Notices by Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)

Me: Fine. I'll sign up to use a passkey to log in to this particular service. So many people tell me passkeys are the obvious thing to do now. Maybe the experience has gotten better in the last few years since I tried. [Signs up on desktop with 1password]

Service, a week later, on their mobile website: Please sign in with your passkey.

Me: [presses button]

Service: We couldn't find a passkey in your mobile web browser.

Me: Uhhh it's in my 1password app vault?

Service: lol what's that

My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oubsyca6hhgqhmbbk27lvs7c

It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday."

It recasts a post like the one pictured. It reminds me to look at their profile and figure out if they are a real person, and are they terminally online, or engagement farming, or what. Then I might block/mute because I don't need people like that in my lifeworld.

> delphitools is a collection of small, focused utilities that respect your privacy and work entirely in your browser. No data leaves your machine, no accounts required, no tracking. Just tools that do what they say.

https://tools.rmv.fyi/

@evan @qdot https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

Not sure if it works with the latest Twitter exports but it might

I hope this is true

https://thenewstack.io/web-components-are-the-comeback-nobody-saw-coming/

This Wednesday is the Folk Tech Connection Call:

https://luma.com/to7dxjhz

> Folk Tech is a movement among people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies and a community of developers making decentralized, p2p, open source, open standard-based tech

Featuring an interview with @mauve!

@cwebber @trwnh @datarama my Christmas lights do a nice job of blinking forever after I configure them!!

I was today years old when I learned about the `at` command in the unix shell??

Very useful for if I want to lazily do something non-critical in the near future. Like I upload a file for a friend, send them the link, tell them it's getting deleted in an hour, and then do

$ echo 'rm the_file' | at now +1 hours

Will this fail in a lot of corner cases? Probably. Do I care? no

Signal's "Safety Number" is an important feature that generates a pop-up which allows you to "mark as verified" a man-in-the-middle attacker. This way the attacker is verified and we can all feel better about the whole messy business.

Just wanted to surface this long comment from me on the state of #Hometown and its future:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/issues/1358#issuecomment-3549758036

I've been an absentee on the "Future of Hometown" thread for a year now and plan to be more responsive. I say more about it in the post itself.

#HometownAdmin

Hello fediverse, I'm in Kobe for W3C #TPAC ! Happy to meet anyone who's here for the event (or not for the event too, I guess)

Websites that let me log in ONLY via email recovery feel like they are personally punishing me as a password manager user... like, come on, I have an awesome, one click, client side way to recall a long unique password for your website but sure, allow me to personally increase your email service bills I guess

browser extension to replace ✨ with 💩

@annika @darkfrog I load it up approximately once a year. There was also a version on the Facebook app platform (lol remember Facebook games) circa 2010, which was fun because there were double digit numbers of players instead of single digit

"Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -commonly misattributed to Albert Einstein

"Everything should be as simple as possible. Yes, simpler than that. Simpler than that too. Nope you can still make it simpler! A little more... okay still too complex but I can live with it." -me at work

Quoting myself from a work meeting this morning:

"let me suggest the KISSS principle: Keep it Simple and Stupid and Shippable"

lol, remembering I gave a talk at Webstock years ago called "Don't Make Stuff"

https://vimeo.com/209324581

I gave the presentation in HyperCard using stock HyperCard clip art. This slide aged well!

I remember a while back someone on fedi posted a little thing they built that was a personal url shortener in a single HTML page. If I remember correctly they just loaded in an array of ids and destinations and then you'd point someone to mysite.example/short?id=123 and the page would just redirect via window.location... something like that. Which one of you clever people was this?

I reimplemented it this morning but I wanna see/credit the original

@latte cc @skinnylatte who as far as I know knows all the best places for food in the bay area

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your in-development software up to the real Fediverse.

I built this because I wanted ways to test in-progress fedi software for compatibility without actually making it live and breaking things.

https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/10/01/introducing-the-asml-activitypub-fuzzer-improving-testing-in-the-fediverse/