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Federated!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 8, 2022 Posted in Misc 8 Comments Tagged with fediverse

This blog is now a part of the #fediverse. I was inspired by the recent migration user growth on Mastodon and other federated social web sites to get the ActivityPub WordPress plugin installed here and start federating out any posts …

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All Change, Still Purple.

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 31, 2022 Posted in Misc 1 Comment Tagged with career, jobs, samsung, security, snyk, Web

Apparently there’s been some confusion about my choice of hair color. Some people seem to have been under the impression that I chose purple to match the color scheme of Samsung Internet. So I want to set the record straight. …

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Why Get Involved in Web Standards?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 15, 2020 Posted in Misc No Comments

Post originally appeared on dev.to. The web is going through an unprecedented period of change and evolution. New features, new technologies and new ideas are coming to the web. Luckily, it’s a platform that, since its invention in 1992 by …

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We Need a More Ethical Web

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in Misc No Comments

This is a repost of something I originally posted to the Samsung Internet blog on Medium. This week, we have been celebrating the 30th anniversaryof the invention of the web. However, the celebration is tinged with anxiety about the current state of the …

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Ups & Downs of the web 2018

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 21, 2018 Posted in Misc No Comments

The following is an excerpt from a post from all the members of the Samsung Internet Developer Advocacy group on web ups and downs foe 2018. I encourage you to go read that post and hear what others in my …

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This Blog is Now Secure

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 3, 2018 Posted in Misc No Comments

For what it’s worth, I’ve moved this blog over onto new host (Tsohost) that supports one-click installation and auto-renewal of LetsEncrypt certificates. So now, after years of hammering on about moving the web to https, I’ve finally made my own …

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Why are Web Companies Biting the Hand that Feeds Them?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 14, 2015 Posted in Misc No Comments

Why are Web Companies Biting the Hand that Feeds Them?

Keybase: Reinventing PGP For the 21st Century?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 10, 2014 Posted in Misc No Comments Tagged with Keybase, PGP

Let’s face it, PGP is pretty old school. It’s like pocket-protechor old-school. I’ve personally taken several runs at trying to get PGP up and running. The problem has always been: once I get PGP working, there’s nobody to send encrypted …

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HTML5 is done, but two groups still wrestle over Web’s future – CNET

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 28, 2014 Posted in Misc No Comments

#HTML5  goes to "Rec." Definitely worth celebrating. But also, Web Standards are messy. This CNET article by +Stephen Shankland really does a good job of peeling that back. Bonus points for featuring a #w3cmeme . #blogthis  ? The World Wide Web …

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How to create your own URL shortener

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on August 19, 2014 Posted in Misc No Comments Tagged with URL

This article from The Next Web is a good write-up of different options available for creating your own URL shortener. I’m a big fan of short URLs, but I think one of the draw-backs can be that they create a …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

For more info on my professional life, see my Linkedin profile.

I am tooting at Mastodon.social and also at dsoc.io.

If you're curious where the nickname Torgo came from, I appropriated it from a character in the the movie Manos: the Hands of Fate via Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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