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Ambition, The Fediverse, and Technology Freedom
If you’re new to reading this blog, you might not already be aware of my efforts to develop end-to-end encryption for ActivityPub-based software. It’s worth being aware of before you continue to read...
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What To Use Instead of PGP
It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they should be...
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Some Thoughts on the Twitter Mass Exodus
Another wave of Twitter users are jettisoning the social media website in favor of alternatives. Some are landing in the Fediverse (Mastodon and other ActivityPub-enabled software). Others are going...
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Key Transparency and the Right to be Forgotten
This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively,...
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Beyond Bcrypt
In 2010, Coda Hale wrote How To Safely Store A Password which began with the repeated phrase, “Use bcrypt”, where the word bcrypt was linked to a different implementation for various programming...
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Imagining Private Airspaces for Bluesky
Recently, I shared my thoughts on the Twitter Exodus. The short of that post is: Even though I’m quite happy on the Fediverse, I think the best outcome is for Bluesky to “win” the popularity contest...
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Furry, Queer, and Lonely
What is it about being queer that makes loneliness, isolation, and rejection so much more intense than enduring than what our straight friends and family purport to experience? Harubaki Are we just...
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Ideas and Execution
I’ve been known to blog about ideas that I don’t have the time or energy to build myself–from using asynchronous ratcheting trees to support multicast networking in WireGuard (and other Noise-based...
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The Better Daemons Of Our Profession
I’ve spent the better part of 2023 and 2024 trying to imagine the specific changes we technology nerds could make to improve things somewhat. Meme remix of Matt Bors’s comic and Stan Kelly’s Sickos...
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Roasted Christmas Spam from Muhu.ai
I wrote what I thought would be the final blog post of 2024 last week, and was looking forward to starting 2025 strong with a blog I’d been drafting since July 2023. But then, a little after Midnight...
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Collatzeral Damage: Bitwise and Proof Foolish
Let’s talk about the Collatz Conjecture, which is like mathematicians’ original version of this programmer joke: Except the number of mathematician hours wasted is much larger, possibly too large for...
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