It’s unusual, but my favorite part of blogging is coming up with the most boring and anti–clickbait titles possible. In another life, I’d be an undercover agent.

Most software, framework, and programming debates online reduce to disputes over company or personal preferences — mindshare. Technical and architectural debates are rare — those fights are the most interesting because that’s the important part, at least imo.

cgit is good. I’ve added a small note on using git maintenance with cgit.

I’ve noticed that ddos attacks are becoming commonplace on my domain hosting provider’s dns name servers (Porkbun).

Looks like they’ve migrated over to Cloudflare to remedy the situation, but the migration was wonky.

In the end, having full programmatic control over dns records, transfers, and zones is priceless. So… with a few glue records and zone files — my dns is now back under my control with bind.

Kiwi Browser (download) is a Chromium derivative on Android that can directly expose the built–in dev tools on device. Remote debugging is my preference, but it makes quick web development debugging on Chrome for Android just a touch easier.

I’ve returned from the depths of The Fediverse with a reaction hover short code. The RSS version of this post should replace that reaction with a gif image link.

I’ll play around with this stolen idea for a bit. Audio reactions might also be another idea worth exploring.

WordPress has an affinity for back–doored radioactivity. If I can get my way (which is hard), a WordPress install has only 1 theme and 0 plugins.

wordpress/
|-- public
`-- wp-config.php

/* Disable installing plugins and themes */
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);

There’s an old article from the developer of NetNewsWire (RSS reader) that questions the idea of the unread count. You can’t read all the unread — so why entertain a time consuming mythos around that number?

It applies everywhere — What narratives might people create around the programming language % numbers on GitHub? Do they waste time thinking/fretting about their mythos? Fun to think about.

No more need for npm in my personal stack! The native browser’s path comes from which.

import puppeteer from "https://deno.land/x/puppeteer@16.2.0/mod.ts";

const chrome = "chromium";  // Browser Chrome: "firefox" | "chromium" | "google-chrome" | ...
const product = "chrome";   // Product Base:   "firefox" | "chrome"

const command = new Deno.Command("which", { args: [chrome] });
const { status, stdout, stderr } = command.outputSync();
const executablePath = new TextDecoder().decode(stdout).trim();

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  headless: false,
  executablePath: executablePath,
  product: product,
});

const site = "example.com";
const page = await browser.newPage();

await page.setViewport({ width: 1024, height: 768 });
await page.goto("https://" + site);
await page.screenshot({ path: site + ".png" });

await page.waitForSelector('a');

const url = await page.evaluate(() => {
  return document.querySelector('a').href;
});

console.log(url);

await browser.close();

deno run --allow-all main.ts

The best articles on RSS are from about 15 years ago. In hindsight, RSS was probably thrown away by influential companies and technologists because it was too hard to monetize. The great thing about RSS though is that the spec can be explained to a non–programmer in about an hour — that’s probably why it’s hard to kill.