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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.

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Certificate Transparency in Firefox

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

Support me

Support my work by sending me donations! This helps me continue Fediverse moderation, blogging, and coding.

Fediverse defederation considerations

Fedora is pretty stable

WCAG 2.2 and validation

Living dead internet theory

Thoughts on callout semantics

Targeting secure browser profiles

Fingerprinting and customization

Regex feature creep considered non-harmful

Adblocking with a clear conscience

CNET didn’t have to delete old articles

Screen2x and DOM Distiller

Permissions Policy header bloat