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2026-09-12 HTTPS Everywhere? I have encountered people who seem to think that its sane to blindly apply TLS to every single situation, and that it doesn't really require any more thought than that. Like why wouldn't you? Traditionally (I'm talking circa 2000), there were two main barriers that kept us from using HTTPS by default everywhere; buying certificates was expensive, and it could consume many IP addresses which were expensive. A third category was that encrypting sessions was…

15 August, 2026 Essmark Rewrite I decided to share my writing and stop keeping it to myself. An RSS feed seemed like a simple enough way to achieve that, but as with most simple ideas I have, it was anything but. Making any RSS or Atom document is easy; I had that done in no time, but after trying out a few RSS readers it became obvious that it doesn't work well unless you're distributing HTML. Linking out to a PDF or plaintext version of the document severely broke the reading experience. I…