also on mastodon: https://techhub.social/@hackyspherehttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.devhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3moh7dbfhdc25going to be setting up grafana and prometheus for my servers sometime soon except I know nothing about them and the idea of unauthenticated metrics endpoints makes me very scared AND there is also one remote server that I have to monitor what could go wrong? 🫠️17 Jun 2026 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3moh7dbfhdc25https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mo54a53cuk2bmade another web thing minipost.hcks.dev code at https://github.com/hackysphere/minipost https://minipost.hcks.dev13 Jun 2026 01:31 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo54a53cuk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mo442ckjbk22FYI many packages in AUR got taken over with malware check the list here: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/12 Jun 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo442ckjbk22https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mnvlgx2jik22all of my docker containers couldn't network together after a power outage turns out it was tailscale DNS (again) 🫠10 Jun 2026 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnvlgx2jik22https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mmhoywzoss2ewhy did google change so many of their app icons? also why do they have a weird glint??22 May 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhoywzoss2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mlrv7ywyu22yso google is now forcing you to use/own "trusted" devices to use websites, which can (and most likely will) be tracked by them not to mention how this opens up more opportunities for scams also sounds a bit like web environment integrity again? https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha14 May 2026 03:36 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrv7ywyu22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3midlhdgjuc2cturns out sqlite isn't difficult or scary at all, contrary to what i'd thought it would be also turns out my tests are broken again because of in-memory database (non)persistence31 Mar 2026 06:48 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3midlhdgjuc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mgptdfxuo22zfinally sort of understanding how atproto (ie: bluesky) works it does seem a lot cooler and expandable than activitypub (ie: mastodon), but it does seem a bit weird in how cross-server interactions are done10 Mar 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgptdfxuo22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mgj3zphzkk2gi think i finally understand how async/await works (and the javascript event loop as well) now I can finally use proper handling when making fetch requests in js08 Mar 2026 00:37 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgj3zphzkk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mezvg6cyns25imagine finding out that the reason that your servers weren't working was not because you misconfigured something, but because your cell carrier will return 502s for local ips instead of JUST DROPPING THE PACKET LIKE A NORMAL "ROUTER" now i have to deal with dns with tailscale IPs again17 Feb 2026 06:04 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mezvg6cyns25https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mdzbkgnapc2pmailu seems to support automatic linking of punycode and UTF8 versions of domains if i'm wrong about this then i will be setting up an email server for the third time this week04 Feb 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzbkgnapc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mdu6r56cnk2qturns out every email client seems to handle internationalized domains just a bit differently02 Feb 2026 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdu6r56cnk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mdpa7uhzvk2habout to set up email myself for the first time, hopefully the ip of my vps doesn't get blocked if you have recommendations for low-hassle dockerized mail servers, please reply with them! #email31 Jan 2026 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdpa7uhzvk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mblb7vkcrk22oh hello04 Jan 2026 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mblb7vkcrk22https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mbfgx73scs25today i found out that my selfhosted apps kept having issues because my NFS connection to my NAS was slow SMB/CIFS worked fine, though, so i had to switch over everything to it it also forced me to finally set up "proper" file permissions01 Jan 2026 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbfgx73scs25https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3mbdpnqluss2jhappy new year! 🎊01 Jan 2026 06:07 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbdpnqluss2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3maz2iquids2vfinally set up neovim now I can finally have a decent python editing setup that doesn't take forever to load28 Dec 2025 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3maz2iquids2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3masbwngkjs2qmerry christmas 🎄25 Dec 2025 07:46 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3masbwngkjs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m7pwzo2iis2yi've actually started to learn how to use neovim because i'm too lazy to open up pycharm now it's time for me to actually learn how to configure LSPs11 Dec 2025 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pwzo2iis2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m7c5diglkk2bsnake game is open source now: https://github.com/hackysphere/snake-game also made a blogpost on the development of it: https://hcks.dev/blog/making-snake-game/ #gamedev06 Dec 2025 04:16 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7c5diglkk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m74hpkct3c2vmade a game snake.hcks.dev check it out if you want to might be more fun if there are multiple people playing at the same time, idk will opensource in a couple of days #gamedev #games https://snake.hcks.dev/03 Dec 2025 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m74hpkct3c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m6vsrdahl22uAnki is amazing I'm finally actually learning music key signatures, and at a quick rate as well maybe it's because of me using FSRS instead of SM2?01 Dec 2025 06:35 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6vsrdahl22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m6o7un5jyk2bit's so weird going back to a project you haven't touched for months feels like you don't know what's going on and the code feels too overwhelming and then you find out that half of it is written horribly28 Nov 2025 06:08 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6o7un5jyk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m5ikr2yy3c2jproxmox has now crashed twice during this week (due to what I think is out-of-memory) I guess it's still my fault, though, since my VMs use more RAM than what is available ...and I'm moving some of the VMs to a different distro during this13 Nov 2025 06:42 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ikr2yy3c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m5fskanqrs2qalpine linux is amazing12 Nov 2025 04:23 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5fskanqrs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m53xriemps25guess i'm trying nixos now08 Nov 2025 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m53xriemps25https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m52fkcquyc2ifunny how each of my 3 windows installs always ended up in some weird broken boot BSOD state after just one year of use, but i'm still using the same arch install from 3 years ago...07 Nov 2025 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m52fkcquyc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m4qfaaryc226don't you just love it when your new server gets flooded with SSH login attempts?03 Nov 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qfaaryc226https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3m3ihuouvgc22phone trees are much better than AI "assistants" that don't understand half of the words I'm saying18 Oct 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ihuouvgc22https://bsky.app/profile/hcks.dev/post/3lytukq7ucs2gthey upgraded the phone information (lol)15 Sep 2025 03:30 +0000at://did:plc:fc4cebtyvdktxmbo7paiif5u/app.bsky.feed.post/3lytukq7ucs2g