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  • George Bgbargoud@masto.nyc
    Jul 10, 2026, 12:19 AM

    The main design decisions I have made on it and my reasoning are:

    RPCs for communicating with the backend. This may be bias from the longest stint of my career being at Google but I do really like how the whole API surface can be catalogued in one place and that it is theoretically possible for someone to take those and know exactly what they need to implement to make a new backend.

    Backend is written in Rust. This is really just to learn a new language and it's been pretty fun to use.

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  • George Bgbargoud@masto.nyc
    Jul 10, 2026, 12:20 AM

    Public frontend will be a static HTML site. Posts will be made in markdown and users can choose to add custom CSS and then Hotch will convert the markdown into HTML and pop that into a directory that can be served with an extremely simple server.

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  • George Bgbargoud@masto.nyc
    Jul 10, 2026, 12:20 AM

    I'm still wondering whether an how to serve comments that come in through ActivityPub or ATProto. My current thought is an iframe which can be left unloaded when traffic is high but my entire career has been writing backends that are as far from UIs as possible so I will need to ask for help with that decision when I get to it.

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  • George Bgbargoud@masto.nyc
    Jul 10, 2026, 12:33 AM

    My plan for the first instance when I finally finish it is to try to make a server for all of the local bike clubs that only announce their rides on Instagram.

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