If this is not an extremely important point: The draft bill would not ban the state-sanctioned abuse of Alan Turing.

It's the summer of Standard.site and overwhelmingly, we've heard folks find the process complicated so Declan Chidlow is here to break the process down into something rather straightforward for you. piccalil.li/blog/publish...

This is such a clearly structured set of #security guidance from @openwebdocs.org ! Intuitive progression through attacks, defence with specific web APIs, threat modelling, and then I'm extra fond of there being a whole section on authentication. openwebdocs.org/content/post...

A while back quite a few of you answered me on your annoyances with web payments. I've collated your responses and it looks like we're still doing forms like it's 1999 out there. More detail in the article, and let me know if there's more of your e-concerns with e-commerce rowan.fyi/posts/web-pa...

A while back quite a few of you answered me on your annoyances with web payments. I've collated your responses and it looks like we're still doing forms like it's 1999 out there. More detail in the article, and let me know if there's more of your e-concerns with e-commerce rowan.fyi/posts/web-pa...

Very excited to share a guest post I wrote for the Hugging Face 🤗 blog! Experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.js! 👉 huggingface.co/blog/cross-o... This proposed API has the potential of revolutionizing the Web—a little bit. Learn more: github.com/WICG/cross-o...!

Concessions I'll make for this heat: - wear a vest - hair in bun Concessions I won't: - wear shorts, jeans work in all temperatures - this red wine cannot be chilled

Thinking back on Brexit, Trump, and other right-wing populism around the world; the only way the continuous, relentless stupidity makes sense is if it's *designed* to create an ignorant, exploitable underclass so afraid of diversity they'll happily vote themselves further into poverty and suffering.

Neat, I added basic @standard.site "Publication" support to rowan.fyi and you can even peek at the record right here: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... Hopefully SVG works for the icon... it seems to render here, but curious if it shows up everywhere.

happy 10 years everyone!

Signal boosting as this starts next week! Tell me what DevTools bugs the team should fix

Thank goodness, I was thinking about writing another blog post, but I can do a site upgrade instead!

I'm here to remind you that this exists: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Finally blogged about the evolution of my own #Mandelbrot #fractal rendering app, Fractious in its current #Wasm + #WebGPU iteration. I should warn you, there's a suspiciously high number of mentions of #FORTRAN in this article. rowan.fyi/posts/fracti...

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

Sign-in success jumped from ~70% to >99%, already in production across 50+ regional domains. Passkey adoption often faces two pain points: users abandoning at creation prompts, and sign-in failures from device-server credential drift.

Finally blogged about the evolution of my own #Mandelbrot #fractal rendering app, Fractious in its current #Wasm + #WebGPU iteration. I should warn you, there's a suspiciously high number of mentions of #FORTRAN in this article. rowan.fyi/posts/fracti...

This is less of a heat👋 and more of a heat🖕. And a sweaty one at that.

Shockingly it didn't not take long for this Frankenstein creation to turn on its creator. Anyway, a few DNS record propagations later and I've just got a Docker container that gets pushed to Google Cloud Run. Changed one line of code in Astro.

The Chrome DevTools team are doing a "papercuts" sprint where they try to address lots of small, irritating bugs and annoyances. Reply with crbug.com links (no bug, no fix—that's the deal!) and will see what we can do. No promises though as some may be features/too big/unclear how to solve.

Docs coming soon, but if you want to skip the email confirmation code step (obviously you do) on your site and just verify their email right from the form then take a look at github.com/WICG/email-v... and the origin trial developer.chrome.com/origintrials... where you can test it right now.

No more #shitposting for me, it's #legitposting from here on out. 🧑‍💻 Code from and @apex.atproto.ceo & @kojira.io github.com/ApexDevelopm...

When to reach for a well-known URI — and the traps that catch most protocol designers. https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris

NEW: The attorney general, Richard Hermer, has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop using the Elon Musk-owned platform amid increasing worries about its use to incite violence and racism. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The best password is no password at all. Supported by major companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft, passkeys use your face or fingerprint to keep your account secure, no password to steal Also, use Single Sign On provided by someone you know whenever you can. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

SCOOP: In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...

Ha! Going against reason and god, I have the latest Astro with SSR running on Firebase Hosting with automated previews and deploys from GitHub Actions. Let's see if I change my mind when the first billing cycle comes around.

i’m really interested in this proposal 👀 anyone interested in testing it in their sites to see the potential savings?

The answer to the UK banning under-16s from social media is simple: Get the kids building web sites. Bring back guestbooks and webrings! Onboard then into webmentions, ATProto, pingbacks.

Source

So many gems in this thread. My own submissions... BASIC Instinct Rear Window Manager Requiem for a Dreamcast

One of my favourite Shakespearean insults.

I've just been telling everyone I've been shadowbanned as it sounds cooler than "can't post good".

Browsers on video game consoles have long been a majorly underdocumented topic. That changes today with my latest article, which I can confidently say is the most comprehensive game console browser coverage on the entire web. I'd love for you to give it a read: vale.rocks/posts/game-c...

Personally at this point I'd put sanctions on Musk for what he's doing to the UK

Need something to stare at while waiting for your agent? ssh lava.watch OR telnet lava.watch OR npx lava-watch *decent terminal emulator required

What web technology is coming in Safari 27.0? Find out here. webkit.org/blog/17967/n...

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

I don't use an #adBlocker 'cause, you know... I work for an ad company, but the #JohnCarpenter classic #TheyLive ad blocker from @davmlaw.bsky.social might just change my mind. github.com/davmlaw/they...

Occasionally we get questions about whether dashes in domain names are ok for SEO (they're ok). So far, I haven't seen anyone ask the other question - HOW MANY DASHES ARE OK? Folks, the answer is apparently 61. Now you can read the link in peace.

I'm just logging on with CD-Online Disc 97-10 for the CD-i to do some work for an article. Gotta love it.

Amazing ASCII art Doctor Who credits from a 2025 winner of the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest github.com/ioccc-src/wi...

Thoroughly enjoyed The #Backrooms movie. Reminiscent of the feeling I get from classic Carpenter or Cronenberg: weirdly artificial environments that just consume the people within them.

#Bluesky post #visualisation vibes for you on rowan.fyi/made/bluesky... Throw in a post and watch the timeline of conversations grow out into a network. This is a first pass, so let me know about feature requests and bugs. Link me to posts with cool structures too! (Yes, #Three.js and #ngraph again)

I decided to opt into the Origin Trial for the newly proposed <install> element, which is currently running in Chrome and Edge browsers, on my new local surf report web app dollarslice.nyc It's there in the footer (when my feature check reveals it). Would love to see this element supported on iOS!

😍 (Though I'd like an ICQ theme)

Lots of good answers to this over the week (thank you!) 🗳Bumping again in case you've got some e-commerce annoyances you want to get off your chest.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Playing around with building a little #Bluesky post visualiser with #threejs (again). Thought it was looking cute enough to share the work in progress. Currently it's showing replies, quotes, and likes... what else could I do with it before I publish?

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️