Well, this is embarrassing. This was supposed to go out yesterday, however due to everything being on fire all the time for the past 10 days, I did not get around to actually put the newsletter together until 19:32 on 10th June.

Also Fable 5 got released, so there’s also that.

I’ve been heads down at work, trying to juggle a lot of things I can’t publicly talk about. Hopefully the madness ends soon! 😂

There’s no article this time, besides an observation about the industry at large. On 2nd and 3rd June I went to Infosecurity Europe 2026 at the ExCel in London for my yearly pilgrimage and CPE collection round. While there, I also registered for the Digital Construction Week expo.

80% of vendors in both expos were headlining AI in some form or another. It was kind of weird to see all of this. I’m curious what the unique selling points are for each of these companies.

On to random things I learned from AI last 8 days:

You can query maps!

There’s https://overpass-turbo.eu/ where you can write your query in a structured format, and the map will do the thing you’re asking for. It timed out 100% of the time for me, so I couldn’t actually use it, but the idea is awesome!

And a human told me that the more modern alternative is https://postpass.geofabrik.de/.

It’s fun for things like “find me all cemeteries that also have a pub within 200 yards and a school within 300 yards in Greater London.” I don’t know whether that will provide results, but that’s the kind of questions you can ask it!

Omada control center has an API I can ask

I’m going to be using it to know what public IP addresses my individual WAN connections are. I’m paying for static IP for both of them, but they keep changing, but I only have spotty data from every 2-3 months. Having a consistent log every half an hour for both would give me the ammo to get them to fix it.

Using IPv6 on local network is going to make life harder

IPv4 has things like NAT and subnets and more isolation and better ACLs. IPv6 on the other hand has just … addresses. Globally accessible addresses.

Plus my ISPs would want to give me an IPv6 prefix that I can then use on my internal devices, except I have 2 ISPs, therefore 2 prefixes, and I can’t give each device 2 prefixes.

And my ISPs don’t support IPv6 yet.

IPv6 has a concept called ULA

Unique Local Address. Always start with fd, and otherwise there’s just … a lot of them. You will not run into address collisions.

I reinvented the wheel when it comes to email

Basically had an idea of a better email only to find out that Tutanota and Protonmail do exactly that, including the encryption key handling.

Email encryption is pretty advanced nowadays.

Sharing encryption keys is standardised

It’s called Web Key Directory (WKD): https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD.

A Web Key Directory (WKD) provides an easy way to provide and get the current public key for a given email address through HTTPS. Thus it is infrastructure to improve the user experience for exchanging secure emails and files.

It’s precisely what I wanted my idea to be.

JMAP is a thing

JSON Meta Application Protocol, RFCs 8620 and 8621 (for mail).

Fastmail made it. It’s a transport data protocol.

Super cool, I kinda want to use it for something weird.

This is it for this issue. Next week is going to go out on the regularly scheduled Wednesday.

Loveyoubye! ❤️