Quick heads up: Kitten’s installer/downloads will be offline for a few minutes as I recreate kittens.small-web.org (the site that new Kittens are deployed to when they’re born) as it was originally on Ubuntu and sites deployed by Domain are now using AlmaLinux. Also, I am setting Kitten’s API version to 0 (it was initially set to 1) to signal that it is prerelease. When the version is back to 1 it will be because API version 1 is stable.
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Well damn, that was a bit more than a few minutes…
So tell me kids, what happens when you nuke the Kitten distribution site, itself powered by Kitten, then try to redeploy it using Domain, which installs Kitten from… ah, yes, you guessed it… the Kitten distribution site… the one you just nuked!
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Then, you realise you hadn’t updated the site to run on the latest Kitten with breaking changes…
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So one manual server setup + one app update later, everything is back up and running.
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PS. If you’re wondering what Kitten and Domain are:
- Kitten: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
- Domain: https://codeberg.org/domain/app
They’re the little tools I’m working on to make the Small Web¹ a thing that exists.
Wow @aral, thanks for developing them!
I did not know about #Domain, and at a first glance it reminds me a lot of @yunohost!
Did you consider integrating Domain with YunoHost, or make them interoperable? I believe it would be a huge win: #YunoHost is very mature and many years in the making, I believe a new and ambitious project such as Domain could truly benefit the stability and features of such a big software, while I think the YunoHost community would really enjoy the participation and help.
Maybe you could start by opening a thread on the forum, and we can see what people think 👀
@tommi Hey Tommi,
Yeah, @yunohost are doing great work. But the Small Web is… smaller :)
The idea behind Domain is that it doesn’t do everything. It only creates new Small Web servers that run (ideally peer-to-peer) Kitten apps.
And, because of that focus and a bunch of elbow grease over the last five/six years, it currently does so in 10 seconds.
The only way it can be that fast is its narrow focus. So I don’t want to dilute that in any way :)
Aral Balkan
David Peach
Tommi 🤯
Laurie 🏳️⚧️ (he/him)