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mkenyon commented on US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade counterpointresearch.com/... · Posted by u/flykespice

mkenyon · 2 years ago

Food bank usage is up ~30% year-over-year. Hardly surprising that people are delaying upgrades for smartphones.

(Not a “grrr, smartphones” post, just a sad reality post)

mkenyon commented on $HOME, not so sweet $HOME gist.github.com/sharadhr/... · Posted by u/delta_p_delta_x

mkenyon · 2 years ago

Staff dev on 1Password’s developer tools here. We screwed this up in our first few releases of the 1Password CLI, largely out of ignorance. Those releases stored config in $HOME/.op at first. But early feedback pointed us to XDG, so we migrated. Now we check:

1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.op (if var is set) 2. $HOME/.config/op 3. $HOME/.op

I hate to be the dev who says “I don’t know why those other code bases find it so difficult that they put up a fight” but our `findConfigDirectory()` function isn’t exactly complicated, even when you consider all the operating systems that the 1Password CLI supports.

(Sorry for the formatting, I’m on my phone.)

mkenyon commented on JMAP – a modern email open standard jmap.io/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

mkenyon · 3 years ago

I love JMAP. It's what allowed me and my team (at 1Password) to easily add support for Masked Emails, where we randomly generate your email address in addition to your password.

Our own Madeline Hanley wrote about that experience, if you'd like to see what it's like to work with JMAP: https://blog.1password.com/making-masked-email-with-jmap/

mkenyon commented on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password fastmail.com/1password/... · Posted by u/davidbarker

Aeolun · 4 years ago

Doesn’t that rather defeat the point though? I can set up a wildcard for fastmail and use any account name I want to sign up to services without any intervention from 1password.

Edit: saw someone point out this only works for one user per domain.

mkenyon · 4 years ago

I've been a happy Fastmail customer for years prior to working on this feature. I've used a wildcard with my Fastmail account, created a new email address for each service I sign up with, and stored that email address in 1Password. All by hand. It's a tiny hassle, but one that I think is worth it.

The Masked Email integration makes that entire process automatic. It's even easier than before. It's enough to convince a few Fastmail-using friends to start doing it.

mkenyon commented on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password fastmail.com/1password/... · Posted by u/davidbarker

Teknoman117 · 4 years ago

I've had this thought for a product multiple times. I run my own mail server, and for years I've created a random email for every service. Main reason was to figure out who is selling my email addresses.

The main thing that always held me up was, how do you plan to avoid getting blacklisted at the domain level if people start abusing the ability to create random emails? A few services I use even disallow Gmail addresses.

mkenyon · 4 years ago

That's a good concern.

I can't fully speak for the Fastmail folks, but I know that there are a few upper limits for how many masked email addresses that one account can create. We tried to set them unreasonably high to allow for all manner of legitimate use while still preventing bad actors. They're also monitoring usage and tuning that limit. Plus, you can always email support and ask for a increase for your specific account, if you ever bump up against it.

mkenyon commented on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password fastmail.com/1password/... · Posted by u/davidbarker

mkenyon · 4 years ago

Definitely! You can decide within Fastmail’s settings[0] which domain you want to use for masked emails. It can be fastmail.com, one of their fun domains like afcrichmond.uk, or one of your own. I've even seen some 1Password coworkers buy a brand new domain purely for their masked emails, so you can generate a “good.castle3827@youdontneedtoknowme.com” while still using “me@mydomain.ca” for your actual personal email.

[0]: https://www.fastmail.com/settings/domains

mkenyon commented on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password fastmail.com/1password/... · Posted by u/davidbarker

pionar · 4 years ago

With fastmail, you can do that already. I do that. I have addresses like some_random_list_I_joined@mydomain.com

mkenyon · 4 years ago

True! I've been doing wildcard.company.name@mydomain.com for a few years now with Fastmail. This makes it one step easier to generate that email address, as well as one-click blocking any alias that starts receiving spam.

mkenyon commented on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password fastmail.com/1password/... · Posted by u/davidbarker

davzie · 4 years ago

Hang on hot potatoes. I use 1Password. So are you saying I can generate a login that uses

myaccount+alias@mydomain.com

automatically?

mkenyon · 4 years ago

Those +plus aliases still make it easy for people find your actual email address.

We go one step further and generate a random email address for each new service you sign up with. It'll look something like "hot.potatoes4827@mydomain.com".

You can create a new masked email anywhere you have the 1Password browser extension, including our brand new iOS Safari extension.

mkenyon commented on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password fastmail.com/1password/... · Posted by u/davidbarker

davzie · 4 years ago

I love the idea of doing this. Just like I do the idea of using Apple's "hide my email" feature. But in reality you're completely locking yourself into that provider. What if I want to change provider or the provider decides to sunset this feature. My logins are now split up so much it'll be a full time job getting them set back to my primary email address. It's a trade-off I guess because you can't solve it any other way from what I know of!

mkenyon · 4 years ago

Hi, one of the 1Password engineers who worked on this. Glad to hear that you like the idea!

One of the really nice parts of building this out with Fastmail is that you can create Masked Emails for your own domain. So, if you ever decide that Fastmail isn’t right for you, then you still receive all of those emails when you set up a wildcard alias with your new email provider.

Similarly, if you ever decide that 1Password isn’t right for you, that doesn’t stop you from receiving your emails. And the email addresses should still be part of your 1Password export.

mkenyon commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021) · Posted by u/whoishiring

mkenyon · 5 years ago

1Password | Backend Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE + FULLY DISTRIBUTED (Canada, USA)

1Password is the world’s most-loved password manager.

I’m the tech lead on the Administrator Tools team. We build products, feature sets, and tools for our most powerful users. From building usable and scalable means of managing vaults, groups, and users, to making account recovery simple, and secure, we enable administrators to manage 1Password for their entire company.

You may be a fit for the role if you:

* Are excited to learn new things as you tackle new features and make existing ones better * Have a critical eye for detail and you understand that perfection is the enemy of good * Show a healthy balance of being able to work collaboratively while also taking responsibility for the tasks assigned to you * Show a penchant for clean, idiomatic code that's easy to read and maintain * Have a strong understanding of web server and RESTful API design * Are proficient in writing well-optimized MySQL database queries * Know secure coding practices * A thorough grasp of how networking works

Bonus points if you have:

* Experience with Golang. It's certainly nice, but not required. Show us that you have a great understanding of any modern programming language, and we'll trust that you'll learn Go just fine. * Experience with JavaScript, Typescript, and/or React.js. Sometimes you’ll need to dive into the frontend to understand how a feature works.

[ Administrator Tools, Backend Engineer ] https://jobs.lever.co/1password/7166a990-80c2-4cdb-b619-0fab...

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or are curious: michael.abon ＠ 1password dotcom