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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!

  

  IndieWeb

  Blogs are back. You’re on mine now! Hopefully from here you’ll click on a few links and check out some other blogs too. There’s a real vibrancy that’s returned to the blogging world if you ask me—I even see some folks blogging daily! This level of energy for a traditional “blog” has typically been a rarity, but I’m seeing it more and more. Perhaps it’s a byproduct of, or a blurring of the lines between long-form blogs and their microblogging counterparts. Micro or macro, it’s all feeds in the end. So go explore and subscribe! (Did I say the word “blog” enough?)

  Building a home on the Internet is easier (and less expensive) than it may seem. I suggest starting smol and adding additions as you go. Put some time thinking about what you want to have (and not have) on your site, and plan for it to be something that exists long-term.

  Once you’ve got the basics up, there’s a lot of fun li’l things you can do on your site to make it more like home. Try adding some stats—an extremely good idea if you ask me. Share your smart home setup or some quotes that resonate with you. Contribute to an IndieWeb Carnival, or add an offline mode to your site.

  

  Small Web Finds and Features

  Here’s a variety of cool things I’ve found across the web recently…

  • Nickle brings the classic old web vibes.
  • Renkon’s site is another great IndieWeb addition with plenty of reading for my fellow night owls. 🦉
  • Desiree shares her February Picks—I also really like the clean aesthetic of her site.
  • Clemens’ site looks great and has a really enjoyable top bar/navigational view.
  • Find yourself with Ena. 🌷
  • Vick’s site Digital Garage has a ton of cool 88x31 buttons.
  • The Missing GitHub Status Page exists. Use it if you want.

  Fediverse

  There’s a lot going on across the “Social Web”. Each day more things come to life (like Dinosaurs!), and there are ever-more ways to connect to it all. You can be here too. Joining is not as hard as it seems, and there’s much more to the Fediverse than first meets the eye. Come say hi!

  Cybersecurity

  Rest easy denizens of the web! Funding has been secured for the embattled CVE program. Even more interesting (at least for me) is a new installment of Gabriel’s MacOS hardening series—Secure Email Clients, Providers, and Encryption Tools was dropped recently! 1Password published an aptly named benchmark for evaluating AI agents’ security awareness called “SCAM”. Wanna contribute to a security-something? Help test WEBCAT! That project is doin’ some cool stuff with signed delivery and transparency logs to enable verifiable in-browser code. Neat! Now I say bye-bye… ( To you my dear reader, and to security through obscurity 👋 )

  Thanks for reading Scrolls! Lemme get to my computering… *rawr* 🦖

  

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