Evert Pot's blog

I’m a few years into my homelab.

Ever since Mozilla killed its GPS location service, GPS hasn’t been very accurate for me on Linux.

After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser.

When I just got on the internet and spent a lot of time tinkering with Windows 98 internet settings, just to get and stay online I first learned about something called Gopher via this settings screen: Windows 98 proxy setting screen I was always a bit cur…

Password managers are still the best way to manage credentials, and if you are doing things on the web, you should be using one.

Curveball is a server-side webframework for Node.js.

Node 23 was released this week, and the hot ticket item probably is the fact that you can now require() files that use ESM (import/export).

Say you have an API, and you want to communicate what sort of things a user can do on a specific endpoint.

A new RFC was released for Structured Fields: RFC9651.

One week ago on September 24th my son Kian was born, after a 5 year fertility journey with my wife Roxy.

Over the years I’ve written several open source libraries.

I’m a maintainer of several small open-source libraries.

I just released v2.3.0 of @badgateway/oauth2-client, which I wrote because there weren’t any lean, 0-dependency oauth2 clients with modern features such as PKCE.

The React/Next.js ecosystem is spinning out of control in terms of magic and complexity.

There’s been a bit of a trend recently for some companies to move to 4-day workweeks.

I read an interesting thread on Hackernews in response to a post: “Why is OAuth still hard in 2023”.

It seems like every 7-8 years I’m switching operating systems.

I maintain a few dozen Javascript libraries, and recently updated many of them to support CommonJS and Ecmascript modules at the same time.

In 2019 I started Bad Gateway as a software development agency.

I’m a maintainer of several dozen open source libraries.

Knex recently released a new version this week (2.4.0).

As developers we write a lot of code, but we also deal with a lot of configuration files.

In the early 90’s, being a frisian kid obsessed with computers there weren’t a ton of ways to get access to new software or learn more about computers.

I’ve been a Twitter user and fan since 2007.

Bun is the hot new server-side Javascript runtime, in the same category as Node and Deno.