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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 05/10/2026

📧 More email verification updates! Not anticipating 🤞 more breaking changes, so if you're waiting for things to stabilise before testing, this is the sign. Android support in stable, dedicated docs, and more 👇 developer.chrome.com/blog/email-ver…

8-step Email Verification flow across Relying Party (RP), Browser (Chrome), and Email Provider (prerequisite: Set-Login: logged-in). 1. Form Presentation: RP serves an email input and hidden email-verification-token input with a nonce. 2. Email Entry: Autofill or exiting the field (blur) triggers background verification. 3. Discovery & Session: Browser checks _email-verification DNS TXT and active session via .well-known/web-identity. 4. Token Issuance: Browser POSTs an ephemeral key to issuance_endpoint (RFC 9421) to receive a signed EVT. 5. Key Binding & Submit: Browser binds EVT to origin and nonce in a KB-JWT, submitting <EVT>~<KB-JWT> with the form. 6. Validate Claims & KB: RP parses the token and verifies key binding against nonce, aud, and cnf.jwk. 7. DNS & Public Keys: RP checks _email-verification DNS TXT for iss and fetches public keys from jwks_uri. 8. Verify EVT & Complete: RP verifies EVT signature with provider JWKS (or falls back to OTP).

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 02/10/2026

Ages since I made an #opticalIllusion demo, but luckily I saw a video from the master @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social and needed an interactive web version. For a little Friday fun you can drag that square back and forth and I promise, hand on heart, it never changes colour. rowan.fyi/made/lightne...

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/09/2026

Living in London this evening.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 29/09/2026

I'll be honest, I often just sit there pressing the shuffle button until I find ones I like and bookmark them. rowan.fyi/made/strange-attraction//…

I'm not sure I can describe it. It's like the memory of a form. It almost feels three dimensional, but not quite.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 27/09/2026

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep going back to old projects if I think they're neat? rowan.fyi/made/strange-attraction//…

Psychedelic snail shell. Acid house escargot.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 19/09/2026

I get to do a demo of #fractious at @feelingof.london this week which has me in an incredibly productive mood. So, I've fixed a major performance issue, cleaned up the UI, and spent the mandatory hour or so picking out a screenshot. Maybe see you on Friday?

$Let's start with the standard part of the description, it's a web app - your standard window furniture, yadda yadda. However, the controls are somehow both slick and playful. Chunky Fisher-Price buttons on an Aston Martin. Very minimal though in order to save space for this ridiculous deep zoom into the Mandelbrot fractal. A weird glowing magenta Mandala, strange cosmic ropes wrapping a center point with the classic Mandelbrot outline just about visible.$

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 15/09/2026

As if I ever could. You're my test case for a good account 😁 and this snapshot is even from before this interaction.

Ingvar's account was marked as Safe from the Great Unfollowing of 2026.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 11/09/2026

Just slopping it at the moment, would this be useful for other people? Couldn't find an existing one that had criteria kinda like TwitCleaner did back in the day. If you think this would be helpful, then I'll clean it up to publish otherwise I'll stick to my incredibly affordable localhost provider.

An app that filters your following list based on configurable criteria like last posting time, if they've interacted with you, their follower count, etc.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 05/09/2026

Quite like the visualised history for this one because you can see several distinct popular branches that spawned from the original. rowan.fyi/made/linkage/?url=https%3…

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 05/09/2026

It's not working for me. This is ChromeOS though.

Pressing shift bit the mouse isn't scrolling in any direction. Possibly because it's in an armchair with multiple bottles of mouse pun themed wine strewn about the place. Oh, it's also taxidermied and therefore probably dead which may be contributing to the issue.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 03/09/2026

Here's a dog that side eyed me on the Tube some ten years ago. Now it's your turn.

A dog with a big old tongue. And ridiculously pink too. Though, maybe I increased the saturation on this photo. I don't know, it was 2015 and I was commuting back from work.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 31/08/2026

Email Verification just landed in Chrome Canary on Android! If you collect email addresses on your site and you haven't signed up for the origin trial, then this gives you a few million potential testers if that helps motivate. New blog post incoming with even more goodies, existing links below...

Pop up notification in Chrome asking "Verify this email automatically?"

Email input field with a blue check indicating Chrome has verified the email address.

A toast showing "rowan.fyi verified your email" on successful form submission.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/08/2026

Not vibing with your agent? Determined to embrace nondeterminism? Burn a candle for St Eval: patron saint of good prompts and loved language models.

Boxes of candles labelled St Eval. They actually melt properly too. Lots of modern candles have wax that just disappears into the ether as it burns. I've been searching for a while for a candle to stick in a Chianti bottle, and this is it!

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 29/08/2026

Any time the smug little video instructions tell me this is a five minute DIY job...

I've never actually watched Full Metal Jacket, but I feel like I've heard the quote, "I am in a world of shit" in enough industrial songs to get the feeling. Anyway, I just screenshotted this from YouTube. I deliberately haven't learned too much context as I still want to watch the film some time. I suspect he's about to do something quite permanent to himself though. There's a finality in how he says those words.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 16/08/2026

A little weekend project, added another theme to my #ThreeJS #MIDI visualiser. If you're of a certain age, you probably don't need the sound on to guess the track, but... you should turn on the sound anyway. tone-nets.web.app

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 12/08/2026

"In 1966, I went down to Greenwich Village, New York City to a rock club called Electric Banana. Don't look for it; it's not there anymore." #eclipse

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 07/08/2026

I have to spend money on retail therapy to undo the emotional damage of learning that #Quake is thirty - three zero - years old. Learned so much about 3D modelling from the level editors. Time to blast that haunted house ambience of the #NIИ soundtrack shop.nin.com/collections/quake-nin-…

Photos of the Quake + NIИ merchandise: t-shirt, hoodie, ammo box, and key chain in a lovingly recreated 90s LAN party setting. Look at the depth of that CRT monitor - the thing weighs a ton. And the slightly yellowed off-white colour of the keyboards. Then the stack of CDs next to the machine. The aesthetic is perfect.

For the alt text elite, what's your favourite LAN party memory?

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 05/08/2026

Chairface Chippendale was an ultra rich villain in The Tick who attempted to carve his name into the moon. He was thwarted obvs, but the damage remained in every following episode. www.theguardian.com/science/2026/au…

Obscenely wealthy asshole vandalizes the moon by crashing a SpaceX rocket into it.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 04/08/2026

A friend had a black one we called A-chan because it's essentially a car version of...

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 04/08/2026

Visualising all your #atproto activity is super cool, but you can also filter out the common likes, posts, follows, etc. to just see where I've played around with a few different apps and record types. Neat!

Mondrian like visualisation of different ATProto records on my account.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 03/08/2026

I always felt this one had an appropriate aesthetic too.

A decaying building front with a battered sign that reads, simply, "INTERNET ACCESS".

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 19/07/2026

(Geordi wouldn't actually recommend this, but it's a good template)

Maintain and update the existing thing everybody uses? Ha, no. Instead: launch something new!

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 13/07/2026

I should finish my work version of the lyrics some time...

It's eleven o'clock on a Tuesday
The RTO crowd shuffles in
There's a TLM sittin' next to me
Makin' calls with their headphones part in
They say, "Team, this task's a priority.
I'm not really sure how it goes
Yes it's vague, there's scope creep, no way to complete
Aren't you excited to see where it goes?"

La, la-la, O-K-R
La-la, O-K-R, never done
Write us a plan, you're the project man('ger)
Write us a plan tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a strategy
And you've got us feelin' aligned

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 09/07/2026

This does feel like important work.

Cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 05/07/2026

We must have been hitting the same batch.

No, seriously, look: it's the Goodyear blimp. Trust me, this isn't like last time.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 02/07/2026

I see The Guardian already anticipated exactly where this could go. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An image of a delightfully chubby cheeked tardigrade for the article:
Invertebrate of the year 2026
Nominate your invertebrate of the year
We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competition.

There are just two rules. One is that our noble previous winners cannot be put to the popular vote again.

Last year’s Invertebrate of the Year was a triumph for Milnesium tardigradum, a microscopic multisegmented animal that resembles a piglet wrapped in an enormous duvet.

In 2024, the first ever winner of the Invertebrate of the Year contest was the common earthworm, which won a landslide 38% of the popular vote.

The second rule is that while you may consider some of our leading politicians to be a spineless weirdo, please resist the temptation to nominate them.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 01/07/2026

I could hear the #England #WorldCup match playing at the pub from my flat. Evidently there was some excitement, but can we quantify that purely from the noise alone? I'm glad you asked.

On the Inference of Discrete Goal-Scoring
Phenomena via Non-Line-of-Sight Acoustic
Monitoring of Aggregate Spectator Responses in
Localized Commercial Venues
Rowan P. Merewood MEng/Soft
rowan@merewood.org
Department of Fermentation Diagnostics & Stochastic Football Metrics
The Royal Institute of Pub-Based Acoustics, UK
July 1, 2026
Abstract
This paper presents a robust mathematical and statistical framework for the
real-time reconstruction of association football scorelines—specifically focusing on the
England Men’s National Team during major tournaments—utilizing solely non-lineof-sight (NLOS) acoustic telemetry harvested from proximate commercial drinking
establishments. We model collective spectator vocalizations as a multi-class, nonhomogeneous Poisson process, where localized acoustic power peaks map onto discrete
state-transitions of the match scoreboard. By incorporating a Bayesian prior calibrated
against the historical decay of national optimism and the asymptotic convergence
toward penalty shootout heartbreak, our estimator achieves a 94.2% classification accuracy. We successfully distinguish valid goal-scoring events from disallowed VAR interventions, offside narrow-escapes, and near-miss groans. Furthermore, we demonstrate
that the high-frequency acoustic signature of pint glasses shattering on safety-laminate
flooring serves as a leading indicator of critical defensive failure.
Keywords: Pub Acoustics, Non-Line-of-Sight Telemetry, Bayesian Goal Inference, Poisson
Point Processes, England Tournament Trajectory, VAR-Induced Despair.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2020): Primary 60G55 (Point Processes);
Secondary 62F15 (Bayesian Inference), 91F99 (Social and Behavioral Sciences).
1 Introduction
Determining the scoreline of an association football match traditionally relies on line-ofsight (LOS) visual channels, such as a television broadcast or direct stadium occupancy.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 28/06/2026

Trying to apply some changes upstream but they're really complicated and I need somewhere to think. I need some time in the...

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 27/06/2026

#Labyrinth came out exactly 40 years ago today! I saw it in the cinema with countless repeat viewings since then and it's permanently shaped my vocabulary. Not least, "come inside, have a cuppa tea!"

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 24/06/2026

This is such a clearly structured set of #security guidance from @openwebdocs.org ! Intuitive progression through attacks, defence with specific web APIs, threat modelling, and then I'm extra fond of there being a whole section on authentication. openwebdocs.org/content/post...

The infographic displays four security categories with their corresponding topics:

* Attacks: Clickjacking, Cross-site request forgery (CSRF), Cross-site leaks, Cross-site scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object Reference, Manipulator in the Middle (MITM), Phishing, Prototype pollution, Server Side Request Forgery, Subdomain takeover, and Supply chain attacks.
* Defence: Certificate transparency, Content Security Policy (CSP), Fetch metadata, Input validation, Mixed content blocking, Operational security, Same-origin policy, Secure contexts, Subresource integrity, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and User activation.
* Threat modelling: Threat modeling guide, Example threat model, Threat model for a PWA, and Frameworks and tools.
* Authentication: Federated Identity, One-time passwords (OTP), Passkeys, Passwords, and Session management.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 23/06/2026

A while back quite a few of you answered me on your annoyances with web payments. I've collated your responses and it looks like we're still doing forms like it's 1999 out there. More detail in the article, and let me know if there's more of your e-concerns with e-commerce rowan.fyi/posts/web-pa...

Form & autofill failures: 57%
Digital wallets & local payment methods: 30%
Trust, privacy, and dark patterns: 30%
Flaky services: 23%
Too many steps: 13%

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 19/06/2026

No more #shitposting for me, it's #legitposting from here on out. 🧑‍💻 Code from and @apex.atproto.ceo & @kojira.io github.com/ApexDevelopm...

Bluesky license for Rowan Merewood. Quite a few details, but I'm notably generous. A liberal liker, if you will.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 16/06/2026

The most detail I could find was in www.gov.uk/government/p... I would support an individual points-based banning system for LinkedIn: 1 point per emoji used in a post, "what it taught me about B2B SAS...", 12 points, instant ban.

2. What is changing and what’s banned?
We plan to use the same model for a social media ban as Australia. Their model included platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook and X. 

We do not intend for messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal to be included in the social media ban.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 12/06/2026

Ha, mystery solved. 😅 Presumably should work this time.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 11/06/2026

Attempting to read with the right ambiance.

PlayStation 4 browser showing a fascinating, comprehensive, and compelling article on the range and history of web browsers on video game consoles.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 08/06/2026

I don't use an #adBlocker 'cause, you know... I work for an ad company, but the #JohnCarpenter classic #TheyLive ad blocker from @davmlaw.bsky.social might just change my mind. github.com/davmlaw/they...

The Daily Mail (yeah, I know, I felt gross visiting it even just for the bit) where the ads just say, "WATCH TV", "SLEEP", "OBEY".

The Metro where the ads just say, "STAY ASLEEP", "WATCH TV".

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 07/06/2026

Amazing ASCII art Doctor Who credits from a 2025 winner of the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest github.com/ioccc-src/wi...

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 06/06/2026

#Bluesky post #visualisation vibes for you on rowan.fyi/made/bluesky... Throw in a post and watch the timeline of conversations grow out into a network. This is a first pass, so let me know about feature requests and bugs. Link me to posts with cool structures too! (Yes, #Three.js and #ngraph again)

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 01/06/2026

Playing around with building a little #Bluesky post visualiser with #threejs (again). Thought it was looking cute enough to share the work in progress. Currently it's showing replies, quotes, and likes... what else could I do with it before I publish?

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 28/05/2026

Also here for the almost 20 year club. I can see it on desktop mode at: www.last.fm/user/rowan_m...

A bar chart of my scrumptious scrobbles going back to 2007.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 25/05/2026

The truth is out there. Check my BBS: tone-nets.web.app

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 23/05/2026

I loved this one - they're poking round a Borg cube and find the kitchen where the result of their massive cultural assimilation is some really amazing fusion cuisine. I think the B plot if that Lwaxana Troi is planning a wedding with Locutus.

Episode title card for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Smorgasborg".

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