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Welcome to volume twenty-eight of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

So many great nuggets of advice here—on minimizing writing friction, owning your (domain) name, building a site rather than just a blog, ignoring analytics, writing referential content that can live beyond the week it was written, being authentic, writing…

What are you waiting for!

I’ve always said not to worry about whether someone will read what you have to say on your blog.

Here’s a blogging challenge inspired by theresmiling. “100 webmaster questions”, let’s go!

Welcome to volume twenty-seven of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Phew!

Welcome to volume twenty-six of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

I love the IndieWeb 🧡.

Who are you on the web?

Welcome to volume twenty-five of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Welcome to volume twenty-four of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Welcome to volume twenty-three of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Welcome to volume twenty-two of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Welcome to volume twenty-one of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Welcome to volume twenty of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Welcome to volume nineteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

I love this piece.

Welcome to volume eighteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Welcome to volume seventeen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Hey everyone, I’m still here.

OK!

A place for me to keep record of my (coffee) cold brews.

Welcome to volume sixteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Riffing on Axxuy and Elena’s posts about how they drink coffee, here’s how I take my coffee… ☕️ As of March (2025) I’ve gotten into making at-home cold-brew coffee.

My song ranking of Sleep Token’s album Even in Arcadia.

It’s time.

Welcome to volume fifteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

OK, so you’ve got a blog/website, but you’re wondering “now what”?

I saw a thread recently which asked people to share their “path” in cybersecurity.

Here’s a blogging challenge kicked off by Forking Mad.

Welcome to volume fourteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Answering a particularly random set of questions via the Blog Questions Challenge Bot… What’s a food that instantly makes you feel cozy?

April came and went it seems, but I’ve been up to a lot!

Welcome to volume thirteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

@darius@t54r4n1 I’ve never thought of a “newsletter” as being defined by its transmission medium, though I understand the instinct to associate the “letter” suffix with e-“MAIL”.

Answering the Blog Questions Challenge Outdoor activities… What’s your favorite thing to do outside when the weather is perfect?

Here’s my submission to lazybea.rs series Over/Under.

Did you know if you have your own website, you can do whatever you want with it?

Welcome to volume twelve of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

The CVE program is dying.

Much digital ink has been spilt on the plight of the cybersecurity workforce.

This month I’ve decided to participate in my first IndieWeb Carnival—a once-a-month writing prompt organized by the IndieWeb.org community.

If you’ve got something to say, something to share, something that others might be interested in—why not just put it on your blog?

We need to stop platforming Nazis—available on my Substack.

This week’s Blog Questions Challenge is called “Nature Appreciation”.

Yep.

Welcome to volume eleven of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms.

Home is a place of comfort.

This is an idea that I am very much in tune with.