I'm reclaiming the title of 'webmaster' as the multidisciplinary creator who designs, develops, writes, and advocates for their own corner of the web and will save the world. Tracing the history from 1993 to the present, I argue that anyone can become a webmaster with minimal tools. Webmastery is an act of digital repatriation and human agency against corporate platforms and AI orchestration.

Anthropic disclosed an agent that pushed real malware to PyPI. We think we found the package, and every mistake in it points back to the AI.

Episode 214 of Green Squares.

Open web and indie web, forever. Part 2.

A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial

Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.

Tech companies keep making us embarrassed to be their customers. Maybe we don't have to live like that.

If the internet feels decreasingly like it's ours, then by god, let's make it ours.

"To play a computer game in in the 1990s, you first had to understand how the computer worked."

Project page for Prompt Injection as Role Confusion, accepted to ICML 2026. We show prompt injections are driven by a flaw in how LLMs perceive roles. This lets us create new attacks, explain mech interp results, and predict when attacks succeed. We then discuss what roles are and why they matter, and share research ideas for a science of roles.

How I found that anyone could register on FIFA's public Agent Platform, gain access to the Football Data Platform's Streaming Management panel, and get RTMP ingest URLs and stream keys for every live FIFA World Cup 2026 camera feed. I then spent hours calling FIFA, MediaKind, HBS, CISA, and the FBI trying to get someone to pick up the phone.

Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain.

A laid-back tour through the basics of IPv6: how the addresses are built, how to shorten them without losing your mind, how they map onto the IPv4 you already know, and how hosts configure themselves with SLAAC. Plus a short sidebar on NDP and why blocking ICMP on an IPv6 network is a self-inflicted wound.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

So, my silly little fanfic project blew up like crazy and received some really negative feedback. And I think I understand why. Exploring the concept of boundary spanning and cross-pollination in online communities. Drawing on organizational theory and the work of Michael Tushman. We need people who move between different online subcultures to seed ideas and build bridges.

A cron job for every man, woman, and child.

The general workflow for many teams is to review, extract, and validate the IOCs within an intel document. Then deploy the validated IOCs to your tools: SIEM, endpoints, network, email, and other security boundaries. Unfortunately for many of us, we don't have the resources to perform this at the speed and scale required. Threat intel platforms are prohibitively expensive for small-to-midsize organizations, so we need to rely on more fundamental approaches.

A guide to applying the CREDIT values, based on my time at GitLab and beyond.

A series of unfortunate events.

"Canonical’s two highest-value endpoints, the ones whose denial creates a worldwide failure of automated security updates, transitioned to a service relationship with a vendor whose other current customers include the booter operation that was attacking them."

I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about the protocols, federations, and quiet machinery underneath everything you actually use.

More people than ever are spending more time than ever jacked into their computer terminal - DON'T YOU WORRY WHY - so there has never been a better time to introduce... a Max Headroom in every termin…

I got my Xteink on April 27th, 2026. In a twist of fate, I accidentally ended up with two. A shipping mishap lead me to think it wasn’t coming, so...