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My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.
Latest posts
Why I choose Microdata
Scrapers I block (and allow), with explanations
Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scrapers I allow, and the ways I block them.
My workouts
Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I'm soliciting.
A clarification on Google Page Annotations
Your keystroke biometrics are everywhere
Chromium’s influence on Chromium alternatives
Post-OCSP certificate revocation in the Web PKI
OCSP, including OCSP Stapling, is leaving the Web PKI. Here's a complete look at revocation beyond OCSP: its past, present, and possible futures.
Lose-able keys are a feature
Common Crawl and search engines
On a more selective Google
Caveats to Ungoogled Chromium recommendations
On valid XHTML5 again
Progressive enhancement class feedback
Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak
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.
Next steps for my search engine collection
Coercion and Windows Recall
Website todo
A catalog of all the website improvements I hope to make on seirdy.one, but haven't gotten to yet (and some that I have).
Classic web badges
My curation of over 70 88x31 badges, representing what I and this site use and stand for.
Unencrypted connections do mean injection
Partial credit for CSS Naked Day
MDN’s AI Help and lucid lies
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.
Short cache busting fingerprints in Hugo
AI scrapers and upscaling algorithms
Working through forge downtime
Enshittification and user domestication
Ideas for filtering fediverse timelines
Some site optimizations
How to build this site
Instructions for re-building seirdy.one from its source code
More native than a Web app
Choosing an encrypted DNS protocol
Webrings are already back
Proposal: an HTML element for spoilers
An informal proposal for dedicated elements for spoiler tags in HTML: use-cases, syntax, semantics, recommended UA behavior, and comparisons with “details”
Fixing Tor Browser accessibility
Testimonials
What do people think about Seirdy? These are some quotes about me.
Real name policies
Firefox focus ring regression
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