Hi 👋 Welcome to Boris Mann's Homepage

I'm interested in Open Source Licensing, community, co-operative models. Pooling capital and collaboration. I'm the founder of Fission. In Canada I help run the CoSocial Community Co-op. In Vancouver, I'm one of the organizers of DWebYVR. I like to cook & eat and have a FoodWiki.

The Feeds page has ways to subscribe. My personal Mastodon account is @boris@cosocial.ca. Journal items are cross-posted to @boris@toolsforthought.social.

Blog Posts 🖊

Digital Garden 🌱

These are the ten most recently modified local notes: Webxdc, Via, Self Hosting is selfish, Pooling capital and collaboration, Open source as a job, Libra.re, Death of the professional desktop operating system, Co Op, ZOË, Wildcard.

Journal Entries 📓

Old blog post by Moxie on the Signal blog on how open-ended protocols stall. Surfaced by Gordon ... #
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

New note for Universal Blue: using containers as the basis for a desktop OS. "That's nerdspeak fo... #
https://universal-blue.org

Bazzite is a Linux distro for gaming with Steam support out of the box.  #
https://bazzite.gg/

Web Recorder actually records websites so they are replayable rather than just a static archive.  #
https://webrecorder.net

ParadeDB “a modern ElasticSearch alternative built on Postgres and Tantivy, in Rust”  #
https://www.paradedb.com