I finally got my act together and implemented RFC 5005: Feed Paging and Archiving support in my little blog engine Lantern.
2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
Woohoo!
From a cursory look it doesn't look like Text.RSS supports adding these links, so I haven't got the RSS feed updated yet. You should be using the Atom feed anyway.
This morning at work a colleague told me that while reading r/dns on Reddit he had noticed a blog post there about a domain of mine: "Hey, I know that domain!?"
A while back in 2024 I had annoying problems with the DNS of one of my personal domains, asjo.org.
Check this out:
$ rg '^(asjo.org|x.com|telegram.org|ebay.com|intel.com|huawei.com|mozilla.net|hotmail.com|discord.com|lenovo.com|uber.com|dropbox.com|tencent.com|amazon.co.uk|python.org|booking.com|amazon.de|duckduckgo.com|slack.com|nvidia.com|oracle.com)[.]' top1K.csv
asjo.org.,652,2026-03-02
x.com.,671,2026-03-02
telegram.org.,689,2026-03-02
ebay.com.,719,2026-03-02
intel.com.,727,2026-03-02
huawei.com.,742,2026-03-02
mozilla.net.,745,2026-03-02
hotmail.com.,760,2026-03-02
discord.com.,778,2026-03-02
lenovo.com.,826,2026-03-02
uber.com.,836,2026-03-02
dropbox.com.,838,2026-03-02
tencent.com.,843,2026-03-02
amazon.co.uk.,893,2026-03-02
python.org.,906,2026-03-02
booking.com.,928,2026-03-02
amazon.de.,948,2026-03-02
duckduckgo.com.,962,2026-03-02
slack.com.,966,2026-03-02
nvidia.com.,968,2026-03-02
oracle.com.,973,2026-03-02
$
Akamai keeps a ranking of domains based on DNS data, and my domain - asjo.org - is in the top 1000, and not only that, it's above some sites that are pretty big, as you can see!
No wonder my poor home ADSL router couldn't handle the traffic and I had to defer to professionals, even after running DNS for my domains since 2016.
The Reddit post was this one: The Mystery of ASJO.ORG - 46 million DNS ANY queries for a Danish man's personal domain, from DoD address space, residential ISPs, and cloud providers across 12 countries. A two-year mystery nobody can explain - which links to a blog post by acidvegas, who contacted me a couple of days ago over email, wondering what was going on, as asjo.org queries were looking suspicious in a DNS honeypot.
I hope that somebody uncovers the cause some day - it would be fun to know.
With a domain more popular than x.com, intel.com, hotmail.com, python.org, and nvidia.com, I guess there is a pot of gold at the end of some rainbow near me now?!?
It's that day of year again - during last year I deleted my Microsoft LinkedIn account, my Meta Instagram account, and my Meta Facebook account, where this annual post would also go out - usually my only activity in those places. I still run my blog and I still run a server on the fediverse, and of course I still celebrate Free Software day!
GNU Emacs, Debian GNU/Linux, Linux, Gnus, X.Org, Postfix, GHC, PostgreSQL, Firefox, Apache, ejabberd, Dovecot, git, XMonad, jabber.el, Magit, rdiff-backup, LaTeX, Gimp, VLC, Syncthing, Sakura, chrony, Fail2ban, WeeWX, DejaVu fonts, ripgrep, lirc, MPD Flameshot, lots of GNU, the list goes on and on - thanks everybody!
Two of the alumni of the Mythbusters tv-show have a podcast, also a talking heads-cast on Youtube, called Mythfits. It's fun, a lot of looking back, but often a lot of fun as well.
I just saw the episode where Kari and Tory's guest is Keith Bauer, who helped with bears and other animals on Mythbusters - he tells the chimpanzee story the former Mythbusters have retold over and over again since he told them, off camera, on set, originally.
It's fascinating - his deadpan delivery and his explanations of what happened and especially why.
Today I found the solution to a small annoyance I have had for a while: in general while programming I like Emacs' 'show-paren-mode', but when I use jabber.el, I don't. So I was toggling it on and off, as it's a global setting - until I learned that the solution is:
(add-hook 'jabber-chat-mode-hook (lambda ()
(show-paren-local-mode -1))
'show-paren-local-mode' been there since Emacs 28.1, released in 2021. I'm running 31. Hah!
Today I learned that on my employers network my personal domain asjo.org is blocked by Microsoft Defender Smartscreen.
asjo.org contains my public collection of photographs, an outdated list of my music collection, and a couple of links.
On illuminant.asjo.org I have my 1 person ActivityPub server on the fediverse.
I have a hard time imagining that any of those are dangerous enough to warrant a blocking by my "organization".
It does seem that some people, especially in Asia, use asjo.org as the From address when sending spam, perhaps that's the trigger.
At some point I also had some sort of weird DNS DoS attack against my nameservers serving asjo.org, so I had to move the domain to a hosting provider who is better at handling that sort of thing than I was. Maybe that's more likely to be the trigger?
Puzzling nonetheless.
But great for my bad boy reputation at work, I'm the one with the blocked domain!
Looking at #feedbase here, it looks like I forgot to write about the 8th year of Feedbase last year.
Let's forget about that and write about the 9th year then. I'm still using Feedbase as a convenient means to keep up with RSS feeds ranging from news and podcasts, to Youtube channels, status information and what have you.
Rachel by the Bay created a "Feed Reader Behaviour Project" a while back, which nudged me to add a last_fetch timestamp to the groups, and skip fetching a group if it was less than an hour since last time.
This summer I also switched the website from the library Spock to twain instead, as it was easier when upgrading to Debian 13 (trixie), and I had already switched my other websites to twain.
Oh, and I have added a way to "properly" rename groups, where the original name stays around - but is filled with artificial articles all telling you to subscribe the the new name.
The number of commits added up to 34 in 2025, up from 21 in 2024, and down from 51 in 2023. I still haven't cleaned up the code and released it for public consumption.
The development in connections over the years:
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unique IPs | 479 | 506 | 1358 | 2859 | 3093 |
| IPv4 | 324 | 369 | 1126 | 1753 | 2291 |
| IPv6 | 155 | 137 | 232 | 1106 | 802 |
| Only once | 138 | 225 | 483 | 1224 | 1224 |
Quite spooky that the number of IPs only connecting once was exactly the same in 2024 and 2025!
Interestingly, I have not been the one connecting the most often since 2022 - I am down to 7th in 2025! The 6 most connecting IPs have connected more than a thousand times in the past year.
The total number of articles is nearing the 10 million mark.
Paula A. Michelsen (75).
Arken (30).
Joan Crawford (121).
Wernher von Braun (114).
Martinus' illumination (105).
Pakistan Day (86).
Helsinki Treaty (64).
Nordens dag (65).
World Meteorological Day (76).
Atheist Day (7).
Peter Lundholm Jensen (61).
Carl Barks (125).
Vincent van Gogh (173).
Kristian Zahrtmann (183).
First usenet spam (33).
Netscape releases Communicator client source code (28).
Johnny Madsen (75).
Kammeratx (55).