Olivier Forget

@olivierforget.net

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Aerospace engineer turned developer and entepreneur. https://olivierforget.net Interested in web and user agency on the net. Building https://dropserver.org

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Screenshot of https://porffor.dev/ showing chart with missing lines and console warning.
Screenshot of AP article showing the title truncated as ... "launch nuclea..."
A photo taken from the top of a drop off. There are green hills to the horizon and a dirt trail that snakes around the bottom. A mountain bike and the rider's arm are in the lower foreground.
The back of a minivan with a large and long box in it
Photo of a brand new USB cable next to a dilapidated USB cable. The sheath is flaking off in strands revealing the twisted wire armor of the cable.
A screenshot of the UI for an appspace's tailscale node in ds-host. It says: "Users: 1 of 2 tailnet users are users of this appspace" "Olivier Forget (teleclimber@github) Appspace user: "Oli" EDIT" "Tailnet user: <redacted>. Appspace user:" After that there is a dropdown with 4 options: - Select Appspace User - Oli - M<redacted> - Create new user Below that cancel and save buttons.
One tricky part with moving appspace data is that appspace users should be able to log in at the new appspace location. Luckily, as part of the Tailscale integration work I made it possible for each appspace user to have multiple authentication identifiers. When I restored the appspace data, I could not access the appspace because my user was associated with the domain name that I used with the old instance. The UI lets you associate any number of auth ids to a user, so I just added my new ID and it was happy. Then I connected the appspace to tailscale, and that created a third ID.
A screenshot of the user interface of Dropserver appspace admin, showing the bottom of logs, that read: 2025-08-27T18:47:10Z ds-host Pausing appspace 2025-08-27T18:47:10Z sandbox-479 Sandbox terminated 2025-08-27T18:47:12Z ds-host backing up appspace data Below that there is a listing of backups and a "Backup Now" button and a "restore" link.
A coastline in the fog with an island in the foreground.
Ad that says "we dont do rocket science we do Internet science. It's way harder" it's and for an Alaskan telecom.
A screenshot from a Mac showing the Bluetooth tray toggle in the OFF position, and the Bluetooth toggle in the Settings app in the ON position.
A screenshot from X.com. @DOGE: "doge website is live!.. " @elonmusk: RT of Doge: "Details of cost savings will be poste here" @rookieisaacman reply: "Massively refreshing. For the first time in a long time, there is a path toward responsible spending, a balanced budget and focusing resources on what truly moves the needle for Americans"
A picture of the Cobra helicopter prototype flying with skids retracted.
Image title "What's the perfect amount of time for this feedback loop?" There is a list of options from 10 minutes to 0.1 seconds. "1 second" is given a 1-start rating, 0.1-.02 seconds has 5 stars.
A screenshot of my bluesky timeline showing the same post twice in a row, reposted by two different people I follow.
Dash of a car with check engine light on
Github dependabot page for project Dropserver for "Misuse of ServerConfig.PublicKeyCallback may cause authorization bypass in golang.org/x/crypto" CVE-2024-45337
Toys Story meme with "footguns, footguns everywhere"
Screenshot of text: 3.2 Personal Data Servers (PDS) A PDS stores repositories and associated media files, and allows anybody to query the data it hosts via a HTTP API. Moreover, a PDS provides a real-time stream of updates for the repositories it...
Screenshot of a set of notes in chronological order. They read: Automated ds-host VM configuration 10:08:29 AM Today is going to be learn ansible day. 10:31:01 AM Looks like I'll need to upgrade python on the Mac to get ansible working. Lovely. (it requires 3.9, I have 3.7). 11:00:37 AM Going to try brew install pyenv. Following this: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-version-on-mac-update/ 11:09:28 AM Installing via pyenv failed. Something about being unable to compile. Xcode issue? Whatever, I'm downloading the pkg from python.org. 11:11:56 AM The Python installer says it wants to install SSL root certificates. Not weird at all. This forum post indicates it's not needed if you download python from the website. https://python-forum.io/thread-20083.html Guessing this means auto updating won't work? We'll see. 11:13:26 AM That worked. python3 on MacOS is now at version 3.11. Moving on. 12:00:44 PM Cruising through the ansible docs. It's fairly simple at...
Some guy windsurfing in an agitated sea with lots of whitecaps. Sail is red blue and green.
A screenshot of a terminal output. It reads: tsnet-test-tail STARTING SERVER https://controlplane.tailscale.com tsnet-test-head STARTING SERVER https://headscale.illuminoted.com tsnet-test-head https://headscale.illuminoted.com bus notify: Notify{state=Running} <nil> tsnet-test-tail https://controlplane.tailscale.com bus notify: Notify{state=Running} <nil> 2024/11/12 11:57:31 AuthLoop: state is Running; done 2024/11/12 11:57:31 AuthLoop: state is Running; done tsnet-test-tail GOT REQUEST https://controlplane.tailscale.com tsnet-test-head GOT REQUEST https://headscale.illuminoted.com
A young girls on a sidewalk facing away from the camera. She is dressed in black and iswearing large radiant blue butterfly wings.
A small child in a pink cardboard airplane costume.
A pretty bright green lizzard(?) with blueish tint and red spots in areas on a green leaf.
A screenshot of a website for the "Leftovers" app. It shows a pizza icon and the app name with subhead "Don't let your delicious leftovers go to waste" in the header, underlined with a thick green bar. Below, two boxes show installation instructions and a brief description of Dropserver. Below that some details about the app, and then a list of existing versions with changelog. It's minimalist, fairly clear, but not exactly beautiful.
A screenshot of a web page with a text input element in a beige colored box. The input element exceeds its boundary to the right.