The essay I promised back in May. A history of public-access Unix from Dennis Ritchie's 'fellowship' and Grex's potluck dinners to Paul Ford's drunken tild…

on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate

"Running Omarchy means [...] willingly integrating oneself into a fascist community. Legitimizing it. Supporting it. Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community (even unknowingly). The baseline has to be not to use that system."

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 mi…

When I started setting up private, self-hosted services one of the things I wanted to maintain was a pattern of friendly, human readable names to access them. I didn't want the overhead of bookmarking domains available via Tailscale's MagicDNS and I wanted real SSL certificates that were trusted and that clients wouldn't complain about.

Live vicariously through 2026's top cybersecurity conferences with live streams.

My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.

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.