My wife likes to know when I’m going to be home after work. She often makes dinner for the whole family or the kids need something from me or she simply wants to know when her relief is going to arrive.

I’ve written about getting started with YubiKey and using a YubiKey to authenticate with GitHub in the past few months. Yesterday, GitHub announced support for Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) and specifically, support for YubiKey devices. You can read GitHub’s announcement here and Yubico’s coverage.

I was able to get my YubiKey Edge working with GitHub Two-factor Authentication recently. On github.com I went through the two-factor setup and selected the authentication app option. When I got to the screen with the QR code I launched the YubiKey Authenticator app on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.x) and plugged in my YubiKey Edge. I then chose the File -> Add option in the menubar. I actually had to click back and forth between the YubiKey Authenticator icon in the Dock and any other app icon in…

From May 5, 2002 through March 29, 2014 I blogged at trajiklyhip.com and later aaronwest.net/blog. I wrote 599 posts during this timeframe mostly on programming in Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion. Each post received, on average, 8,053 views. My most viewed post was on installing ColdFusion 9 on CentOS Linux. That post garnered 197,856 views. Total views on the blog to date are 4,823,875.

I haven’t blogged on this website in well over a year. In fact, in 12 years of writing on this site I’ve only published 599 posts. That’s on average 50 posts a year. I think I’ve figured out why it has been so hard for me to add content and posts to this site in the way I had hoped. I was focusing more on getting posts perfect than on getting the basics covered and published.