Joël Franusic
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The Development Environment of the Future
Here’s a thought exercise for you: How will we develop software in the near future? Below, I’ll lay out what I think that looks like. Some of the things in this post exist in some form already. And some things don’t exist… yet. To begin, I’m going to start with a short story about someone using this futuristic development environment: A Story Imagine Viola. She is a software developer at Sunnyvale Systems, a logistics company....
Setup a Mute Indicator Light for Zoom with Hammerspoon
In this post, I’m going to show you how to set up a light that will turn on when you’re in a Zoom call. The color of the light will show your mute status, red will indicate that you’re muted, and green if you are not muted. Because Zoom doesn’t provide a native interface for determining mute status, I will instead use a tool called Hammerspoon to accomplish this. Note: Unlike most software for macOS,...
Reintroducing Joël Franusic
Hi, my name is Joël Franusic and I’m happy to announce that I am, once again, a developer advocate at Okta, focusing on the Python and Go communities. (Why do I say “once again”? Because six years ago, I started my Okta career as a developer advocate but over the course of time I worked in a series of other roles including: “Software Engineer”, “Technical Marketing Manager”, and “Product Marketing Manager”) This blog post has...
Secure Applications with Certificate Pinning
In the famous 1993 cartoon from the New Yorker, one canine sits at a PC, looking at another, and says, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” More than a quarter of a century later, digital certificates have made us more certain who we’re talking to online, but there are still problems that mean we can’t be 100% sure. Certificate pinning serves to close that gap by narrowing down the certificates we accept from...
SAML: What's Behind SSO
Apple’s recent announcement of a single sign-on (SSO) solution, Sign in with Apple, has developers everywhere thinking about how to incorporate it into their application’s infrastructure. Apple is hardly the first organization to introduce SSO—it’s a security-focused methodology that has been available for years—and one of the protocols behind it is SAML. The SAML protocol lets users prove their identities across multiple applications with just one set of login credentials. It was ratified in 2002...
Add the Power of Webhooks to Your App with Okta's System Log
UPDATE: Since this article was written we’ve released official webhook support in Okta! If you’d like to see an easier way to handle webhooks in Okta, please check out our new docs. If you’ve used webhooks before, you probably understand the magical powers they boast. Do you want to build a sleep tracker for your dog? Get notified when it’s going to rain? Or maybe have new Eventbrite attendees automatically added to Salesforce? You can...