Cheers Twitter, now your name is Mastodon

I am amazed that Blogspot as a platform still exists in this age of streaming live events, videos of all sorts, medium and substack looking to monetize any decent text written by journalists or other authors.

This blog remains my digital trace of writing tech stuff and other rants, before my Twitter adoption. I was really forced to write in 140 chars, then I was happy to benefit from 280 chars, but it formed me in my rants, really.

And I thought I would not resume writing on it, as I'm not a native English writer, obviously, and my many mistakes only allows me to transmit ideas, not correctness. 

But now that APIs are gone as well from Twitter (X, whatever) ... I see the widget on the right hand side faltered, and that's why I replaced it with my Mastodon handle.

If you want to check out my rants, Mastodon is the place. 

I no longer have time to write blog posts, nor do I have the drive. Quick rants yes, specifically on topics that pick my brain. But one never knows, for the moment Blogspot still functions, whatever Google's plans are with it ... 

mkcert - crafter's local cert

If you're a seasoned developer, you must know that local SSL .. err, TLS, configs on your local development environment is some sort of art. 

That happens because of the highly technical details of low level tooling like openssl, keytool and other PKI related details that makes the https protocol work. 

Today I discovered that life of a developer got a little bit easier, due to the work of Filippo, here's his article: https://blog.filippo.io/mkcert-valid-https-certificates-for-localhost/

mkcert repo https://github.com/FiloSottile 

An excellent tool that most probably will (if not already) be part of the full-stack developer's toolbox.