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My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.

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  • Certificate Transparency in Firefox

    Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate Transparency.It may be late, but combined with CRLite (and its other ...

  • Why I choose Microdata

    The four most popular ways to use RDF-based metadata on websites are RDFa-Core, RDFa-Lite, Microdata, and inline JSON...

  • Scrapers I block (and allow), with explanations

    Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scraper...

  • My workouts

    Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of e...

  • A clarification on Google Page Annotations

    Reply to google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this by solarbird I agree wholeheartedly with Google’s Pa...

  • Your keystroke biometrics are everywhere

    Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprin...

  • Chromium’s influence on Chromium alternatives

    I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default s...

  • Post-OCSP certificate revocation in the Web PKI

    OCSP, including OCSP Stapling, is leaving the Web PKI. Here's a complete look at revocation beyond OCSP: its past, pr...

  • Lose-able keys are a feature

    In opsec, duress (“rubber-hose”) attacks are famously hard to address. Cryptographic keys that cannot be lost have po...

  • Common Crawl and search engines

    Reply to We really fucking need a community owned search engine index that fucks the corporate rules (but still respe...

  • On a more selective Google

    Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent Schmalbach Selectivity is long overdue. Marginal...

  • Caveats to Ungoogled Chromium recommendations

    In the wake of a certain ad-funded browser company bundling adtech into its browser yet again, some people have been ...

  • On valid XHTML5 again

    Reply to what if I put in a bunch of effort to make my website valid XHTML5 by LunarEclipse Switching a site to XHTML...

  • Progressive enhancement class feedback

    Reply to Progressive Enhancement Class by Dillo browser This page at the time of writing grades websites’ progressive...

  • Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak

    My thoughts on Google's Content Warehouse API doc leak, what we can learn from its ranking factors, and why the follo...

  • Next steps for my search engine collection

    Reply to A look at search engines with their own indexes by Seirdy My search engine article blew up recently, as yet ...

  • Coercion and Windows Recall

    Reply to I’ve got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works. by evacide The best ways to improve opsec a...

  • Website todo

    A catalog of all the website improvements I hope to make on seirdy.one, but haven't gotten to yet (and some that I ha...

  • Classic web badges

    My curation of over 70 88x31 badges, representing what I and this site use and stand for.

  • Unencrypted connections do mean injection

    Reply to wdym [ISPs inject content], any examples? by dflxh, posted 2024-04-15 My previous response to similar concer...