Ben Werdmuller

Category: Software development

  • HTTP signatures

    It looks like I’m not the only person who likes the idea of signed HTTP requests as an authentication method. Joyent and Digital Bazaar have co-written an Internet draft for cryptographically signed HTTP requests: Several web service providers have invented their own schemes for signing HTTP requests, but to date, none have been placed in […]

  • The Progressive (Profitable) Web

    Ryan Holiday laments the loss of Google Reader and RSS in general in Our Regressive Web, arguing that if someone came up with them today, we’d think they were brilliant ideas: Nothing better has risen up to replace them. The underlying needs of a fairly large user base (that these services meet) still exist. We’re […]

  • Engine attribution

    This site is (right now) powered by the WordPress open source blogging engine. If you hit “view source” in your browser, somewhere near the top, this is what you’ll see: <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress x.x.x” /> (Where x.x.x is the current version.) I’m in the process of moving away from WordPress. More about that another time. […]

  • Silos, the open web, and selfdogfooding

    Tantek Çelik has written an important post about silos vs an open, social web: The answer is not to not “only [be] relevant to geeks”, but rather, reframe it as a positive, and be relevant to yourself. That is, design, architect, create, and build for yourself first, others second. If you’re not willing to run […]