Activity

Contemplating some of my 'unique' writing mannerisms and bad habits.

What metrics matter to me related to my site.

Answering some movies-related questions.

A discussion on the polarizing, hot-button issue of AI. Many laud its uses, others frame it as “useless”. The truth is never black and white. AI (and LLMs) are still very much a nascent technology, at least as I see it in the grand scheme of things to come. But,...

I have a fair bit of content on my site. I’ve been writing for over 5 years and at the time of this log have ~326 individual posts. My site is, and has always been, first and foremost a reference for myself. To be useful, to actually find stuff across...

100%. It’s not even hard to get goin’ on the “social web” either. Signing up for Mastodon, Pixelfed, creating a blog - there’s tons of resources for how to do this. So the problem isn’t so much how these days, rather it is explaining to folks why it’s important. Joan...

Some AI threat / threat modeling / security resources I’ve collected…

One of my favorite pieces on the IndieWeb, where “home ownership” is all too important.

Yes, please build your own website.

These li’l guides are exactly what we need, to spread the IndieWeb and help people join up right.

Definitely not dead. Go get yourself an RSS reader and subscribe to stuff. Start with my stuff.

Hell yeah! “Make things and share them”. Wise words.

Answering a series of questions orbiting the larger question “how is the job (in infosec)?”. I answered this kinda rapid-fire on Reddit, but decided to come back here in the note and give it a bit more thought and embellishment…

Annual report on how much it costs to run all of my Shellsharks-related services and components… 1 Shellsharks.com operating costs (2023) ↩

The past couple weeks I’ve kept myself quite busy writing and tinkering with the site and it’s been very rewarding! Aside from that, just watching some interesting TV.

Welcome to volume five of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. But first! Why am I doing this newsletter? Why the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity? Just why? Well, these things are awesome, that’s why! The truth is, I spend a great deal...

Greetings weary hyper-space-link traveler. Here's my love letter to links.

Having a personal website is incredibly rewarding. It’s not always easy, but that’s what makes it all the more satisfying - seeing what you’ve worked so hard on, what you yourself have built, come to life on the web. Here’s a list of the things I am most proud of...

Here’s a question for fellow website-havers / #IndieWeb folks. What’s something you would like to do with your site that you haven’t done, not because you haven’t had the time, but because you’re just not sure how to do it?

A shame wall I can get behind. Every website that has a “blog” should have an RSS feed. And if you have an RSS feed, why would you not promote it and have it easily findable? Madness!

Welcome to volume four of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. Featured topics for this week include how, and more importantly, why to start a personal website, as well as how to join and help grow the Fediverse. Enjoy!

Answering some TV show-related questions.

You may have noticed that I have a bit of a shark theme goin’ on across the site. It’s not overwhelmingly shark-ey, but there’s certainly a shark or two sprinkled about - and I think that’s just fun. To this end, I had another fun li’l idea. What if I...

In the past, I’ve been a bit self-concious about how/what I posted on my site. I believe there’s some part of my readership that comes to my site specifically for infosec-related stuff. So anything NON-infosec that I post is something that they may see on my site, or in their...

Unlike Google… Savage.

All about the kindness of strangers.

Me just chattin' about my doodles.

omg, I just realized I can auto-generate Table of Contents and Footnotes using kramdown. I’ve had this blog for over 5 years, using kramdown the whole time and never bothered once to read the documentation and learn about all it can do 🤦‍♂️. Turns out I can generate a table...

No lies detected. Get yourself a site, share links you find on it. This is what makes the web (awesome).

I took the James Coffee Blog “Which HTML element are you” quiz (I got the idea from @reillypascal) and it turns out I’m the <sup> element.

“Restore healthy ecosystems by creating wild, biodiverse spaces”. But for the Internet. A beautiful, thought-provoking, and very spot-on piece.

The all too familiar story of Enshittification.

I love this idea, and it’s always been something I aspired to with my site. I’ve long meant for “shellsharks” to be a source of community, and not just a place for me. Over time, it’s morphed more into my own digital identity and place to post all-things-me, but I...

Updates from the fediverse and indieweb projects. A great way to see what’s happening, and it even features Scrolls!

Welcome to volume three of Scrolls, a weekly newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.First, a quick aside to talk about RSS (That’s right! RSS is not dead yet). I refer to this publication as a “newsletter” (among other things), which I think for many,...

Answering the age old question, “what certification or training should I take?”

Thoughts about website home pages and what I've done with mine.

As others have said, Mastodon.social is fine, you have not screwed up. Are there some downsides to Mastodon.social? Sure, but that goes with any server, or any platform or any choice you make in life (haha). Some folks on Mastodon (or the Fediverse at large) deride Mastodon for A. being...

At first I was skeptical, but now, I see how I can use Tapestry in my regular feed ingestion workflow.

@sol2070 I’ve seen a few posts like this pop up in the last few weeks, all with similar theme, e.g. “no one reads your blog but you should do it anyways”. I agree, in part - at least with the fact that you should blog, whether anyone reads or not....

Welcome to volumen duo of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

So you've just got your own personal website up and running. Great! Now what?

Very interesting… In April of 2024 I debuted my “Activity” feed, which serves as a cool unified timeline of all the different things goin’ on on my site (e.g. changes, posts, notes, podcasts, social media stuff, etc…)