洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

安寧(안녕)하세요, 저는 서울에 살고 있는 30代(대) 後半(후반) 오픈 소스 소프트웨어 엔지니어이며, 自由(자유)·오픈 소스 소프트웨어와 聯合宇宙(연합우주)(fediverse)의 熱烈(열렬)한 支持者(지지자)입니다.

저는 TypeScript用(용) ActivityPub 서버 프레임워크인 @fedify 프로젝트와 싱글 유저用(용) ActivityPub 마이크로블로그인 @hollo 프로젝트와 ActivityPub 봇 프레임워크인 @botkit 프로젝트의 製作者(제작자)이기도 합니다.

저는 東(동)아시아 言語(언어)(이른바 #CJK)와 유니코드에도 關心(관심)이 많습니다. 聯合宇宙(연합우주)에서는 國漢文混用體(국한문 혼용체)를 쓰고 있어요! 제게 韓國語(한국어)나 英語(영어), 日本語(일본어)로 말을 걸어주세요. (아니면, 漢文(한문)으로도!)

#툿친소 #연친소 #별친소

こんにちは、私はソウルに住んでいる30代後半のオープンソースソフトウェアエンジニアで、自由・オープンソースソフトウェアとフェディバースの熱烈な支持者です。名前は洪 民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）です。

私はTypeScript用のActivityPubサーバーフレームワークである「@fedify」と、ActivityPubをサポートする1人用マイクロブログである 「@hollo」と、ActivityPubのボットを作成する為のシンプルなフレームワークである「@botkit」の作者でもあります。

私は東アジア言語（いわゆるCJK）とUnicodeにも興味が多いです。日本語、英語、韓国語で話しかけてください。（または、漢文でも！）

#自己紹介

이번 週末(주말)에는 반드시 브뤼셀行(행) 航空券(항공권)을 끊어야 한다…

When I was young, I really liked Pokémon, but after I became interested in animal rights as an adult, Pokémon battles started to remind me of abusive customs like dogfighting or cockfighting, so it's untenable to like them as much as I used to. 😔

@3a29 That's a very logical and objective approach. I appreciate the careful consideration before making any assumptions!

@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! 🙌🏼