Blain Smith

A screenshot of a graph in a toot, tweet, twerp, gaggle, post, whatever does not fucking count as factual information WITHOUT A LINK TO THE SOURCE!!!!

I found the root cause of GitHub's issues...

There was some #microslop stuck in the tubes.

If you want a very well thought out developer experience and like the polish of MacOS then I highly recommend @system76.bsky.social laptops to everyone who just wants a Linux laptop "that just works" with superb customer support.

I've owned 3 of their laptops. Lemur, Galago, Oryx Pro.

RFC 406i

406.fail

#AISlop

A simple web we own

rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02...

#WWW #SmolWeb #CoOwnership #Coop #TechCoop

DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who ...

DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation

letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/d...

#DNS #TLS #ACME #LetsEncrypt

“Using go fix to modernize Go code” by Alan Donovan — https://go.dev/blog/gofix

#golang

Eventually I want to get to building components like boxes, tabs, etc. to make it easier to build TUIs.

I am using that for some inspiration, but right now I am just focused color profile detection and styling that looks like I can eventually adapt to be used by hare-vt. Mine is inefficient with lots of `str` and `[]str` usage, but it'll get better.

git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/...

Old school web pages are real programming in my book and all programming is a form of creativity. That creativity that some folks identify with is exactly what's being trivialized and lost.

I just couldn't anymore. Every day when I looked it felt like I was losing part of myself.

I found this recently which sums up how I was (still am) feeling, but it's going at a slower pace since I left.

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

I've been MIA from LinkedIn for months and it's been amazing. I'm mentally much better and happier leaving that LLM hustle echo chamber.

I have no plans of returning either since it provides nil value.

Embarking on a slow and steady journey of ANSI escape sequences, color profiles, terminal info, and TUIs for a toolkit in Hare.

#HareLang

I snorted laughed at this a bit hahaha.

10th Person

blainsmith.com/articles/10t...

#10thPerson #DecisionMaking #Consensus #Autism #SoftwareEngineering

Hare 0.26.0 released

Hare 0.26.0 Released

- Loop values and for..else
- #DragonflyBSD support
- Explicit syntax for ignoring errors when needed
- Replacing @offset with fields named _ for padding structs
- Support for explicitly uninitialized variables

harelang.org/blog/2026-02...

#HareLang

Happy #FridayThe13th to those who celebrate!

Wrote a whole blog post in my brain while powerlifter. Now to type it out and publish after I finish lat pull downs and some high protein noms.

#Autism #Powerlifting

Small #golang PSA:

Most of the very nice automatic code problem reports in your editor or IDE come from Staticcheck by Dominik Honnef (@honnef.co).

gopls is the LSP, and it uses many of the rules from Staticcheck.

Suggestion: consider sponsoring Dominik! (Well worth it in my humble opinion😅)

Today on "Enshittified Tech" there's a text editor with a remote code execution CVE. I'll give you 3 guesses who's responsible, but you'll only need one.

#MicroSlop

We offer managed or collaborative hosting of Matrix, Rocketchat, Mattermost and DeltaChat.

Plenty of options for hosting location (UK, EU, Iceland, a provider of your choice or on prem). No drawbridging or per user pricing. You pay for our time and the server resources used.

#techcoops #hosting

Very early stages, but at least we have the domain and marketing site up.

henhouse.coop

#Henhouse #StaticHosting #TechCoop

How Limeleaf Divested from Big Tech and Took Ownership of Our Data — Limeleaf Worker Collective

It is moves like the one #Discord made that inspired us at @limeleaf.coop shift most of our services to alternatives.

limeleaf.coop/blog/how-lim...

#Mattermost #MiroTalk #Nextcloud #Codeberg

This is neat, thanks! I could see having Henhouse be configurable to use any ACME-compatible service, but defaulting to directly talking to Let's Encrypt as to keep the barrier of entry very low and not require running other services. Our goal is a single binary anyone can run.

And, no, you do not have to "self-host" these things. There are places like @pikapods.bsky.social that have managed instances.

Folks suggesting Discourse, Signal, IRC, Telegram, etc. to replace #Discord are not helping the situation. Those are not in the same class as Discord.

Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Zulip are more in line with similar features apart from the "audio rooms".

I might just leave my #Discord account to rot in their database.

Giving www.mojeek.com a spin for my default search engine.

#Mojeek #Search #Privacy

"Using LLMs is like taking steroids, but everyone else is getting acne."

finestructure.co/blog/2026/2/...

#AI #LLM #Programming

Automatic TLS cert provisioning are working via @letsencrypt.bsky.social using Go's `autocert` pkg (pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...) so folks that sign up to use #Henhouse can have certificates for their own custom domains.

#Henhouse #TLS #LetsEncrypt #ACME #GoLang #BuildInPublic