Counter point to @gordon's "Don't fork the Ecosystem" post: if the current ecosystem is sufficiently stunted that a fork can increase the market by orders of magnitude, it's worth a shot. (Think of the iPhone.)

Anyways, with #Dropserver I'm totally forking the self-hosting ecosystem.

https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/dont-fork-the-ecosystem

Whew finally starting to see things coming together with #tailscale integration in #Dropserver! Progress report for Feb 2025 (with screenshots):

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2025/dropserver-progress-february-2025/

Progress report for #Dropserver. It's a look ahead to where I plan on focusing my efforts in 2025:

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2025/dropserver-progress-january-2025/

Given the way things have been going in the US, the work I put into #Dropserver feels more important today than it was two days ago.

Americans must have agency over their interactions on the internet. https://dropserver.org is unfinished, imperfect and limited in scope, but it's my part in resisting.

Quick recap of my work on #Dropserver in 2024:

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2025/dropserver-progress-december-2024/

So Affinity Photo is making all kinds of requests from the Macs it's installed on. Don't know why it does that, but it's not good.

On the Mac sandbox the ability to make client requests is a boolean: all or nothing. Since most apps like to connect to get additional resources/whatever, it's usually on, right? As a result: zero protection against this.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113759435866651420

This is why I've been putting so much thought into outgoing net requests for #Dropserver. It's hard to get right.

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#Dropserver progress update for November:

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2024/dropserver-progress-november-2024/

It's all about integrating #Tailscale's tsnet into ds-host and poking a bit at the open source alternative backends to Tailscale.

I had not realized that @deno_land started shipping aarch64 binaries of #Deno. https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/22298

That means it's time for me to work on shipping arm64 binaries of #Dropserver!

That means Dropserver will be installable on #raspberrypi and all the other micro PCs

#Blog post: #Dropserver progress update for October 2024

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2024/dropserver-progress-october-2024/

I updated apps to support Deno 2, and continued work on #Tailscale integration (with short video demo).

Blog post: "Deno 2 and Backwards Compatibility in Dropserver"

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2024/deno-2-and-dropserver/

I look at how #Deno 2's arrival makes me break my aspirations of backwards compatibility in #Dropserver, and what I will do to make the next breaking changes in Deno a non-issue.

I really want Dropserver apps to have a long shelf life, even after they are abandoned by their devs. But that takes good design and work. Real-world challenges like Deno 2's arrival help me clearly see what I need to do.

#Deno 2 is out today: https://deno.com/blog/v2.0

I already released a version of #Dropserver that is compatible with Deno 2: https://github.com/teleclimber/Dropserver/releases/tag/v0.13.3

I also upgraded the Leftovers and Shopping List #Dropserver apps to support #Deno 2:

https://leftovers.olivierforget.net/
https://shoppinglist.olivierforget.net/

Blog post: #Dropserver progress for September 2024:

- Send events to the frontend using Server-Sent Events
- Deno 2 drops

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2024/dropserver-progress-september-2024/

I just released version 0.13.3 of #Dropserver, with support for #Deno 2.

https://github.com/teleclimber/Dropserver/releases/tag/v0.13.3

Blog post: #Dropserver progress for July and August. I continue to work on Tailscale integration, I wait for Deno 2.0, and I work on an app my wife and I use daily.

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2024/dropserver-progress-july-august-2024/

I finally released my ShoppingList app. It still needs work but I wanted to put it out there. My wife and I depend on it to keep our pantry and fridge stocked up and the kids fed. It's an #opensource web service that you run yourself in #Dropserver.

https://shoppinglist.olivierforget.net/

Motivation: all shopping apps get sold to marketing/data harvesting agencies sooner or later. This one is 100% under your control #privacy

I started chipping away at #Tailscale integration for #Dropserver! It's not all rainbows and sunshine though

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2024/dropserver-progress-june-2024/

Also, I won't post a progress report for July. Taking some time off. Back in August!

Blog post: #Dropserver progress for May 2024: I talk about the preparations for my next big project: #Tailscale integration.

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2024/dropserver-progress-may-2024/

I finally submitted a PR to awesome-selfhosted to include #Dropserver in the self-hosted solutions category. All the usual suspects are in there already: Sandstorm, YUNOHost, etc...

https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/self-hosting-solutions.html

This will hopefully help more people learn about the existence of Dropserver.

Released version 0.13.2 of #Dropserver today:

https://github.com/teleclimber/Dropserver/releases/tag/v0.13.2

It adds an HTTP proxy to the sandbox as a starting point to monitor outbound requests from the app.

It fixes some leaking file descriptors and goroutines which caused problems for long-running instances.

Lots of code cleanup to clear the path for the next things I'll work on.