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Robb Knight — Maker of web things, podcaster, and pizzaiolo

Web development, Apple ecosystem, and creative coding projects.

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Robb is the human embodiment of the indie web. He builds tools like EchoFeed, reviews highlighter pens, podcasts, and blogs about whatever catches his attention — from creative coding projects to retro web badges. His site itself is a statement: hand-crafted, covered in webring buttons, and proudly human-made.

Written by Robb Knight since 2009.

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Notes on Setting up Forgejo on Coolify with SSH

February 24, 2026

For reasons that I'll write about on another post, I had occasion to setup my own instance of Forgejo - "a self-hosted lightweight software forge", aka "We have GitHub at home". Despite having an install of Coolify on one of my servers which should have made this one-click, it was significantly more clicks than that. The version in Coolify's library is version 8 where the current version is 14 - this was the start of my issues. I was able to get Forgejo running. I could creat...

Weeknote #1987

February 11, 2026

I've spent an ungodly amount of time this week thinking about the Roman Empire how IRC could work for small communities - clients, servers, setup, maintenance. The Lounge is the best client in my opinion but it doesn't support all the new features of IRC like reactions and avatars. It's close to perfect though. I already posted about this but it's worth putting here too: two posts about setting up an IRC server like it's 2006; one from Melanie using Treafik and Coolify and one from Adam which is...

Forgejo Support for EchoFeed

February 4, 2026

I've just merged in support for Forgejo to EchoFeed. Forgejo is a "self-hosted lightweight software forge" aka "We have GitHub at home"[1]. Adam is running an instance as part of omg.lol. It works the same at the GitHub integration with one exception: no OAuth. Forgejo can exist on any domain, like Mastodon, but it doesn't allow for creating applications (like EchoFeed) on-the-fly. Instead, it uses access tokens which isn't as convenient but I didn't want to create applicatio...

Now (January 2026)

January 27, 2026

My last now update was November and I was hunting for a pink ink. I found it and I've been using it constantly since then. I have a new sticker pack, The Internet Pack, which you can buy here. I am deeply disliking my website design and I've tried a million different new things but I can't get anything new I like so I'm keeping it for now. This did lead me to start making a sort of starter kit based on the snippet from my toolkit and uchū. I want to not spend time fiddling with fonts and colour...

Pilot Kire-na Highlighters Review

January 22, 2026

Last week I bought two sets of Pilot Kire-na highlighters: the basic set and the pale set because I bloody love highlighters and they won the Japanese stationery awards last year so I figured they must be pretty good. I bought these from Art from the Heart who are, as best I can tell, the only UK stockist right now. They were £7.99 per pack, around the same as I've paid before for other similar pens. These are double-ended with one end having a fine tip for writing, circling, etc and the other,...

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