Scraps #4

A bunch of scrappy notes from 2025-07-04 to 2025-07-11, posted on Friday 11th of July 2025 at 21:40

We're four Scraps in! Momentum!

To celebrate this audacious occasion, I've created a dedicated /scraps slashpage AND a dedicated scraps RSS feed, which you can find listed on the new /feeds page!

I've also changed the scrap title be an incrementing number instead of the date it's posted. Yay or nay? Or perhaps doing something like 25-28 ([year]-[week number])? Hrm...

Whilst I ponder this, let's get right into it.

Spotlight

Call for content! @xandra is looking for content for the next issue of good internet magazine - do you want to contribute?

Indieweb, Fediverse & Social Media - people stuff

Hey, have you seen those, uh, what are they called? You know, down on that small h2o ocean planet with the plastic pollution and melting ice caps? Come on you know, the ones going through an extinction level event with massively reduced biological diversity, who move metal with explosions and think it's a good idea...? Yes! Humans, that's it! Have you seen what a small subset of one very particular niche of them has been up to this week? No? Check it out:

Louie thinks the web is so cool. I agree, and I'm not alone, Kai thinks so too! The secret is to find the people, not the products or robots :)
On that note, The indieweb has got ReadBeanIceCream down. Down for more, that is!
It seems that for ReadBeanIceCream, "more" involves detailing what RSS feeds are all about. Check out this great guide on RSS
RSS feeds have a long history, relative to most internet-based tech. It's not the only thing with history though - A few folks have been looking back through time at the evolution of their websites:

John travels back in time and looks through the websites he's had since starting back in the 90s(!)
10 years is a long time too, Murray has looked back over the decade and explored the evolution of theAdhocracy.co.uk
Ruben has been posting for 1 year now. That's not as long as the others above, but it is a grander achievement in isolation in my opinion. The first post to your site is often the hardest, but keeping that momentum for a year? That takes dedication, passion, care and effort. Ruben has celebrated this milestone with a thank you post, aimed at the human web, filled with links to fantastic sites you should check out! I am honoured to be included in the post. Ruben, thank you for making the human web what it is today! I look forward to the next year and beyond!

If you're all kinds of inspired by those people and what they've created, perhaps you want to make your own site? well you're in luck, because Joe has been reminded of a fantastic resource for learning html!
Ah, HTML, what a delight. Did you know that August 2nd is HTML day? And did you know that there are events that happen around the world to celebrate it and spread the hypertext-based joy? HTML events?! Well, now you know!
And here's another important day: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has celebrated its 35th birthday this week

Infosec, sysadmin & code - tech stuff

Beep you say? Well to you I say, boop.

WatchTowr throws another great post detailing the latest Citrix vuln. Déjà vu?
Staying with WatchTowr, they've published another post detailing a pre-auth SQLi which leads to RCE on the FortiWeb Fabric Connector. Y'know, the thing that ties Fortinet security things together and consolidates them. That thing. Sigh.
Adrian has taken an LLMs hallucinations about a feature that SoundSlice's music sheet scanner doesn't have and created that feature to fulfill a demand in the market - pretty neat idea
A bunch of browser extensions have been identified which started out seemingly legit, but once popular got infected by malware via an update

Bonus

Whatever you do, do not tease the sheep.

Ben is living a dream, and just the other day had another magical moment where he saw a deer and its fawn
Check out these sweet Pokémon card effects made with CSS! They're not recent, but I've only just seen them. They look so great, and just with CSS?! Awesome.
If you enjoy reading Scraps, have you considered ...reading Scraps? Yes, I am of course not original, as Alex has been posting Sunday Scraps for nearly 100 editions! I love finding scrappy little linkdumps. If you have one you post yourself, share it with me!