Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

If you still trust these companies, you are a blithering idiot and you deserve to be laughed out of the fucking room.

#surveillancecapitalism

https://mobile.twitter.com/sindarina/status/1194157812655558657

Note: yesterday’s npm package was missing certain files from the lib/ folder due to the existence of a second package.json there (left over from the mono-repo refactor). That’s now fixed in version 1.0.1.

I’ve also fixed an issue with the example in the blog post.

All tested and working from a clean install now. Enjoy! :)

https://ar.al/2019/11/08/introducing-small-tech-https-a-batteries-included-drop-in-replacement-for-the-node.js-https-module/

#LetsEncrypt #NodeJS #JavaScript #SmallTechnology

Stepping away from the Interwebs for a glass of wine and perhaps a little escapism in ESO :) Thank you all for your lovely birthday wishes.

Lots and lots of :hearts:

Ooh, and I just got a lovely birthday present from my dear friend Peter: early access to the first episode of his upcoming TV series, The Activist.

And. It’s. Really. Good! (Watched the first ten minutes or so and now saving it to watch with Laura tomorrow) :)

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/369111385

Thanks, @brokep

💕

Today’s my birthday so I thought I’d give you all a little present:

@small-tech/https, a batteries-included plug-and-play replacement for the Node.js https module with automatic provisioning of both locally-trusted and globally-trusted certificates (via mkcert and Let’s Encrypt)

Happy birthday y’all! 🎉

https://ar.al/2019/11/08/introducing-small-tech-https-a-batteries-included-drop-in-replacement-for-the-node.js-https-module/

Aww, somebody loves me… what a perfect birthday present from Laura :)

One tool that really helped with the initial refactor to a mono-repo was the npm graph site https://npm.broofa.com

Bit the bullet and forked Greenlock (v2) again – this time into a mono-repo – after seeing the direction v3 is going in. Now I’m going through it line by line and removing all the marketing and telemetry and other miscellaneous bullshittery. Ultimate goal is to port it to ES6 and combine it with Nodecert to create an https module that is isomorphic with regular Node https module.

#JavaScript #TLS #LetsEncrypt

Hmm, and what’s happening here? ;)

#SmallTechnology #SiteJS #prototype

Ooh, what’re these for, then? ;)

A quick follow-up: thanks to Andreas Monitzer’s suggestion on the birdsite, I just ordered one of these, which sounds perfect for what I have in mind: https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=266

I also just saw that a number of you recommended it & similar boards from the same company here. Thank you all so much for your feedback. Will check out some of the other alternatives you mentioned also but the zeropi sounds perfect for my needs :)

Hey, so given you apparently still can’t buy more than one Raspberry Pi Zero at a time, anyone know of a good alternative with similar performance and, heck, maybe even built-in ethernet?

Asking for a potential fun little project ;)

Site.js: now with auto updates in production

https://ar.al/2019/11/03/site.js-now-with-auto-updates-in-production/

“One of the biggest security issues in tech is running outdated software. While I was running my servers on nginx, I couldn’t tell you when they were last upgraded as the process was so convoluted. With Site.js, running your own web server has to be deploy and forget. We cannot assume that folks are going to update their servers.”

#SiteJS #PersonalWeb #JavaScript #NodeJS

I do love watching Site.js build on the Raspberry Pi :)

(Nexe doesn’t support cross-compilation for ARM yet so it’s the only platform where I can compile for all platforms in one place.)

#SiteJS #RaspberryPi #PersonalWeb

Site.js 12.10.0 is now out. This version brings with it automatic production server updates. Set up your personal server and then forget it, knowing that it will always be running the latest version of Site.js.

https://sitejs.org

#SmallTechnology #SiteJS #PersonalWeb