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NotifPWA

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:06:42 +0000

I ran into this issue that notifications could not easily be sent to my phone. I wanted something like ntfy, but self-hosted to keep my infrastructure mine. The issue with self-hosting ntfy is that push-notifications do not work (as of 24/07/2026) on iOS, because Apple™ loves doing things differently.

iOS 16.4+ supports Web Notifications as long as the site is a PWA. This is something I can use.

What is a “PWA”?

A “PWA” is similar to an App, it can be used like an app, added to the home screen, and offer other platform specific benefits, without getting into the nitty-gritty: You can use it as if it is an app, built for the platform you are on. What makes it different though is that traditionally websites are experienced more as a place you can visit, other than a place you have. A website doesn’t (typically) have a presence on the user’s device, instead it is requested / accessed by a browser.

chatto.ts: Strictly typed Chatto Framework

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:19:59 +0000

Last week, I was doing my usual browsing of ycombinator, when I came across a post that read Chatto is now open source, which caught my attention, especially because the post (at the time of writing) had over 1100 points, so I had to look at what all the fuss was about.

I checked out the post, and it was immediately filled with incredible- if true claims, such as “extremely easy to self-host”, “very light on resources”, “snappiest frontend that you’ve ever used in an app like this”, “fully encrypted at rest”, and “voice and video calls”. Now this wouldn’t be the first time something like this pops up and it ends up being a lot less than what you would’ve wanted, or a garbled mess of AI slop that does not work in the slightest.

Moving to Hugo

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:16:49 +0800

Why?

The beginning of trouble

On my previous site, I had written my own frontmatter interpreter to make blogging easy. I did not like the complexity or feel that existing options like wordpress provided, and I did not Google much longer than 30 seconds to see if the tool I was looking for already existed. So I had coded one, from scratch… That went predictably horribly and I had to continually make changes just to accomodate new features I didn’t think of initially.