Hi 👋 Welcome to Boris Mann's Homepage

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You'll find me most active on Bluesky @bmann.ca.

My personal Mastodon account is @[email protected], where I'm a member of the CoSocial Co-Op.

I help run a variety of shared services under the label Commons Computer.

Digital Garden 🌱

These are the ten most recently modified local notes:

Redesigning source control at Anthropic, Data-Addressed Structures & Links, Metadata for Arbitrary Structures & Links, Web Tiles, Opal Electronics, Opal Camera, Hearth, Steam Machine, Homelab, Steam Machine Hearth Install

Journal 📓

• 14 Oct 2026 5:55pm — Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant's desktop.
• 13 Oct 2026 11:36pm — Wasm, aka Web Assembly, is not, in fact SHOUTY CASED WASM. They still have to put it on the home page: "WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for…