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Ooh, what’s this?… Look Over There!
(With apologies to Jaida Essence Hall)

So the little app I teased earlier is ready and deployed and I have our own instance running at:

look-over-there.small-web.org

Look Over There! lets you forward multiple domains to different URLs with full HTTPS support.

Why?

We have a number of older sites that are becoming a chore/expensive to maintain and yet I don’t want to break the web. So I thought, hey, I’ll just use the “url forwarding” feature of my domain registrar to forward them to their archived versions on archive.org.

Ah, not so fast, young cricket… seems some domain registrars’ implementations of this feature do not work if the domain being forwarded is accessed via HTTPS (yes, in 2025).

So, given Kitten¹ uses Auto Encrypt² to automatically provision Let’s Encrypt certificates, I added a domain forwarding feature to it and created Look Over There! as a friendly/simple app that provides a visual interface to it.

To see it in action, hit cleanuptheweb.org and you should get forwarded to the archived version of it on archive.org. I’m going to be adding more of our sites to the list in the coming days as part of an effort to reduce my maintenance load and cut down our expenses at Small Technology Foundation.

Since it’s Small Web, this particular instance is just for us. However, you can run your own copy on a VPS (or even a little single-board computer at home, etc.) A link to the source code repository is on the site. Once Domain³ is ready for use (later this year 🤞), setting up your own instance of a Small Web app at your own server will take less than a minute.

I hope this little tool, along with the 404→307 (evergreen web) technique⁴, helps us to nurture an evergreen web and avoid link rot. (And the source code, as little as there is because Kitten does so much for you, is a good resource if you want to learn about Kitten’s new class-based component and page model which I haven’t yet had a chance to properly document.)

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

¹ kitten.small-web.org
² codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e
³ codeberg.org/domain/app
⁴ 4042307.org

Screenshot of the unauthenticated index page of Look Over There!, running at look-over-there.small-web.org. Full text: Look Over There!⁠ (With apologies to Jaida Essence Hall) Kitten logo: a minimalist illustation of an adorable kitten’s head with pink nose and ears. Made with Kitten This is a domain redirection (URL forwarding) server. Look Over There! was written to help with web archiving. You can use it to forward your old sites to their archived versions on archive.org (or to any other web URL) to ensure existing links to your site do not break. Things you can do here Administer this server[1] View source[2] Learn about Kitten, the Small Web framework/server used to create/run this app. Requires authentication. ↩︎ And perhaps run your own server? ↩︎ Look Over There! automatically provisions SSL certificates redirected domains. Due to Let’s Encrypt rate limits, you can add up to 98 redirections (maximum 10 every 3 hours). Look Over There! is part of a series of tools and processes by Small Technology Foundation to cultivate an evergreen web where we don’t arbitrarily break old links. Another such initiative is 404 → 307, where missing pages on the latest version of a site are forwarded to the old version of a site that is still running on a different server. Kitten, which Look Over There! is written in, has native support for 404 → 307.
Screenshot of the authenticated /admin route on Look Over There!, running at look-over-there.small-web.org. There are instructions for setting up DNS to point to the IP address on the server for the domains you want to forward and a list of Active redirections (there’s just one for now, for cleanuptheweb.org, which forwards to a URL on archive.org. There’s also an add redirection form with a from field for the domain an arrow and a to field for the URL to forward to, followed by an Add button. For entries in the Active redirections section, the Add button is replaced with a Remove button. There’s also a Made with Kitten button with a minimalist grey kitten face logo with pink ears. Intructions, full text: Create a DNS A record pointing to 157.90.155.45 for the domain you want to redirect. Wait for your DNS changes to propagate (ping the domain to check). Add your redirection using the form below. Due to Let’s Encrypt rate limits, you may add 97 more redirections (maximum 10 every 3 hours). Funding link in footer, full text: Like this? Fund us! Small Technology Foundation is a tiny, independent not-for-profit. We exist in part thanks to patronage by people like you. If you share our vision and want to support our work, please become a patron or donate to us today and help us continue to exist.
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Aral Balkan

New Kitten Release 🥳

• New: Any attributes present in a <markdown> tag are now passed to the first rendered element. (This is useful if you want to add some quick inline styles to a <p> that’s rendered from markdown, etc., but for anything more complicated, you should likely just jump into HTML.)

To learn more about Markdown in Kitten, please see the Markdown reference¹.

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

¹ kitten.small-web.org/reference

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Aral Balkan

New Kitten Release 🎉

kitten.small-web.org

Added:

• Support for local redirects and domain redirects (former will eventually have interface in Settings, latter can be programmatically used or, more likely, will be used via a small app I’m about to release next).

Fixed:

• Event bubbling in class-based Kitten pages and components is now correctly limited to just the event target if the component’s id starts with Kitten’s automatically generated universally-unique ID for the component.

• Fixed regular expression matching Kitten components in Markdown pages so it correctly captures self-closing components when followed by components with slotted content.

• The Kitten-specific trigger() mixin on the client-side WebSocket now correctly adds the contents of the data attribute on the triggering node to the data property received by the server-side event handler. This gives manually-triggered event handlers the same interface as automatically-triggered ones. (Previously it would create a separate `data` object in the received argument.)

Stay tuned for the a small and useful app release later today for web archiving/combatting link rot :)

Enjoy!

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