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This site is my personal hub for long-form writing, curated bookmarks, and open-web experiments — where ideas about tech, autonomy, democracy, and digital culture meet. Since February 2026, this site is also my personal ActivityPub instance, every posts you see on this blog can be fetched from the fediverse.

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I have been working on a #Eleventy 4 theme for #Indiekit and yes I was pleasingl...

I have been working on a #Eleventy 4 theme for #Indiekit and yes I was pleasingly surprised to see it work out of the box with the current “eleventy-preset” core indiekit package (its supposed to be Eleventy 3.x.x) My inspiration was onbviously Zach Leatherman own Eleventy 4 theme

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Not sure I can run this on a DGX Spark GB10 but 5.2 is already impressive

Not sure I can run this on a DGX Spark GB10 but 5.2 is already impressive

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The AS/400 Revolution: “The System is the Solution” 🖥️ The AS/400 (introduced i...

The AS/400 Revolution: “The System is the Solution” 🖥️

The AS/400 (introduced in 1988) was revolutionary because it was one of the first systems to integrate the hardware, operating system, and database into a single box — way before that became a common concept. IBM’s “The System is the Solution” campaign was one of the most successful in computing history, and the platform lasted so long that it was rebranded as IBM i in 2008, yet still actively used in thousands of businesses worldwide in the 2020s.

Even more impressive? RPG, which was created in the 1960s, is still in active use today — making it one of the longest continuously used programming languages in history. Many companies still rely on RPG programs written 30-40 years ago that continue to run flawlessly on IBM i systems.

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Trump’s Third Term May Not Need Trump

There are at least two obvious ways to imagine Donald Trump trying to remain president after 2028. The first is the constitutional loophole: someone close to him — perhaps one of his children — runs for president with Trump as vice president, wins, then resigns. The 22nd Ame...

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Dreaming about a Chromium/Firefox extension that auto open any article on the we...

Dreaming about a Chromium/Firefox extension that auto open any article on the web in reading mode.

Wanting to see the original site would be a manual action.

No ads, no pop-ups, no cookies walls, just plain text,titles and basic images.

Reading on mobile without reading mode On for most news sites is such a pain in the A’s, it’s horrible what they have done with the Web.

Thank God the blog ecosystem is clean, fast and un tarnished by these shenanigans.

What bothers me even more is Google actively pushing scammy, dirty sites on its News pan on every Android devices shipped, Google is curating “News” sites filled with Ads, Scams and deep redirect that actively drive the user to even more scammy site is literally automated enshitification.

It’s horrible to browse the web on mobile in 2026, we gotta to do something!

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Going to try this on my DGX Spark GB10

Going to try this on my DGX Spark GB10

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I hope to return to RSC dev soon https://rmdes.be

I hope to return to RSC dev soon https://rmdes.be

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Not surprised…

Not surprised…

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I like this, might have to rework my Eleventy theme to increase my score :)

I like this, might have to rework my Eleventy theme to increase my score :)

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it’s working nicely now !

it’s working nicely now !

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it’s working great now !

it’s working great now !

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What could go wrong ?

What could go wrong ?

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Another reason to leave WordPress behind

So today it was fires both at work and privately : I successfully intercepted what appears to have been an attempt to compromise chardonsbleus.org. Two administrator accounts were created within a very short period of time. At first, I assumed the usual suspects: an outdated...

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Oups… Accidentally turned my geekom IT15 off but thanks to herdr recovered my op...

Oups… Accidentally turned my geekom IT15 off but thanks to herdr recovered my opencode session without an ounce of stress 😊

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Hi Aaron, is there any path to have one’s own domain added to the allowed client...

Hi Aaron, is there any path to have one’s own domain added to the allowed client list on indielogin service ?

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I shipped my comment plugin to a service that could never accept it

I’ve been rebuilding the comment system on this site with Claude Code. Visitors sign in with their own website to leave a comment — IndieAuth, the way it’s meant to work. Overnight we migrated it from IndieAuth to IndieLogin.com. At 05:40 this morning it published to npm and...

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This is actually a cool idea ! In short: it’s a social, RSS-friendly radar for t...

This is actually a cool idea !

In short: it’s a social, RSS-friendly radar for the open web, self-hosted, with magic-link auth, and connected to the fediverse (ActivityPub).

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Bernie is right⁠ . If healthcare, decent wages, taxing billionaires and protecti...

Bernie is right⁠.

If healthcare, decent wages, taxing billionaires and protecting workers are now “radical” or “extreme”, then the current US administration is practicing something much closer to state terror against its own population.

Americans are fed up. The tragedy is that a huge part of that anger was successfully redirected — and many of those who wanted to punish the system ended up voting its most brutal incarnation into the White House.

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Github down… 404 on any repo I visit, just another reason I’m going to switch to...

Github down… 404 on any repo I visit, just another reason I’m going to switch to code.rmendes.net as primary and github as mirror for my own repos.

Moving Orgs repo : that’s beyond my current scope for now

GitHub status page show a day in hell for the engineers working over there

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Google Workspace now receives mail for 21.8% of MX-publishing domains and Micros...

Google Workspace now receives mail for 21.8% of MX-publishing domains and Microsoft 365 for 16.8%. Together that is 38.6% of the measured Internet’s inbound mail behind two companies. Nobody else comes close: the next named provider, Proofpoint, sits at 1.9%.

Source

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Quite happy with the way Plume evolved in just a few weeks ! (to use this, you n...

Quite happy with the way Plume evolved in just a few weeks !

(to use this, you need a blog that support Micropub)

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White House authorizes private companies to launch ‘hack-back’ cyberattacks that...

White House authorizes private companies to launch ‘hack-back’ cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations | Tom’s Hardware

https://share.google/vkx5E0RRVXU2Mwi42

What could go wrong?

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Damn… There isn’t one single actively developed IndieWeb/Micropub mobile app on...

Damn… There isn’t one single actively developed IndieWeb/Micropub mobile app on the Android playstore. Even IndiePass has been discontinued. I don’t want to start from scratch but I’m considering if I should do something about it. I’m fine publishing on mobile using my browser but IndiePass was quite handy and better integration with Android Share to targets.

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Test post without Syndication

Test post without Syndication

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I think my #Indiekit fork might be one of the very few setups where this happens...

I think my #Indiekit fork might be one of the very few setups where this happens: You post from Phanpy or Moshidon — regular Mastodon clients, no Micropub support at all. My custom Fedify AP answers the Mastodon client API, turns that request into a Micropub post, writes it ...

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They are killing Hyperlinks

They are killing Hyperlinks

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Had fun coding a small python script for weechat that relay mentions of my handl...

Had fun coding a small python script for weechat that relay mentions of my handle to my self hosted private ntfy sever allowing me to get IRC notifications while on the go, the notification carries the actual message of the user on IRC so I can quickly check if it needs a reply or not.

Yes very useless and fun 😅