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Email Etiquette: Replying to Mailing Lists - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/email-etiquette-replying-to-mailing-lists/
Most email clients support the idea of "threaded messages"… that is, the client can group together individual email messages that are part of the same conversation, or "thread". This is a particularly useful feature on mailing lists where multiple conversations are happening at the same time. For example, the following screenshot of the OpenID General Discussion list shows two ...
reach out and touch someone - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2007/reach-out-and-touch-someone/
I just love the communication tools we have at our disposal in this day and age. Earlier tonight I received a rather unpleasant email from an apparently frustrated individual (let's call him Joe) in reply to a message I sent to a mailing list.
Intentionally Positive - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2021/intentionally-positive/
We must strive to be intentionally positive. Being intentionally positive is not something that happens by accident. It's not something you stumble into, and I suspect that it does not come naturally to many people. By definition, being intentionally positive is a conscious and deliberate choice to behave in a particular way.
Delta and the Security Question Anti-Pattern - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/delta-and-the-security-question-anti-pattern/
August 13, 2008 by Will Norris. High on my list of most aggravating anti-patterns is that of setting up (in)security questions. You know, where you have to choose three questions along the lines of: What is your father's middle name?
Life and Love and Why - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2006/life-and-love-and-why/
A lot has been happening over the last few months, and I've been relatively quiet about it for the most part. Well, things are finally confirmed enough now that I feel comfortable talking about it publicly - I've accepted a job in Los Angeles and will be moving in about two weeks.
Identity and Identifiers
willnorris.com/2010/identity-and-identifiers/
I still remember when I made the conscious decision to go by the name "Will" instead of "William". I was 11 or 12 years old, and we were moving from Irving, Texas, where we had lived the last 7 years or so, to Olive Branch, Mississippi.
The Indie Web is the new Zines - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2014/the-indie-web-is-the-new-zines/
I really love these two quotes from Lillian Karabaic's great piece, The Indie Web is the new Zines. They really underscore the importance of the indie web (and ideas like it) to ensuring free speech and diverse opinions:
A place to call home - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2013/a-place-to-call-home/
Last week, in a post talking about the IndieWeb, I shared my concerns with Mike Elgan's "Blogs of August", in which he encourages individuals to blog exclusively on Google+ for the month of August. I'm happy that the conversation has continued over the last week in various places like Copyblogger and on Google+ itself.. In my post last week, I mentioned:
Hum - A Personal URL shortener for WordPress - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2011/hum-personal-url-shortener-wordpress/
While I haven't had much time over the last year or so to spend actually writing code for DiSo, I've been really interested in the new direction Tantek has been taking things with his DiSo 2.0 concepts. Many of the early efforts in DiSo were focused just on how to move social data around the web (data formats, protocols, authentication mechanisms, etc).
back online - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2002/back-online/
after a good bit of frustration, and a small hunk of cash, everything's back online. all the old journal entries are currently lost in the bowels of the old server, but soon to be recovered.
A New Kind of OpenID Proxy - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/a-new-kind-of-openid-proxy/
It's an interesting concept, however, as a privacy nerd, it leaves me unhappy. You've mentioned that the salt could be stored or compromised, but far worse the actual OpenID used could be stored. As a privacy nerd I must assume the service is my enemy (this is why protocols like ToR and MIxmaster are set up to work even if you do not trust the nodes themselves).
willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2023/like-unrot/
2023-12-15T00:00:00.0000000
Remy took his No More 404 idea and turned it into a hosted service, unrot, and it's really neat. Setting it up was a piece of cake, as was modifying things to proxy all communication through my
site
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Double Click-Throughs
willnorris.com/2005/double-click-throughs/
Preface When I started thinking about this topic about a week ago, it was originally going to be a rant about NetNewsWire and how its click-through behavior was so frustrating. Upon doing a little research however, I discovered this problem is not specific to NNW, but all OS X applications, and I'm certainly not the first person to talk about it (John Gruber has a number of interesting reads).
Plato's Republic
willnorris.com/2003/platos-republic/
I've been toying with the idea of going into IP law eventually, so I decided to take a few political science classes to make sure I was going to like it.
OpenID is not a provisioning engine - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2007/openid-is-not-a-provisioning-engine/
In talking about the future possibilities of OpenID 2.0 and the Attribute Exchange extension, James Henstridge mentions, Imagine being able to update your shipping address in one place when you move house and having all the online retailers you use receive the updated address immediately. Or changing your email address and having all the bugzilla instances you use pick up the new address ...
iTunes 9, now with more WebKit - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/itunes-9-now-with-more-webkit/
As John Gruber predicted yesterday, iTunes 9 certainly uses WebKit much more than the last version. I used wireshark to do a packet trace when I clicked on the Rock Music section. Sure enough, if you gunzip the response, it is effectively standard HTML (though they do declare a custom XML namespace for everything).
hCard is not a provisioning engine (for private data)
willnorris.com/2007/hcard-is-not-a-provisioning-engine-for-private-data/
Last week I wrote about how hCard is much more appropriate than OpenID for the provisioning use-case and Chris continued that discussion, questioning why we need SREG and Attribute Exchange when hCard works just fine.. So the question is, when OpenID is clearly a player in the future and part of that promise is about making things easier, more consistent and more citizen-centric, why would we ...
Thoughts on Proposition 8 - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/thoughts-on-proposition-8/
California's Proposition 8, which proposes a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages, has certainly been a recent topic of discussion around ours and many Californian's dinner tables. I've talked with friends, family members, and colleagues, listening to the various arguments people have on each side of the issue.
WordCamp badge fail
willnorris.com/2013/wordcamp-badge-fail/
Last December, Matt Mullenweg linked to a post titled A lawyer's home base on the web is their blog, advocating the use of a personal website as your primary identity online.
Books I Read in 2015 - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2016/books-i-read-in-2015/
As I fully expected, I did much less reading this year than in previous years. Having a newborn will do that do you. Xenocide, Orson Scott Card. This is the third book in the Ender's Game series, and maybe the last I'll read for a little while.
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