🥳 Multiple major releases today

• @small-tech/auto-encrypt v5.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme)
• @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost v10.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost/#readme)
• @small-tech/https v6.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https/#readme)

These releases bring short-lived certificates, IP Address (IPv4 and IPv6) support, and ACME Renewal Information (ARI) support to Auto Encrypt and @small-tech/https, implement a consistent asynchronous API across all three packages, and include loads of little fixes and code quality improvements.

This brings us very close to getting Web Numbers¹ support implemented natively in Kitten².

OCSP support is removed from Auto Encrypt and Windows support is dropped from all three packages as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people³ and Small Technology Foundation⁴ stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Furthermore, Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

Enjoy!

💕

🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified: https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
² https://kitten.small-web.org/
³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
⁴ https://small-tech.org/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #AutoEncrypt #AutoEncryptLocalhost #https #TLS #NodeJS #web #dev #ACME #LetsEncrypt #WebNumbers #Kitten #BDS #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine

Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?

• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273

#dev
haha c'est vrai : à toutes les époques "on" a essayé de supprimer les développeurs. Avec un échec retentissant. Pas que ces technos aient disparues, mais elles n'ont jamais supprimé les développeurs.
Curieux de voir ce que ça va donner avec l'IA.
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html

So, going forward, Auto Encrypt¹, Kitten², and Catalyst³ will be seamlessly (automatically; with zero config) supporting Web Numbers⁴ (IPv4, IPv6), and, of course, should you want to point one at your server for old time’s sake, legacy domain names too.

I still have some dev to do on this on the Kitten side of things but I’m hugely excited about being able to remove another centralised component – DNS – from the Small Web⁵ (peer-to-peer, personal web) as we inch nearer to making it available this year to everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.

¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
² https://kitten.small-web.org
³ https://catalyst.small-web.org
⁴ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
⁵ https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SmallTechnologyFoundation #peerToPeerWeb #personalWeb #WebNumbers #decentralisation #web #dev #humanRights #democracy

So, going forward, Auto Encrypt¹, Kitten², and Catalyst³ will be seamlessly (automatically; with zero config) supporting Web Numbers⁴ (IPv4, IPv6), and, of course, should you want to point one at your server for old time’s sake, legacy domain names too.

I still have some dev to do on this on the Kitten side of things but I’m hugely excited about being able to remove another centralised component – DNS – from the Small Web⁵ (peer-to-peer, personal web) as we inch nearer to making it available this year to everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.

¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
² https://kitten.small-web.org
³ https://catalyst.small-web.org
⁴ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
⁵ https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SmallTechnologyFoundation #peerToPeerWeb #personalWeb #WebNumbers #decentralisation #web #dev #humanRights #democracy

Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).

https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.

¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme
² https://kitten.small-web.org
³ https://catalyst.small-web.org/

#WebNumbers #SmallWeb #AutoEncrypt #Kitten #Catalyst #peerToPeer #web #dev

Let this be a lesson:

People can actually change if you give the opportunity to do so.

A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad

https://www.polygon.com/steam-dev-deleting-own-game-generative-ai/

#Steam #Dev #AI #PC #Gaming

🇵🇸 @small-tech/cross-platform-hostname module deprecated

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/cross-platform-hostname

The release of version 1.1.0 deprecates and removes support for this small module that normalised hostname reporting between Linux/macOS and Windows.

We no longer support Windows as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³.

Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

When supporting Linux/macOS, just use the built-in os.hostname() which works the same way on both platforms.

¹ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
² https://small-tech.org/
³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/

#SmallTechnologyFoundation #crossPlatformHostname #npm #module #deprecation #BDS #Microsoft #Windows #NodeJS #web #dev #FOSS #SmallTech #SmallWeb #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #techIsPolitical #codeIsPolitical

All the cool kids are doing #introduction or reintroduction posts. And so am I! Hi. I’m a luddite technophile and humanity geek currently dissertating at York University’s grad program in Science and Technology Studies. I study the #values systems of the kind of conventional #software #teams I have worked on for 20+ years in #dev , #ux and #agile roles. Got on here when Musk reinstated Trump, zero regrets so far. Welcome new arrivals!

All the cool kids are doing #introduction or reintroduction posts. And so am I! Hi. I’m a luddite technophile and humanity geek currently dissertating at York University’s grad program in Science and Technology Studies. I study the #values systems of the kind of conventional #software #teams I have worked on for 20+ years in #dev , #ux and #agile roles. Got on here when Musk reinstated Trump, zero regrets so far. Welcome new arrivals!

🥳 @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost version 9.0.1 released

Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers (including Polka, Express.js, etc.) As used in Kitten¹

This is a housekeeping release:

• Add TypeScript type definitions.
• Improve code quality; fix all type warnings.
• Update dependencies and remove all npm vulnerability warnings.

Enjoy! 💕

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

#SmallTech #SmallWeb #AutoEncryptLocalhost #TLS #web #dev #NodeJS #JavaScript #SmallTechnologyFoundation

Let this be a lesson:

People can actually change if you give the opportunity to do so.

A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad

https://www.polygon.com/steam-dev-deleting-own-game-generative-ai/

#Steam #Dev #AI #PC #Gaming

🥳 Auto-Encrypt Localhost version 9.0.0 released

Bye bye, Windows.

• Windows is no longer supported as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³). Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

Enjoy!

💕

About Auto-Encrypt Localhost:

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost#readme

Auto Encrypt Localhost is similar to the Go utility [mkcert](https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/) but with the following important differences:

1. It’s written in pure JavaScript for Node.js.

2. It does not require certutil to be installed.

3. It uses a different technique to install its certificate authority in the system trust store of macOS.

4. It uses enterprise policies on all platforms to get Firefox to include its certificate authority from the system trust store.

5. In addition to its Command-Line Interface, it can be used programmatically to automatically handle local development certificate provisioning while creating your server.

Auto-Encrypt Localhost is licensed under AGPL version 3.0.

#AutoEncryptLocalhost #SmallTech #SmallWeb #localhost #TLS #SSL #certificates #web #security #dev #FOSS #israel #microsoft #BigTech #genocide #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

¹ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
² https://small-tech.org/
³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/

Hosting 100 Linux dev environments on one VM using LXC

https://github.com/FootprintAI/Containarium

#HackerNews #Linux #Dev #Environments #LXC #Virtualization #Containarium #DevOps

75% of Tailwind's engineering team was laid off yesterday.

Despite record growth, their docs traffic is down 40% since early 2023 because of LLMs. No doc visits = no exposure to commercial products = 80% revenue drop.

We are watching a fundamental shift in how dev tools survive (or don't) in the age of AI. A must-read for anyone in the industry.

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957

#Tailwind #WebDevelopment #AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #TechLayoffs #CSS #FOSS #Web #Software #Dev

Every developer or dev team can relate -

#dev #development #Tech #techdev

SocialDocs — Developer Documentation for ActivityPub & Fediverse

The comprehensive developer resource for ActivityPub, Mastodon, and the Fediverse

🧑‍💻 https://socialdocs.org

#fediverse #activitypub #webdev #js #dev #web #mastodon #javascript #socialdocs

Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?

Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention.
— by @leaverou

🤷 https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/web-deps/

#webdev #frontend #npm #javascript #js #fixthem #dependencies #frontend #dev #fixit #broken #web

Exciting development! I met with someone who is embedded in the local community organisation network, and currently about to launch a council-funded project that's very similar to this.

We're very much aligned in vision, but aimed at slightly different audiences, so we're going to merge what we've both collected, with the goal of creating a single source of truth for local community data, so we, and anyone else, can build cool stuff 🌼

#buildinpublic #dev #solarpunk

https://folkestonehythecommunitydirectory.netlify.app/

75% of Tailwind's engineering team was laid off yesterday.

Despite record growth, their docs traffic is down 40% since early 2023 because of LLMs. No doc visits = no exposure to commercial products = 80% revenue drop.

We are watching a fundamental shift in how dev tools survive (or don't) in the age of AI. A must-read for anyone in the industry.

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957

#Tailwind #WebDevelopment #AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #TechLayoffs #CSS #FOSS #Web #Software #Dev