This week I taught myself a new tool and I’m very excited about it. Let’s start with the problem to be solved, shall we? As you may already know, the Programming By Stealth community is working on porting Bart Busschots’s XKPasswd secure, memorable password generation service to modern web tools. Bart created the original service […]
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NC #981 Y-Brush Electronic Toothbrush, XKPASSWD Beta, Govee Smart Lighting, Apple Vision Pro Boredom & FOMO, INNOPHYS Muscle Suit, ViXion01 Autofocus Glasses
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Tuesday, February 20, 2024, and this is show number 981. As you’ll notice, this episode is coming out super early since we’ll be out of town for the weekend. […]
Continue readingNew and Improved XKPASSWD — Now in Beta
If you’ve been a NosillaCast listener for any length of time, you’ve heard Bart and me talk about a service he created called XKPASSWD, This service helps you create long, strong, but memorable passwords. He wrote this service a zillion years ago in the Perl language and hosted it at xkpasswd.net. This is such an […]
Continue readingCCATP #755 — Bart Busschots on PBS 142 — The XKPasswdJS Project Kickoff!
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart officially kicks off the XKPasswdJS project. This is what we’ve all been waiting for! As I said to Bart at the end of our recording, we’re no longer fixing to make a plan, we have a plan. The shownotes for this episode point to the README […]
Continue readingNC #847 – 3 iPad Stands, Princess Medallion, Home Assistant, AirPlay 2 with Sonos, Random Passwords in Your Head
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, August 1, 2021, and this is show number 847. This week Steve and I had a lovely week-long vacation with our daughter Lindsay, her husband Nolan, and our […]
Continue readingCreate Long, Strong, Memorable and Typeable Passwords with xkpasswd.net
If you already know what xkpasswd is, and you want to jump right to the tutorial, click here. What is xkpasswd? Back in 2011, Randall Munroe, the author of the fantastically nerdy and hilarious comic strip XKCD wrote a comic he calls Password Strength. In the illustration he explains how by forcing humans to create […]
Continue reading#482 Why We Buy Physical DVDs, DVDpedia and Pocketpedia, Power-All Portable Power Bank, xkpasswd 2
I got to be on Bart’s show Let’s Talk Apple at lets-talk.ie. Why Steve and I still buy physical DVDs and how I use DVDpedia from Bruji.com to catalog all of our DVDs, and sync over to Pocketpedia for iOS. Intergalactically famous Honda Bob reviews the POWER-ALL Portable Power Bank to charge your devices AND […]
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