Been working on flutton - a tiny low-code framework for #pico8. My son had been drawing little Mario levels using the sprite and map editor and wanted to get things moving - so I made this. He's not ready for code yet, but sprite flags provide a fun and easy way for him to build little games.

I still have lots I'd like to add but it is useable and you can try it out with on pico-8-edu
https://github.com/Powersaurus/flutton

uxn feels like a solid platform,..

...but is it technically possible to port vi to uxn? :)

that's probably why i'm so drawn to things like #picotron and #uvn

#uxn #permacomputing #solarpunk :)

transcript at 100r.ca

#permacomputing

#uxn #permacomputing #assembly

I've been working on a little something for the past few days, and it's finally usable :D

![media-1]

introducing…. gopher.tal!
https://codeberg.org/notchoc/gopher.tal
it's a lightweight (~3.2kb) gopher client that tries to be as unsurprising as possible

features:

• clickable and tab-focusable links
• keyboard scroll and screen resize
• support for gopher-search
• special port numbers (still gotta speak gopher)

would you be better off using w3m/bopher? probably

is this still a web browser written in assembly? hell yeah!

Happy birthday Zelda!
#screenshotSaturday #picoCAD2 #lowpoly

OpenBSD wasn't able to run snac stable on this machine, it crashed after a few requests with "illegal instruction".

#snac #snac2 #fediverse #activitypub #NetBSD #OpenBSD #retrocomputing #retroserver #retrohardware #pentiumii #pentium2 #oldhardware

Alt...

Open 19" 90's rack Case with a green motherboard in it and old grey ribbon cables connected to a dvd drive and a ssd. there are two addon cards in the pci slots and two slot 1 pentium ii cpus with fans installed. The 4:3 screen shows a fastfetch output giving stats of the machine , an htop screen with two cpu usage graphs and snac log

Alt...

green motherboard with two pentium ii slot 1 cpus

- do you want to use google to sign in?
- do you want to add a passkey?
- do you want to add a 2FA token?
- we know you have 2FA but we've sent you an email instead
- this login attempt seems suspicious we've sent you a text about it
- can you click on these buses?
- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
- should we save these details for next time?
- do you accept these trackers?
- you can opt out but we've decided it's legitimate interest anyway
- would you like to see a list of our 847 partners we share your data with?
- can we send you desktop notifications?
- can we access your location?
- do you want 10% off for signing up to the mailing list?
- do you want me to translate this page?
- hi I'm your friendly chatbot how can I help?
- oh no you can't buy this, reach out to us for a quote!
- do you want—

I'm tired boss

#lowtech #permacomputing

see also: space toy by jleyba92

#pico8 #picotron #pixelart

$ find object -type f | sed 's,[^.]*,,' | sort -u
.idx
.json

CC: @adnan@ap.aelaraji.com

Got dragged into interesting conversations today, I realized that a few people in my surroundings are at a loss when it comes to proofreading without complex toolchains, or an internet connection.

@rek has written an excellent little guide on how to install and use stardict! Give it a shot, it has been my go-to for years. The synonyms support is especially powerful.
https://kokorobot.ca/site/spellbook#terminaldict

#cyberspace #smallweb

#honkers ; does anybody know what happened to Ted?

Also does anybody have an up-to-date clone of honk? it appears the version i'm running is newer than the version i have the source for and the wayback machine doesn't have consistent snapshots of the source :<

"Entries in the timeline older that this number
of days are purged. If you don't want any timeline
purging and enjoy your data drives fill up with old
crap and finally burst in flames, you can disable
purging by setting this to 0"

please boost ❤️

number of files generated by snac is huge, but i don't care that much anymore.

$ du -hd0 /var/snac
133M	/var/snac
$ find /var/snac | wc -l
   35603

sometimes i use snac command line, but mostly snac web ui and nothing else.

someday maybe i'll try to build some minimalist #activitypub server, but looks like a lot of work :)

see also
activitypub-single-php-file by @Edent@mastodon.social

@Bara_Coded shaping up real nice!

@rek I love it when we get to get rid of packages and replace them with
*checks notes*
a 2000 bytes program.

a {
  display: inline-block;
  max-width: 100%;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  vertical-align: bottom;
}

#webdev #pico8

Each #OpenBSD virtual machine hosting #Git repositories on the #GameOfTrees Hub is configured by editing the gotsys.conf configuration file.

We run a live demo which shows configuration examples to help new users with getting started: https://demo.gothub.org/

<style>
  body {
    filter: url(#x);
  }
  svg {
    display: none;
  }
</style>
<svg width="0" height="0">
  <filter id="x">
    <feturbulence
      basefrequency="1 2"></feturbulence>
    <fedisplacementmap
      in="SourceGraphic"
      scale="2"></fedisplacementmap>
  </filter>
</svg>

• sample page
• linux mode, xerox mode
• @e11e@mastodon.social

html { font: 20px sans-serif; max-width: 40rem; padding: 0.5rem; }

left twitter ages ago and never found anything else that stuck. just restarted my instance recently, and i'm really enjoying it ❤️

powered by @gothub@exquisite.social

gothub feels so right:

• sign up via ssh bot
• configure your server by pushing to gotsys repository (brilliant idea!)
• and you can serve your static sites with custom domain names

it captures exactly how i feel about the state of the internet and it's heartening to see someone building good old homepages with such care and love ❤️

ascii emojis are simple i just manually type them:

:)
:(
:D
;)
:P
:O
❤️
\o/
\ (^_^) /
(~_~)

\ (^_^) /

https://man.openbsd.org

i understand you need to generate a new keypair and then sign your new public key with old one and propagate to the network... how do you practically do that?

cc: @grunfink@comam.es

as i read more reviews, i'm realizing just how much breaks when leaving the iphone ecosystem. apple has so many hooks in my setup... :(

...and it's time to rethink this setup

The Game of Trees Hub is now hosting an #OpenBSD #Git repository mirror:

https://openbsd.gothub.org

The repositories available on our mirror contain the same data as already available at the openbsd accounts on Codeberg and Github but we do not rely on these other sites for updates. Repository updates are regularly being pushed to us directly from Canada.

#Tech #Q1

#gameoftrees #openbsd

m(_ _)m

heavy traffic caused by people updating their #snac2 instances :)

Minor tweak to improve signature key retrieving for some Wordpress configurations.

Fixed web UI incorrect links to actor public pages for some configurations.

Fixed mismatch in the accounts being followed number in the public and people pages.

Notifications can be filtered by category (contributed by byte).

Dates are shown adjusted to the account's time zone (contributed by dandelions).

Configurable limit for poll items (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed incorrect scope when editing a post (contributed by dandelions).

Change the strip_exif logic to work with the already existing OpenBSD sandbox (contributed by oxzi).

Mastodon API: Add poll creation (contributed by davidrv00), fixed a voting bug (contributed by davidrv00), added a fix to verify_credentials (contributed by ag-eitilt).

Updated Czech, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish translations (contributed by pmjv, zen, daltux).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

cyberdeck update/upgrade ^-^ started messing around with this again since i've been too depressed to be online. i wrote a new blog post about this, some linux things, and other end of the year life stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ read it here: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#meet-me-at-the-apt

Alt...

elle's cyberdeck made of a pi 4 with ups battery and inky phat e-ink display

Ever wondered what the kernel actually does during boot? Well here is one example. Daily Source Reading: what does #OpenBSD do during boot?

https://blog.wollwage.com/2026/20260217-daily-source-reading-kernel-main.html

#OpenBSD #blogpost #source

https://romanzolotarev.com/uses/

@grunfink@comam.es, thanks again for snac ❤️

just created an account on steam and bought the games, but there is no way to download *.p8 files. i'll try to find a friend with paypal tomorrow ;)

Modern #CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace.

https://modern-css.com/

"Stop writing CSS like it's 2015."

#webdev #frontend

Might squeeze in one final feature before finalising picoCAD 2
🎨 Palette - load from disk as well as a few built in ones
📐 Vertices - merge vertices and delete
📥 Export - something other than OBJ, like gltf or fbx

Thoughts?

#smallweb #pixelart

• few colors
• default fonts and everything
• large high contrast font for content
• small fonts for controls
• dark and light color schemes
• big and small screens
• works with styles from my site

updated /var/snac/data/server.json

  "cssurls": [ "/style.css", "/snac.css" ],

#snac2 #css

Thinking about design of a potential issue-tracker/code-review tool for @gothub and trying to account for the fact that allowing text to be entered into a website is becoming increasingly dangerous these days with way too much potential for spam and abuse by bots.

Currently our web UI is entirely read-only and perhaps there is value in keeping it that way?
This means communication needs to happen out of band somehow. Currently we don't offer anything. We should at least offer mailing lists to offer at least one way for projects to communicate. But mailing lists are a poor medium for keeping a structured, persistent, and searchable record of information about a software project. On the other hand letting anyone add arbitrary information is becoming a nightmare for both us as a hosting provider and our users who maintain public projects.

I end up asking myself what if the only way to have information show up on a project's main web presence was if a project maintainer pulled data from a git repository of someone who wants to report an issue or add review comments. Would that cause too much friction?

updated

• plan(): now for dry run site scripts invoked with an argument: src directory

Alt...

https://romanzolotarev.com/ssg/.ssg.imgs.sh

If the site works in a browser and has an app, use the browser. If a site forces you to use an app for things that can be accomplished in a browser, you should be questioning it.

The #fedimap is a map of the Fediverse users. Everyone can mark or unmark themselves.

Here's how you add yourself:

• Grab your coordinates by clicking on a location on https://fedimap.de/en/
• Don't use your exact location obviously 😉
• Send a private message to @fedimap with your coordinates like this:
• @fedimap !in 54.88889467,23.93083513

Done!

Looking forward to meet people in #brussels 😀

The project's code is https://codeberg.org/Lioh/Fedimap.

Alt...

Maps form a fedimap with currently 637 users registered, mostly in Europe.

TIL: prefix your personal shell commands with "," https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
why am I only learning this now 🥲

Loneliness is the biggest disease of our time. What do you do for yourself and for others to combat it?

Thinking about what the next larger daily source reading is going to be.

#OpenBSD
#FreeBsD

A handy guide for designers working at Apple

What a strange time. I just read this sentence in an article about an HTTP client:

"Lightweight : Just 157~ KB in size"

Sorry but 157 KB is NOT lightweight. Especially for an alternative to "fetch".

#WebDev #JavaScript #TypeScript

Alt...

Lightweight: Just 157~ KB in size.

The early Web had a quality that has been lost ever since: it was *simple*

Download #httpd , #netscape write some #html by hand and boom, the concept of a networked digital society is born.

It first started going pear shaped with #LAMP . The complexity of a full blown database was not justified for most use cases. As proven decades later by the popularity of #sqlite and #ssg approaches.

The final blow was when #bigtech got into the act. Immense complexity for the simplest things became a moat

@whynothugo one of the reasons I still do stuff in Perl. 20 year old scripts still run fine.

Wondering if #PhanpySocial users know that the composer can be minimized or popped out as a separate window (only on desktop)? 🤔

#PhanpyProTip

We should all get used to no longer saying "GitHub" but "Microsoft AI GitHub" just so it's clearer where your code lies and for what purpose.

There are a few nicer feelings than being emailed by someone whose blog you read that tells you that they read your blog as well. I love the #indieweb.

@eclecticpassions

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=183169#p @mayazimmerman@gamedev.lgbt https://gamedev.lgbt/users/mayazimmerman/statuses/116053644566856190

I'm so unbelievably addicted to the #Indieweb / #smallweb.

To feed my addiction, I have found yet another search machine that finds non-commercial sites. Send help! https://marginalia-search.com/explore

All your personal sites are SO COOL. Drop yours below, please! twitch twitch

Why is the menu on your website not just a page with links?

Learning raycasting. This feels like another one of those game dev milestones. #picotron as ever

also please boost and/or recommend any cool capsules ❤️

🦾 Can my SPARC server host a website? // Darko Mesaroš,

｢ TL;DR: I’m hosting a website on a 25-year-old Sun Netra X1 SPARC server running OpenBSD 7.8. The setup includes: Noctua fan mods for quiet operation, httpd serving static HTML/CSS, OpenBSD’s pf firewall with default-deny rules, and Cloudflare tunnels to expose it safely without port forwarding. The server pulls ~55MB of RAM and serves pages from my garage ｣

https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/

#sparc #openbsd

It's so weird that a lot of people think the quality of software is measured in how often it gets updated—it's literally the opposite.

falling into a rabbit hole…
at least my html pages mostly text and easy to convert to #gemini

It feels like developers are currently split into two groups that do not really understand what the other group is talking about:
One group tries to reduce their dependency on Big Tech by switching to alternative search engines, code forges, map providers, operating systems…
And the other group is trying to increase their dependency on Big Tech by adopting agentic and/or vibe coding.

Oh, did I say that those 2 hours of 200 requests per seconds, unnoticed from a user perspective, landed on an #OpenBSD VPS running on an OpenBSD host using OpenBSD virtualization program?

And they say OpenBSD is slow… But I’m biaised.

Nifty #picoCAD2 timelapse. Coming soon to Steam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-WUDnNH3rQ

#lowpoly #pixelart

I've just published Snk on itch.io for Playdate owners. For free. If you play, tell me about your experience, or if you have any problems, I'll be happy to help.

You can download it here: https://gunbolt.itch.io/snk

#playdate #lua

Alt...

Screenshot for Snk, a snake game clone running on Playdate with isometric perspective.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116040934611280426

Btw you can literally throw a PHP page on a web server and it will work.

Nothing about web development has actually changed that much except that it’s much easier to make eloborate designs with less CSS than ever and also you probably don’t need any 3rd party libraries to do pretty stunning interactivity stuff.

Being Left Behind Enjoyer » 🌐 2026-02-09 / 2026-02-09
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

"But I need an LLM for code generation, programming environments are so complex and have so many layers these days!"

I wish people would think for like more than a minute about what solution they choose when they correctly identify the problem.

You know, a glass teletype. That toy that kids keep calling a "monitor," even though we all know monitors are reference speakers used in audio production.

I had the privilege of penning an article for the latest issue of Good Internet Magazine!

It is all about the process of making and experiencing art and how friction and inefficiency needn’t be dirty procurances to avoid and evade.

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/rebelling-against-efficiency/

If you enjoy this article, you might consider picking up the physical print copy of the magazine, which you can buy on the site. A proper palpable paper printing of passionate prose for your pleasant perusal.

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalWebsites #GoodInternetMagazine

> "Many personal website owners
deliberately choose inefficient methods
for updating their sites. They write
HTML by hand, upload files directly
via FTP, or maintain static sites that
require manual intervention for even
simple changes. These choices would
be considered backwards in a
professional context, but they serve
important psychological and creative
functions"

by @vale, in the current #GoodInternet issue.

me and my #hugo #ssg site deployed via #ftp feel very seen

#smallWeb #indieWeb

unix should be fun 🚀
#unix #openbsd #bubbleuniverse

i try to push shell as far as it reasonably goes. for most tasks, sh, find, grep, sed, and cut is more than enough. only when things become truly complex or painfully slow do i reach for another language.

i used to care a lot about strict portability, but in practice i only run my scripts on macos and #openbsd. that simplifies things: if shellcheck is happy, i'm happy. i'm 99% sure my scripts work on other unix-like systems, but i don't feel the need to check.

what really draws me to shell is that it's always there. it's part of the base system, requires no extra installation, and the runtime has been stable for decades. that stability translates directly into confidence: shell scripts feel future-proof.

i know i can run something like ssg.sh ten years from now and it will still work --- certainly on #openbsd, and hopefully on macos too. there's no dependency churn, no worrying about the "right" version of python or ruby, and no hoping the ecosystem hasn't moved on.

it just runs.

Alt...

built with /bin/sh

This is very slow. And that's not caused by the old CPU. Hopefully a new ssd + ide>sata adapter will arrive soon.

i'm thinking how to make smallest possible backups...

html_count: 5
html_size: 1102841
ico_count: 1
ico_size: 1218
id_count: 2
id_size: 10
idx_count: 10416
idx_size: 633369
json_count: 12490
json_size: 50926543
lst_count: 1
lst_size: 33
pid_count: 1
pid_size: 6
png_count: 9
png_size: 557101
tag_count: 2180
tag_size: 21400
txt_count: 7
txt_size: 88
other_count: 669
other_size: 257034

*_size in bytes

but over 30% of nodes have >1 hardlinks

#snac2 is very unixy :)

• 12 posts
• 60 following
• over 9000 files (sic!)

$ du -hd0 /var/snac && find /var/snac | wc -l
61.8M	/var/snac
    9532
$

$ curl -s https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss | wc -c
    9999

i use shell scripts to configure and deploy a few #openbsd servers:

• generate configuration files locally for each server (sshd, httpd, relayd, acme-client, nsd, and now #snac2)
• deploy with ssh or rsync (set permissions, time)
• clean up if needed
• run health checks that all configurations applied correctly (testing with nc, dig, curl, etc)

@h3artbl33d @opentechfan rdist rocks! when you don't screw it up.

At the moment we use it sync our 4 DNS VMs. In the past we also managed a cluster of relayd VMs.

https://openbsd.amsterdam/blog/rdist-1-when-ansible-is-too-much.html

Thank you very much for your awesome work, @grunfink@comam.es 🙂

Full Moon

#textmode #1bit #pixelart

Alt...

Text mode base Full Moon drawn with black and white semigraphic characters. Moon is on the center of the picture surrounded by a starry sky. A shooting start is passing by on the left.

The time is probably right.

Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.

A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.

So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.

The app will have one key trait: #snac2 support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).

Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.

I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.

Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.

On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.

It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.

I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.

This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.

Stay tuned!

#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #iOS #FediverseApp #Announcement #Apple #snac #snac2 #BSDCafe #illumosCafe

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MastoBlaster, showing my profile on my phone

see also
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.5.html

# rcctl stop snac 
# cd /var/snac
# tar -cpf /tmp/snac data
# rcctl start snac

# rcctl stop snac 
# cd /var/snac
# tar -xpf /tmp/snac.tgz
# rcctl start snac

any plans to use sqlite or some other database?

also thank you for creating #snac2. i love it!

We have spun up 5 new VMs during the last 48 hours. Some were booked by known friends of ours, some booked by new friends we have never met before. Welcome on board!

#git #hosting #gameoftrees #openbsd

like/favorite if this appears in your feed please :)

#selfhosting #snac2 #openbsd