Updated July 1, 2025

winther blog ------------ / /blog /about /now /ideas /postroll /bookmarks /guestbook My life is pretty routine, and I am actually quite happy that way, so this page probably won't have dramatic changes. I do like the concept though as a replacement for what social media used to be about. 🕶 Life: > The school year for the kids is ending soon, so looking forward to a long vacation in Italy with the family 🎸 Listening: > I try to keep up with especially new black metal releases, but I keep coming back to bands I have listened to for 20 years. Copenhell is now over and I didn't really find any new bands to listen to, so back to the old classics and keeping up with new releases. Sodom has released a new album, and it is great, so that is on my rotation1 📽️ Watching: > I am mostly watching what would be called arthouse type films, but I am also currently exploring spaghetti westerns more in depth. This has also led me recently to dabble a bit in other Italian genre films from the 1970s with giallo and poliziotteschi films. This year I also have an ambition of watching even more non-English movies, and there is a new generation of Danish directors that are making very interesting new films these years2 📖 Reading: > I subscribe to several science fiction magazines and try to read at least some of the stories that sound good based on reviews.3 Haven't read a novel in years, but will occasionally pick up a non-fiction book. Right now, I am going through Source Code - My Beginnings by Bill Gates 🎮 Playing: > Currently not much gaming on my own, though I do try to keep with the DLC releases in Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. Looking forward to the upcoming additions to Scandinavia. The most gaming is done on the Nintendo Switch with my daughters, which at the moment is mostly Mario Kart and Yoshi's Crafted World 🧩 Jigsaw puzzle: > 1000 pieces Steve Read: Colourful Bakery, Schmidt4 Part of the /about and /ideas concept from aboutideasnow.com Updated July 1, 2025 1. All my music is tracked on Last.fm↩ 2. My film watching is logged on Letterboxd↩ 3. I write short reviews of most stories I read↩ 4. I have a log of all previous jigsaw puzzles done↩

Updated July 1, 2025

River's Den ----------- Home Weblog Bookmarks Changelog TIL Recipes Now Guestbook Things I'm currently working on, as of July 1, 2025 🦊🐾 I've been trying to reduce my sugar intake, to manage both glucose levels and weight long-term. It's difficult! This July, I'm intending to start working out, either before or after office hours. That'll depend on how busy the gym is, and what my sleep schedule looks like (it's complicated, lol) I play Helldivers 2 and Elite Dangerous, and in the latter, I travel to Saggitarius A\* on a stock Sidewinder. It's extremely boring, but I'm committed. Hopefully I'll get there before Christmas 😅 I'm documenting the journey on a separate page, Sidewinder Logs. It's an Atom feed by the way, so you can follow along using your newsfeed reader.

Updated June 30, 2025

FrontierNav ----------- WebsiteAn interactive video game wiki. Combines features from wikis, databases, interactive maps, community forums and more into a single unified platform. * FrontierNav Update: 30 June 2025 * FrontierNav Update: 24 March 2025 * FrontierNav Update: 21 February 2025 WebVerify --------- GitHubAn approach to verify authorship of webpages using PGP with a proof-of-concept Web Extension. * Domain Ownership, Web Authorship and WebVerify maptiles -------- GitHubA map tile generator. Converts an image into map tiles using ImageMagick. Map tiles can be used in Google Maps, Leaflet, and other map rendering software. * Self-contained Bash scripts. * im-map-tiles v1.0.0 * Parsing Optional Arguments in Bash @jahed/terraform ---------------- GitHubA Terraform wrapper for NodeJS. Automates and manages your Terraform setup like all of your other npm dependencies. * Terraform NodeJS Wrapper Improvements * Trigger GitHub Actions from commits by other actions. * Long-Term Open Source Maintainance @jahed/firebase-rules --------------------- GitHubA type-safe Firebase Real-time Database Security Rules builder. Compose and re-use common rules. Reference constants used throughout the project. Catch any errors and typos. Auto-completion. * Open Source for Closed Software * Weekly Report: 11th November 2019 * Weekly Report: 1st July 2019 @jahed/firebase-rest -------------------- GitHubFirebase JS SDK API using Firebase REST API under the hood instead of WebSockets. @jahed/bem ---------- GitHubA library of functions for using BEM naming conventions in CSS and CSS Modules and applying them seamlessly in JavaScript. * @jahed/bem, A Brief History * Using CSS Modules with BEM @jahed/promises --------------- GitHubA library of functions for promises. Use promises as control flow and worry less about what's asynchronous and what isn't. Night Patrol ------------ GitHubAn interactive test runner for Nightwatch. Run individual tests, re-run failures, switch environments, autocompletion, and more. * Migrating Nightwatch Tests to Cypress * FrontierNav Report: February 2019 * Introducing Night Patrol Agility ------- WebsiteA mob programming timer. It can also be used for pair programming and meetings. * Migrating Nightwatch Tests to Cypress * FrontierNav Report: February 2019 * Introducing Night Patrol Some Recent Posts ----------------- Subscribe to my RSS feed to receive new posts straight to your inbox. * Setting up an LG OLED TV as a PC monitor * Run MEGAcmd CLI in a Docker container * Games on Surface Pro * Install Microsoft Windows. * Run Linux on an ancient netbook. * WiFi 6E USB adapters on Linux * USB Audio/Video Capture on Linux. * Fix air flow in a solid front panel computer case. * Create hidden series in Grafana

Updated June 30, 2025

Recently I: **am angry at fascists.** I've been thinking: everyone carries a web browser in their pocket. Go make a web page. Web pages are fun. This is my _now_ page. Blog post more info ------------------- * Email from Glitch (2025-06-27) * GIFs, Seriously. (2025-06-25) * 24 June 2025. (2025-06-24) * “Take Two” as in Television Production (2025-06-21) * Turtle! (2025-06-16) * Pass along music (2025-06-16) * Put “romance” on the shopping list (2025-06-16) * Facebook Messenger! (2025-06-15) Affirmations more info ---------------------- * I am on the Broad Highway walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe. #affirmation (2025-06-30) * I find it easy to seek my higher power's help in any moment of need in my life. #affirmation (2025-06-29) * I am not alone, I am one with my higher power and the universe. #affirmation (2025-06-28) * I now know peace. #affirmation (2025-06-27) * I am enough. #affirmation (2025-06-26) * I forgive myself. #affirmation (2025-06-25) Comic more info --------------- * (2025-01-24) Mastodon post more info ----------------------- * It was too long since I used a proper brush to apply ink and watercolor to paper. I intend to practice more. My piece "Cousins" will be up here in #SanDiego at Subterranean Coffeehouse in North Park. My life has been enriched muchly by Mr. Disney and Tezuka-san. https://artlung.com/blog/2025/06/29/comics-theme-arthang/ #comics (2025-06-30) * “you’ve done too much / much too young / now you’re chained to the cooker / making currant buns for tea” (2025-06-30) * TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Another of the #IndieWeb event series I've been proctoring where we look at and learn from and learn about HTML and CSS and everything #frontend #webdev. JOIN US. No skill level turned away. https://events.indieweb.org/2025/07/front-end-study-hall-031-lY8kfUTu1e8B 01 July 2025 (2025-06-30) * U MAD BILLIONAIRE? (2025-06-30) * “Follow for fitness and mindset content for Catholic men” — the suggested content advertisements I see in Instagram are only getting weirder and less relevant as I block account after account, chasing views of ACCOUNTS I ACTUALLY FOLLOW. (2025-06-29) * “Well I’ve been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard over a pair of earphones!” (2025-06-28) Lab more info ------------- * WML, WAP, & Microformats Demo (2025-06-18) * Kanban Task Board in CSS Grid (2025-06-04) * Ventcheck, a Twitter bot (2025-05-16) * Safari Mailto Converter (2025-05-15) * Mid-air footer (2025-03-06) * Gettysburg Address in HTML. Interactive. (2025-02-21) * Spoiler Widget (2025-02-12) * Keystroke to Go to Random Web Page (2024-12-23) Smorgasborg more info --------------------- * Maarva Andor Has A Posse (2025-04-26) * IndieWeb Sickos (2025-04-10) * Guru Meditation (2025-03-15) * This Man Wants To Clean Your Clothes (Velvet Touch Dry Cleaners & Laundry) Pacific Beach, San Diego California (2025-02-23) * Illinois State of the State Address, 2025 by Governor J.B. Pritzker (2025-02-19) * Good Words (2025-02-12) * Giant Woman (2025-01-27) * All the Foods I Cannot Eat by Leoh Blooms (2025-01-08) CSS Battles more info --------------------- * CSSBattle for JUNE 30 (2025) * CSSBattle for JUNE 29 (2025) * CSSBattle for JUNE 28 (2025) * CSSBattle for JUNE 27 (2025) * CSSBattle for JUNE 26 (2025) FrESH more info --------------- * Front End Study Hall #031 _in 15 hours_ * Front End Study Hall #030 _Jun 17, 2025_ * Front End Study Hall #029 _Jun 3, 2025_ * Front End Study Hall #028 _May 20, 2025_ * Front End Study Hall #027 _May 8, 2025_ Likes more info --------------- * Joe Crawford liked: Love (a photograph) by James (2025-06-30) * Joe Crawford liked: Learning to Live by Lou Plummer : > Give me the small web in every way. (2025-06-30) * Joe Crawford liked: Lessons in tech-heresy in the AI Age by Ruslan Osipov : > It happens when we start treating AI as an infallible oracle rather than the powerful, deeply flawed, and sometimes an outright weird tool. The threats aren’t science fiction anymore; they’re the real-world risks of algorithmic biases getting baked into government policies, a complete lack of accountability when things go wrong, and the potential for some truly catastrophic, unexplainable errors. (2025-06-27) * Joe Crawford liked: Generative AI as a Magic System by Tracy Durnell (2025-06-27) * Joe Crawford liked: Take Two: An Infinite Series by Ross A. Baker (2025-06-27) * Joe Crawford liked: Webmentions: Exchange data between websites by Christian (2025-06-26) Bodysurfing ----------- * (2025-06-28) Mixtape more info ----------------- * 2025 PHŌLÖSOPHŶ Toy Robots more info -------------------- * (2025-05-07)

Updated June 30, 2025

:x ### What I’m doing now go back ↰ # finished brave new world -------------------------- It was disturbing; perfect pacing; surprisingly sex-obsessed. I liked the contrast between the “savage” and the “ordered” cultures, and the author’s ambivalence about which one was truly better. ↸ Back to top # upcoming travel ----------------- * Berkeley (Simons Institute): July 7-18 ↸ Back to top * * * Last updated in June 2025. This page is inspired by Derek Sivers.

Updated June 28, 2025

Since my last update to this page in February 2025, I * was in a car accident and sustained an acute nondisplaced fracture of the transverse process of my L2 vertebra, which means both that I broke my back and also that I am fine * have had multiple health challenges (not including the above) for myself and in my family with attendant mixed feelings * am hanging in there _This page is my contribution to the /now page movement by Derek Sivers._

Updated June 28, 2025

Monitor Your Company's Stock Price on Grafana --------------------------------------------- Jun 28, 2025 Over the weekend, I built a way to monitor your company’s stock price on Grafana. That way, you can roll back your release if the market thinks your code sucks. read more ⟶ Breaking electron-store's encryption ------------------------------------ Aug 21, 2021 A well-known attack on unauthenticated CBC mode allows attackers to modify encrypted config files without knowing the secret key. read more ⟶ Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it --------------------------------------------- Mar 1, 2021 A userstyle that makes you wait ten seconds before entering a Hacker News thread. read more ⟶ The Chrome T-Rex game, except the dinosaur is you ------------------------------------------------- Dec 28, 2020 This weekend, I modified the Chrome T-Rex game to bring it into the physical world with a projector, webcam, and computer vision magic. read more ⟶ My brother’s hamster -------------------- Nov 24, 2020 My brother got a siberian dwarf hamster in March, right before we started quarantining. He and the hamster live a few states away, and although I’ve never met her in person, tonight I got a chance to see her over Zoom. read more ⟶ Where Did Software Go Wrong? ---------------------------- May 27, 2020 Software is broken, but it’s not because of NPM, startups, AI, or venture capitalists. A deep dive into how we think about and produce code, and how our software systems reflect the manic state of the modern world. read more ⟶ Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories --------------------------------------------------------------------- May 12, 2020 Cache rules everything around me. `pyc` files can contain secrets and should not be checked in to source control. Use the standard Python .gitignore. read more ⟶ Open and Shut ------------- Apr 6, 2020 I’ve been working on a little toy project called Open and Shut, which enables you to type in Morse code by opening and shutting your laptop lid. read more ⟶ Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go ----------------------------------------------------- Jan 4, 2020 What is the complete path between visiting thepiratebay and sublimating an mp3 file from thin air? In this post, we’ll implement enough of the BitTorrent protocol to download Debian. Look at the Source code or skip to the last bit. read more ⟶ You're still not anonymous on Looped ------------------------------------ Nov 25, 2019 Looped fixed the bug from part 1. That’s all they fixed. read more ⟶ You're not anonymous on Looped ------------------------------ Nov 23, 2019 Looped knows who you are, and so does anyone who cares to look. Avoid using it unless you understand the risks to your privacy. Read the conclusions. read more ⟶ Detecting incognito mode in Chrome 76 with a timing attack ---------------------------------------------------------- Aug 4, 2019 FileSystem API writes are measurably faster and less noisy in incognito mode, allowing websites to detect incognito visitors by benchmarking their write speed. Results read more ⟶ Reversing JS Malware From marveloptics.com ------------------------------------------ Jul 18, 2018 The injected script steals checkout form data and sends it to a Chinese-owned domain. But the attackers are really bad at programming. read more ⟶ An Analysis of Cloudflare's Email Address Obfuscation ----------------------------------------------------- May 20, 2018 It’s a hex encoded string where the first byte (the key), is XORed against each subsequent byte to decrypt the email address. This is not a vulnerability. read more ⟶ Hacking Harvard (and nearly every other college) ------------------------------------------------ Apr 16, 2018 Chaining two CSRF attacks and brute forcing the user’s birth date (upper bound = 730 requests) allowed complete account takeover. read more ⟶ Snow Day Calculator XSS ----------------------- Apr 12, 2018 PHP’s type coercion and unescaped use of the page’s `snowdays` parameter allows injecting arbitrary HTML and Javascript via a reflected XSS attack. read more ⟶ Stored XSS in Schoology ----------------------- Mar 28, 2018 Schoology blog posts accept a plain HTML document via a tinymce editor, which may be injected with arbitrary elements, including iframes and event handlers. read more ⟶ Uncovering a Bug in Cloudflare's Minification Service ----------------------------------------------------- Mar 17, 2018 A bug in Cloudflare’s Auto Minify service parsed `//` and `/* ... */` within ES6 `` `template literals` `` as comments, causing it to truncate lines or entire blocks of code, leading to unpredictable behavior or in rare cases, a code injection vulnerability. read more ⟶ Bypassing Cert Pinning in the Steam Mobile App ---------------------------------------------- Jan 14, 2018 Use apktool and jadx to identify and remove cert pinning code so we can MITM the app to watch its network requests. read more ⟶

Updated June 28, 2025

👶 From when Mosaic took over Gopher. 🏢 Sr. Director of Engineering @ Cloudflare 🕹️ Slightly addicted to retrocomputing Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack ---------------------------------- Jun 28, 2025 I talk a lot about Commodore machines in this blog; they left a bigger dent in me growing up, but like most kids of my generation living in Portugal in the 80s, the first computers I played with were actually Sinclairs—first my friend’s ZX81 and then a ZX Spectrum 48K that my parents offered me. I have many memories of playing games like the Horace series, Manic Miner, Jetpac, or Chuckie Egg on my Spectrum.… Read more ⟶ Changing the A1000 fan ---------------------- Mar 30, 2025 I’m on a roll upgrading the Amiga 1000. This time, I replaced the PSU fan. The Amiga 1000 PSU uses an ETRI Model 126LH metallic fan that is AC-powered 220/110V. These fans are pretty good, silent, reliable, and used in computers and industrial-grade equipment. However, they all suffer from a common problem: after long years of continuous use, the fan bearing starts developing an annoying grinding noise due to a lack of lubrication.… Read more ⟶ RGB2HDMI for the Amiga 1000 --------------------------- Mar 10, 2025 On my last post “the first perfect computer” I mentioned that I wasn’t done with the A1000. I finally upgraded it with an internal RGB2HDMI adapter. For those unfamiliar with RGB2HDMI, it’s a brilliant and affordable open-source project that converts “digital” RGB video signals from vintage computers into crystal clear HDMI video with very low latency. At its core, there’s a combination of a RaspberryPi Zero running bare-metal code and a CPLD (complex programmable logic device) programmed to do level shifting and pixel sampling on the TTL RGB outputs from a vintage computer and feed the processed data into the Pi’s GPIO pins.… Read more ⟶ The first perfect computer -------------------------- Jan 26, 2025 This is a story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000, the first model of the Amiga series. Many of you might be familiar with the popular Amiga 500 or later models, but the Commodore Amiga 1000 was actually the first model of the Amiga series produced. I consider the A1000 a significant piece of home computing history. Arguably one of the most important machines of the 16-bit revolution period, considered by many to be the first multimedia computer, it marked the beginning of Commodore’s last cycle, after the huge success of the C64, in the history of personal computing.… Read more ⟶ Running CP/M on the C128 ------------------------ Mar 3, 2024 The CP/M, short for Control Program/Monitor, was one of the first operating systems of the personal computer revolution. It was launched in 1974, and it celebrates 50 years this year. It was ported and made available for many 8-bit machines with different CPUs and was related to running productivity software. If you ever used CP/M, then, well, I hate to say it, but you’re old. I had a brief encounter with CP/M when I was 14 or 15 years old; I can’t remember exactly.… Read more ⟶

Updated June 27, 2025

> I am following the `About Ideas Now` manifesto. > The `About` page holds the _past_, the `Now` page the _present_, while the `Ideas` page the _future_. ### Work-wise I am currently in my notice period, working at 10x Genomics as Sr. Computational Biologist, in Stockholm. ### 🖥️ At the computer I am updating this website after a longer-than-expected break from it. ### 📚 From the library I am currently reading: * **Equal Rites** by _Terry Pratchett_ (in English, published by Orion Books). * **The Curator** by _Owen King_ (in English, published by Hodder). * **The art of listening** by _Erich Fromm_ (in English, published by Constable) * **Lettere morali a Lucilio** by _Seneca_ (in Italian & Latin, published by Mondadori).

Updated June 27, 2025

Everything below is a high-level snapshot of what I’m working on, as of June 27, 2025. * Enjoying family time with my wife and two sons (age 8 and 5). * Reorganizing my digital notes into Obsidian. * Recently migrated my blog from Middleman to Astro for better performance and modern tooling. * Playing a lot with LLMs and AI tools. * Continuing to tweak and explore self-hosting tools/services for my homelab. For more details on this concept I recommend looking over nownownow.com by Derek Sivers. Ask Me Anything --------------- Have questions about my work, projects, or anything else? Check out my Ask Me Anything (AMA) on GitHub. I regularly answer questions about software development, productivity, tools, and more.

Updated June 26, 2025

### Christopher Sherrod The Art of Living a Fulfilling Life * Newsletter * RSS * BlueSky Updated on Tuesday June 26th, 2025. Currently Doing --------------- * I’m currently writing a book about my electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Current Projects ---------------- * Writing helpful essays here on what has worked for me in life. See recently published below. * I operate a web agency (closed to new clients) since 1999. * I’m an artist known as Chr1stopher * Created some markdown projects for certain tracking I do in markdown text: One Big Text File Markdown Journal, Home Manual Markdown, Customer Relationship Management Markdown, and Gardening Project Managment Markdown. Previous Projects ----------------- See Projects for a list of projects. Popular Essays -------------- * How Smart Notes Transformed My Productivity and Well-being * Completing the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Challenge: A Musical Journey * Boost Your Content Production Game: Essential Apps and Tools for 2025! - I update yearly with my essential apps * Are High School Dropouts More Successful? Recently Published ------------------ * Review of an old client’s book Corp-bonics * Wrote my Tribute to Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery, Heart Surgeon Who Healed With Plants and Purpose * Wrote a review of Email Storyselling Playbook * Wrote my tribute to Vangelis The Soundtrack That Changed My Life: What Vangelis Taught Me About Legacy * Wrote an essay The Hidden Cost of Cutting Corners: Why Quality Hosting Matters More Than You Think * Reviewed a good book The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux – A Fascinating Journey Through the South Pacific * Wrote an essay Finding Balance: Why Extreme Mindsets Don’t Lead to Entrepreneurial Success * Wrote an essay Quit Worshipping Billionaires, Influencers and Egomaniacs—They Don’t Care About You * Wrote a tribute The Digital Canary: Arthur Firstenberg’s Legacy of Electromagnetic Awareness * Wrote an essay Success is Built in Baby Steps: Why Overnight Success is a Myth * Wrote an essay The Power of Letting Go: Why Not Caring What Others Think is One of Life’s Greatest Lessons * Updated my robots.txt file to disallow bad bots and AI crawlers and turned on AI bot blocker in Cloudflare as well. See my past essays Reading ------- * Grow A New Brain I review some books and all my past books I’ve read are listed on my GoodReads profile. Listening --------- * Enjoying the new album “Equilibrium” by sing-songwriter Waves Rush In coming out in April. * Enjoying the new album “Blackbird and the Sun of October” by Federico Albanese. * Love the new Buddha Bar album. I recommend the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die challenge. You can see my rated albums. I enjoyed it so much I wrote an entire essay about it. And check out my profile on Apple Music where I listen to music. Watched ------- * I’m really liked Andor * Good biopic on Douglas Adams * Liked Paddington In Peru My past movie ratings on IMDb.

Updated June 26, 2025

My current focus in life ------------------------ A `/now` slashpage is a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life.1 Here’s mine – please consider creating one as well.2 **Last update: 26 June 2025**. Self ---- * Healing from long covid since Feb. 2022 * Daily **sādhanā**: including meditation practice, prāṇāyāma and yoga āsana * Short walks when I’m capable of it Home ---- * Struggling to get our municipality to approve the plans for building our new home since June 2024 * Enjoying the flowers in the garden and the birds that come to visit * Supporting my partner in household chores whenever possible Other people ------------ * Staying in touch digitally * Short visits from others when I have the energy * Getting to know the Indieweb community Work ---- * Working remotely for four days a week, 1½ hours a day (up ½ hour per day since beginning of May 2025; was 4 hours in Feb. 2025 and 9 hours in Feb. 2022) * Focusing on a single project on outdoor air quality source apportionment Learning & Hobbies ------------------ * Occasionally learning about Sanskrit and yoga practice & philosophy when I’m up for it * Expanding and tinkering with this website * Learning about HRV and POTS * Reading * Working on GoGuestReply 1. Definition copied from slashpages.net. ↩︎ 2. Nice collections of now pages to inspire you can be found at aboutideasnow.com, nownownow.com and now.garden. ↩︎