shellsharks

Infosec researcher | Indieweb enthusiast | Find me @ https://shellsharks.com

#infosec #cybersecurity #tech #indieweb searchable

Profile picture: A red shark holding a terminal window shaped like a surfboard. The terminal reads “> whoami shellsharks”

Blog: https://shellsharks.com
Personal Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@sass

Public Key

npub1z3mcjcv2xhwpqgsx7hvmwqfu8lmczcrxkw4lnr2v07hg2fqsm7xsu5zn2f

NIP-05 Address

shellsharks_at_shellsharks.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqspgaufvx9rthqsygr0tkdhqy7rlaupvpnt82le34x8lt59ysgdlrgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntknpr8q

Publishing to

relay.momostr.pink

Author Public Key

npub1z3mcjcv2xhwpqgsx7hvmwqfu8lmczcrxkw4lnr2v07hg2fqsm7xsu5zn2f

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Last Notes

2026-03-13 14:18:06 UTC

Has AI mad you sad today? Me too friend. Me too. So here’s my newest <strike>abomination</strike> creation on the blog, the “AI Wall of Sad” 🤖 😞
https://shellsharks.com/ai-wall-of-sad
It features a haphazard collection of links related to AI that are sure to ruin your day! Feel free to send me other AI-related links you come across that make you sad and I can add them to the wall.
Before you go, here’s a hug 🤗. I think we all need one about now.

2026-03-13 12:07:27 UTC

📜 Scrolls volume 33 is out. Happy Friday!
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-03-13
Thanks to everyone below. Their work was featured this week!
@moonmehta@bits.jatan.space @npub16cx…2vq4 @npub19g0…spyl @npub1ce6…49ec @npub1vll…qcfn @npub1cd4…ce7a [@mapache](https://hachyderm.io/@mapache ) @npub1smm…g5cn @npub1kkw…mssz [@brennan](https://social.lol/@brennan ) @npub1a6d…uz0m @npub1cpr…74wh @npub1y0h…u9hf [@mapache](https://hachyderm.io/@mapache ) @npub1cug…u36e [@katemorley](https://hachyderm.io/@katemorley ) @npub1aj7…mj6c @npub1xan…9q9d @npub1740…3wtz [@gifs_bot](https://mas.to/@gifs_bot ) @npub1mee…99jw @npub1gj3…529g @npub1ucv…5a8g @npub1kdg…g9n5 @npub1u7z…rtm8 @npub1ky0…u8eu @npub10n2…gltz @npub1vvy…4kzm @npub1fkn…xcd0 @npub14kh…7kpx @npub1etp…htu9
#indieweb #fediverse #infosec #cybersecurity

2026-03-06 14:09:43 UTC

📜 Scrolls volume 32 is out! Go check it out for the latest #indieweb, #fediverse and #infosec / #cybersecurity stuff.
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-03-06
Have a great weekend!

2026-02-23 15:34:44 UTC

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Welp Fedi is definitely a step in the right direction! #Welcome! Here's some stuff that could help you as you get situated here. Good luck!
https://shellsharks.com/notes/2025/01/10/welcome-to-the-fediverse

2026-02-06 19:34:13 UTC

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Who knows what happened! Rectified 🤗

2026-02-06 19:02:40 UTC

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Ah. Maybe called too much attention to it? I deleted the line. This happens especially when linking directly to fedi posts. Some of them auto-disappear 🤷‍♂️

2026-02-06 18:41:27 UTC

Scrolls 28 is out! A link-packed extravaganza for all things #indieweb, #fediverse & #infosec / #cybersecurity.
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-02-06
Oh and it looks like I've finally made it back to publishing this thing on Friday. Go me! Hope you enjoy! 🧡

2026-01-29 16:35:53 UTC

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Aww thanks! Your site looks incredible! I need to poke around and steal some of your ideas soon 😁

2026-01-29 16:19:24 UTC

One awesome thing that I see a lot on #IndieWeb sites is "link dumps". We browse the web, find cool stuff and then publish something linking to all that cool stuff.
https://shellsharks.com/link-dumps
Shoutout to everyone below for having cool indie sites where you do your own link-dumpin’ / link roundups!
[@sophie](https://social.lol/@sophie ) @npub1x74…ruph @npub1eu4…677w @npub1pr0…hzpw @npub1yey…5qh5 @npub1xhj…hq9k @npub1dv2…87wy [@thej](https://social.lol/@thej ) @npub1k39…snwt [@mkj](https://social.mkj.earth/@mkj ) @npub14mk…qfs5 @npub1za0…3nwr @npub15cp…dck6 [@lmorchard](https://masto.hackers.town/@lmorchard ) [@eli_oat](https://tenforward.social/@eli_oat ) [@geekyaubergine](https://social.lol/@geekyaubergine ) @npub14v4…qryd @npub1z82…fd9q [@liztai](https://hachyderm.io/@liztai ) @npub1fnc…xa2m https://indieweb.social/@fyr

2025-06-16 12:50:21 UTC

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Another vote for infosec.pub!

2025-05-14 13:26:09 UTC

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That never goes away. The more you learn, the more you realize you still don't know 😄. But it's been a lot of fun tinkerin' away on my own site, it's awesome you're discovering that too!

2025-05-05 17:05:49 UTC

Fedi has been around for ~13 years and Mastodon has been around for about 9 of those. For anyone wondering how Fedi "wins", I think you need to ask instead, "what does it mean to win"? We've gotten this far w/o VC funding and continue to grow (even if it isn't at breakneck speeds). We win by being here. Being here for everyone who *finally* realizes that corporate social platforms are forever-doomed. Everything else is second, and will probably come in time.
Here's to 13 more years of winning!

2025-04-16 16:52:36 UTC

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Here's how I've distinguished my different formats/post types thus far - https://shellsharks.com/multiplicity-of-writing. But honestly, I don't think you really need to distinguish between posts that are point-in-time vs. living. Update the posts you want to update, end of story. I update things of mine all the time, regardless of post type and have never thought to create separate types based on that criteria. As for URI...it's the indieweb! Just pick one and go with it. Forget about timelessness.

2025-04-16 14:59:19 UTC

OK, ok, settle down everyone! My super-well-researched take on this whole CVE mess is now available for all of you to consume - https://shellsharks.com/the-death-of-cve. You're all very welcome in advance.
I'm sure I'll be updating it as the hours and days go by and this whole story evolves, and my understanding of it in its entirety evolves with it.
#infosec #cve #cybersecurity

2025-04-01 12:43:12 UTC

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Bet!
My Site: https://shellsharks.com
My (very special) button: https://shellsharks.com/assets/img/buttons/shellsharks-button.gif
I'd love to feature your button! It'll go here (probably) --> https://shellsharks.com/about

2025-03-28 02:45:43 UTC

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Ooph. How bad could the build time be?? Also once it's built it's good to go until next time you need to build yeah? I'm on Jekyll and though my build times have increased over the years it's really only like 4 seconds 🤷‍♂️

2025-03-26 16:28:03 UTC

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You *should* blog: https://shellsharks.com/you-should-blog
😄

2025-03-21 02:47:40 UTC

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This is a top contender for sure.

2025-03-20 21:08:05 UTC

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I'm evaluating alternatives so I'll check it out!!

2025-03-20 19:51:32 UTC

GitHub Pages having some sort of outage. Not good news for me-who just wants to tinker and poke around my site... 😫
Another reason for me to look at migrating elsewhere soon...
#githubpages #outage

2025-03-12 17:57:07 UTC

My #IndieWeb-style Good Housekeeping riff --> "Good Sitekeeping", where I list out some of my favorite web design / UI / UX things I enjoy & recommend for others websites.
https://shellsharks.com/good-sitekeeping
I'm by no means a professional web designer, but these are the things I've done with my site that make it a really nice place to hang out at on the 'net.
What are some of your favorite web design *things* that alwasy surprise and/or delight you?

2025-03-11 17:55:44 UTC

What would you rather?

2025-03-07 15:51:37 UTC

I'm procrastinating right now. So, I wrote a post about procrastinating.
https://shellsharks.com/i-am-procrastinating
Now, I'm procrasti-tooting about my procrasti-blogging.
Wanna procrastinate with me by reading the post? You can tell me what you thought about it so I can procrasti-read and procrasti-respond to your comments.
Thanks!
#indieweb #blogging

2025-03-06 19:49:54 UTC

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I don't know the context. But I can to say it's sad to see someone delete their site/portfolio. There's plenty of reasons to maybe delete or step away from social media though 🤷‍♂️

2025-03-05 14:50:43 UTC

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Hey Joan, I love your writing! And *mostly* agree with you here, but had a few thoughts about "metrics that matter" to me, and decided to directly riff/respond to what you had written here.
https://shellsharks.com/metrics-that-matter
Keep up the great work! Know that your words have made meaningful impact, on me and I'm sure countless others. That matters! 😄🧡

2025-02-22 15:21:28 UTC

How do you refer to the #IndieWeb ?

2025-02-19 16:59:05 UTC

Is there a #blogging challenge / #writing prompt bot / feed / account out there on Fedi somewhere? The entire #indieweb community could respond to the challenges and it could be fun. The couple of viral blogging challenges that have gone around lately have been fun.

2024-12-21 17:37:15 UTC

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Need to get in this beta!

2024-12-05 03:04:44 UTC

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What is the measure of “success" here? In many ways, I think Mastodon has been a huge success. If raw MAU is the measure, the features we might want to see come are different than if the measure was say, longevity or some form of “user satisfaction”.
Look at what has driven people away from here to understand what could be fixed…
- Safety & security
- Confusion around onboarding / instance-selection
- More feed/timeline options
- Poor instance moderation or admin-ship
- etc…

2024-11-21 13:44:50 UTC

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Just my opinion, and I waffle on this, but my current thinking is that "big tech”'s emphasis on algorithms to deliver people's micro-blogging/social media content has made too many folks completely reliant on the algo-feeds to bring them stuff. Here, you curate a feed which is volume and content-appropriate and tend it like a garden. Sure, reach and discoverability take a hit, but I find the higher fidelity, more manageable feed is just - healthier.

2024-11-20 13:22:41 UTC

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If you're like me, you would regret not having been here at some point. I kinda wrote about this here https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/11/18/hold-the-line-stay-with-me.
I get why people like to go some place where they feel like they "have a lot of followers”. 90% of Bluesky traffic seems to be about this right now so you definitely wouldn't be in the minority.
What's nice is that the Fediverse is resilient. It can ebb and flow, but it can't fall the same way these centralized platforms do.
So, Build your communities here.

2024-11-20 13:18:30 UTC

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I think Bluesky has moved from the, "no one is here, yell loudly about Bluesky" phase to the “some people are actually here, yell loudly about Bluesky" phase. People seem more concerned with creating starter packs, amassing followers, posting about how many followers they have, and talking shit about every other network despite having been on those networks up until like a week ago. In time people will (likely) settle in and have more substantial discourse (maybe?)

2024-11-16 20:02:21 UTC

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Lol. I wasn't trying to be sneaky. Maybe I should remove? Just made sense though if you want to interact with those bridged accounts 🤷‍♂️

2024-11-16 13:03:03 UTC

Hey #infosec folks, if you've bridged your account to #Bluesky using BridgyFed (https://fed.brid.gy/) let me know so I can add that bridged account to a starter pack there. 👍
Would be great to highlight the infosec people who are here, over there.
Boost around so I can nab everyone! 🚀

2024-11-15 19:00:19 UTC

Absolutely no one asked me to do this, but here it is anyways. Some takes and info related to what's going on with #Bluesky
https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/11/15/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-not-enshittifying
The TL;DR? (Because damn if I didn't spill too many words on such a thing…) Here's a list
1. Bsky 📈
2. Lots of emotions on Fedi about 1
3. Wanna go to Bsky? Sure. Do it.
4. Dorsey helped start bsky, but is no longer involved
5. Bsky is VC-backed, worrisome!
6. Bsky is NOT decentralized (right now)
7. Starter packs 👍👎
And more stuff if you read..

2024-06-03 14:37:54 UTC

Anyone out there who has a #nostr acocunt want to help me test something? Can you search for "shellsharks@shellsharks.com” and see if my profile returns? (As opposed to searching my npub adress). I am testing out the instructions from @npub10y8…6et3 here https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/nostr-nip-05/ to set up a NIP-05 Verified Nostr Address. Thanks!
#fedihelp #askfedi