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…

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🇵🇸 @small-tech/cross-platform-hostname module deprecated

npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/…

The release of version 1.1.0 deprecates and removes support for this small module that normalised hostname reporting between Linux/macOS and Windows.

We no longer support Windows as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³.

Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

When supporting Linux/macOS, just use the built-in os.hostname() method which works the same way on both platforms.

¹ bdsmovement.net/microsoft
² small-tech.org/
³ bdsmovement.net/

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