Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
This my home for occasional technical / programming related content.
I hope you enjoy following this or another of my blogs!
Yesterday, my team helped sponsor the third Content Authenticity Summit at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
This week I’m attending the 40th biannual Internet Identity Workshop, which is one of the most valuable conferences I’ve encountered in any professional space. As the name might suggest, the topics are largely around how to express human and organizational identity in digital terms that respect privacy and security.
I am beyond honored to have been named as one of the 25 “movers and shakers” of the digital identity space for 2025. Thank you, Austin Arensberg, Eunice Wong, and the team at Okta Ventures for naming me to this list and preparing the video profile where I could talk about my work and that of the Content Authenticity Initiative team.
Hello and welcome to 2025! I’m sharing some fun news about my blog’s custom tech stack. I have a new way of hosting the static image content for my blog and I’m really happy about it.
This week I’m attending the 39th biannual Internet Identity Workshop, which is one of the most valuable conferences I’ve encountered in any professional space. As the name might suggest, the topics are largely around how to express human and organizational identity in digital terms that respect privacy and security.
This week I’m in Berlin, attending the European Identity Conference. When I attended the IIW earlier this spring, I wrote about it in real time as the conference was in progress. That format worked well for me and received a lot of compliments, so I’m attempting it again this week.
This week I’m attending the 38th biannual Internet Identity Workshop, which is one of the most valuable conferences I’ve encountered in any professional space. As the name might suggest, the topics are largely around how to express human and organizational identity in digital terms that respect privacy and security. When I attended the previous IIW last fall, I wrote about it in real time as the conference was in progress. That format worked well for me and received a lot of compliments, so I’m attempting it again this week.
As part of preparing for Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) next week, I’ve been refining the presentation I often give about the work of the Content Authenticity Initiative and related projects.
This week I’m attending the 37th biannual Internet Identity Workshop, in which a few dozen of the world’s leading experts on digital identity and credentials gather and a couple hundred more of us do our best to keep up and learn from them.
Ever have that feeling that you might run across something on the web and hope you can find it again someday?
Yeah, me too.
So I built my own linkroll.
Since last fall, I have been working on a project to visit, photograph, and document each of the 146 state parks in my home state of Washington in the U.S. Normally this site will be devoted to my life as a developer, but today I will incorporate the outdoor-explorer and photographer parts of my life. This is an article about how I built the blog for the 146 Parks project.
I’ve recently started to enjoy building web sites using Zola, a Rust-based static site generator. I’ll write more about my decision to use Zola in a future “how I built this” article, but for now I wanted to share with the Zola community some tips on using custom builds of Zola.
This article first appeared on my site in early 1997. I remember seeing a printout of this page on somebody’s desk when I first interviewed at Adobe early that year. I took it down when I redesigned the site sometime around 2001. In 2018, I decided I missed it, so I dug back in the archives and added it back. I’ve added a few updates in 2021.
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