These are all of my long-form articles. An Atom feed contains their full text. If that has any problems, I also have a legacy RSS feed.
Timestamp format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM, as per RFC 3339. Sorted newest to oldest.
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OCSP, including OCSP Stapling, is leaving the Web PKI. Here's a complete look at revocation beyond OCSP: its past, present, and possible futures.
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My thoughts on Google's Content Warehouse API doc leak, what we can learn from its ranking factors, and why the following SEO hype is overblown.
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MDN’s AI Help can’t critically examine training data’s gaps, biases, and unrelated topics. It’s a useful demonstration of LLMs’ uncorrectable lucid lies.
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An informal proposal for dedicated elements for spoiler tags in HTML: use-cases, syntax, semantics, recommended UA behavior, and comparisons with “details”
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A compilation of my reasons and non-reasons for proactively de-federating from Facebook/Meta-affiliated projects, and refusing to support them.
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Documentation on which Fediverse blocklists I offer, how they are made, their differences, their caveats, and their intended use.
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“GNU/Linux” distinguishes Linux distributions primarily by the presence of GNU software, which is seldom the most meaningful or practical distinction.
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Avoid de-anonymization through analysis of your writing style. Defend against machine- and human-driven stylometric identification.
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A horrible idea to determine the legality of GitHub Copilot, or of re-creating proprietary speech synthesizers: create legal precedent that doesn't exist yet!
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"Privacy" can mean different things in different contexts. Tracking-reduction and tracking-evasion represent different goals with some conflict and overlap.
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A response to some problematic CLI UX advice, with alternative recommendations for designing more accessible CLI utilities.
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My take on where Manifest V3 fits into the current ad-blocking landscape: it has some benefits which should complement but not replace existing approaches
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While source code is critical for user autonomy, it isn't required to evaluate software security or understand run-time behavior.
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Recently, people have been telling webmasters to add a Permissions-Policy header to their sites to opt out of FLoC. The reality of the situation isn't so simple.
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A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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How open platforms become closed, and how standards-driven development can prevent it from happening.
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WhatsApp's rise and recent PR efforts highlight a class of business models that I call "user domestication".
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Using thermal physics, cosmology, and computer science to calculate password vulnerability to the biggest possible brute-force attack.
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A lengthy guide to making simple, inclusive sites focused on content before form. Emphasizes brutalist design and accessibility to include under-represented users.
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Efficient redundancy via repository mirroring with nothing but git.
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A seires on setting up resilient git-based project workflows, free of vendor lock-in.
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Seirdy's obligatory inagural blog post, which is barely longer than this description.