Matthew Miller 

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Full Stack web dev, WebAuthn expert. Creator of SimpleWebAuthn, maintainer of py_webauthn, steward of webauthn.io. Duonaut @ Cisco.

I also like video games, gadgets, and 3D printing ๐Ÿ‘พ

My toots are my own.

Personal Bloghttps://blog.millerti.me/about/
GitHubhttps://github.com/MasterKale
SimpleWebAuthnhttps://simplewebauthn.dev
py_webauthnhttps://github.com/duo-labs/py_webauthn
Gravatarhttps://gravatar.com/matthewe9dc5fc3c8

I'm working to aggregate some common questions about #passkeys, both from non-technical and technical perspectives. These will be used in an end user facing site in the future.

Any and all feedback is welcome.

https://forms.gle/wmaydkzmUp2eKfJG7

(also would appreciate some reposts to widen the audience)

#passkey #webauthn #fido

Questions about passkeys

I'm working to aggregate some common questions about passkeys, both from non-technical and technical audiences/perspectives. These will be used on an end user facing resource in the future.

Google Docs

New blog post just dropped ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ‰

An AI-skeptical senior engineer's guide to making the most of Claude

https://blog.millerti.me/2026/03/02/an-ai-skeptical-senior-engineers-guide-to-making-the-most-of-claude/

#millertime #blog #echofeed

An AI-skeptical senior engineer's guide to making the most of Claude

I'm reluctantly coming around to AI. Here's some ideas that Claude gave me on how best to use it while keeping a human (me) in the loop.

Matt's Headroom
What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

New blog post just dropped ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ‰

How many WebAuthn library downloads a month?!

https://blog.millerti.me/2026/02/28/how-many-webauthn-library-downloads-a-month/

#millertime #blog #echofeed

How many WebAuthn library downloads a month?!

A quick SimpleWebAuthn and py_webauthn popularity check vis-a-vis number of downloads over the last 30 days.

Matt's Headroom

At #Authenticate this year, @iamkale, Nishant, and I decided to mix up the usual "Passkeys 101" and cover common misconceptions about #passkeys. Topics around cloud sync, phishing resistance, workforce usage, and concerns about vendor lock in.

https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/preso-authn25-myths/

Passkey Mythbusters: Short Takes on Common Misunderstandings @ Authenticate 2025

Passkeys promise to replace passwords with a simpler, more secure login experience, but myths and confusion still hold many organizations back. This session at Authenticate 2025 tacklea some commonly heard questions and misconceptions about passkeys and breaks down the facts in clear, practical terms. Youโ€™ll walk away with a solid understanding of what passkeys really solve, what they donโ€™t, and how to approach adoption with confidence.

Timbits

XHTML 1.1 was the path to enlightenment but we lost our way

#webdev

sorry for the outages. i'll try not to bump it again

I don't know who else needs to hear this but there's a dev build of Ice (the macOS menu bar app) available that works on Tahoe:

https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.13-dev.2

#macos #tahoe

Release Ice 0.11.13 (macOS Tahoe Beta 2) ยท jordanbaird/Ice

Note This beta release fixes a majority of known issues introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe. What's New Adopted liquid glass design. Reorganized settings interface for more intuitive navigation. More he...

GitHub

Aww yeah No Man's Sky: Breach was just announced with a bunch of corvette improvements and a new expedition to unlock some cool looking ship parts ๐Ÿšช

https://www.nomanssky.com/2025/10/expedition-twenty-breach/

#NoMansSky

Expedition Twenty: Breach - No Man's Sky

Hello, It's hard to believe it's only been a little more than a month since our tiny No Man's Sky team launched the super ambitious VOYAGERS update. We spent over a year pouring a lot of love into it, so it has been incredible for the team to watch the reaction and see us hit our highest...

Hey Mastodon folks, what's a good iOS client these days that won't strip out your markdown when you author toots on your phone? @MonaApp's not cutting it for me anymore, unfortunately.

#mastodon #ios