Tooling on diary

fpc-ctl, Anubis, and Forgejo

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:51:32 -0600

Did a little bit of catch-up today.

Created an Anubis ruleset which allows nothing without a challenge – previously I had been using the default ruleset, which excludes known “bad” bots and challenged anything that looked like an actual browser, but allowed presumed “good” things like curl with no challenge.

I admit that a part of me wonders if this is worthwhile, but most of me thinks that making things even a touch more difficult for shitty companies is the correct thing to do.

Devmode

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:20:33 -0600

I started work today on playlists in Thrasher. It was mostly groundwork and UI exploration, so that isn’t what this entry is about.

This entry is about how happy I am with the new devmode feature in the fpc-ctl script. It’s a simple idea, and a borrowed one (including from Hugo, the static site generator that I use for this blog). But it’s a really good one that saves a lot of time and faffing about.

General Updates (But Mostly Thrasher)

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:25:46 -0600

I really fell off the updates there. Oops. While I’ve been away, I have mostly been focused on Thrasher. A couple weeks of work went into an overhaul/rewrite of the mobile UI.

There was never an intent to evern have a mobile interface, as I am horrible at UI programming generally, and I had no desire to try to make something like Thrasher work on smaller screens. But not long after getting the desktop version working, of course, I found myself wanting to be able to take it with me. So I hacked together the most minimal possible finger-friendly UI. It was seriously done in about 2 hours of initial effort, followed by maybe a day of tuning. And then it sat for months while much bigger changes were made to the service and the desktop client.