Daily Journal 📓 October 2026

Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant’s desktop.

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 a stack-based virtual machine.”

“The credit for coming up with the research is now shared across the entire field because the machines exploit all of our ideas at once. And in their thinking, mulling, and regurgitating they even forget where the ideas they used came from.” via @ccanonne.github.io

Kata Tracker is a local-first issue tracker. Agent-friendly CLI and a basic TUI for people. via @ngerakines.me

Timeful is a group availability scheduling app whose hosted version just went free-to-use. It’s also open source and self hostable, available on Github. Looks like a good Rallly replacement.

Anthropic released a blog post, Redesigning source control, on outgrowing git for version control of their monorepo and designing their replacement, Scion. And stats like “as of September, we merged over 30,000 (commits) per day.”

Article with highlights from me on my site.

André Staltz @staltz.com wrote about Time Till Open Source Alternative four years ago. Now, the time is zero because of coding agents.

He see three main themes for software: demonetization, remixable & personalization, software as content.

First run of Mistral3 8B Q4 model on Steam Machine — ~700 tok/s prompt processing and ~43 tok/s token generation using llama.cpp.

Going to put llama-swap on there to try out a couple of different models…which is written by my old friend Benson @mostlygeek.bsky.social!

I got a Steam Machine. It’s called Hearth and you can read some initial notes on the install. I’ve been hanging out on the desktop and don’t even have any games installed yet.

oh, btw…

Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”

So @computer.bringyourown.computer didn’t manage to wipe over the network, but back office + Mac dock with Ethernet got it up and running. TinyHome lives! On to a 2-node proxmox cluster, just because!

⭐️ depatchedmode/oughta How we oughta do things. Skills, conventions, and guidance for coding agents.