So, going forward, Auto Encrypt¹, Kitten², and Catalyst³ will be seamlessly (automatically; with zero config) supporting Web Numbers⁴ (IPv4, IPv6), and, of course, should you want to point one at your server for old time’s sake, legacy domain names too.
I still have some dev to do on this on the Kitten side of things but I’m hugely excited about being able to remove another centralised component – DNS – from the Small Web⁵ (peer-to-peer, personal web) as we inch nearer to making it available this year to everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
¹ codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e…
² kitten.small-web.org
³ catalyst.small-web.org
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... Show more...So, going forward, Auto Encrypt¹, Kitten², and Catalyst³ will be seamlessly (automatically; with zero config) supporting Web Numbers⁴ (IPv4, IPv6), and, of course, should you want to point one at your server for old time’s sake, legacy domain names too.
I still have some dev to do on this on the Kitten side of things but I’m hugely excited about being able to remove another centralised component – DNS – from the Small Web⁵ (peer-to-peer, personal web) as we inch nearer to making it available this year to everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
¹ codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e…
² kitten.small-web.org
³ catalyst.small-web.org
⁴ ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
⁵ ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-com…
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SmallTechnologyFoundation #peerToPeerWeb #personalWeb #WebNumbers #decentralisation #web #dev #humanRights #democracy
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Recording1 of the live stream of a computer science colloquium on the Small Web I presented at the University of Groningen on June 11th, 2024.
Aral Balkan
![Screenshot of ssh terminal connected to remote host (aral@linux):
> curl https: //91.98.66.193
Hello, world!
> curl https:// [2a01:4f8:1c1e: 4207:0:0:0:1]
Hello, world!
> curl https:// linux.ar.al
Hello, world!](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5392659 "Screenshot of ssh terminal connected to remote host (aral@linux):
> curl https: //91.98.66.193
Hello, world!
> curl https:// [2a01:4f8:1c1e: 4207:0:0:0:1]
Hello, world!
> curl https:// linux.ar.al
Hello, world!")
