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The Fulcrum 10 April, 2026

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do […]

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CodeFloe Mar 30

Our hosted #renovate bot now runs via the mogenius/renovate-operator (https://github.com/mogenius/renovate-operator).

This enables webhook-based support, i.e. clicking the checkboxes in the renovate dashboard and PR actions now have an effect!

#codefloe #forgejo #renovate #giveUpGitHub

Tom

Mar 27

Guess I'm going to try Codefloe's CI/CD soon :)

Probably for auto-building and uploading my blog to thomas-leister.de

#codefloe

Tom

Mar 27

Moved all my public GitHub repositories to @Codeberg ✅

See: https://codeberg.org/thomas.leister/

... and the private ones to @codefloe , because Codeberg is for open source licensed repos, only.

Feelin' good! 💪

#codeberg #github #codefloe #opensource #git

Thomas Leister

Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Codeberg.org

Tom

Mar 25

Nachdem github.com nun wieder einmal mit KI Quatsch nervt und meine Repos zum Training nutzen will, habe ich genug und ziehe meine öffentlichen Repos zu @Codeberg um. Für meine privaten Repos habe ich mit @codefloe eine gute Heimat gefunden 💪.

#git #github #hosting #coding #forgejo #codefloe

CodeFloe Mar 3

Introducing: Granular watch setting for repositories!

https://forum.codefloe.com/t/2026-03-03-granular-repository-watch-settings/85

More control than just watch/unwatch, so you can finally watch "only" releases for repositories of interest!

#codefloe #forgejo #codeberg

2026-03-03: Granular repository watch settings

We’re happy to roll out a significant improvement related to platform interaction today: granular repository watch settings! So far, users could only “watch” a repo or unwatch it, i.e. receive notifications for all events or none. This is a subsequent downside for many, as often one only wants to get notified about new releases (and/or PRs) but not about any new issue. And as a bonus on top, we also added another option: exclude specific users from the selected events. Especially in the era...

CodeFloe

CodeFloe Feb 21

In the last hour, we got hammered by an Asian bot farm which used a very recent Chrome UA and thousands of unique IPs issueing around ~500 req/min for arbitrary repo (and request) paths.

This first caused a very high CPU pressure on the server running Forgejo and subsequently also a spike in memory, ultimately making the instance unresponsive.

If you ever wondered how this looks like on the metrics side, we've attached some screenshots here.

We've added a subnet-based rate-limit to catch these (at /16 level), so this attack vector isn't possible anymore (at least at this intensity level).

#codefloe #forgejo #bots