Fefe is back(blog.fefe.de)
blog.fefe.de
Fefe is back
http://blog.fefe.de/
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Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldap
https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/
https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...
Hence the comment about not using Postgres
https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/
https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...
Hence the comment about not using Postgres
"djbdns is a full blown DNS server which outperforms BIND in nearly all respects."
https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fe...
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Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.
There’s no need for a full-blown RDBMS for a simple blog
Right - I guess I would expect "No SQL" or "No database", rather than the specific call-out of Postgres.
It went dark earlier this year and from what I gather from German media is that he had a problem and was hospitalised.
The site is quite popular in Germany, last year or the year before a blog post of mine was linked from there and it had a similar pull to HN.
I distinctly remember wondering how many more such sites exist that have such strong communities but you’re unlikely to find these sites in the wild.
The site is quite popular in Germany, last year or the year before a blog post of mine was linked from there and it had a similar pull to HN.
I distinctly remember wondering how many more such sites exist that have such strong communities but you’re unlikely to find these sites in the wild.
Glad he's alive and healthy again.
But apparently his TLS cert still isn't :P
Who's fefe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner who runs https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog
Which often shares interesting things in the realm of technology, but with a high degree of skepticism - some of which practically results in incitement against minorities, with people being harassed by some of his follower crowd.
He had a stroke not too long ago, so this seems to be a sign he's recovered a bit.
Which often shares interesting things in the realm of technology, but with a high degree of skepticism - some of which practically results in incitement against minorities, with people being harassed by some of his follower crowd.
He had a stroke not too long ago, so this seems to be a sign he's recovered a bit.
German internet nerd.
Professionally he's running a successful code/security consultancy [2]. This pays his bills, so that nerd-wise he is running his own web server and content management system where everything is self-written, inclusive of his own libC implementation with a focus on bare minimum requirements. [1] He's been around in the German IT community for decades and was earlier involved in Chaos Computer Club (CCC) where he still used to attend their annual congress, which is kind of the "meet and greet" of the German IT community.
His self-hosted blog was/is very popular/controversial. He is pretty opinionated on nearly everything and he's not taking hostages when he criticizes someone. So the "woke" people don't like him, the nazis don't like him, the corpo guys don't like him. And he pretty much doesn't care.
Earlier this year he apparently suffered some critical health condition and went quiet without notice for more than 6 months, I believe.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietlibc [2] https://www.codeblau.de
Professionally he's running a successful code/security consultancy [2]. This pays his bills, so that nerd-wise he is running his own web server and content management system where everything is self-written, inclusive of his own libC implementation with a focus on bare minimum requirements. [1] He's been around in the German IT community for decades and was earlier involved in Chaos Computer Club (CCC) where he still used to attend their annual congress, which is kind of the "meet and greet" of the German IT community.
His self-hosted blog was/is very popular/controversial. He is pretty opinionated on nearly everything and he's not taking hostages when he criticizes someone. So the "woke" people don't like him, the nazis don't like him, the corpo guys don't like him. And he pretty much doesn't care.
Earlier this year he apparently suffered some critical health condition and went quiet without notice for more than 6 months, I believe.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietlibc [2] https://www.codeblau.de
He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers
https://www.fefe.de
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