Holding my YubiKey right, like an adult

As I mentioned previously, being indie for most of my career means I missed out¹ on all kinds of Very Adult things like “Eng All-Hands” meetings, scheduling PTO, and wielding a YubiKey without accidentally brushing it with my finger and spraying OTPs into random Slack channels.

Turns out, posting cccccdcdgvabcttbifbktebucugkvndfrbekidlhfruh into a Slack chat full of Adults you respect² is kinda embarrassing! Even when you’re quick to “Delete message…”

What’s a dev to do? On macOS:

brew install ykman && ykman otp swap

That command “moves OTP to slot 2.” I have no idea what slot 2 is, but I do know it makes the thing only spit out an OTP after I hold my finger on it for a few seconds.

So, I’m now holding my YubiKey right, like an adult. Next up: my first performance review! 😬

Some might use the word “avoided” here, but I’m enjoying this strange new world, so I’m sticking with “missed out”, at least for now. ↩︎
All of which, I’m sure, already know how to hold their YubiKey correctly. ↩︎