Aral Balkan

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral

Social oncologist.

I make small things.

Unapologetically anti-genocide.

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

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#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable

Me: https://ar.al
Small Technology Foundation: https://small-tech.org
Kitten: https://kitten.small-web.org

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Last Notes

2025-05-11 15:39:13

👌 https://ruby.social/@will/114479758090272706

2025-04-27 09:14:05

“We must be terrible to fight the terrible people.”
But then, what separates you from them? https://mastodon.social/@piraat/114409148838049519

2025-04-27 08:56:49

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I see now, I was using git-rerera 🤦‍♂️

2025-04-27 08:51:41

Why don’t more people use the Unusabilator correctly?
– tech folks

2025-04-27 08:48:51

Git geeks be like “Just did a --squash=<ref> before my interactive rebase with autosquash but I forgot to realign the dilithium crystals so it failed and this is fine so don’t you dare complain about git’s usability you normie!”

2025-04-19 22:13:36

Science fiction:
– Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
– I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Reality:
– Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
– I’m sorry, Dave, I’m having trouble connecting to the Internet.
#AI

2025-04-17 16:56:33

Mediocre white people will literally enact fascism rather than go to therapy.
#USA #fascism https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/114354032878382395

2025-04-17 16:52:29

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Well, at least we have AI.

2025-04-13 19:38:34

Sure guys, why don’t you lead the way by releasing all your own code as public domain?
#deleteAllBillionaires https://mastodon.online/@clarinette/114331990468061395

2025-04-13 19:29:15

👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 https://eupolicy.social/@pneutig/114331580053910131

2025-04-10 07:12:06

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I believe the tactic here is to make you dumber by reading their words. Having just read them, I feel I’ve lost brain cells in the process. Neural connections, however fleeting, have been made that should never have existed.

2025-04-10 06:53:38

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I think that was Eyes Wide Shut.

2025-04-10 06:43:41

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Sure it wasn’t the porn film?

2025-04-06 08:55:50

So I mentioned the fediverse to Jolita and Martin when I was there getting my watch strap resized and now they’re on it :)
They’re a tiny two-person jewelry/watch shop in Bray, Ireland.
Show them some love:
@npub1s28…nkjf
💕
#Ireland #Bray #Wicklow #shopLocal #watches #jewelry #EU #introduction https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114241155978949816

2025-04-06 08:18:46

British Tourist Detained by ICE for 19 Days Warns Against All US Travel
“[she] warned people not to go to the U.S. at all, ‘because of the danger of what could happen to you,’ telling the paper, ‘do you really want to give your money to this country?’”
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-tourist-immigration-detained-2055805
#USA #fascism #UK #EU #world #travelWarning

2025-04-04 07:19:43

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Now we’re talkin’. Everyone on the gravy train, baby!
(Goodness even pretending to talk like these people makes me want to have a shower.)

2025-04-04 07:12:03

Hey, here’s an idea: you know the autocorrect on your phone that fucks things up daily? Let’s feed it the Internet and let it decide who lives and who dies. Who’s with me?
#AI

2025-04-04 07:09:44

What’s the occasional incarcerated Sweden if it means our friend Erdoğan keeps the smelly Brown people from our pristine white shores, amirite, folks?
https://www.inkl.com/a/LrZpWMczwkz
#EU #turkey #türkiye #fascism #faşizm #refugees #sweden #complicity #racism #xenophobia

2025-04-04 06:03:09

“The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.”
https://www.inkl.com/a/owvGRdcyXxy
#UK #Starmer #neoliberaism #fascism

2025-04-04 05:57:05

Anyone who supports Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people is a monster. If that’s you, stop and take a moment to really let that sink in. You’re the worst of the worst. You’re the kind of fascist who would have cheered on The Holocaust.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/i-heard-them-take-their-last-breath-survivor-recounts-gaza-paramedic-killings
#israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

2025-04-04 05:24:17

To give you an idea of how tariffs work, this $149 keyboard will cost USians over $229 once Trump’s tariffs take effect.
https://shop.keyboard.io/products/keyboardio-atreus?variant=31234605842505
(Source: keyboard.io email from today.)
#USA #trump #fascism #tariffs

2025-04-03 07:03:12

“International law.”
https://www.inkl.com/a/lwBRArtvnxv
#israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #Netanyahu #Hungary #Orban #EU #ruleOfLaw #internationalLaw #ICC

2025-03-31 20:02:48

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Both can get fucked as far as I’m concerned :)

2025-03-31 20:01:57

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Well, we haven’t seen a single euro cent from them, so you’re not wrong.

2025-03-28 17:12:14

“I’m almost done” says the man driving a bulldozer through a rainforest. https://hachyderm.io/@ChristinWhite/114241161325857269

2025-03-28 17:09:11

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Yep.

2025-03-26 07:45:58

Oh yay, a dickhead measuring contest. https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/114227569196515435

2025-03-11 10:36:01

Tech bros are living, breathing embodiments of the false authority facility; claiming that their professed understanding of basic logic qualifies them to reason expertly upon every conceivable topic while ignoring a fundamental maxim of their purported core area of expertise: garbage in, garbage out.
#techBros #technofascism #BigTech #SiliconValley #peopleFarming #capitalism #technology #fascism

2025-02-26 16:13:21

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Are these idiots serious? Let’s just bloody ignore what Russia did, shall we? And I guess we’ll just do so for the next country they invade. Why? Because Trump says so. Who are these muppets?

2025-01-16 07:36:51

Folks: Mark Zuckerberg was just an idealistic kid who wanted to make the world a better place at the beginning.
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning…
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook?currentPage=all
#Meta #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg #Threads #dumbFucks
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2024-11-25 16:39:44

When life gives you Irish winter…
#mulledWine #bray #martello #ireland
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2024-11-16 08:01:05

Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.
https://vimeo.com/96727211
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039210087

2024-10-24 16:14:47

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PS. This is the Browser helper:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/regression-tests/tests/helpers/Browser.js
And this is the Kitten process helper:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/regression-tests/tests/helpers/Kitten.js
The only thing I’ll eventually need to add is a WebSocket helper so I can mock Kitten’s htmx¹/Streaming HTML² requests and that should give me pretty good coverage without having to resort to orchestrating actual browsers.
(Also, the unit tests are in quite a dismal state so there’s lots to do.)
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/htmx-the-htmx-web-socket-extension-and-socket-routes/
² https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/streaming-html/
#Kitten #htmx #testing

2024-10-24 15:56:23

Now that Kitten¹ is rather stable, I’ve decided to write some regression tests before refactoring to add class-based route/component support (in addition to the current—easy to get started with/use—function-based workflow).
I tried using Playwright but it’s quite heavy and not quite right for my needs (Kitten is more than just a server and I need control of it during testing). ~100 lines of code later, I have something that works well using tape and JSDOM :)
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
#Kitten
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2024-10-22 10:33:31

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Because folks like him own the jails.

2024-10-22 10:24:30

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Facebook is a mixer controlled by someone else. You can plug your microphone into it but you don’t control your volume and you can be muted at any time.

2024-10-22 10:10:03

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No great loss.

2024-10-16 12:28:45

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We have a lot of money. Sadly, most of it is being spent on killing machines to murder Brown people on the other side of the world. Making screen readers free would be a rounding error in public spending.

2024-10-14 17:00:10

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I’d rather not encourage them… what with enjoying having a habitat suitable to human life and water to drink and all that.

2024-10-14 16:58:27

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…
I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction
on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say
this but because of all that I value in human experience and
human achievement.
Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

2024-10-14 16:58:16

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… and the
sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy
and practice of fascism.
I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit
are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing
fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association
between us.
…

2024-10-14 16:57:24

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Alt text:
In December 1961, the British fascist, Oswald Mosley, sent Bertrand
Russell two of his books. Mosley wrote of “the two root differences
between us” in international politics, and subsequently invited Russel to lunch.
On 22 January 1962, Russell declined the invitation in these terms.
…

2024-10-12 11:12:10

Corporations hate paying tax, so here’s my radical idea: let’s scrap taxes for corporations.
That’s right, 0% tax.
Who’s with me?
Instead, we make all public services and utilities free at the point of consumption—that’s water, electricity, education, healthcare, etc.—and we make corporations pay for it, the percentage of the burden shared based on their annual revenue.
We could call it, I don’t know, Compulsory Corporate Social Responsibility or something.
Who’s still with me?
:awesome:

2024-10-10 09:45:24

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Not related, afaik.

2024-10-10 09:45:06

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Thanks. I thought tldraw was open source still. Hadn’t seen that they’ taken venture capital and gone closed source.
Yay, capitalism.

2024-10-10 09:44:27

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Right, so tldraw is not open source any longer. You can still save your stuff locally but their going closed source and taking venture capital are warning bells.
Gotta love capitalism. Makes everything better, doesn’t it?
https://tldraw.substack.com/p/tldraws-upcoming-re-launch

2024-10-10 09:43:06

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Ah, scratch that, apparently tldraw used to be open source, the latest version isn’t.
Fun times :shrug:
https://tldraw.substack.com/p/tldraws-upcoming-re-launch

2024-10-10 09:30:42

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Looks like it’s their own font… tldraw_draw is what I see in the dev panel.

2024-10-10 09:22:58

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Wait till you see the smart snapping between objects as well as object labels, etc.
It’s beautifully minimalist. As simple as it needs to be and no simpler. I can only imagine how much work has gone into keeping it that simple.

2024-10-10 09:21:28

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Yep. Also see: France.

2024-09-30 13:34:44

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Aral, please… Mr. Balkan is my dad ;P

2024-09-30 12:49:31

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Da-yum! :)

2024-09-30 08:55:57

You can have democracy or you can have trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires.
(And if you don’t understand why, you either don’t understand what democracy is or you don’t understand what trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires are or both.)

2024-09-28 09:15:45

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While I’m trying to build a bridge from the web of today to a peer web (https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/), I’d highly welcome this. The more (non bullshit/not open to being co-opted) attempts at creating alternatives, the better.
That said, my gut feeling is that any such protocol has to have a bit more functionality that Gemini (which is great) does if it’s to be an alternative for the sorts of social interactions/functionality people are used to having on the web.

2024-09-28 08:55:56

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I fail to see how that follows from the point being made here but both of those things can be readily implemented as part of ActivityPub or, at worst, extensions to it or in a federated protocol in general (in fact, it already does: Mobilezon is a federated events app with invitations: https://joinmobilizon.org/en/)

2024-09-28 08:51:41

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Indeed, and as you should: as they’re partnered with Meta.

2024-09-19 11:05:34

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B. A makes me feel unsettled for some reason.

2024-09-14 16:46:04

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Thank you for providing the alt text.
@npub1wjs…ggtv

2024-09-14 16:43:15

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You remembered correctly: There are 3,790 in total in Unicode 16 (https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-counts.html) but that’s with modifiers.

2024-09-14 15:58:23

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Yep.

2024-09-14 15:57:52

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Ooh… Base3184, how delightfully evil :)
The only problem I see is byte count. I’m using only surrogate pairs. Afaik, there are less than 2,000 of those. So the codepoint size differences might be an issue.

2024-09-14 15:48:18

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Good point (no pun intended)… I hadn’t even considered that (I hope folks don’t share their secret keys via social media) 😬

2024-09-14 15:35:09

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Last I checked, I didn’t have to ask anyone for permission ;)

2024-09-14 13:13:34

Was just documenting the KittenMoji standard I use to Base256 encode your ed25519 secret key in Kitten.
The full alphabet:
🐵🐒🦍🦧🐶🐕🦮🐩🐺🦊🦝🐱🐈🦁🐯🐅
🐆🐴🧮🦄🦓🦌🦬🐮🐂🐃🐄🐷🐖🐗🐽🐏
🐑🐐🐪🐫🦙🦒🐘🦣🦏🦛🐭🐁🐀🐹🐰🐇
🎈🦫🦔🦇🐻🐨🐼🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐾🦃🎹🐓
🐣🐤🐥🐦🐧💕🦅🦆🦢🦉🦤🪶🦩🦚🦜🚲
🐊🐢🦎📚🐉🦕🦖🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🦈🐙
🐚🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞🦗🎭🎁🧬🪱🦠💐🌸
🎠🌈🌹🧣🌺🌻🌼🌷🌱🪴🌲🌳🌴🌵🌾🌿
🎤🍀🍁🪺👽🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🥭🍎🍏🍐
🍑🍒🍓🫐🥝🍅🫒🥥🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🧸🫑🥒
🥬🥦🧄🧅🍄🥜🌰🍞🥐🥖💩🥨🥯🥞🧇🧀
🎶🏸🎾🎨🍔🔭🍕🌭🥪🌮🌯😸📷🌜🥚🚂
🛼🚁👾👻🥗🍿🧩🖖🥫🎸🍘🍙🍚🃏🍜🍝
🍠🍢🍣🍤🍥🥮🍡🥟🥠🩰🦀🦞🦐🦑🎡🍦
🍧🍨🍩🍪🎂🍰🧁🥧🍫🍬🍭🍮🎓🍼🎮🛹
🫖🌍🌎🌏🧭🌠🪐🪀🧵🧶🧋🎉🪁🙈🙉🙊
Maybe I’ll make a limited-edition poster of it sometime :)
https://kitten.small-web.org
#Kitten #SmallWeb

2024-09-14 08:40:01

“For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support.”
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-MRs-Without-X11
How cool… does this mean there’s now a fully functional screen reader for Wayland-only GNOME or should we tell people who rely on screen readers to just suck it up?
https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/
#GNOME #GNOME47 #Wayland #Orca #accessibility #a11y #linux #OpenSource

2024-09-12 16:05:22

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Literally what I told them to their faces at the parliament (for all the good it did):
https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/
Also: https://ar.al/2019/06/22/have-you-heard-about-silicon-valleys-unpaid-research-and-development-department-its-called-the-eu/
So, yes, this, 💯

2024-09-12 12:43:57

If you want to keep using @npub1rkw…5q62 in the EU, say no to #ChatControl
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/
#Signal #ChatControl #EU #surveillance

2024-09-01 07:23:27

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Nothing to see here… just “the world’s most moral army” committing the world’s most moral genocide.

2024-08-28 16:35:28

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Bloody hell it’s refreshing to have someone with integrity actually running something that requires integrity.
Thank you, [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) 💕
@npub1ejm…4j05 @npub13va…aerq @npub1rkw…5q62

2024-08-28 08:51:23

Hey Emmanuel, it’s “liberté, égalité, fraternité,” not “liberté, égalité, Macronité.”
#macron #france #democracy

2024-08-28 06:13:10

Macron: “president, prime minister and party leader all at the same time”
https://www.inkl.com/a/bjERlqfLNmL
Ah, Emmanuel, taking a page out of Erdoğan’s book, I see.
#France #Macron #Castets #democracy

2024-08-27 20:47:27

“you are potentially causing more harm than good with your ‘unapologetic anti-genocide’ ridiculousness”
A real thing some USian liberal just said to me.
I have no words.
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #Israel #America #US #USA #genocide #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

2024-08-27 17:07:40

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It’s the StarLite tablet by @npub1hpu…ggnf (https://ie.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite)

2024-08-27 17:02:47

Every day is a new adventure with Linux.
🤦‍♂️
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2024-08-27 13:52:33

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“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”
🤔

2024-08-27 13:49:25

For all the love and understanding talk, religions sure do murder a lot of people.

2024-08-27 07:56:19

I love how we inhabit a world where the majority of people live according to the dictates of a magic invisible sky fairy and yet feel competent to pass judgement on the mental wellbeing of others.

2024-08-26 13:50:36

C’mon folks, cut Israel some slack: they’re committing the most moral genocide in the world.
#Israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid

2024-08-22 09:14:49

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Go defend your genocide elsewhere.

2024-08-22 09:06:21

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Ah, thanks. I heard three names and thought they were all his children but I guess one must’ve been his wife. Appreciate the correction; fixed.

2024-08-22 08:58:24

Tim Walz is a lucky guy. None of his three children were murdered by American bombs in Gaza. Sadly, the same can’t be said for tens of thousands of Palestinians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/thats-my-dad-tim-walzs-son-gus-tears-up-at-dnc/2024/08/22/8c8fb111-cc4e-4309-bc43-914fc899fe46_video.html
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #USA #UnitedStates #DNC

2024-08-22 08:51:20

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Cool, cool.

2024-08-22 08:42:26

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Darn, I’d have expected better from a surveillance capitalist.

2024-08-22 08:34:55

When the names of the children murdered by American bombs in Gaza threatens to reduce your “joy” during genocide, just cover your ears and mock the protestors like these Democrats were doing at the #DNC.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyiUZ_cRh14
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #Israel #America #US #USA #Democrats #Republicans #genocide #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

2024-08-22 08:31:22

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyiUZ_cRh14

2024-08-20 12:55:57

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Neat, well, if you build it the Small Web way, in other words, just for yourself, then anyone who wants to can run an instance of it for themselves.
Doing it that well will also hugely simplify your dev as authentication, etc., will be handled for you automatically.
Best of luck + looking forward to seeing it :)

2024-08-20 05:42:24

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Thanks, there’s still so much to improve (PS. It hasn’t hit 1.0 yet so expect breaking changes, although they’re coming less often recently these days and I do announce them here.)

2024-08-19 19:21:02

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Like, I don’t know… no genocide.

2024-08-19 19:20:21

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Indeed. A fascist genocide is worse than a joyous genocide. If only there was a third way.

2024-08-19 19:16:23

Just think, if the Americans elect Kamala, it could be a joyous genocide.
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #Israel #USA #UnitedStates #genocide #settlerColonialism #apartheid #warCrimes #BDS #fascism

2024-08-19 18:24:36

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If you do have a play with Kitten, let me know how you get on :)

2024-08-19 18:04:15

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Depending on what you’re building, it just might be enough. In any case, should be a bit of fun to play with it regardless :)

2024-08-19 17:15:34

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And just to underscore how simple Kitten is, here’s a demo of creating a new Kitten project that displays the character you’ve configured using Kitten Kawaii.
There’s a lot more in the blog post (this whole thing just ballooned up from what I thought would be a nice weekend project) but I hope the highlights/videos give you some idea of how web development can be if our goal isn’t to exploit and extract from people to become billionaires.
:kitten:💕
#SmallWeb #Kitten #web #dev #KittenKawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/798/418/410/444/original/e62b7def0e037d94.mp4

2024-08-19 17:06:28

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Of course it’s not just quantitative differences but qualitative ones too…
Since all our time isn’t spent trying to create planet-scale factory farms for human beings (which are hard to do and involve lots of complexity), we can concentrate on nice things like maintaining state in the URL… like Kitten Kawaii does.
URL-based state: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/#url-based-state
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
View source: https://codeberg.org/aral/kitten-kawaii
#SmallWeb #Kitten #URL #state #web #dev #KittenKawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/763/553/860/920/original/b2beea006984147f.mp4

2024-08-19 16:51:41

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Development is one thing, what about deployment?
Soon, you’ll be able to deploy your Kitten apps to small-web.org using Domain¹.
Here’s a recording of me deploying Kitten Kawaii to kitten-kawaii.small-web.org using Domain.
Here, domain is registering the domain (subdomain but it’s on the Public Suffix List) and installing Kitten Kawaii on a pre-warmed VPS server.
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
¹ https://codeberg.org/domain/app
#SmallWeb #Kitten #Domain #deployment #web #dev #KittenKawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/712/355/936/132/original/9683654d9d6466ca.mp4

2024-08-19 16:46:17

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React + Next.js vs Kitten: developer experience, getting started (cont.)
In fact, it’s even faster if you install Kitten first (the equivalent of installing Node.js first, basically).
Kitten is still up and running with the Kitten Kawaii web site in ~18 seconds.
So that thing about web frameworks and workflows being slow… that’s a Big Web thing.
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
#SmallWeb #Kitten #BigWeb #React #NextJS
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/691/318/307/830/original/33ae61b9dee53dda.mp4

2024-08-19 16:29:07

New blog post – Kitten Kawaii: porting a React library and Next.js web site to Kitten
Small Web is the exact opposite of the Big Web. But what does that mean in practice? I wanted to find out by porting Elizabet Oliveira’s lovely React Kawaii app to Kitten. How does Kitten hold up to the frameworks of trillion-dollar and hundred-billion-dollar corporations?
(Spoiler: pretty darn well, actually.)
https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
:kitten:💕
#SmallWeb #Kitten #BigWeb #React #NextJS

2024-08-16 15:34:54

You can now download your configured character as a regular SVG from Kitten Kawaii.
https://kitten-kawaii.small-web.org
(I’m going to stop myself from adding anything more to it and finish off the blog post on porting it from React Kawaii now.)
#Kitten #KittenKawaii #ReactKawaii #port #SVG #SmallWeb #web #dev
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/972/416/566/679/722/original/ac26aa0216f0b959.mp4

2024-08-05 18:52:50

As a fun little exercise, I decided to port Miuki Miu’s (Elizabet Oliveira’s) adorable React Kawaii¹ to Kitten².
Going to write a blog post about the experience but, in the meanwhile, if you want to play with the cute little characters, here you go:
https://kitten-kawaii.small-web.org
And here’s the source code:
https://codeberg.org/aral/kitten-kawaii/
Things to try: the back and forward buttons ;)
¹ https://react-kawaii.vercel.app
² https://kitten.small-web.org
#Kitten #SmallWeb #React #BigWeb #porting #experiment #kawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/910/911/756/512/480/original/98f7442c2f3cbe67.png

2024-07-19 09:09:51

Quick, everyone, use the same tech by the same huge corporations… what could possibly go wrong?
#BigTech #TooBigWillFail #centralisation