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sgotoon Intent to Experiment: Email Verification Protocol

Automatically verify email addresses with cryptographic proof rather than manually via OTPs

sgotoon Reviving BrowserID in 2026

You should take a look at https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol and https://github.com/w3c-fedid/FedCM ... they also share a lot of the historical lessons learned with Mozilla's BrowserID.

sgotoon Show HN: Collaborative Blogging

Live tweeting here: https://bsky.app/profile/sgo.to/post/3mge7u5pczk2j

sgotoon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://code.sgo.to

sgotoon Email verification protocol

Verify email addresses automatically

sgotoon Sign in with Google in Chrome

Yeah, websites can choose any other identity provider, and in fact, do.

sgotoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

This sounds super interesting! I'd love to beta test it if you are looking for people to try!

You can find me at:

http://twitter.com/samuelgoto

sgotoon Register your website as your identity provider with the Browser

Own your own domain? Want to Sign-in to websites with it? Register it with the browser!

Instructions:

https://github.com/w3c-fedid/idp-registration/issues/2#issue...

sgotoon The "email is authentication" pattern

At this point, wouldn't "email authentication" simply be OpenID?

sgotoon How have you found purpose in your life?

https://code.sgo.to/2019/08/01/the-axiomatic-force-conjectur...

sgotoon Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams

Fair point on the point on the term polyfill. Done, replaced it with "JS renderer" [1].

[1] https://github.com/google/typograms/commit/4270c0ad387a2b500...

sgotoon Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams

Exactly.

sgotoon Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams

Maintainer(!) here, reading the comments! Can you help me understand what you'd expect? I can't really find the "inductor" you are referring to and the "C" character that seems off to you. Care to expand a bit so that I can try to fix?

sgotoon Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams

Neat! Want to send a PR with some of these diagrams as examples?

sgotoon Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams

Many diagrams I am able to draw manually as I'm editing source code on emacs, but for more complicated ones I tend to use this: https://asciiflow.com . To each their own, so pick your favorite ASCII editor.

sgotoon Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams

Done, merged a patch to clarify that it is absolutely the latter: this is an implementation from scratch with completely different rendering passes, design and SVG output structures.

Does that help?

https://github.com/google/typograms/commit/bdd329eaec7497b96...

sgotoon Identity Is Who You Are

What's the relationship between passkeys and OIDC/SAML.

sgotoon Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams

Previously submitted in personal repo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32133345

Now, officially open sourced:

https://github.com/google/typograms

sgotoon Linguistics and Programming Languages (2006)

A few early explorations on a similar idea:

https://code.sgo.to/2021/07/02/english--.html https://code.sgo.to/2020/08/31/syntactic-theory.html https://code.sgo.to/2020/09/16/semantics.html

sgotoon Ask HN: Can Browsers Have a Universal Hotkey for Website Login?

Some of us are proactively working on this problem [1]. Not trivial, but I think we are making forward progress to reconcile and mediate login in browser UX.

[1] https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/blob/main/meetings/2021/Web...

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

Ok, submitted a quick fix here:

https://github.com/samuelgoto/typograms/commit/40829f6db1a21...

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

That looks like a bug, thanks for finding it!

You are welcome to send PRs if you have the inclination!

https://github.com/samuelgoto/typograms

sgotoon Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

Mine is a massive amount of fun to me. I learn a massive amount from it: https://code.sgo.to/.

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

Ha, interesting! Any chance you have a link handy with the problem? Can you expand on what you mean by "head and body tags around the appropriate sections"?

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

Ah, fair, will add that to the list. But, IIUC, isn't GoAT just a go port of markdeep (which I acknowledge in the related work section)?

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

On YAML-like diagrams, I think you are looking for mermaid [1]. I wrote down here [2] how typograms compare to mermaid [2] in terms of trade-offs.

[1] https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid [2] https://code.sgo.to/typograms/#related

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

I don't think I expect people to edit the diagrams on webpages, rather than locally using their favorite text editor.

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

Yeah, agreed that they are hard to edit if you working by yourself, but disagreed if you are working collaboratively.

On "may be like an IETF proposal."", that's precisely where I've been using them the most :)

https://fedidcg.github.io/FedCM

Not for everybody, I agree, but it is kinda of ironic that you mentioned "may be like an IETF proposal." :)

Also, technical blog posts, e.g.

https://code.sgo.to/2022/04/11/metamath.html https://code.sgo.to/2022/04/28/siop.html

sgotoon Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

That's precisely it. I wrote down a bit more down below.

"Why is it better to write diagrams by hand rather than use a tool (e.g. inkscape, google docs) and export as SVG?

Because it requires everybody that wants to edit the diagram to (a) use the same tool and (b) have access to the original source file (e.g. the google doc)."

https://twitter.com/samuelgoto/status/1548878038833692672