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sourceWelcome to volume seventeen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This somewhat special edition includes a smattering of things from the past month. Things I’ve saved but never got around to sharing out. As such, you may find some of it to be “old news”. But hopefully there’s some interesting nuggets as well!
If you subscribe to Scrolls, you may have wondered “what’s up?!”—why haven’t there been any new issues published in the past month or so. In short, it’s a lot of things, but it’s back now with some stuff I’ve saved from weeks past and I aim on getting back to my usual posting cadence for this publication. Thanks for sticking with me and I hope you enjoy!
IndieWeb
I published IndieWeb Assimilation nearly two years ago, shortly after first “discovering” the IndieWeb / Small Web. It marked the beginning of a journey that I am still on, and one that I have had the pleasure of seeing so many others begin in that time. It’s fun to see people publish out their thoughts and come to the same ephiphanies regarding the positive qualities of the IndieWeb. These aren’t just bloggers reaching bloggers either. I don’t see this as an echo chamber. We have found ways to reach those beyond the blogging community. More and more from the wider social media sphere have become increasingly interested in how to take back their digital sovereignty, and find ways to share using their own voice. So if you are one of those people on the outside looking in, remember it’s not too late, your site doesn’t have to be fancy. You can start now, and then look back in two years as I have and see how far you’ve come.
Small Web Finds and Features
I (too) love blogging and bloggers. Here’s some cool blogs that you can check out…
- Filip’s blog is your typical tech blog, but there’s a very satisfying simplicity to it that I enjoy. Plus, it runs on Ghost which is worth checking out!
- ldstephens
- Check out Hyde’s Over/Under issue featuring fLaMEd! While you’re at it, check out fLaMEd’s Monthly Recap series which I also enjoy reading.
- Asphodelos by Vitlöksbjörn is a beautiful IndieWeb site.
- Nikhil Anand also has a beautifully designed, and very eye-catching site.
- Smolsite.zip is a site that fits entirely in the URL…what!?
- Mystical is a programming language described by depictions of “magical circles”. Need I say more?! Love, love, love this.
Fediverse
A few things to report from Fedi land this issue—I’m sure there’s plenty I missed though.
If you host a Fedi instance and are having issues with ballooning costs, try reaching out to KuJoe. I found a neat resource listing verified media accounts and Bridgy Fed has had some improvements.
Oh, and lol.
Cybersecurity
If you’re in “cyber”, you know all about the never-ending quest to stay up-to-date on things. The newest tools, techniques, threats, countermeasures, etc… You can’t possibly be on top of it all, but it helps to find some cool curated selections, which is what I’ve got for ya below…
- If everything is an app, then everything is code, and where is code? GitHub. So learn to hack it!
- Trail of Bits has published their audit findings of Go crypto.
- Does the term “Clickjacking” sound scary to you? Nah? What about Double-Clickjacking!!??
- Since AI is apparently everywhere these days, it wouldn’t hurt to brush up on MCP Security
- Here’s a nice think piece from tl;dr sec on Security for High Velocity Engineering
- Thank god someone is doing something to combat Microsoft’s horrific privacy-invading overreach with Recall. Hopefully more will software vendors will follow suit.
- Move over KEV, here comes LEV.
Thanks for reading Scrolls!