The YubiKey Chronicles: A Hardware Hero in a Digital World

How I became a cybersecurity wizard with a YubiKey ? You know those moments when you realize your digital life is hanging by a thread? For me, it was juggling dozens of remote VMs, a GPG key that felt more exposed than an open Wi-Fi network, and online accounts (Google, GitHub, and Cloudflare) that deserved better than “Password123”. That’s when I decided it was time to level up and get myself a YubiKey—the GOAT of hardware security keys.

A Git Release Strategy That’s Worth Your Commit-ment!


First let’s talk about my current release strategy: a lone master branch soldiering on as the sole gatekeeper of my code. It worked so far, sure. But every time someone pushes code (of course via PR) , my team holds its breath, wondering if it’s a blessing or a bug bomb. No judgment here—it’s a rite of passage in the software world.

Spring Data REST: Building RESTful APIs with Ease

Spring Data REST is a module that builds on top of Spring Data JPA, allowing you to expose your repositories as RESTful web services with minimal configuration. It provides out-of-the-box support for common CRUD operations and hypermedia controls (HATEOAS), which helps in creating self-descriptive APIs.