… and why I’ve had to build so much infrastructure in the past few years. It wasn’t just to reinvent the wheel but to have control over every aspect of the experience.

Well, it’s getting closer to being a reality and I’m really excited to hopefully finally be able to share what will be the culmination of the last decade of my work with more of you starting this year.

💕

PS. If you like where this work is heading, please consider funding it (https://small-tech.org/fund-us).

#SmallWeb #Kitten #Domain

Fund Small Technology Foundation

We’re a tiny team of two funded by individuals like you. Your patronage goes towards keeping a roof over our heads as we build a better future for the Internet.

^{Fund Small Technology Foundation}

When I speak about spending the last few years “building infrastructure”, you might be wondering what sorts of things I’m talking about.

Here are some examples:

JSDB: an in-memory, in-process database that writes to a JavaScript append-only transaction log and which you can use as if you were interacting with regular JavaScript objects.

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

(I’ve been developing it for the last four years and it is integrated into Kitten.)

#SmallTech #SmallWeb #JSDB

jsdb

A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

^Codeberg.org

Another example is Auto Encrypt – automatically-provisioned TLS certificates for Node.js servers using Let’s Encrypt:

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt

Similarly, Auto Encrypt Localhost does the same thing – in pure JavaScript, without using mkcert, etc. – for keeping your dev and production environments identical:

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost

And the @small-tech/https module replaces Node’s https module to transparently provision certs during dev/production:

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

auto-encrypt

Automatically-provisioned TLS certificates for Node.js servers using Let’s Encrypt.

^Codeberg.org

And while Kitten is new, it uses those elements and more as well as all the lessons learned building Site.js (https://sitejs.org) – going back five years.

All-in-all I’ve been working towards creating the Small Web—and Kitten, Domain, and Place—for half a decade and, on the greater problem of trying to formulate alternatives to Big Tech for the last decade. All without any funding from the commons/EU.

So, if you can, please support our work:

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

Fund Small Technology Foundation

We’re a tiny team of two funded by individuals like you. Your patronage goes towards keeping a roof over our heads as we build a better future for the Internet.

^{Fund Small Technology Foundation}

Interesting story: did you know the Web wasn’t initially understood or embraced at CERN? It was seen as a distraction.

Here’s Robert’s video of Ben Segal – lovely human being and Tim’s mentor – showing us around CERN ~15 years ago and telling the story (see if you can spot a much younger me in shot):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK3nF6Jw6uU

“The crucial thing was the development in the USA.”

Here’s hoping Europe will do better with the Small Web.

Doesn’t look like it, though.

#SmallWeb #EU #funding #web

Ben Segal - The Mentor of Tim Berners-Lee at CERN

You know Tim Berners-Lee as the inventor of the World Wide Web. CERN is the birthplace. So, how did Tim look up to at CERN? Ben Segal. Here Ben gives us some...

^YouTube

🎉 w00t! Just got deployment from pre-warmed servers working for the first time :)

Will post a screen capture once I’ve cleaned up the interface.

It’s single-digit seconds to deploy your own Small Web place (server) at your own domain!

(I’ve been working towards this moment for the past six years so apologies if I sound like a giddy schoolboy.)

💕

#Kitten #Domain #SmallWeb

It now takes ~10 seconds to set up your own Small Web¹ place using Domain².

This was closer to one-minute last week.

Been working towards this for six years… That’s ~10 seconds to get up and running with your own Small Web place at your own VPS server and at your own domain name.

Can owning your own place on the Web be as simple as setting up a Facebook account? Yes. Likely simpler. And this brings us one step closer to that goal.

https://vimeo.com/936289659

#SmallWeb #Domain #10seconds

A demonstration of how quick it now is to deploy your own Small Web place using Domain

In this video I demonstrate that it takes ~10 seconds to provision your own Small Web domain. Last week, this process took close to one minute. I was able to reduce…

^Vimeo