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The Angry Dutchman

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This is where I write what's on my mind. No filter, probably a few hot takes, and most likely someone, somewhere, will be offended by what I write. But hey...

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A little blurb about Halcyon

Or my attempt at un-brain-damaging Traefik

W Social and why I hate it

So. That's a definite statement in the post title and I'm going to stand by it. I hate W Social, for various reasons. Doesn't mean you have to agree with any of it, but hopefully it'll give you some food for thought. By-EU for-EU verified account social media, more or less. The idea is that you can only use W Social if you verify your identity; also known as showing your passport to an identity verifier and they'll go yep, you're you!. Identity verification, in my opinion, is an awful idea that ...

*tap tap tappity* is this on?

Just the usual obligatory first post where I totally could've just pasted some Lorem Ipsum but didn't because, well, I can Lorem my own Ipsum just fine.

I wish people would stop trying to reinvent the wheel except square this time...

Okay so this could've just been a thread on Bluesky but I hate making threads so y'all get a post instead. Because why not. Fight me. This post does call out a particular module (and then by extension it's author), but they kind of have it coming. So for a project I'm working on I decided that instead of typing HTML for all my text content I'd just type Markdown. Because, again, why not? It's convenient, portable, and I'm pretty sure someone in the Perl ecosystem has written a parser for it alre...

Nomadic cloudy adventures in PDS land

Or how I managed to get the PDS to run as a Nomad job. With a few detours. And some cursing. Actually a lot of cursing. To preface this post, I messed up and managed to delete my actual running PDS's data directory by way of fat-fingering the delete button on the cloud volume I was using for it. This means if you have no rotationKeys set on your did:plc you are straight out of luck, since the keys required to sign the operation to point your old identity to a new PDS are... as you guessed it, in...

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