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Welcome to volume thirty-six of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week the open web is in its endgame, and threat actors have an absolute field day. So stop everything else you’re doing and get scrollin’!
published April 8, 2026
#infosec #indieweb
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Captain's Log, Entry: March 30, 2026

Spring has sprung, and with it a new garden 🌱 — the Vulnerability Garden 🪴! That’s been a big focus of mine the last week or so (and is still under development for my v1.0 release). I was in San Francisco earlier this month ✈️. Nothing else particularly noteworthy to...
published March 30, 2026
#life
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Welcome to volume thirty-five of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week, if you haven’t already, you should make a fuc**ng website. Y’know what? That’s it. Just go do that.
published March 27, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Welcome to volume thirty-four of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we explore the everything web, chill in the Fediverse, and let the madness (AI) consume us.
published March 24, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Beep, Boop, Sad 🤖 😞

"AI" is making me, and a lot of other people sad. This collection of links will give you an idea why...
published March 13, 2026
#technology #ai
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Welcome to volume thirty-three of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we’re laying the foundation for our home(s) on the Internet, we archaeologize the social web, and congratulations are in order for the CVE program—exciting!
published March 13, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Useful Pokémon

Inspired by this post on Threads, I thought about which Pokémon would be the most useful to me in real life. Here’s what I came up with (in index order)…
published March 12, 2026
#life #pokemon
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The Colonization of Confidence via Sightless Scribbles

Wow. A powerful essay on humanity, and what we can’t replace with an LLM, no matter how many tokens we throw at it.
shared March 9, 2026
#life #ai #writing
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Conflagration

My story of burnout, and some resources/analysis for spotting, mitigating and treating burnout.
published March 9, 2026
#infosec #life #career
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Museum memories

This month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by James (of James’ Coffee Blog), is “Museum memories”. I wouldn’t say I’m a big museum go’er or anything, but I’ve been to my fair share. As such, nothing immediately sprang to mind as I thought about how to respond to this particular prompt. Ultimately...
published March 6, 2026
#life #iwc
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Welcome to volume thirty-two of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we take a look at what it means to be part of the IndieWeb community, we advocate for the Fediverse, and we take a look at things more and...
published March 6, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Using MAESTRO to Secure Agentic AI

Taking a look at MAESTRO and commenting on it's novelty and use as a threat modeling framework.
published March 5, 2026
#infosec #ai #threatmodeling
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Welcome to volume thirty-one of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we discuss curation on the web, how community bridges protocols and we grab some popcorn for the latest encryption drama!
published February 27, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Captain's Log, Entry: February 26, 2026

It’s been a busy month on the blog! So what’s goin’ on… I’ve added a bunch of new pages to the site, and have been publishing a variety of notes and posts. I’ve mused on how to get myself academically/professionally motivated once more and also appended a new thoughtstream section...
published February 26, 2026
#life
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'Self-host it' is an answer. Let me explain...

My response-to / thoughts-on Neil’s write up, ‘Self-host it’ is not the answer.👹 Strapping on my devils advocate horns hat…Neil is right, self-hosting isn’t a panacea for the ills of big tech, and barriers absolutely exist, some insurmountable for many, but I think spreading the self-hosting gospel, i.e. educating the...
published February 24, 2026
#technology #selfhosting
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Why I email complete strangers via Good Internet

It’s simple. Just send a message to the folks who you appreciate. They’ll really enjoy it. It’ll likely make their day! It takes virtually no time at all really, and you’ll feel good about it. It’s wins all around.
shared February 20, 2026
#life #web
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Setting off on a self-hosting journey

I want to self-host a bunch of things. Why? Let’s see here… techno-fascism, privacy disasters, tech companies randomly sunsetting things, enshittification spirals, etc… I’m tired of it. I want to run some stuff myself, own the data, and be happy with my tech.
published February 20, 2026
#technology #selfhosting
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Welcome to volume thirty of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we make the web beautiful, beat the drum of decentralization, and find a whole slew of cybergems.
published February 20, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Garden Plan 2026

What I plan to grow in my garden in 2026.
published February 19, 2026
#life #gardening #gardenlog
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citations.css

I previously introduced the idea of using CSS as a means to selectively style references to other sites/authors/creators. There I also suggested using indieweb.txt as a place to share one’s own reference info, including this css styling. Since I somewhat routinely credit or otherwise shout-out other IndieWeb personalities throughout this...
published February 17, 2026
#technology #indieweb
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Things you'll NEVER hear me say

A list of things you’ll absolutely NEVER hear me say…
published February 13, 2026
#life
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Welcome to volume twenty-nine of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we’re keeping it real on the web, navigating our social crises, and goin’ through the cyberlist.
published February 13, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Fun With The Web via Patrick Brosset

I’ve always thought the best way to learn something was to have an idea on how you actually would want to use something. Even better, find something that you find genuinely fun. Learning takes time, and time flies when you’re having fun!
shared February 13, 2026
#technology #web
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Write about the future you want via Dave Rupert

I like this idea. It’s easy enough to point out the flaws in the world. Why not try to solution things, and bring some much-needed positivity to the world? Write about the future you want to see, not the present that has let you down.
shared February 13, 2026
#life #web
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The Human Web

An introduction to the Human web, and how one can be a part of it.
published February 13, 2026
#technology #indieweb
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Intersecting Interests

My entry in the February 2026 IndieWeb Carnival all about Intersecting Interests.
published February 7, 2026
#life #iwc
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Welcome to volume twenty-eight of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we discuss the importance of having a website and do some tubular indie-web surfin’ (with a few other fedi bits and cyber bobs thrown in for fun).
published February 6, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Lessons Learned from 20 Years & Why You Should Blog via Adam Caudill

So many great nuggets of advice here—on minimizing writing friction, owning your (domain) name, building a site rather than just a blog, ignoring analytics, writing referential content that can live beyond the week it was written, being authentic, writing with a focus on quality (over quantity), using copious links to...
shared February 4, 2026
#life
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Make a Fucking Website via make.afucking.website

What are you waiting for!
shared February 4, 2026
#life
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i'll read it. via chronosaur.us

I’ve always said not to worry about whether someone will read what you have to say on your blog. The world is a big place, and there’s always an audience for your writing, no matter how niche. And here ya go, someone wants to read it.
shared February 3, 2026
#life
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100 Webmaster Questions

A webmastering-related questionnaire / blogging-challenge.
published February 3, 2026
#technology #indieweb
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Welcome to volume twenty-seven of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we ponder a better, although imperfect web, we encourage everyone to join the Fediverse movement, and sigh… AI continues to make us sad.
published February 2, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Captain's Log, Entry: January 30, 2026

Phew! It’s been a minute since I’ve published one of these journal entries. Yep, I’m still alive. Just busy, sometimes unmotivated, and have just generally been elsewhere for a few months now. But I’ve been easing myself back into some of my old grooves and that includes my blogging and...
published January 30, 2026
#life
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Welcome to volume twenty-six of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we talk about what it means to be a part of the IndieWeb, we ask ourselves “can we build a better social network?”, and we mess with Claude.
published January 29, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Canonicalize Your Web Identity and Achieve Data Sovereignty with PESOS

A framework for syndicating website content - PESOS!
published January 21, 2026
#technology #indieweb
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Welcome to volume twenty-five of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we do some web surfin’, pulse-check the social web, and keep right on cyberin’. So get-t’-scrollin’ right meow!
published January 21, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse
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Welcome to volume twenty-four of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we discuss the point of blogging, what social media is (and isn’t), and drop a lot of awesome infosec tools/resources.
published January 13, 2026
#infosec #indieweb #fediverse