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Fefe is back

24 points by steve_wilson 10mo ago

__bjoernd 10mo ago
Glad he's alive and healthy again.
outside1234 10mo ago
Is he related to Cofefe?
- sebst 10mo ago
  Covfefe? http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a7d0a08e http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a7d0a08e
johndoe0815 10mo ago
Well, I didn't miss him...
- jasonvorhe 10mo ago
  Good thing you don't have to read it then.
skilled 10mo ago
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.
talles 10mo ago
Who's fefe
- miduil 10mo ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner who runs https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog 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.
- __bjoernd 10mo ago
  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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietlibc [2] https://www.codeblau.de https://www.codeblau.de
zygentoma 10mo ago
But apparently his TLS cert still isn't :P
1vuio0pswjnm7 10mo ago
"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres" 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 https://www.fefe.de https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fefe.de/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 10mo ago
  "djbdns is a full blown DNS server which outperforms BIND in nearly all respects." https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fefe.de/dns/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fe...
- happytoexplain 10mo ago
  Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.
  - freidenker 9mo ago
    There’s no need for a full-blown RDBMS for a simple blog
    - happytoexplain 9mo ago
      Right - I guess I would expect "No SQL" or "No database", rather than the specific call-out of Postgres.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 9mo ago
  Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldap https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/ https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe... Hence the comment about not using Postgres

Fefe is back

24 points by steve_wilson 10mo ago

__bjoernd 10mo ago

Glad he's alive and healthy again.

outside1234 10mo ago

Is he related to Cofefe?

sebst 10mo ago
Covfefe? http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a7d0a08e http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a7d0a08e

johndoe0815 10mo ago

Well, I didn't miss him...

jasonvorhe 10mo ago
Good thing you don't have to read it then.

skilled 10mo ago

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.

talles 10mo ago

Who's fefe

miduil 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner who runs https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog 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.
__bjoernd 10mo ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietlibc [2] https://www.codeblau.de https://www.codeblau.de

zygentoma 10mo ago

But apparently his TLS cert still isn't :P

1vuio0pswjnm7 10mo ago

"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres" 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 https://www.fefe.de https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fefe.de/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

1vuio0pswjnm7 10mo ago
"djbdns is a full blown DNS server which outperforms BIND in nearly all respects." https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fefe.de/dns/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fe...
happytoexplain 10mo ago
Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.
- freidenker 9mo ago
  There’s no need for a full-blown RDBMS for a simple blog
  - happytoexplain 9mo ago
    Right - I guess I would expect "No SQL" or "No database", rather than the specific call-out of Postgres.
1vuio0pswjnm7 9mo ago
Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldap https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/ https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe... Hence the comment about not using Postgres