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shellsharks
Personal blog · shellsharks.comsecurityculture
shellsharks is a personal blog at shellsharks.com about security and culture. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link shellsharks.com mainly for its indieweb page, a blogroll of indie web communities and starting points for finding independent blogs and webrings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writings on infosec, technology and life
What Hacker News says?
Oh wow, are in luck! These kinds of communities have been building up over the last few years (maybe decade or so?), and now they're quite prevalent. I was about to share a few links (like indieweb.org, fediring.net, etc.)...but, then remembered stumbling upon the following blogroll/link page that does a wonderful job of capturing some really good starting points: https://shellsharks.com/indieweb Enjoy! :-)
Comment linking /indieweb
on “The HTML Hobbyist (2022)”Submitted No More -ishings as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDiscoverability is trickier on Mastodon. There is no algorithm to bring your posts to the masses. With a net new account with 0 followers, you are reliant on someone on your Local instance seeing and responding/boosting your post to their respective network of followers. You may have luck using hashtags in your post to reach those who have followed those hashtags, but even that I think has minimal effect unless you…
Comment linking /notes/2023/10/20/infosec-mastodon-starter-pack
on “Ask HN: Am I using Mastodon wrong?”Submitted A list of crimes committed by Bowser across the history of Mario games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe a fourth? https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#:~:text=Webrings
Comment linking /indieweb
on “Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes”Submitted Beautiful guide to thread modeling methodologies and frameworks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Canonicalize Your Web Identity and Achieve Data Sovereignty with Pesos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scrolls vol. 23 – IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Put It on Your Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scroll Quintus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Is Magic (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designer Vulnerabilities as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
