Alex King

If you did cross paths with Alex King, please share your stories with his wife at heatherkingcom@gmail.com .

From http://alexking.org/blog/2015/08/24/rememberances

One of the things my wife and I are trying to do is put together some information about my career that will hopefully give my 6 year-old daughter a better sense of who I was as an adult. She knows me as “dad”, but when she gets older she’ll be curious about who I was to my peers and colleagues.

I’ve spent more than a decade in the WordPress community and I’d like to request that you to share a few thoughts or remembrances about me that we can compile and share with her when the time is right.

If we have crossed paths or if I have managed to do something that you found helpful, I’d love it if you would take a few minutes to write it down and send it to me or my wife: heatherkingcom@gmail.com. If you’re willing to have the story shared publicly, please indicate that accordingly. By default, we will keep everything confidential.

This would be a great feature in a lot of web-based apps. Generate a few hundred passwords when you are on a secure connection, use them when needed.

Edit: I found a few implementations.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-time-password/

http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/27/phonefactor-10

http://henrik.schack.dk/yubikey-plugin/

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2008/07/21/one-time-and-sms-passwords/

http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=276

Yubikey looks interesting and they also have a web service API.

http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/
http://www.yubico.com/developers/api/

MyPW is another web service: https://www.mypw.com/

OpenOTP supports both hardware tokens (also supports Yubikeys) and all kinds of phones.

http://www.rcdevs.com/products/openotp/

I hadn't kept up with Alex, but I do remember interacting with him and looking up to him while I was in college and even after. He was always so impressive.

While I always admired him, I'm even more in awe now. It takes someone really special and thoughtful to create the kind of lasting impression he has left on his site for his daughter, his wife, and his family and friends. You can get a taste here: http://alexking.org/blog/2015/08/24/rememberances

To all his friends and family, so sorry for your loss. Alex impacted so many people, many who will never know, but all of whom benefit from his far-reaching technical work and his community-building efforts.