Hello! I'm Dan, a UK based full stack web developer with a love of open source software. Most of my free time is spent working on BookStack, playing video-games or getting distracted by one of many hobbies like 3D printing.
I primarily develop in PHP using Laravel, with VueJS being my front-end framework of choice, but I also dabble in Go, NodeJS, TypeScript and Android development.
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An easy-to-use and free platform for sharing documentation.
Evaluating the actual FOSS status of projects.
A simple twitter-feed-style RSS aggregator.
A system for managing batch sends to subscriber lists.
A basic HTTP/JSON based monitoring system.
An app for viewing and calculating thermocouple info.
An app to convert between RTD resistance and temperature.
More projects can be found on my Codeberg profile.
My failed attempt to get a home battery installed:
Perforce are starting to ask communities for input for next year's "State of Open Source Report" (In partnership with @osi and @EclipseFdn).
A warning: The results are usually gated behind a form requesting a lot of personal details (with lacking justification), and they previously performed a copyright takedown against me when I attempted to directly share the results with others:
https://danb.me/blog/perforce-open-source-report-link-takedown/
Review of my HP OmniBook 7 Aero laptop after six months of use:
TL;DR: Better than expected for the £700 price and for being a HP device.
Also, A reminder that Bitwarden have a history of warning flags when it comes to respecting FOSS:
"Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency" says Bitwarden as they move to primarily distribute non-open-source clients:
Companies will always downplay their move along the rights ratchet (as per https://meshedinsights.com/2021/02/02/rights-ratchet/ by @webmink )
What I worked on in September:
TL;DR: Mainly the BookStack v26.09 release.
I've now added Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/) in front of the site, allowing most top-level, common requests through, but challenging deeper exploration through the repos.
Still getting many requests, but now a minor portion are making it past Anubis, with less overall load. Will see how that plays out over the next few days.
Always fun to get new requests from big businesses asking me to quote them for BookStack on-premise licenses 😄
Tried to further understand how the Cyber Resilience Act impacts BookStack:
https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/issues/5713#issuecomment-24084459
Very awkward to understand, especially for a project like this.
Anyone have advice on handling a distributed mass requests (attack/scraping/ddos) for a cgit instance?
I'm seeing about 140 requests per second. I have IP-prefix based rate limiting, which has helped before, but this one is very distributed (looks like residential IPs across different countries).
His elegance has no bounds #CatsOfMastodon
I had missed that Firefox had finally added Web Serial support!
Now it's possible to flash microcontrollers from the web on Firefox.
One less reason to use chromium.
Such an elegant beast #Cats #CatsOfMastodon
Ben is checking out the delivery of cute items I bought from the shop of @emseeitch
I think he's studying the way of the manul!
What I was working on in August:
Another new model:
A nozzle brush holder mod for the Sovol SV08 Printer.
https://www.printables.com/model/1826357-sv08-holder-for-creality-nozzle-wiper-brush
Model by @erikaheidi on printables: https://www.printables.com/model/1805996-jimothy
I've been printing a mini army of Jimothys to hide in my brother's home 🦝
Created another new 3D printable model: A phone charging stand for a Qi2 magnetic charging pad
https://www.printables.com/model/1813864-phone-charging-stand-for-ugreen-qi2-magnetic-charg
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