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Re:How and why to make a /now page on your site on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:26AM (#40451156)
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
Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:40AM (#38638496)
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/

Re:Fun with DNS TXT Records on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:55AM (#38429868)
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

Re:Mastodon Is Doomed on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:38AM (#35724541)
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
Re:Gnome OS on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:33PM (#24792053)
I thought that was Fedora’s role...