Greetings!

It's been awhile since we've made a status update even though a lot has been happening at pico headquarters.

tuns #

We are seeing a lot of activity around our tunnel service, tuns.sh.

This feels like a strong signal that we are offering something that is relatively unique. We plan on increasing feature development on tuns to see where if we can get wider adoption. This also includes better documentation and posts around using tuns to its full advantage.

namespaced subdomains #

In order to prevent users from colliding against similar subdomains (e.g. two users with a dev namespace) we decided to prefix all namespaces with the their pico username. So when you initiate a tunnel to tuns, we will create a subdomain: https://{username}-{namespace}.tuns.sh.

pgs default headers #

We have gone back and forth on providing sane defaults for sites deployed on pgs.sh.

We decided that our default CSP header was too strict and decided to remove it completely.

Further, the user can override most default headers that we apply automatically for every pages site.

We hope with these changes it'll be easier than ever to deploy sites on pages without immediately needing to setup a custom domain.

sync pubkeys #

We quietly made it possible to sync an authorized_keys file to pico.sh for account authorization. This feature makes it possible to fetch and upload an authorized keys file.

1# download current keys
2rsync pico.sh:/authorized_keys .
3# add, remove, edit comments
4# now upload!
5rsync authorized_keys pico.sh:/authorized_keys

This will sync keys so you don't have to go into our TUI to manage authorization of your pico account.

Caveat: As a safety feature we never remove the pubkey for the current authenticated SSH session.

multi-region? #

We aren't making promises, but we are investigating having pages and tuns be multi-region, including Europe. We don't want to talk too much about it but we are figuring out what we need to do and how much it will cost. We see this as a necessary next step for us and we are excited to see how it improves adoption.

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Thanks for reading!