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Reading

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:36:59 +0000

It’s those damn phones, is something I often heard jokes about parents saying, and my parents and grandparents would say things with a similar message.

Like many in my generation I would shrug it off, however as I have gotten older I have come to notice that many behavioural patterns of mine are so deeply ingrained in me, that I cannot help but use my mobile phone at the earliest (in)convenience.

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.

Colors & branding

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:40:29 +0000

Everyone has favorite colors, I do too! So this post has swatches of the colors I like the most, and want to use more consistently with my projects.

Swatches

Greenish #0a685argb(10, 104, 90)
Greenish Dark #095e51rgb(9, 94, 81)
Greenish Darker #085348rgb(8, 83, 72)
Greenish Darkest #07493frgb(7, 73, 63)
Dim Grey #686963rgb(104, 105, 99)
Muted Teal #8aa29ergb(138, 162, 158)
Teal Deep #6f8b86rgb(111, 139, 134)
Charcoal Blue #3d5467rgb(61, 84, 103)
Coarse Wool #182027rgb(24, 32, 39)
White Smoke #f1edeergb(241, 237, 238)
Teal-Grey Hairline #d4d9d3rgb(212, 217, 211)

Here are also a few logos I use for my projects, both animated and static:

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.

Leaving Gitea

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:47:46 +0000

Intro

As the title states, I am leaving Gitea. I started looking for alternatives after CVE-2026-27771¹, something that allowed people to pull private container images from the built in container registry without any authentication. It existed for years, and did affect Gitea as-well as Forgejo.²

While that issue alone wasn’t enough to make me migrate, it did make me start looking at alternative options. Combined with the disclosure of CVE-2026-20896 and a number of governance concerns (specifically its less than open source company environment) that have accumulated over the past few years, I’ve decided it’s time to move elsewhere.³

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.

Australia

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:43:19 +0800

Actually trying vegemite (2026 / 7 / 1)

Surprisingly it took me over a year of being in Australia to actually try Vegemite.

I had seen these reaction youtubers make videos about how horrid it tasted, but then taking a spoon full of it and just eating it like that, which is quite clearly not the way you’d be meant to eat it. How many people eat butter or margerine with a spoon?

Introduction to Technomancy

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 03:01:08 +0000

Introduction

Hello there,

this is my new site. I will be posting my content here, talking about projects I have been working on, sharing my thoughts, and maybe some drafts.

For now though, this is it. I just wanted to get this up and running, so I can start posting stuff here.