Robb Knight
Robb Knight — Maker of web things, podcaster, and pizzaiolo
Web development, Apple ecosystem, and creative coding projects.
rknight.meThe real web, the small web, the indie web is amazing. Don't give Facebook and the rest of these clowns your content.
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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As I mentioned in this post I set up Forgejo recently to move away from GitHub but one of the things that worried me was backups. I know I shouldn't blindly trust GitHub to not lose my data but it seems an unlikely situation so I've never done anything about it really. I trust myself less than that. Of course I have backups of the server, which backs up the repositories, but I wanted a solution that meant I also had the code locally to then send to my offsite backup. I currently have code in thr...
Back to Alfred
In 2024 I switched to Raycast from Alfred. I'd been a long time Alfred user but I was tempted by Raycast's shiny UI and better integration with things like Reminders. Turns out I never used the reminders integration or most of the other features Raycast has that are unique. I had spent time converting some of my workflows to Alfred extensions to varying success. The stricter nature of how Raycast extensions are built is good for Raycast but doesn't help me, a person who just wants to write a scr...
Code Corners
It's been 10 years since Tim Holman made GitHub corners, the little triangle with the waving Octocat you see on some open source projects, including many of mine. When he made those it had been eight years since GitHub posted the ribbons on their blog. GitHub is synonymous with online code but I have code that isn't on GitHub and so do lots of other people. Even if it is on GitHub, it doesn't mean we have to also have their mascot on our pages. We're overdue a platform-agnostic alternative so I...
Notes on Setting up Forgejo on Coolify with SSH
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
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...
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