I have a relatively simple setup to host services locally: One Caddy container acting as reverse proxy for all services. DNS is set up, containers talk via Docker networking and I run an ACME server for SSL certificates. The disadvantage of this is that each client needs to trust the root certificate. Easy on most desktops. Okay to do on mobile devices. The most painful thing I ever did on an Apple TV. But it is a bit inconvenient when we have visitors over, and on top of that my wife is really good at ignoring my suggestions to set the certificates up and rather does not use the services. So we have to fix this.
For a long time I tried to optimise my workflow around plaintext. It seemed to make a lot of sense to me. Works on every system, does not require any special libraries to parse, stood the test of time. As it turns out the advantages of an plaintext only workflow do not outweigh the disadvantages to me, but adopting the workflow for some time was a very useful exercise to understand the properties I value the most and want to replicate with whatever solution I choose.
Do you know the feeling when you look at a system and how it behaves and think "this cannot be it"? This is how I felt when working on LazerBunny this week. Somehow, for some reason the MCP approach struck me as less favourable, and after some experimenting I completely dropped MCP from the existing timer service. I also had a bit more fun with voice cloning and slowly narrowing in on the final solution.
I have seen more and more people talk about human.json lately and I think it is a pretty neat idea. From what I can tell it checks all the boxes I would expect from a protocol like this.
Back in 2024, I ordered the Worlds (basically their World Cup?) statue of League of Legends. I did not hear anything from Riot for over one and a half years. When I opened a support ticket, I got the very helpful response, “We did not cancel your order.” I checked twice if they snuck in the word "yet" somewhere. But just a few months later, my prepaid statue of Luxanna Crowngaurd finally arrived.