Alexander Fortin's Microblog

www.noemamag.com/why-is-every... #postroll

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:41:57 GMT

www.noemamag.com/why-is-every...

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Wrapping up my time in good ol' Europe, getting ready for my next South East Asi…

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:56:54 GMT

Wrapping up my time in good ol' Europe, getting ready for my next South East Asian chapter 🌏

andrewkelley.me/post/dont-ta... #postroll

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:40:50 GMT

andrewkelley.me/post/dont-ta...

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I won't read latest Anthropic post titled "Our position on open-weight models",…

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:02:59 GMT

I won't read latest Anthropic post titled "Our position on open-weight models", my educated guess is that it goes something like:

"THEY SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF US AND OUR EVALUATION WILL PLUMMET AS SOON AS INVESTORS REALIZE IT"

or similar cry for help. I've neven been less sorry in my life 🤷‍♂️

Going to spend the next few days in lovely Nesabar (Bulgaria) en.wikipedia.org/w…

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:21:03 GMT

Going to spend the next few days in lovely Nesabar (Bulgaria)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesebar

Say hi if you're around 👋

I’ve finally found some will to write and decided to resurrect my old tech blog…

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:41:37 GMT

I’ve finally found some will to write and decided to resurrect my old tech blog 🎊

Enjoy a deep dive in my new Forgejo setup

a.l3x.in/blog/welcome...

"AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making" ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-man…

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:19:30 GMT

"AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

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Funny how Anthropic initially hyped me into agentic coding while quickly becomin…

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:24:46 GMT

Funny how Anthropic initially hyped me into agentic coding while quickly becoming one of the tech companies I now despise the most.

Since long I've moved out of Claude Code and into Pi + open weights models, very happy about that choice.

Kind of related: raymyers.org/post/zig-cre...

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Yet another great one by @jimtrinca.bsky.social Answering the question: I'd prob…

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:15:50 GMT

Yet another great one by @jimtrinca.bsky.social

Answering the question: I'd probably not buy if no disk (or equivalent offline storage option).

My already purchased disk backlog alone might fill up years of gaming!

youtu.be/NiaqF_hGZLU

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The #selfhost fever is still high 🌡️ I want to resurrect my old tech blog, need…

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:47:24 GMT

The #selfhost fever is still high 🌡️

I want to resurrect my old tech blog, need some nice Markdown editor, heard well about Obsidian BUT don't want to pay for the monthly sub...

Result: CouchDB up and running as rootless Podman service, mobile/mac apps synching via github.com/vrtmrz/obsid... 🥰

#Forgejo v16 is out: forgejo.org/2026-07-rele... forge.l3x.in already upgraded,…

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:27:02 GMT

#Forgejo v16 is out: forgejo.org/2026-07-rele...

forge.l3x.in already upgraded, process is sleak:

push change to ansible repo (private) -> start apply job -> pull/restart forgejo image/container -> done.

It works like a charm, the runner's job survives the forgejo process restart ⭐️🌈🕺

#selfhost

Had some fun with #Deno, #IRC and #Chatto today: forge.l3x.in/alex/irc-gre... Ju…

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:23:24 GMT

Had some fun with #Deno, #IRC and #Chatto today: forge.l3x.in/alex/irc-gre...

Just a very simple bot to get notified in Chatto when a new user joins our IRC channel.

Made me remind the good ol’ days 🤓

If I hadn't already enough reason for abandoning GitHub, today I learn that you…

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:35:44 GMT

If I hadn't already enough reason for abandoning GitHub, today I learn that you need IPv4 to e.g. download artifacts there.

#til

Annoyed by the buzz around Bun, I decided to move into #Deno and so far I'm pret…

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:29:24 GMT

Annoyed by the buzz around Bun, I decided to move into #Deno and so far I'm pretty happy about that decision.

It's such a better interpreter than Bash, lovely that it comes with batteries included too 🔋

WIP: rewriting all non-trivial shell scripts in Typescript for clarity/maintainability/sanity.

Work in progress: make my #atproto PDS (atproto.com/guides/self-...) the source…

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:30:28 GMT

Work in progress: make my #atproto PDS (atproto.com/guides/self-...) the source DB for all things social.

Done:
- website's profile pic
- website's homepage microblog entries roll
- website's /postroll and /til pages

ToDo:
- Gravatar picture

#selfhost

Revamping my automated backups strategy, dropping custom scripts and AWS S3 in f…

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:02:59 GMT

Revamping my automated backups strategy, dropping custom scripts and AWS S3 in favor of:

- restic.net
- www.impossiblecloud.com/s3-storage

#hostedinEU

I'm a simple person: I like Postgres, I use Neon (happily), I share this: postgr…

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:54:09 GMT

I'm a simple person: I like Postgres, I use Neon (happily), I share this:

postgresisenough.dev

Since I have Podman + Forgejo + actions runner everything is a nail to hammer. H…

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:26:17 GMT

Since I have Podman + Forgejo + actions runner everything is a nail to hammer.

Here's a new repo to make sure I won't lose track of my Terraform S3 backend bucket: forge.l3x.in/alex/terrafo...

The cool bit is that after bootstrap it authenticates to AWS via OIDC so no more tokens needed 🎊

isaiprofitable.com

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:55:08 GMT

isaiprofitable.com

New Pi extension with companion web app viewer to share sessions with Opengist (…

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:42:10 GMT

New Pi extension with companion web app viewer to share sessions with Opengist (instead of the Pi'default GitHub Gist):

- www.npmjs.com/package/@ale...
- gistviewer.l3x.in

#pi-coding-agent #opengist