洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Hello! I'm Hong Minhee (洪 民憙), an open source software engineer in my late 30s, living in Seoul, Korea. I'm bisexual and non-binary (they/them), and an enthusiastic advocate of free/open source software and the fediverse.

I work full-time on @fedify, an ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript, funded by @sovtechfund. I'm also the creator of @hollo, a single-user ActivityPub microblog; @botkit, an ActivityPub bot framework; Hackers' Pub, a fediverse platform for software developers; and LogTape, a logging library for JavaScript and TypeScript.

I have a long interest in East Asian languages (CJK) and Unicode. I post mostly in English here, though occasionally in Japanese or in mixed-script Korean (國漢文混用體), a traditional writing style that interleaves Chinese characters with the native Korean alphabet. Wanting to write in that style was actually one of the reasons I joined the fediverse. Feel free to talk to me in English, Korean, Japanese, or even Literary Chinese!

#introduction

はじめまして！ソウル在住の30代後半のオープンソースソフトウェアエンジニア、洪 民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）と申します。バイセクシュアル（bisexual）・ノンバイナリー（non-binary）で、自由・オープンソースソフトウェア（F/OSS）とフェディバース（fediverse）の熱烈な支持者です。

STF（@sovtechfund）の支援を受け、TypeScript用ActivityPubサーバーフレームワーク「@fedify」の開発に専念しています。他にも、おひとり様向けのActivityPubマイクロブログ「@hollo」、ActivityPubボットフレームワーク「@botkit」、ソフトウェア開発者向けフェディバースプラットフォームHackers' Pub、JavaScript・TypeScript用ロギングライブラリLogTapeなどの制作者でもあります。

東アジア言語（いわゆるCJK）とUnicodeにも興味があります。このアカウントでは主に英語で投稿していますが、時々日本語や国漢文混用体（漢字ハングル混じり文）の韓国語でも書いています。実はこの文体で書きたくてフェディバースを始めた、という経緯もあります。日本語、英語、韓国語、漢文でも気軽に話しかけてください！

#自己紹介

安寧(안녕)하세요! 저는 서울에 살고 있는 30代(대) 後半(후반)의 오픈 소스 소프트웨어 엔지니어 洪民憙(홍민희)입니다. 兩性愛者(양성애자)(bisexual)이자 논바이너리(non-binary)이며, 自由(자유)·오픈 소스 소프트웨어(F/OSS)와 聯合宇宙(연합우주)(fediverse)의 熱烈(열렬)한 支持者(지지자)이기도 합니다.

STF(@sovtechfund)의 支援(지원)을 받아 TypeScript用(용) ActivityPub 서버 프레임워크 @fedify 開發(개발)에 專業(전업)으로 任(임)하고 있습니다. 그 外(외)에도 싱글 유저用(용) ActivityPub 마이크로블로그 @hollo, ActivityPub 봇 프레임워크 @botkit, 소프트웨어 開發者(개발자)를 위한 聯合宇宙(연합우주) 플랫폼 Hackers' Pub, JavaScript·TypeScript用(용) 로깅 라이브러리 LogTape 等(등)의 製作者(제작자)이기도 합니다.

東(동)아시아 言語(언어)(이른바 CJK)와 Unicode에도 關心(관심)이 많습니다. 이 計定(계정)에서는 主(주)로 英語(영어)로 포스팅하지만, 때때로 日本語(일본어)나 國漢文混用體(국한문 혼용체) 韓國語(한국어)로도 씁니다. 聯合宇宙(연합우주)에 오게 된 動機(동기) 中(중) 하나가 바로 國漢文混用體(국한문 혼용체)로 글을 쓰고 싶었기 때문이기도 하고요. 韓國語(한국어), 英語(영어), 日本語(일본어), 아니면 漢文(한문)으로도 말을 걸어주세요!

#툿친소 #연친소 #별친소 #자기소개

@ianthetechie Haha, I guess I have an old soul vibe! 😂 You're right—it's definitely rare for my generation to use hanja as a display name. I just personally love the aesthetics and the history behind it. The Japanese posts definitely add another layer to the puzzle!

I was wondering when browsers started calling the UI "chrome" (it's not a Google thing!)

Amazingly, the Firefox (then Mozilla) commit that introduced the "chrome" tree into the source code dates back to Sep 4, 1998... which is also the same day Google was founded!

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/e5e26170e19b2b601ef1fcddd8762c9e3bb11487/xpfc/chrome/Makefile

Edit: Netscape used the term much earlier though! Not as much in filenames, but in the actual source code it's all over the place.

@ryan You're not technically wrong! It's written in Chinese characters, but it's a very common way to write Korean names (we call it hanja). It's tricky because we mostly use hangul now. Good luck with your next round of hangul learning—it really is a logical system!

To non-CJK language speakers: What do you think when you see my name written in Chinese characters?

2025年が終わる前にHolloの新バージョンをリリースしないと…‼️

Equivalências fediversais

As mais populares são essas de escrever pouquinho:

- Twitter → Mastodon
- Twitter → GoToSocial
- Twitter → Sharkey
- Twitter → Snac
- Twitter → Hollo
- Twitter → Akkoma

Sim, não faltam alternativas para microblogging. Mas tem mais coisas:

- Instagram → Pixelfed
- Facebook → Friendica
- Reddit → Lemmy
- Reddit → kBin
- YouTube → PeerTube
- WordPress → WordPress com plugin ActivityPub
- Blogger → WriteFreely

Sem anúncios, rastreadores, algoritmos nem bilionários perversos por trás. Só pessoas voluntariamente hospedando esses serviços para a comunidade.

#VemProFediverso

@mapache It probably depends on the dependencies?

If the app relies on external services like PostgreSQL or Redis, Docker images with Helm charts or Docker Compose configs might make sense—they bundle the complexity nicely.

For standalone apps, system packages (deb/rpm) would be nice in theory, but I imagine maintaining packages for multiple distros is quite a bit of work. Maybe a practical middle ground could be: provide packages for the major families (RedHat + Debian) and offer a single-file executable as a fallback for everyone else?

Personally, I tend to avoid install scripts when possible—they feel less transparent to me, though I understand others might feel differently.

Fediverse friends and acquaintances:
when self-hosting a service, what do you prefer?

I need your help to improve the developer experience (DevX) of #badgefed. #fediverse #askfedi #mastodon #activitypub

Just had the realization that my lost post could be summarized as:

"I’m a TCP person in a UDP world"

https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html

Still stick with Pino? Give LogTape a try!

恵比寿のMACHIKADOというお店でお昼ご飯で真鯛パスタを食べている。

恵比寿に位置する繁邦というお店でクレープを食べている。

Deno v2.6.2 will ship with a major improvement to the debugger - Web workers, `node:worker_threads` and stopping in any test file will now be supported!

This will work in both VS Code and Chrome DevTools.

PRs for the curious:
https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/31527

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

As someone who's been mass-mass-publishing to JSR since its early days, this has been really frustrating. I even set up a local JSR server to debug it, only to find that the problem simply doesn't exist locally. At this point I'm out of ideas—hoping the JSR team can take a look at the production environment.

https://hollo.social/@fedify/019b2806-9b0b-7982-bad6-eb17c669af4d

We've been struggling with a JSR publishing issue for nearly two months now—@fedify/cli and @fedify/testing packages hang indefinitely during the server-side processing stage, blocking our releases. Strangely, the problem doesn't reproduce on a local JSR server at all.

We've opened a GitHub issue to track this: https://github.com/jsr-io/jsr/issues/1238.

Fedify has been a Deno-first, JSR-first project from the start, and we really want to keep it that way. If you've experienced similar issues or have any insights, we'd appreciate your input on the issue.

Ok, hotels, flights, trains, and one extra family fun day were booked. See you next year at #fosdem2026 !

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/decentralised-badges-activitypub-badgefed/

#fosdem

親子丼と焼鳥。

ハチワレ！

豆腐パンナコッタも！

豆富食堂（豆腐じゃない）というお店で豆腐御膳を食べている。

@arkjun 実はそれは私もよく知らないですね。😂

Read about #Encyclia by @jfietkau and plans to bring more #OpenScience to our #fediverse

https://discuss.coding.social/t/my-current-goals-for-activitypub-and-academic-data/750

There are multiple other #ActivityPub projects that share interests to connect more tightly the academic world to the #SocialWeb.

Backed by #NGI0 @nlnet funding there is the very promising @bonfire and #Plaudit in earlier rounds (#WebMentions, not fedi).

We should align on #OpenStandards

https://encyclia.pub
https://bonfirenetworks.org
https://plaudit.pub

#SX #Socialcoding

LogTape 1.3.0 is out!

This release brings official middleware for Express, Fastify, Hono, and Koa with Morgan-compatible formats, plus Drizzle ORM integration for database query logging.

For SDK authors: the new withCategoryPrefix() lets you wrap internal library logs under your own category—so users only need to configure logging for your package, not every dependency you use internally.

Also: OpenTelemetry now supports gRPC and HTTP/Protobuf protocols, and the Sentry sink gained automatic trace correlation and breadcrumbs.

https://github.com/dahlia/logtape/discussions/109

成田国際空港に無事に着陸！

明日、弟と2泊3日で東京に旅行に行くんだ。

@ayo Let's hang out there! 🙌🏼

初は静的サイト向けのActivityPubブリッジ。フィードを元に各ポストに対してActivityPub用のエントリーを作成してActivityPub実装とうまくやり取りできるようにしてくれる。

Hatsu 0.3.4 🎉
https://github.com/importantimport/hatsu/releases/tag/v0.3.4

@hongminhee 個人的な見解ですが、日本でDiscordがそれなりの知名度を獲得したのは、2019年か2020年ぐらいで、それ以前からあるユーザーコミュニティはslackが多い印象ですね。

@tatmius なるほど！韓国も似たような感じですが、最近はみんなSlackからDiscordに移行する傾向にありますね。