Olivier Forget
@olivierforget.net
Aerospace engineer turned developer and entepreneur. https://olivierforget.net Interested in web and user agency on the net. Building https://dropserver.org
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Making the web work with no-JavaScript is a noble goal, but it tends to lose credibility when folks neglect accessibility in their pursuit of it. So, now when people say no-JS or CSS-only, I'm immediately skeptical.
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Making the web work with no-JavaScript is a noble goal, but it tends to lose credibility when folks neglect accessibility in their pursuit of it. So, now when people say no-JS or CSS-only, I'm immediately skeptical.
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"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
The ratio of ratios on this is epic.
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The ratio of ratios on this is epic.
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What happened with the P2P computing movement of the 2000's?
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
What happened with the P2P computing movement of the 2000's?
Another very cool website. And very useful too if you're shopping for a cargo bike.
guys someone made a "plan your stable of cargo bikes" app: bikes.louiseveillard.com?bikes=super-...
like that 'look how big pickup trucks have got' website, but all the vehicles are awesome
like that 'look how big pickup trucks have got' website, but all the vehicles are awesome
Cargo Bikes Size Comparator
Compare the real size of cargo bikes easily.
bikes.louiseveillard.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Another very cool website. And very useful too if you're shopping for a cargo bike.
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This is huge: graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2c
Journalists are organizers – like political organizers – but of information, knowledge, and culture.
In my most humble opinion, I think journalists _need_ to be using tools like this, on their own terms. It's scary, but so is being a socialist in NYC.
Journalists are organizers – like political organizers – but of information, knowledge, and culture.
In my most humble opinion, I think journalists _need_ to be using tools like this, on their own terms. It's scary, but so is being a socialist in NYC.
About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is huge: graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2c
Journalists are organizers – like political organizers – but of information, knowledge, and culture.
In my most humble opinion, I think journalists _need_ to be using tools like this, on their own terms. It's scary, but so is being a socialist in NYC.
Journalists are organizers – like political organizers – but of information, knowledge, and culture.
In my most humble opinion, I think journalists _need_ to be using tools like this, on their own terms. It's scary, but so is being a socialist in NYC.
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Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
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Truly personal AI will require credible exit for agent memory. The alternative is gacha game girlfriend AI. Credible exit helps reduce the principle-agent problem by letting you pick up and leave.
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Truly personal AI will require credible exit for agent memory. The alternative is gacha game girlfriend AI. Credible exit helps reduce the principle-agent problem by letting you pick up and leave.
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And I wish there was more skepticism exhibited towards giant corporations who exist to make profit for shareholders. I don't care if people like pods, but I *do* care if options which let consumers figure out ideal dosing for themselves are artificially worsened as it sure seems like they are.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And I wish there was more skepticism exhibited towards giant corporations who exist to make profit for shareholders. I don't care if people like pods, but I *do* care if options which let consumers figure out ideal dosing for themselves are artificially worsened as it sure seems like they are.
This goes for self-hosting too (of anything, not just social media stuff).
We need tinker-less servers.
We need tinker-less servers.
"if you CAN tinker, it's empowering, if you MUST tinker, it's discouraging" @robin.berjon.com at #decidimfest on the difficulties of decentralized social media systems
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This goes for self-hosting too (of anything, not just social media stuff).
We need tinker-less servers.
We need tinker-less servers.
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Sending your family or friends a plug-and-play Tailscale device can help out both sides: with exit node access, remote tech support, file sharing, and more. Here's our guide to setting up a VPN by mail: tailscale.com/blog/exit-no...
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Sending your family or friends a plug-and-play Tailscale device can help out both sides: with exit node access, remote tech support, file sharing, and more. Here's our guide to setting up a VPN by mail: tailscale.com/blog/exit-no...
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One of my favourite videos of all time. Pure art. There was no need to go this hard, and yet he did.
youtu.be/IkssYHTSpH4?...
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What Does A Great Cup Of Coffee Taste Like?
YouTube video by James Hoffmann
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November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
One of my favourite videos of all time. Pure art. There was no need to go this hard, and yet he did.
youtu.be/IkssYHTSpH4?...
youtu.be/IkssYHTSpH4?...
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We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions
I just released Dropserver 0.14.4
This includes a build of ds-host for MacOS!
I'm still experimenting with Mac's sandbox feature. So far I don't have it working. I'll write more about this in the October progress update.
github.com/teleclimber/...
This includes a build of ds-host for MacOS!
I'm still experimenting with Mac's sandbox feature. So far I don't have it working. I'll write more about this in the October progress update.
github.com/teleclimber/...
Release v0.14.4 · teleclimber/Dropserver
003528d feat: release ds-host on MacOS
github.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I just released Dropserver 0.14.4
This includes a build of ds-host for MacOS!
I'm still experimenting with Mac's sandbox feature. So far I don't have it working. I'll write more about this in the October progress update.
github.com/teleclimber/...
This includes a build of ds-host for MacOS!
I'm still experimenting with Mac's sandbox feature. So far I don't have it working. I'll write more about this in the October progress update.
github.com/teleclimber/...
The only thing that's gone wrong with my @frame.work laptop since I got it 4 years ago is that the USB cable fell apart.
They just sent me a new one free of charge. I didn't have to argue or anything (I think they don't mess around with anything that carries a decent amount of electrical juice.)
They just sent me a new one free of charge. I didn't have to argue or anything (I think they don't mess around with anything that carries a decent amount of electrical juice.)
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The only thing that's gone wrong with my @frame.work laptop since I got it 4 years ago is that the USB cable fell apart.
They just sent me a new one free of charge. I didn't have to argue or anything (I think they don't mess around with anything that carries a decent amount of electrical juice.)
They just sent me a new one free of charge. I didn't have to argue or anything (I think they don't mess around with anything that carries a decent amount of electrical juice.)
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I also cannot agree more with this. The ability to empathize with a "normie" end user is actually a talent quite a few designers and programmers lack and they simply never consider the "one button" approach. This is not a bad thing necessarily, but it definitely hinders wide spread adoption.
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I also cannot agree more with this. The ability to empathize with a "normie" end user is actually a talent quite a few designers and programmers lack and they simply never consider the "one button" approach. This is not a bad thing necessarily, but it definitely hinders wide spread adoption.
So much this. It's why I am literally right now working on making Dropserver run on MacOS, and I am trying to get it working on Windows too (without VMs or WSL2 or Docker).
I still do have a lot of work to do in terms of config files and installation process, but I'm working towards it.
I still do have a lot of work to do in terms of config files and installation process, but I'm working towards it.
I couldn't agree more.
Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.
danieldelaney.net/normal/
Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.
danieldelaney.net/normal/
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So much this. It's why I am literally right now working on making Dropserver run on MacOS, and I am trying to get it working on Windows too (without VMs or WSL2 or Docker).
I still do have a lot of work to do in terms of config files and installation process, but I'm working towards it.
I still do have a lot of work to do in terms of config files and installation process, but I'm working towards it.
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Once you have subdomain delegation there are lots of options. eg. LetsEncrypt could offer a service to reserve a free subdomain of some domain, you get a delegated CA cert, then your CA issues LAN certs however you want. Like tailscale's .ts.net domains but without needing a corp sponsor.
October 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Once you have subdomain delegation there are lots of options. eg. LetsEncrypt could offer a service to reserve a free subdomain of some domain, you get a delegated CA cert, then your CA issues LAN certs however you want. Like tailscale's .ts.net domains but without needing a corp sponsor.
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Everybody's so excited about forcing HTTPS, and I'm just here thinking, sure would be cool if all my private servers didn't have their names unavoidably published in the public CT logs so everyone can see what I'm doing. Also if localhost could get a cert at all
It's time to make HTTPS the web's default, and reap the full security benefit from years worth of HTTPS adoption!
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
HTTPS by default
One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Everybody's so excited about forcing HTTPS, and I'm just here thinking, sure would be cool if all my private servers didn't have their names unavoidably published in the public CT logs so everyone can see what I'm doing. Also if localhost could get a cert at all
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I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?
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I wrote up a few thoughts on HelpSpot turning 20 today ianlandsman.com/helpspot-tur...
HelpSpot Turns 20
ianlandsman.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I wrote up a few thoughts on HelpSpot turning 20 today ianlandsman.com/helpspot-tur...
The state of CSS tools is abysmal. We should have had this a decade ago.
There are gradient editors as browser apps, but I work in a code editor. Why can't these things be ported there?
There are gradient editors as browser apps, but I work in a code editor. Why can't these things be ported there?
Are there any editors out there that include chrome Dev tools esque UI for CSS editing. I know some have colour picking UI, but what about UI for setting up flex containers, or UI for generating a radial gradient?
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The state of CSS tools is abysmal. We should have had this a decade ago.
There are gradient editors as browser apps, but I work in a code editor. Why can't these things be ported there?
There are gradient editors as browser apps, but I work in a code editor. Why can't these things be ported there?
Dropserver version 0.14.2 is out 🎉
I fixed the released binaries to support arm64 builds, including fixing broken ds-dev binaries for macOS.
This also lays the ground work for releasing ds-host for Mac, which is pretty much ready to go, I just need to write some docs.
github.com/teleclimber/...
I fixed the released binaries to support arm64 builds, including fixing broken ds-dev binaries for macOS.
This also lays the ground work for releasing ds-host for Mac, which is pretty much ready to go, I just need to write some docs.
github.com/teleclimber/...
Release v0.14.2 · teleclimber/Dropserver
94eec89 fix: body_path of release
8a0faa9 fix: run test workflow on branch push only (not tag push)
afdd17a (tag: v0.14.1) fix: release ds-host on Linux only for now (note: release failed)
783bc3a ...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Dropserver version 0.14.2 is out 🎉
I fixed the released binaries to support arm64 builds, including fixing broken ds-dev binaries for macOS.
This also lays the ground work for releasing ds-host for Mac, which is pretty much ready to go, I just need to write some docs.
github.com/teleclimber/...
I fixed the released binaries to support arm64 builds, including fixing broken ds-dev binaries for macOS.
This also lays the ground work for releasing ds-host for Mac, which is pretty much ready to go, I just need to write some docs.
github.com/teleclimber/...
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My “not building a nuclear weapon” headline has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my headline
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My “not building a nuclear weapon” headline has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my headline
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Whoahhh there's now a Servo browser available to download and test!
servo.org/download/
github.com/servo/ser...
servo.org/download/
github.com/servo/ser...
Download - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
servo.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Whoahhh there's now a Servo browser available to download and test!
servo.org/download/
github.com/servo/ser...
servo.org/download/
github.com/servo/ser...