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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 10h

The only thing that's gone wrong with my @frame.work laptop since I got it 4 years ago is that the USB cable fell apart.

They just sent me a new one free of charge. I didn't have to argue or anything (I think they don't mess around with anything that carries a decent amount of electrical juice.)

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 15h

Yeah config files and the requirement to use a command line for many things is a big issue. I'm guilty of this on my project but I am mapping out a path out of this situation.

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Jarrod C. 🏳️‍🌈 @jarrodcoombes.com · 16h

I also cannot agree more with this. The ability to empathize with a "normie" end user is actually a talent quite a few designers and programmers lack and they simply never consider the "one button" approach. This is not a bad thing necessarily, but it definitely hinders wide spread adoption.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 15h

Things should be secure by default. That's part of the challenge of making things for non-technical users.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 15h

I was reading some forum / reddit posts on hosting servers on MacOS, and invariably there is a response like "this is a terrible idea learn to use Linux" in there. The gatekeeping is intense.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 15h

So much this. It's why I am literally right now working on making Dropserver run on MacOS, and I am trying to get it working on Windows too (without VMs or WSL2 or Docker).

I still do have a lot of work to do in terms of config files and installation process, but I'm working towards it.

Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 17h

I couldn't agree more.

Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 17h

Just look at this sexy technically constrained intermediate certificate over here.

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 1d

Once you have subdomain delegation there are lots of options. eg. LetsEncrypt could offer a service to reserve a free subdomain of some domain, you get a delegated CA cert, then your CA issues LAN certs however you want. Like tailscale's .ts.net domains but without needing a corp sponsor.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 1d

That would be a plus, but it doesn't solve the problem for non-unique names like localhost and *.home.arpa. I'd like to see this solved too so that people can do stuff on their private net without being forced to buy a public domain.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 1d

They seem very intent on making HTTPS everywhere happen in a year, and leave the "certs for local use" as something that they sort of plan on getting around to maybe someday.

Every additional click of the HTTPS ratchet is a new barrier for people who want to self-host simple things privately.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 1d

They say at the bottom that they hope to make it easier for internal / private stuff to get a cert. It would be great if that happened because there is lots of room for improvement here. But given people have been trying to do this for years I'm not hopeful.

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 1d

Everybody's so excited about forcing HTTPS, and I'm just here thinking, sure would be cool if all my private servers didn't have their names unavoidably published in the public CT logs so everyone can see what I'm doing. Also if localhost could get a cert at all

Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 2d

It's time to make HTTPS the web's default, and reap the full security benefit from years worth of HTTPS adoption!
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...

HTTPS by default

One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 2d

Really glad they're talking about the issue of certificates in local networks as they push to make HTTPS more and more of an absolute requirement. But I still foresee that this is going to hurt.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 6d

Wait they operate that service? How long does it take?

I remember doing IAD-DCA when I was a kid. A storm or ?? had closed DCA, so we landed at Dulles, waited on the tarmac then hopped over when clear. This would have been in the late 80s early 90s.

I don't think the flaps ever came fully up.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 6d

Yep still works, essentially.

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Ian Landsman @ianlandsman.com · 6d

I wrote up a few thoughts on HelpSpot turning 20 today ianlandsman.com/helpspot-tur...

HelpSpot Turns 20

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 6d

Congratulations and happy birthday! I still remember reading your post on accepting purchase orders from companies which was of great help to me. That was in 08 probably.

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 8d

So many low hanging fruits here. I have had thoughts about starting a suite of plugins that help with CSS authoring. I likely won't do it but somebody should!

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 8d

The state of CSS tools is abysmal. We should have had this a decade ago.

There are gradient editors as browser apps, but I work in a code editor. Why can't these things be ported there?

Luke @lukewarlow.dev · 8d

Are there any editors out there that include chrome Dev tools esque UI for CSS editing. I know some have colour picking UI, but what about UI for setting up flex containers, or UI for generating a radial gradient?

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Olivier Forget @olivierforget.net · 8d

Dropserver version 0.14.2 is out 🎉

I fixed the released binaries to support arm64 builds, including fixing broken ds-dev binaries for macOS.

This also lays the ground work for releasing ds-host for Mac, which is pretty much ready to go, I just need to write some docs.

github.com/teleclimber/...