Frank Seesink

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16 Nov 2025

frank.seesink.comDocker Update Breaks Apps

krebsonsecurity.comDOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAIMarko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury an...

15 July 2025

🤦 krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge...

cncf.ioProtecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the communityWhen a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…

25 Apr 2025

*sigh* www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04...

frank.seesink.com/blog/nostr/

15 Feb 2025

frank.seesink.comNostr

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8 Feb 2025

frank.seesink.comPKI in 5 Minutes

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20 Jan 2025

frank.seesink.comBluesky May Not Be the Answer

knowledge.digicert.comDigiCert Certificate Status IP AddressesThis page contains the DigiCert dedicated IP addresses for DigiCert Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), Certificate Revocation List (CRL), and a few other DigiCert services.

5 Jan 2025

1 step forward, 3 steps back? “DigiCert moving to new dedicated IPv4 addresses for our DigiCert services and removing support for IPv6 addresses” knowledge.digicert.com/alerts/digic...

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5 Jan 2025

frank.seesink.comHow to Setup a Blog using Obsidian and Hugo

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4 Jan 2025

frank.seesink.comI'll go this way, Hugo that way

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3 Jan 2025

frank.seesink.comNew Year, New Blog Setup!

businessinsider.comJack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another TwitterThe real new Twitter, Jack Dorsey argues, should be something called Nostr.

16 May 2024

Not sure what to make of the "Meth Unabomber" (a.k.a., Jack Dorsey) leaving Bluesky board, encouraging folks to remain on X, and endorsing Nostr. Is every rich a*hole just losing their sh*t in different ways? www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-... www.theguardian.com/technology/a... nostr.com

2 Jan 2024

What is up with Bluesky? Opened it today to find random crap on my home page, mostly in German, with none of the posts from the few people I follow. That is not useful to me.

5 Dec 2023

Currently reading "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation": www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory... It is helping remind me why I am in this profession. I get immense joy reading these kinds of books, as it brings back the excitement/energy around tech. Highly recommended.

Final Day 1 thought: Unless I am mistaken, Bluesky is much like Twitter/X is now: you can no longer access content unless you have an account and are logged in. So these are really no longer an open microblogging platform at all but simply another chat/collab type app. Not sure how I feel abt that.

With "old Twitter", you could simply send a friend a URL to the specific tweet of interest. They did not need an account. They simply clicked & were taken to a web page of the tweet. This is no longer true for either Twitter/X or Bluesky. So it's not nearly as much a broadcast medium as it once was.

First day's testing results of Bluesky: It is clearly early days. I am curious to see how things develop, however, especially around the AT Protocol and how federation works in the future. I do believe the future lies not in centralized "Big Tech" services but rather more distributed offerings.

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Now what about links? frank.seesink.com Oh now that's interesting. It pops up a rounded box saying "Add link card: ..." with the URL there. If I click it, it shows a preview of sorts.

But I do like Bluesky's character counter/wheel showing when you're out of characters in a post, though.

Bluesky has rudimentary image support. In web version, can only open file selector. No drag/drop of any kind. Phone has usual image picker from library or using camera. Ironically, you can do basic image resize once selected. But that's it.

- No emoji support? Seriously? - And absolutely no formatting? Let's try some **MarkDown** and see what happens. I am guessing it will _fail_ miserably. Editing window definitely does not appear to support anything (like hitting Cmd-B to insert bolding of any kind). > Suspect this won't be quoted.

Nope. No formatting of any kind. And mobile app only allows emojis due to built in iOS 📱support, not support in app. This falls down in web version. So not even smileys.

Bluesky thread/reply support is meh. Giving up on that for now. Moving on to other bits. Will just do straight up posts for each observation for now. Again, apologies for the noise as I beat on this a bit.

Bluesky observations thread. This will be a tad stream of (un)consciousness, as I just tinker with Bluesky posting to see how things work/don't work. It is in no particular order.

Ok, maybe mobile is better. You click on a post to go into it, then scroll down through responses and can reply in box at bottom. That seems better than what I see in web version.

Bluesky observations thread. This will be a tad stream of (un)consciousness, as I just tinker with Bluesky posting to see how things work/don't work. It is in no particular order.

I REALLY do not like how the reply/threads works in Bluesky so far. Not intuitive at all. Hope to see it improve in time.

Typing on iPhone to see if threads/replies any better. Nope, not really.

Bluesky observations thread. This will be a tad stream of (un)consciousness, as I just tinker with Bluesky posting to see how things work/don't work. It is in no particular order.

(paraphrasing) Someone said "Bluesky is like Twitter 10 years ago." Sounds about right. It feels like "early Twitter". I do like the overall responsiveness of Bluesky. It is "teh snappy." :-) Of course, I am relying on Ferdium to give me a native app-like feel.

Bluesky observations thread. This will be a tad stream of (un)consciousness, as I just tinker with Bluesky posting to see how things work/don't work. It is in no particular order.

Hmmm. Second observation: Bluesky UI/UX needs work. It does not update terribly well. I often have to reload the page or otherwise click away and back to see updated info. Also, posting replies in a thread is... weird. I see the OP + my first reply. But if I click on icon to reply, only the OP. Odd

Bluesky observations thread. This will be a tad stream of (un)consciousness, as I just tinker with Bluesky posting to see how things work/don't work. It is in no particular order.

First observation: Not a terribly big fan of mobile-centric services (a la WhatsApp), and Bluesky appears to fall into that camp. They have a website version, iOS and Android apps. But no native apps for desktop OSes. I am testing Bluesky using my iPhone and in Ferdium on a Mac. The latter helps.

First post! Ok ok, enough silliness. I am going to try something different here. Anyone who knows me knows I have reservations about the narcissistic aspects of social media in general. But I want to give Bluesky an honest fair shake. So I have to do more than just lurk. So here goes.