You Can't Follow Me

• Mastodon

  1,225 45,916 10.0 Ruby

  Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  

Thank you for your write-up, I ran into similar issues a couple of months back.

Another gripe with the technical implementation of mastodon is the CORS headers required to access the ActivityPub API [0].

Because of this issue, an activitypub-aware frontend for mastodon has to have its own mastodon server running, which adds a whole bunch of hurdles.

[0]:https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10400

• hass-additional-ca

  1 19 6.6 Python

  Add private Certificate Authority or self-signed certificate into Home Assistant to access 3rd-party service with TLS/SSL.

I agree. For example home assistant OS has a custom cert store that is reset on boot and there’s no way to make persistent modifications without recurring to hacks such as this one https://github.com/Athozs/hass-additional-ca

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• mkcert

  131 45,716 2.7 Go

  A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.

The author mentions difficulties with HTTPS and trying stuff locally.

I've had some success with mkcert [1] to easily create certificates trusted by browsers, I can suggest to look into this. You are your own root CA, I think it can work without an internet connection.

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/

• localias

  4 518 6.8 Go

  custom local domain aliases for local dev servers

I empathize with the author and found the post to be a interesting and concrete example of what it's _actually like_ to try to publish a blog to Mastodon, which is something that I have thought about and read about in abstract. So, thank you sir for writing this up.

One thing to consider would be to try to use Caddy [0], or a tool like localias [1], as a local https proxy. You might be able to run both the mastodon server and your blog software on the same computer and refer to local-only urls like "https://blog.test" and "https://mastodon.test" and have everything work.

I'd be curious to know why the author didn't try this, they seem to be quite knowledgeable of other web technologies so I have to assume there's a problem that I'm not seeing here.

[0] https://caddyserver.com/

[1] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

• Caddy

  402 53,718 9.5 Go

  Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

  

I empathize with the author and found the post to be a interesting and concrete example of what it's _actually like_ to try to publish a blog to Mastodon, which is something that I have thought about and read about in abstract. So, thank you sir for writing this up.

One thing to consider would be to try to use Caddy [0], or a tool like localias [1], as a local https proxy. You might be able to run both the mastodon server and your blog software on the same computer and refer to local-only urls like "https://blog.test" and "https://mastodon.test" and have everything work.

I'd be curious to know why the author didn't try this, they seem to be quite knowledgeable of other web technologies so I have to assume there's a problem that I'm not seeing here.

[0] https://caddyserver.com/

[1] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

• ngrok

  100 2,294 3.1 JavaScript

  Expose your localhost to the web. Node wrapper for ngrok. (by bubenshchykov)

There are so many weird suggestions in the comments. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned ngrok https://ngrok.com/ (there are many competing alternatives as well). It makes exposing local service over HTTPS trivial. It's been used heavily in most of my engineering orgs.

Suggest a related project