A little over a year ago I shared a method of generating dynamic Questy Captchas for the MediaWiki ConfirmEdit extension. This method has been awesome for stopping registration spam on the thingelstad.com wiki farm and many other wiki admins have used it with success. …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Updated Dynamic Questy CaptchasThe main thing I’ve learned from my WikiApiary project is how horribly bad the spam bot problem is in the MediaWiki world.
TextCaptcha looks like a nice tool. Trying it on one of my sites. Thanks @robtuley!
Improving ads, wow, how excited should I be? Just to be clear what this message really means is that Facebook is now actively collating all of the data that it collects about you from every website that you visit that has those cute little Facebook Like buttons and is using that …
Keep reading · 1 minute: How FacebookI’m really intrigued by what Keybase.io is doing with identity. The ability to cryptographically prove your identity on the web without a centralized party like Twitter or Facebook owning the approval process is a needed function. I setup my profile and you can now prove on your …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Keybase and MediaWikiI have my profile setup on Keybase.io. Keybase is an interesting product using public key cryptography in a decentralized way to allow identities to be known without having to meet people in person, but instead through public proof.
I backed The Internet’s Own Boy on Kickstarter and can’t wait to get my copy. Watch the preview.
Yesterdays 1Password updates are great. Just one key thing missing — be able to have multiple vaults open at once in multiple windows.
Excited to have multiple vault support in 1Password on all devices now!
