For the past few years, the tech industry has kept pushing passkeys as the ultimate solution to logging in. Many Big Tech companies "helpfully" inform you every time you sign in how much easier and effortless passkeys are. The only way to make them stop is either to concede and set up a passkey or dig into the...

This post is also available over on get-arpa-domain.0.4.1.0.9.0.f.1.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa! On the internet, .arpa is the top level domain reserved for critical internet infrastructure. It isn't open to public registration, so you can't own mysite.arpa sadly. However, this isn't the only way to reserve some...

I've been participating in Hack Club for about two years so far. I've written posts about when I went to Shipwrecked and when I won Campfire. It started in late February. Whilst I was working on building this website, I checked the Hack Club Slack and discovered a new announcement. You notice something big coming...

Everything you need to know about JSON-LD and how to implement it.

Supply chain attacks are a growing threat to software registries. One of the first major typosquatting attacks on npm took place in 2017 when the user "hacktask" published a series of packages with similar names to popular libraries (e.g. crossenv vs cross-env), misleading people into installing them. Then the first...

The threat quantum computers pose to encryption is growing faster than many expected. Historically, the internet has relied on algorithms like RSA encryption and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) to exchange encryption keys and verify identities across the web. These algorithms are in danger of being entirely broken...

As leader of ComSoc at my school, I guide the Year 12 and 13 students and keep on the lookout for any new opportunities we can take part in. A few months ago, we practised for the British Informatics Olympiad, a challenging set of three questions that required us to design accurate algorithms to solve. Over a short...

Last April, I was minding my own business when I received a curious email in my inbox. Hack Club is renting an island. We are hosting a hackathon. Anyone who ships 4 projects gets to come. Flight stipends available! Dates are August 8th - 11th. Boston, USA. I'd signed up for Hack Club mailing lists in the past since...

I've owned the domain name hawksley.dev for a while now, but I've never done much with it aside from sending email. Over the weekend, I thought I might as well make good use of it and decided to create a blog. In the beginning, this site had a humble home page with some links to GitHub projects. A blog requires much...