Bluesky wants me to verify me age to access some features. I’m not doing it. The Australian government has gone too far with their stupid privacy invasive and actively harmful social media ban.

Stargate Announcement | Prime Video YouTube video by Prime Video

New Stargate TV series announced today. Awesome news.

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FileKey Encrypt and share files securely with passkeys. Fully offline, easy-to-use, and zero-knowledge for ultimate file protection.

This is clever. filekey.app

Using Passkeys with the PRF extension to encrypt and decrypt files.

Sadly it doesn't work in Firefox because of the PRF extension requirement, nor with @1password.bsky.social (though I'm not sure why blog.1password.com/encrypt-data...)

adventofcode.com/2024

I think my house just got struck by lightning. We had a very brief network outage when it struck, but the surge protectors did their job to protect my equipment.

Yes, I won that back in 2015. I still have that bike.

Thanks to Kinde and @webdirections.bsky.social , I just won an electric skateboard in the coding challenge.

I created a starter pack for speakers at @webdirections.bsky.social Tis year go.bsky.app/M4kMv3g

AI generated image of Phil at a tech conference

@philna.sh at Web Directions,
generated with Apple image playground

Day 1 of Web Directions 24 was an absolute blast! 🎉 Diving into the world of AI for development with some mind-blowing talks. And guess what? This skeet was crafted by AI too! 🤖✨ #WebDirections24 #AI

Email validation based on outdated regular expressions that reject my perfectly valid email address ending in a .email TLD continue to frustrate me. The only way reliable way to validate an email address is to send it a confirmation email.

I got an extra YubiKey today, with the intent of storing it securely away from home as a backup, in case my other 2 that I keep and use at home get lost/destroyed.

I started a new job a month ago, learning React Native to develop the mobile app.

JSR: The JavaScript Package Registry We've Been Waiting For When speaking of JavaScript development, managing packages efficiently and securely has become a critical aspect of the developer's workflow. For years,

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Upgraded my RSA 4096 PGP key to a new ed25519 PGP key. Not that I use it for much in particular, since no-one sends encrypted email. But one can dream about it.

Learned about SSHFP DNS headers and SSH config VerifyHostKeyDNS today. Set it up for my own domains for personal use.

I spoke at Web Directions Summit 2023 today, with my talk about generating code with AI.