carlnewton

Thanks! I’ve just requested to the admin at the programming.dev one, as I can’t find the rules of promoting my own project, but it seems like the most appropriate place.

That’s awesome! I would never have expected that kind of throughput. On the day of your popular post, did you feel the traffic while trying to use the internet yourself at all? I sometimes fear that I’m going to get hit by something that interrupts what I’m doing and I’ll have to take the server down temporarily. It hasn’t happened yet though. I use a cloudflare tunnel mostly because I don’t have a static IP address, but it does help reassure me in the event of a DDOS and blocking bot traffic. Those services are free by the way (for the time being at least! Who knows about the future)

Thanks 😃 I’ve posted it there before when it was still in its early stages, but have avoided so recently for two reasons:

1. While federation is and has always been the plan, I have not yet written any functionality for this. The project is in the first phase, which focuses on fulfilling functionality that makes an instance worthwhile in silo.
2. While it will be federated, it will not be a part of the fediverse. This is a distinction I have learned since initially posting it there. Instances will communicate with each other, but I have no intention of adding activitypub or anything like that to have posts on other platforms.

I will look out for other communities though, do you have any more in mind?

I saw the other thread and decided not to comment because there the conversation was looking pretty contentious, and I didn’t want to put a target on my back, but as somebody who almost exclusively posts about my project on Lemmy, I thought that this might be a good opportunity to explain myself.

Due to my project being FOSS, I’m thankful that this 10% rule doesn’t apply to me right now because I really don’t think I could provide anything useful by spouting my opinions. I do look at questions to see if there’s anything I can answer but the community is already great at that and most have more experience and knowledge of hosting infrastructure etc. I don’t feel that I have a great deal of insight into what makes for a good self hosting setup, but I have a passion for writing open source software that can be self hosted, and this is the way that I feel I can contribute something meaningful.

I feel that when I post about my project, I am contributing. I’m telling you that it exists, it’s free and you’re welcome to try or leave it. I do try to keep it relevant so as not to hit anyone over the head with it, and I’ve put the detailed posts into their own community. Nobody is going to find out that some of these self hosted applications exist if they aren’t told about them.

Dark mode, view current location, anonymous likes

I love that Habitat releases automatically get a mention here now! But just to set the record straight: there is no “anonymous likes” functionality, this will be referring to the change in which you now see a message encouraging you to log in or create an account when attempting to “like” a post. Who knew people actually read the changelog! I’ll be more careful with the wording in there going forward.

Hey, I’m just guessing here because I haven’t used Caddy in Docker directly, but I do manage a project that uses FrankenPHP, which is essentially a wrapper for Caddy as I understand it, and I’ve had a problem that looks similar to this.

Caddy will attempt to generate an SSL certificate, and if you are using a reverse proxy, depending on how it’s configured, it will internally attempt to fulfil that certificate generation over port 443, which will fail, because it doesn’t have a configured SSL certificate. It’s the old catch-22!

The solution I have found is to temporarily internally serve your environment over port 80 for external SSL connections. This will allow Caddy to retrieve an SSL certificate and put it in place. After this, you should then be able to switch back over to port 443 for SSL connections internally, and it’ll use the certificate.

Once again – this is just a guess, and I don’t know the exact criteria in getting this going in Caddy, but it might be worth a try. In my FrankenPHP project at least, it was a matter of setting the SERVER_NAME variable to http://${DOMAIN}:80

It is indeed mine. Yeah I imagine all you’d want is a Signal group or something in a tiny community like that. Cheers!

Can I interest you in trying Habitat for your local community?