How to find your IP address through DNS query

I found this snippet while looking at slides from a talk Rule 53 - Bizarre And Unusual Uses of DNS - FOSDEM 2023 most of which were funny, but not useful, un...

The fascinating world of #mastoadmin

An interesting side effect of the mass Twitter migration to mastodon is that there has been a range of Systems Administrators who had been running Mastodon i...

A brief review of the movie RRR

tl;dr If you haven’t seen RRR, go watch it now. It has a 3hr runtime but it goes by in the blink of an eye.

2023 Year of the RSS Reader?

In the Nieman Lab “Predictions for Journalism 2023” project, Kelly Usher predicts that next year will be The year of the RSS Reader. As someone who has neve...

Folkwolf.net upgraded

Folkwolf.net has been upgraded from F28 to F37, so if you use the server for anything and notice anything amiss, please let me know.

More playing around with ActivityPub

I keep researching ActivityPub implementations, and I keep finding things like https://github.com/gazpachoteam/mini-activitypub and https://gitlab.com/acefed...

Epic sweary rant by Jonathan Pie

Tonic: generate a website from a JSON or YAML collection

I found this utility that … I guess all I can say, it fits the way I think of building a website.

E.B. White: A 1930s tech blogger

E.B. White is rightfully well-known as the writer of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little (a particular favourite of mine when I was younger), as well as an arb...

An old Sysadmin tries to learn new tricks

I learned Linux in the mid 90s, and all of the commandline utilities I use on a daoily basis are the same ones that I learned over 25 years ago. Over the pa...