It is one of these days. A #forgejo action decided to not be able to checkout the git repository anymore. (could not read username) - worked well last week on main - last run on main now fails with the same error - different action manually dispatched against an older version of the runner […]

GitHub continues war against own users. Next: Remove support for standard 2FA/TOPT protocol, and introduce weekly expiry for for <s>passwords</s> API tokens. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174505 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174506 Context […]

Having built most of the app layout around grids in Tailwind was a good idea. Making it “responsive enough” (for MVP) took me an hour. And that included updating some components to spawn full width etc. The other part was gomponents which means I updated a grid once and it was takin care of […]

I’m really happy with the 12” @frameworkcomputer laptop. It’s fun, it works, it’s serviceable! Im not happy to see this. https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986 It’s not like most vendors and manufacturers in the hardware space are any better than this or […]

A hostile takeover of RubyGems is one thing. This is a new level of something I better don’t spell out or their lawyer might send me a letter for defamation. https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-incident/

I got a gl.inet Slate 7 router for travel because our old one decided to become e-waste. I did a quick search for two configuration options and came across forum posts complaining that “block all non-VPN traffic” blocks all non-VPN traffic. These routers are too cheap. Their support staff […]

It’s this time of the year again <3 #leagueoflegends #worlds2025

The end of 2025 means 10, 15 and 20 years between some of the most hilarious, funny and sad stories I experienced in the industry and no NDAs violated if I tell them. (I’ll obviously still change names etc.) I guess the first one will have to be “hire a team to write our own SSL library. We […]

I am test some text generation with LLMs and I kid you not one of them just inserted “OOC: sorry for the late response, I was away from the keyboard.” Yeah… this is “thinking” on the highest level. The future. Such AI. Such wow. (OOC = out of character. Used in Dungeons and Dragons for […]

Did you know that your IDE might be causing you to breach the terms of your employment agreement? That's probably worth checking (both your IDE and your employment agreement). Let me start with your IDE: blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09...

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow. This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

New post "Tailwind is not worth it" - I was going back and forth with this as I really like the framework, but it is hard to justify for me for many projects. https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/tailwind-is-not-worth-it/

It didn’t take long for CloudFlares endgame in their “pay for content to use in AI” initiative showed. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-introduces-net-dollar-to-support-a-new-business-model-for-the-ai-driven-internet/

Setup a little dashboard for our self hosted services so @Airmed can remember they exist :) I want to add a few uptime monitors and status of the Internet connections, but that’ll have to wait for another day. #selfhosting #selfhosted

We should do more online age verification. That’ll surely go well /s https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/115316273783237807

TT-RSS is going away. It was the first feed reader I hosted and used in a regular basis and it was great. Sad to see it go, but I understand the reasons. https://community.tt-rss.org/t/the-end-of-tt-rss-org/7164 #selfhosting #selfhosted

`failed to create network immich_internal: Error response from daemon: all predefined address pools have been fully subnetted` *sigh*

Another small victory today. A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a […]

This morning I realized I have *very* strong opinions on toast. I’m having breakfast at my parents and they “prepared the first batch”. I now have toasted bread that’s cold. Who does this?! It needs to be warm so the butter gets just the right amount of runny while eating it. How did I even […]

JetBrains living the good “if you aren’t the customer you are the product” life. I want to be very clear that I don’t have a problem with the feature existing. But it should always be opt in. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/

A note to remember how to setup inputs for Forgejo Actions to pass them to Docker build to pass them to Go as build time flag. #forgejo #golang https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/notes/forgejo-actions-and-version-numbers/.

I've setup an NextCloud instance using Docker some time ago to backup photos. All I ever did beside letting the iOS app upload photos was updating the container. The container started falling apart. I guess I'll take a look at immich which just hit 2.0. I really don't need many features. I […]

Preparing a tool I used internally for an open source release is… tedious. So many small things the readme or docs are missing like do environment variables or cli arguments have priority when both are used to configure the same thing? I think I need an intern who’s good at technical writing if […]

I just got an email from a “security researcher” asking for a bug bounty for an “information leak” they found. They linked to the imprint of my blog. Excuses me while I go and sit in a silent corner reconsidering my stance on politeness in online communication.

When your terminal supports less features many devs want than Terminal.app and you go to town with people asking five years after a ticket was opened if it’s being worked on… Guess today I learned I won’t be daily driving Gnome Terminal any time soon […]

Some games feel like bullying, especially with three James Bond in the enemy team... I'm also mentally not used to weapon accuracy for a character that basically is build for random around the corner spam. @Airmed had her share of fun boosting ultimates :D #overwatch

I am thinking about hosting something to post photos and videos preferably with fediverse integration but Pixelfed and Loops seem a bit more on the heavy side and I don’t need most of the features. - can be two apps, can be one - single user or OIDC auth - doesn’t need to do any processing of […]

Two active support cases in parallel, one with Framework one with dbrand and both companies are doing an excellent job so far.

At this point I’m honestly pleasantly surprised when a status dashboard shows an outage… https://status.kagi.com/

At this point Apple could have complied with the DMA multiple times, they have the resources to do so. But they rather double down every few months. They are just falling more and more out of my favour and I don’t think we’ll be spending a lot of money on their products in near future […]

I am aware I am very much oversimplifying things, but I’m glad the most discussed topic I was mentally involved in lately was how to teach people Django can also do APIs. I really hope there’s a path forward to decouple Ruby and RoR from what’s going on. The users of the language and framework […]

It's been around 13 years since I turned of comments on my blog and asked people to send me an email and it was a good idea :) https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/notes/thanks-for-the-comments/

With all the NPM and supply chain issues that continue to pile up I’m slowly considering if Tailwind is worth the additional risk for the value it provides. I like Tailwind, it’s the first CSS framework that clicked for me. Other toolchains also have issues, it projects are often not build […]

The bubblegum color is actually fun and it’s guaranteed no one will ever steal this or that it can get lost in a warehouse :D #framework #framework12

I have to figure out a way to make Discourse work for me. Since the DSF moved from a mailing list to this stupid thing that cannot pin a location in a conversation I have no idea what’s going on anymore…

You’re testing for #accessibility on a Mac? macOS Tahoe has now widget controls inside the menu bar. So you can for example put a VoiceOver toggle directly in the menu bar or make a folder with the controls you frequently use. 🔥 #a11y

Mercy tried it four times during this game and all four times ended the same. Guess random YouTube highlight reels in metal ranks made it look easier than it is :D #overwatch http://share.screamingatmyscreen.com/gaming/lolmercy_25-09-06_19-11-10.mp4

For some reason I don’t mind Liquid Glass on macOS. And Tahoe has enough features I appreciate to make up for the small design quirks I find annoying. Just don’t get me started on mobile Safari and tabs…

Two weeks hunting down a communication error to the point I had an oscilloscope hooked up to the board just to be told “oooppps we sent you the wrong protocol definition despite insisting repeatedly that it’s correct”.

Can we all agree we ignore this property? https://mastodon.social/@sir_pepe/115209143998578580

macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH! Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

With Tahoes new terminal chances are good there’ll be one less app I’ll have to install bringing the total of non system / Apple apps to 8. #macos26

My timeline is full of #hackers30th memes, screenshots and references. It’s nice around here, isn’t it? :)

I had some fun with #django and SQLite and added a full text search to my blogs archive. Small walkthrough and code how to make FTS work nicely with SQLite and Django and some planned iterations. https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/full-text-search-with-django-and-sqlite/

Looks like Matt decided it’s time again to remind people to not use Wordpress. https://ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/ One of the rare occasions on which the orange site is helpful by summarizing what *actually* happened vs what Matt wants everyone to believe what happened […]

Got mail from @robb :D

I really do not want to re-compile sqlite and its Python bindings... *sigh*

I mused a bit about content production, starting to produce content and the feeling of shouting into the void. https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/content-production-aka-shouting-into-the-void/

I ran a ping plotter for Vodafone to figure out why our cable line sees sporadic packet loss they cannot diagnose on their end. This is a new one, but at least we now have the IPs of the Vodafone owned hardware that has a bad day. Sometimes I wonder how people without years of networking […]

@CodenameTim just read your “what’s next” post. Good luck and have fun! :) Professional developer training is something most of my clients need. A subset of them knows they do and a subset of that group would likely be willing to pay.