Olivier Forget

In my introduction to BackflipHTML I wrote: I want to embrace Web Components.

When I first wrote about BackflipHTML last week I mentioned my next challenge was to support Web Components.

I wrote my first website in Notepad.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for March 2026.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for February 2026.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for January 2026.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for November and December 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for October 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for September 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for August 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for June and July 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for May 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for April 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for March 2025.

This is the progress report from Dropserver for February 2025.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for January 2025.

Instead of going over the month of December (not much happened), here is a quick recap for the year in countdown form: Four Releases I released four versions of Dropserver: 0.13.0: Install/update apps from URL.

In our drive to take control of our web presence by self-hosting our services from home, it seems contradictory to depend on 3rd party services to make it all work.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for November 2024.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for October 2024.

Deno 2 is here.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for September 2024.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for July and August 2024.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for June 2024.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for May 2024.

Dick Rutan died earlier last month.

An unfortunate pitfall of modern computing is to be forced to make the choice between upgrading an operating system and continuing to use a beloved old app.

This is the progress report for Dropserver for April 2024.

With Deno 2.0 delayed again I recently tried to implement outbound net requests for Dropserver apps using Deno v1’s permission model.

The World Wide Web is awesome.

This is the monthly progress report for Dropserver for March 2024.

This is the monthly progress report for Dropserver for February 2024.

This is the monthly progress report for Dropserver for January 2024.

This is the monthly progress report for Dropserver for December 2023.

This is the monthly progress report for Dropserver for November 2023.

This is the monthly progress report for Dropserver for October 2023.

This is the monthly progress report for Dropserver for September 2023.

This is the third progress report for Dropserver.

This is the second progress report for Dropserver.

I am going to try writing monthly updates on the progress of Dropserver development.

One of the bigger challenges of developing Dropserver has been to somehow make it safe to run the user’s application code.

Inspired by Simon Willison’s post on making a Secret Santa app as a Datasette plugin I decided to write a minimalist Secret Santa app for Dropserver.

Deno is NodeJS reinvented.

Moxie Marlinspike’s article on web3 has resulted in huge amounts of conversation online about various aspects of the web and decentralization.

I’ve been thinking a lot about open source lately, and wondering if there are alternative business models that could make it sustainable.

Kev Quirk managed to get himself on the front page of the orange site for his post on Dark Mode.

Last night, during the protests for #BlackLivesMatter, there was an urgent need to spread information to participants and others trying to help.

I was watching news coverage before SpaceX’s launch of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley when I noticed something that took me back to the very end of my aerospace career.

Sometimes it seems like search engines are amazing.

When I tell people about my side-project to create a server that makes it safe and easy to run your own web apps, some say I should check out Sandstorm.