Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Hello Warsaw! :)

Backstage

Testing the WiFi at the venue for my demo later :)

So I guess Twitter isn’t going to let me log on anymore? Been waiting about 10 minutes since I first tried logging in and no email (nothing in spam either).

Oh well, that’d be one way to lock folks out I guess.

At the hotel after my tech check at the NextM Poland venue for tomorrow and may I just say it’s a right circus in there ;)

I think this might be the first time I’ve hand coded a slide for a presentation. You don’t have to do this but I love that Slides.com lets you do it if you want to (and add custom CSS too).

Moving to slides.com for my slides and to using OBS Studio live switch between slides and terminal and browser, etc., during demos is light years ahead of what I could do with Keynote :)

All set up for my opening keynote on Small Technology at Creative Ville 2019 in Antwerp.

#CreativeVille2019 #SmallTech

Looking forward to reading this :)

“This is the European Parliament and I’m here to chew gum and speak truth to power… and I’m all outta gum!” ;)

Folks: “oh a ten minute talk at the EU Parliament? You give talks all the time, you’ll just pull it out of your ass.”

Me: …

These are the points we will be discussing at the EU Parliament on Tuesday.

If you have any thoughts you want me to consider, please do share.

I’m in Panel 1, representing @Mastodon and I only have 10 minutes so I won’t be able to cover everything but I’m interested in hearing and hopefully representing your thoughts as much as possible alongside the points I want to make (that we must regulate people farmers and ethical technology differently & ownership/control is a key differentiator).

Small Technology Foundation Personal Web Prototype-01: a mobile personal web server

https://ar.al/2019/11/11/small-technology-foundation-personal-web-prototype-01-a-mobile-portable-personal-web-server/

#SmallTechnologyFoundation #PersonalWeb #Prototype #SiteJS #RaspberryPi

How odd. I found one of my toots via an external search engine and now I can edit my profile but I can’t find the option to embed it? *confused*

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

Hmm, and what’s happening here? ;)

#SmallTechnology #SiteJS #prototype

Ooh, what’re these for, then? ;)

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

A countdown timer in terminal, did you say?…

(Just discovered it and it made me smile.)

https://github.com/antonmedv/countdown