OTPilot automatic account detection from QR code

OTPilot update: you no longer need to know what a "TOTP secret" is

When I first shipped OTPilot, the setup required you to paste in your base32 TOTP secret manually. That’s fine if you’re a developer, but it’s a dealbreaker for everyone else. So I went back and rethought the onboarding from scratch — and the result changes what OTPilot actually is. The big new thing: automatic account detection When you enable 2FA on any site, that site generates a secret and usually shows you a QR code. Hidden in that QR code is a standard URI that looks like otpauth://totp/GitHub?secret=.... OTPilot now scans the page for that URI automatically — no QR scanning, no copy-pasting — and shows a floating card: “Save GitHub to OTPilot?” One click, done. ...

11 de mayo de 2026 · 2 min · Alberto Paparelli
OTPilot Chrome extension popup

OTPilot: The 2FA extension I built because I was tired of copy-pasting

If you work in dev or QA, you probably know the pain: you’re in the middle of a flow, you hit a 2FA screen, you grab your phone, open the authenticator app, squint at the 6-digit code that’s about to expire, type it in, and then repeat the whole thing 10 times a day. I got tired of it, so I built OTPilot. What it does OTPilot is a Chrome extension that auto-fills TOTP codes (the kind Google Authenticator generates) directly into the login page, eliminating the need for a phone. You configure which URLs it should watch, and it handles the rest: detects the field, fills the code, submits the form. ...

9 de mayo de 2026 · 1 min · Alberto Paparelli

Aplicaciones para servidor de Conectar Igualdad

Ya está liberado el CD de instalación para los servidores del plan Conectar Igualdad. Este proyecto lo realizamos cuando trabajaba en la Cooperativa de Trabajo Devecoop Ltda. Surgió de la necesidad de las escuelas de tener disponible en la intranet aplicaciones como WordPress, Moodle, etc. Pero como no todas las escuelas tienen internet, se tuvo que buscar otra solución. El CD se va a repartir en las escuelas oficialmente, pero desconozco cuándo. ...

29 de octubre de 2013 · 1 min · Alberto Paparelli