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  Welcome to volume forty-six of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we’re thankful for the Indieweb, we share a good reason for joining the Fediverse, and has anything really changed (security-wise) on the web?

  Let’s get t’ ‘puterin’!

  

  IndieWeb

  Thanks to everyone who has started their own Indieweb journey, created a website for themselves, and in doing so, made a meaningful step to escaping the clutches of big social. You all make my time on the web, and Scrolls itself possible. I really do appreciate it. For those who don’t have a website, it’s never too late to set one up and get started! One useful piece of advice — don’t worry too much about blogging the “right way”. Just be yourself, and write whatever you want, however rambly.

  Aside from blogging itself, what else can we build on the web, and on our own websites? Make your home on the web static (like mine!). We love all types of sites here, even smol ones. Build your own newsletter, zine or publication. Or, try your hand at standing up some infrastructure-for-all.

  Once we’ve built, it’s time to improve. We can always find ways to better things right? Why not start with our blog post titles? We can add stats to a site, add in a bit of social-ity with Webmentions, get brutal with our page design, remove those useless share buttons, upgrade our SVGs or turn your site into a mini-townsquare. Just have fun with it and do what you want. I promise your blog won’t explode.

  Finally, take a break from building, and do a bit of traveling — to other cool places on the web! Check out some of these early web links, dig around the litter layer, see what’s bubbled up recently (concerns around voting aside), check out any one of the blog aggregators that are being maintained these days, or check out a blogging event like Junited. Find anything you love along the way? Share it! The web literally depends on it.

  Or y’know, step away from your computer entirely and do something else 😄.

  Small Web Finds and Features

  Spice up your Internet surfing this week with some of the cool stuff below!

  
  Credit to Erik Gauger (@Notesfromtheroad@mastodon.art)

  • It’s nice to slow down every once in a while…
  • Take a stroll through the garden of flowers
  • I do love a good weekly notes post
  • Have your mind boggled by everything.one
  • Repent, or be cast into PHP hell

  Fediverse

  Looking for a good reason to come to Mastodon? We’re human. Just humans trying to be human on the Internet. What a concept! You too can be here… and be yourself… and not exist solely as some “@” account for some billionaire’s social platform somewhere. I think something like that is worth protecting.

  Cybersecurity

  Alright, cyber time. You know how this goes by now… Arch is pwned, AI is a security mess, the web may have changed but the incidents don’t.

  So, as we always have, let’s try to catch up. Passkeys are a thing (ugh), threat modeling can help, and go check your skills with a CTF somewhere.

  A few parting items… Microsoft’s least-favorite person has a new home on the web, CVE references are rotten, and our industry still hasn’t shaken its gatekeeping problem. Got something useful to share with your fellow cyber folk? Check out these Open CFPs.

  Thanks for reading Scrolls! Have a great night!

  

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