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The Front Matter Blog covers the intersection of science and technology since 2007.
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Rogue Scholar now supports passwordless authentication with magic links
Published: January 15, 2026 09:54
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance, by the end of last year. This week, this service started supporting passwordless…
Rogue Scholar Newsletter December 2025
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/rogue-scholar-newsletter-december-2025/
Published: January 8, 2026 19:55
This is the December 2025 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and…
Consolidating Rogue Scholar Authentication
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/consolidating-rogue-scholar-authentication/
Published: December 30, 2025 19:49
Starting this week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance at https://auth.front-matter.de.
Incentives for Rogue Scholar membership
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/incentives-for-rogue-scholar-membership/
Published: December 8, 2025 17:15
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar is becoming a German non-profit membership organization in 2026. This will help with the governance and sustainability of Rogue Scholar. But what can be the incentives to become a Rogue Scholar member, and under what…
Rogue Scholar Newsletter November 2025
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/rogue-scholar-newsletter-november-2025/
Published: December 5, 2025 16:59
This is the November issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other…
Rogue Scholar is improving subject classification (Version 2)
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/rogue-scholar-is-improving-subject-classification-version-2/
Published: December 3, 2025 19:50
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
Rogue Scholar is improving subject classification
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/rogue-scholar-improving-subject-classificatiion/
Published: November 26, 2025 12:54
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
Renaming the Front Matter Blog
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/renaming-the-front-matter-blog/
Published: November 19, 2025 13:57
Yesterday I renamed the Front Matter blog to blog.front-matter.de, i.e. changing the top-level domain from .io to .de. I did this for two reasons: * The internet country code top-level domain .io has a complicated history, and I wanted to migrate away…
Rogue Scholar is becoming a German Non-Profit Organization
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/rogue-scholar-german-non-profit-organization/
Published: November 3, 2025 11:35
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar started the process of becoming a German non-profit organization in 2026. This blog post summarizes the reasoning and the main steps needed to achieve this. Two weeks ago, I published a self-assessment of how Rogue…
Rogue Scholar Newsletter October 2025
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/rogue-scholar-newsletter-october-2025/
Published: October 31, 2025 17:49
This is the October issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other…