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Aral Balkan🥳 New Kitten release!Markdown and general renderer fixes.Fixed: • Nested Markdown sections rendering bug. • Detection of components in Markdown where the opening tag spans multiple lines. • Support for returning a component as a top-level object in a page. • Slots in Markdown now work as they should (make sure you add them as block-level items, so with a leading and trailing empty line)Enjoy!:kitten: 💕<a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/KittenRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KittenRelease</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Markdown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/rendering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rendering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a>

Aral Balkan🥳 New Kitten ReleaseTo GNU tar or not to GNU tar?• Installing Kitten on Linux should no longer display a screenful of gibberish from the tar command.You see, macOS, being special, includes BSD tar, not GNU tar, and adds a bunch of Mac-specific metadata and extended header keywords to archives that GNU tar on Linux machines then chokes on and regurgitates onto your screen as warnings.With this release, Kitten’s packaging script expects GNU tar to be available on macOS and uses that instead of BSD tar.The latest release of Kitten now installs without any warnings on Linux (at least on my Fedora Silverblue box).Enjoy!<a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/KittenRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KittenRelease</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BSD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Darwin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tar</a>

Aral Balkan🎉 New Kitten¹ Release: A little housekeeping 🧹Today’s release only concerns production servers:• Kitten no longer counts all *hits* in its stats. You can still see which of your *pages* are most popular, etc., and see stats for missing URLs, etc., as before from either the web interface or the interactive shell, but not every hit is logged. Instead, you can see the latest 25 served routes in Kitten’s Settings (at /🐱/settings/state/requests/ via the web on your server).- Kitten production servers now carry out an automatic daily maintenance restart at some time between 3AM and 5AM local server time. (“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” as a Service™) This is to allow JSDB² tables a chance to compact themselves (especially important for high traffic/high mutation tables like sessions, so they don’t balloon up to take up all available memory on small VPS instances).I don’t think anyone but us (Small Technology Foundation³) is running Kitten in production at the moment but, still. If you are playing with Kitten and experimenting with it in production, your servers will update to this latest version in a few hours.Full details: <a href="https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-07-29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-07-29</a>:kitten: 💕¹ <a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org</a> ² <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb</a> ³ <a href="https://small-tech.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://small-tech.org</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/KittenRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KittenRelease</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a>

Dr PenJust mooching around digging for smol web. Found this. Is Eric Bower on the Fediverse if so I will follow him now! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smolweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smolweb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smalltech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smalltech</a> what is the smol web?: trying to define a movement<a href="https://bower.sh/what-is-the-smol-web" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bower.sh/what-is-the-smol-web</a>

Aral BalkanThis would be nice. Wonder if Small Technology Foundation would finally get some EU funding for our Small Web work if this were to happen.One can hope.<a href="https://small-tech.org/fund-us/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://small-tech.org/fund-us/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@OpenForumEurope/114902018130916368" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.cloud/@OpenForumEurope/114902018130916368</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.world/@european" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@european</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@european_alternatives" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@european_alternatives</a> <a href="https://mas.to/@alternativeto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@alternativeto</a> all <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> is bad and we need to emphasize <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStandards</a>. <ul><li>There's nothing wrong with outsorcing the maintenance of servers and infrastructure in terms of getting i.e. <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nextcloud</a> as a Fully <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Managed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Managed</a> Service where one pays per user and used/allocated storage...</li></ul>But using <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> and open standards should be the prime goal.

Aral BalkanLooking forward to speaking at Defuse – Design for Use in Dublin on November 10th about breaking the rules and doing things differently (and yes, the Small Web).Mark it on your calendars and come along if you’re free.<a href="https://defuse.ixd.ie" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://defuse.ixd.ie</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/IxDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IxDA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Defuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Defuse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DefuseDublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefuseDublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/event" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#event</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a>

Aral Balkan<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jonasgeiler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jonasgeiler</a> <a href="https://floss.social/@Habbie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Habbie</a> Thanks, Jonas :)Also see Look Over There! – which you can easily deploy yourself on a tiny VPS – it’s how I’m redirecting our old sites to archive.org (<a href="https://look-over-there.small-web.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://look-over-there.small-web.org/</a>)<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/archiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archiving</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LookOverThere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LookOverThere</a>

alexandra<a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writers</a>, <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> aficionados, <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> enjoyers, <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#website</a> browsers: lend me your ears! i need help with a big push to get the word out about <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> for GOOD INTERNET magazine's autumn issue! a digital AND physical magazine that ships all over the world, run & contributed to by volunteers! (‼️) in case you're unaware, GOOD INTERNET covers a lot of different aspects of the <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a>: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a>, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. the aim is to be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indieweb</a> travelers! you don't have to be a professional <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webdev</a> or a <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coding</a> smartypants to write about all the good things happening on "this side" of the web. the idea here is to spread the word about and share thoughts, independent web projects, services, methods, sites, meet-ups, and celebrate the non-corporate web together while making it easier for us to partake and unplug from <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigtech</a>. 📏 looking for 1,000- to 4,000-word articles aimed at website owners and hobbyists, digital (and traditional) <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artists</a>, <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> culture enthusiasts, <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> nerds, <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> expatriates, & anyone who wants to unplug from the corporate-owned <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a>. ⏲️ the deadline is AUGUST 22, 2025 ⏲️ ℹ️ more info here: <a href="https://goodinternetmagazine.com/contact/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://goodinternetmagazine.com/contact/</a><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/personalweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#personalweb</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/websites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#websites</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/neocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neocities</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/nekoweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nekoweb</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#html</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#css</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/zine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zine</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/zines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zines</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indie</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#independent</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativity</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/smalltech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smalltech</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#degoogle</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a>

Aral Balkan🥳 New Kitten Release• Fixed regression: Since we switched the h() render function to return a generator (for seamless async support in html templates), two other methods that were calling h() directly – `kitten.safelyAddHtml()` and `kitten.js()` – had begun to fail. This was also affecting the fetchiverse, streamiverse, and kitten-chat family of examples.Enjoy!<a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org</a>(Run `kitten update` to immediately install the latest version on your development machines. Your production machines will automatically update in the next few hours.):kitten:💕<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bug</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/regression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#regression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fix</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/KittenRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KittenRelease</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a>

Aral BalkanKitten’s installation server was down for the last two days. In case you tried to install it and it failed, that’s why.Issue’s now been fixed.<a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org</a>:kitten:💕<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a>

Aral BalkanHad my talk on Small Web accepted at <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/why2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#why2025</a> but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.If any conferences do want to hear about the Small Web and are willing to support our work by paying us to speak about it, please feel free to get in touch:<a href="https://small-tech.org/contact-us/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://small-tech.org/contact-us/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/speaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speaking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#events</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/conferences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conferences</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decentralisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#personhood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peerToPeer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peerToPeer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a>

Aral BalkanYou can play with (a supercharged server-driven version of it) today with Kitten:<a href="https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/dynamic-pages/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/dynamic-pages/</a><a href="https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/streaming-html/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/streaming-html/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/@nolan/114750258226769939" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://toot.cafe/@nolan/114750258226769939</a>

Aral BalkanThanking the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@letsencrypt</a> folks for the excellent work they do, and especially for their upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses which is nothing short of revolutionary for the future of the (Small) Web.<a href="https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/getting-ready-to-issue-ip-address-certificates/238777/22" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/getting-ready-to-issue-ip-address-certificates/238777/22</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/IPAddresses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IPAddresses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/WebNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebNumbers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LetsEncrypt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decentralisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peerToPeerWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peerToPeerWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/findability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#findability</a>

Aral BalkanIntroducing Web NumbersDomains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains!Get ready for an exciting new (old?) way to address (small) web sites in 2026.<a href="https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/</a>💕(Thanks to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@letsencrypt</a>.)<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/WebNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebNumbers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/domainNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#domainNames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/IPAddresses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IPAddresses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/TLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TLS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/HTTPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTTPS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LetsEncrypt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decentralisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a>

Aral BalkanBack home after a week away to see family and itching to get back to work on the Small Web on Monday.Expect an exciting update soon :):kitten: 💕<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a>

Aral Balkan🥳 New Kitten Release• Added support for symlinksYou can now use symlinks in your sites/apps (but only those that point inside your site/app’s directory for security reasons).Change log: <a href="https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-05-29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-05-29</a> Documentation: <a href="https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#symlinks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#symlinks</a>To update Kitten:• On your dev machine, run: kitten update • On deployed machines, it will automatically update in a few hours.Enjoy!:kitten:💕<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/symlinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#symlinks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/KittenRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KittenRelease</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a>

Aral BalkanWhat is my IP?So I just whipped up a tiny Kitten app that tells you what your IP address is.Yes, there are dozens of such services. But I wanted something I trust (because I built and host it).Please feel free to use it.• Browser: <a href="https://ip.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ip.small-web.org</a> • JSON API: <a href="https://ip.small-web.org/json/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ip.small-web.org/json/</a>View source: <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/ip" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/small-tech/ip</a>Enjoy!:kitten:💕<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ipAddress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ipAddress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ipv4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ipv4</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/externalIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#externalIP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/whatIsMyIp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#whatIsMyIp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a>

Aral BalkanJust requested that Auto Encrypt¹ is added to the list of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@letsencrypt</a> clients for Node.js and that Kitten² is added to the list of projects that integrate Let’s Encrypt support:• <a href="https://github.com/letsencrypt/website/pull/1921" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/letsencrypt/website/pull/1921</a> • <a href="https://github.com/letsencrypt/website/pull/1922" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/letsencrypt/website/pull/1922</a>I originally requested that Auto Encrypt and Site.js (the precursor to Kitten, now sunset) be added to the list in 2021. It was not approved (no reason given), so hopefully this time will be different.<a href="https://github.com/letsencrypt/website/pull/1203" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/letsencrypt/website/pull/1203</a>¹ <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt</a> ² <a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kitten.small-web.org</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/AutoEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AutoEncrypt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kitten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LetsEncrypt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/NodeJS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NodeJS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ACME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACME</a>

Aral Balkan🔒 Auto Encrypt – heads up!In the next minor version release of Auto Encrypt¹, we’ll be moving from a hard-coded date-based certificate renewal check to using ACME Renewal Information (ARI)².The change³ should be seamless.If you have any concerns, now is the time to raise them :)<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/AutoEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AutoEncrypt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/TLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TLS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LetsEncrypt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a>¹ Drop-in Node.js https server replacement that automatically provisions and renews Let’s Encrypt certificates for you. (<a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#auto-encrypt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#auto-encrypt</a>) ² <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-ari/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-ari/</a> ³ <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#4-4-0-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#4-4-0-2025</a>

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