’s https://medium.com/@ClayShentrup/land-value-tax-1ce8c743a248 The Purpose of Tax Clay lists: There are precisely two reasons for any tax or subsidy. They are: 1. To directly affect the welfare of the recipient. 2. To address an externality (Pigovian taxes/subsidies). This is the foundation of the flaws in his argument against…

Kong is pretty cool. Auth0 is pretty cool. They should work together. This guide details the fastest way to get your APIs to validate JWT tokens issued by Auth0. Pre-requisites: Create a Auth0 account. The account name is referred to “COMPANYNAME” for the sake of the guide. Setup a Kong instance…

Read the original here Felix Sargent started his career as a developer and now works at Rackspace as a product manager How did you become a product manager? During one development project, I was the person who ended up facilitating the discussions about what to build and the kind of work…

Your backlog is too long. You know it, your team knows it. There are things in there from two years ago, collecting dust, feeling neglected. Issues that may or may not have been fixed, long forgotten festering in the unprioritized dungeon of your backlog. Delete them. “As a database, I…