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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 06:40:06 JST Aral Balkan

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   Screenshot of Kitten’s Persisted Kitten Chat running at https://91.98.66.193

   Persisted Kitten Chat
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   Aral Right, I just started the Persisted Kitten Chat example instead so the chat log will be preserved :)
   FiXato
   Matt meow
   Aral Hey FiXato, Matt, welcome :)
   Aral So this is how I see folks running their own Small Web sites in the future, at Web Numbers (IP addresses, really, but less scary) :)
   Max Hello!
   Aral (Only made possible as of this month with Let's Encrypt rolling out support for TLS certs at IP addresses.)
   Hellie Hiya!
   Aral Hey, Max, Hellie, how goes? oliof Hello
   Hellie doing alright, interesting app!
   Aral Of course, this is an example of an old-school centralised site where we're all chatting on the same server but, if you're interested, check out the end-to-end-encrypted Kitten Chat example in the repository for a peer-to-peer version :)
   Aral Thanks, Hellie, the really interesting bit is that we're meeting at an IP address over https :)
   Aral Oops, I meant Web Number ;)
   The st a s much stin than i i i we has mahy may last a ta chat is really convenient, nothing is ever stored on any servers.
   Gabriel I find it cool that Let's Encrypt supports certificates for ip addresses
   FiXato if only routers and other hardware with built-in web control panels would come with LE certs...
   Elenoire Ferruzzi Ciao, idk what im doing here but I'm glad I can tho woe2you Oh hey, this is neat
   Aral Hey Max, yes, it's very cool (Delta Chat) although I mostly use Signal
   Aral Hey Talon, welcome :) And yeah, this is a centralised example but imagine you're at your own Web Number and I'm at mine and we can still do this (and more)... that's the Small Web (peer-to-peer Web)
   Hellooo :)
   woe2you Seeing the padlock next to an IP is wacky. I'm sure I'll get used to it in time.
   Aral @Gabriel, yeah, they only just started; I've been waiting for it eagerly so I could implement support in Auto Encrypt and thus Kitten so I can remove DNS from the equation for the Small Web Aral @FiXato No reason they couldn't... apart from, y'know, the mainstream is a bit shit
   Aral Hey Elenoire, lovely you could make it :)
   Aral @woe2you Thank you :)
   Aral Hey @nemo:)
   nemo
   Aral @woe2you Well, you're one of the first people to see it so that's to be expected :)
   Aral Right, folks, I should get back to coding so i can release this (the version of Kitten with Web Numbers support) as soon as possible. I want to launch the Small Web to a wider audience this year and there's still lots of work to do beyond Kitten :)
   Aral Thank you all for popping in and saying hi :)
   Aral 💕