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heyitsolson How and why to make a /now page on your site

I was in exactly the same position but the route I went was a little programme on my server that reads incoming mail to a secret address and crafts a blog post from it

heyitsolson Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

Link aggregator. Started as a HN/reddit/lobsters clone but I pared it back so it just met my specific needs. Stopped using it recently though :/

https://links.ols.wtf/

heyitsolson Fun with DNS TXT Records

Messing with DNS is so fun. I did a lightning talk on storing secrets in DNS [1] for my vpn tokens and also have a URL shortener that uses DNS as its storage mechanism [2]

[1]: https://youtu.be/CpWM_eVfRBM?si=uj3qVLcW_56FdQ8Y

[2]: https://ols.wtf/url-shortener.html

heyitsolson Mastodon is doomed?

Disingenuous to say that mastodon.lol shut down “because of Harry Potter” when in actual fact it was a disgusting and prolonged character assassination attempt against the sole admin

heyitsolson Gnome OS

I thought that was Fedora’s role...