Eric Scouten :: Developer

Content Authenticity 101 @ Internet Identity Workshop 42

Eric Scouten — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m attending the 42nd biannual Internet Identity Workshop</a>, 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.

First Person Partner Workshop

Eric Scouten — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:43:53 -0800

Today I had the opportunity to attend a partner workshop for the First Person Network</a>, which aims to provide a way for our online interactions to feel more like the interactions we have with people we know and trust in real life.

Internet Identity Workshop 41

Eric Scouten — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m attending the 41st biannual Internet Identity Workshop</a>, 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.

Social Media 2010 :: AI 2025?

Eric Scouten — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I first joined social media somewhere around 2008. It was amazing. It helped me rekindle friendships with people from past chapters of my life with whom I had lost contact for years or even decades and make friends with people all over the globe who I would never have met otherwise. We shared stories of births, deaths, anniversaries, travels – in other words, all the things that make life … life.

Content Authenticity Summit

Eric Scouten — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:47:55 -0400

Yesterday, my team helped sponsor the third Content Authenticity Summit</a> at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Internet Identity Workshop 40

Eric Scouten — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m attending the 40th biannual Internet Identity Workshop</a>, 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.

Okta Identity 25

Eric Scouten — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:27:24 -0400

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</a> team.

Using Tigris Data as a CDN

Eric Scouten — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Internet Identity Workshop 39

Eric Scouten — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m attending the 39th biannual Internet Identity Workshop</a>, 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.

European Identity Conference 2024

Eric Scouten — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m in Berlin, attending the European Identity Conference</a>. When I attended the IIW earlier this spring, I wrote about it in real time</a> 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.

Internet Identity Workshop 38

Eric Scouten — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m attending the 38th biannual Internet Identity Workshop</a>, 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</a> 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.

Content Authenticity 101

Eric Scouten — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As part of preparing for Internet Identity Workshop</a> (IIW) next week, I’ve been refining the presentation I often give about the work of the Content Authenticity Initiative and related projects.

Internet Identity Workshop 37

Eric Scouten — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m attending the 37th biannual Internet Identity Workshop</a>, 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.

I Built My Own Linkroll

Eric Scouten — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

How I Built 146 Parks

Eric Scouten — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Since last fall, I have been working on a project to visit, photograph, and document each of the 146 state parks</a> 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.

Deploying a Custom Build of Zola to Netlify

Eric Scouten — Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve recently started to enjoy building web sites using Zola</a>, 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.

My Life as a Programmer

Eric Scouten — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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.