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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 18:56:47 JST Aral Balkan

   So a little while back, @laura wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.

   Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.

   And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a website she built using Kitten*, we republished the book under Small Technology Foundation Press.

   You can read it for free at:
   https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/

   If you want to support our work that makes such things possible, please consider becoming a patron of Small Technology Foundation. We’re tiny, independent, not-for-profit and reject all types of equity investment (VC, etc.) and won’t be sponsored by or otherwise allow our legitimacy to be used to whitewash Big Tech.

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

   * https://kitten.small-web.org

   #accessibilityForEveryone #LauraKalbag #accessibility #inclusivity #usability #ethics #web #design #SmallTech

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 00:52:44 JST Aral Balkan

   Hey, guess what?

   I just saw the first Small Web site (the Kitten Chat example¹ from Kitten²) running at a Web Number³:

   https://91.98.66.193/

   👉 Update: I’m shutting it down in a few moments so it might not be there when you try it :)

   Come say hi (I don’t know how long I’ll keep it on for, will update this when I turn it off.)

   🥳

   PS. This is only in the ip-address-support of Kitten right now and should be considered experimental.

   ¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/kitten-chat
   ² https://kitten.small-web.org
   ³ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

   #SmallWeb #WebNumbers #SmallTech #peerToPeerWeb #Kitten

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 02:54:57 JST Aral Balkan

   🥳 Minor releases

   • Auto Encrypt 5.1.0: Moves automatic IP address detection from top-level await to asynchronous createServer() method to enable servers that import to run offline when they’re running on localhost) and exports IPAddresses class so servers can carry out their own automatic IP address detection (IPv4 and IPv6) if they want full control over exactly which domains and IP addresses are included in provisioned TLS certificates.¹

   • @small-tech/https: Re-exports IPAddresses class so servers (like Kitten²) can have full control over exactly which domains and IP addresses are included in provisioned TLS certificates.³

   ¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#5-1-0-2026-01-21
   ² https://kitten.small-web.org
   ³ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#6-1-0-2026-01-21

   #SmallWeb #SmallTech #AutoEncrypt #https #releaseUpdates

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 02:56:34 JST Aral Balkan

   🥳 Multiple major releases today

   • @small-tech/auto-encrypt v5.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme)
   • @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost v10.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost/#readme)
   • @small-tech/https v6.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https/#readme)

   These releases bring short-lived certificates, IP Address (IPv4 and IPv6) support, and ACME Renewal Information (ARI) support to Auto Encrypt and @small-tech/https, implement a consistent asynchronous API across all three packages, and include loads of little fixes and code quality improvements.

   This brings us very close to getting Web Numbers¹ support implemented natively in Kitten².

   OCSP support is removed from Auto Encrypt and Windows support is dropped from all three packages as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people³ and Small Technology Foundation⁴ stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Furthermore, 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.

   Enjoy!

   💕

   🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified: https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

   ¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
   ² https://kitten.small-web.org/
   ³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
   ⁴ https://small-tech.org/

   #SmallWeb #SmallTech #AutoEncrypt #AutoEncryptLocalhost #https #TLS #NodeJS #web #dev #ACME #LetsEncrypt #WebNumbers #Kitten #BDS #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 03:17:30 JST Aral Balkan

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   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 https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
   ² https://kitten.small-web.org
   ³ https://catalyst.small-web.org
   ⁴ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
   ⁵ https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

   #SmallWeb #SmallTech #SmallTechnologyFoundation #peerToPeerWeb #personalWeb #WebNumbers #decentralisation #web #dev #humanRights #democracy

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 00:48:15 JST Aral Balkan

   Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a https server at a Web Number (IP address).

   https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

   Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.

   ¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
   ² https://catalyst.small-web.org
   ³ https://catalyst.small-web.org/

   #WebNumbers #SmallWeb #AutoEncrypt #Kitten #Catalyst #peerToPeer #web #dev