Kepler protocol specification
Yet another smolweb protocol, and yet another derived from or related to Gemini. I doubt I'll do anything with this one (Rogallo supports enough as it is for now), but it's worth keeping a link to it.
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Finger: the 1971 social network that never died | Andros Fenollosa
Great little blog post that is a good introduction to Finger, for those who might be too young to know about Finger.
Apple MacBooks Lose Network Connectivity After 49.7 Days Due to macOS "Time Bomb" Bug
I'm skeptical that it's just something that affects MacBooks; surely it would affect Mac Minis and any other Mac using the latest OS?
But still... oops?
JellyShell
Pretty much an effort to be social like we used to back in the BBS days.
Places to Telnet
Got to love that BBS feel.
The secret of the macOS Monterey network quality tool | DanPetrov
Handy bit of detail about a new network-testing tool in macOS Monterey.
ipify - A Simple Public IP Address API
Handy little public API for getting your IP address.
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
Confused by DNS Records? A, CNAME, ALIAS...
Little Twitter thread that briefly documents the key components of DNS, aimed at web developer types.
Set the hostname/computer name for macOS
I've had an issue with a Macbook Pro on one particular network where, even though I've set the computer name via system preferences, in the terminal (and via hostname) it's showing as the network-generated name.
This seems to help tidy things up.