Need a password?
I'm in the annoying position of having to think of passwords all the time for different things. At work, for security purposes we have to change our passwords often. For my scatter brain, that's time consuming and half of the time I forget.
Last week I was annoyed enough to make a password suggestion tool called Hobbitwerk:::pwd.
It always has a suggested password but you can use the 'Again' button to get a different suggestion. You can also add some of those "complexity" features: special characters, numbers, and upper case. When you've got a password you like, down at the bottom you can put in your email address and send it to yourself. Unless you forget your email password, you won't forget what's generated.
Actually this is the second password generator I've made recently. I did one at work but because it was supposed to be high security I was grabbing lots of random stuff so the passwords came out like 98js!@#$. Yeah, secure but impossible to remember.
Hobbitwerk:::pwd is simpler, but better. It just pulls a word out of the dictionary and then adds complexity to it if you need it. If you increase the required length of a password, words are concatenated together. It makes things easy to remember, and easy to work with.
Though it started off as an idea for an evening I've been using it consistently. Hopefully someone out there will also find it useful.
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