Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.
I was excited to try OpenWork, an open source version of Claude Cowork powered by OpenCode… and then I found their Enterprise Edition folder, licensed as Functional Source License. Just reminds me of Cal.com, and is another product that is enterprise-gating SSO.
The Cloudron team have packaged Tymeslot as an alternative to Cal.com, which has gone closed source as of April. I’ve used and enjoyed our @commonscomputer.com Cal.com instance for a couple of years now. I’ll try Tymeslot and report back.
Cloudflare launching wallets for agents with x402 support.
They’re doing the handles landgrab at cloudflare.pay - but looks like it uses subdomains, so could compose with atproto.
Bending Spoons is buying Airtable - which is very bad because BS is known for buying companies & squeezing them for profit. Gordon screams & wants a local first version.
Grist is an OSS alternative supported by European governments.
I subscribed to the Umans founders plan at the end of June. Below is the email they sent canceling it as of August 1st.
I’m happy with the usage I had, which wasn’t 24/7 agents, and two weeks of travel. I guess I’ll try pay-per-token for a while, and of course our local AI compute ZAI project continues.
We built the founding plans around a simple picture: one developer, working intensively, free from token anxiety. That picture is gone. Agentic usage exploded. Many of you now run fleets of agents 24/7 across multiple machines, and you expect more models, availability in every time zone, lower latency, higher throughput. We serve thousands of developers and several trillion tokens a month, as a small self-funded team.
A flat unlimited plan cannot carry that world. Not because the usage is wrong, but because the only way to keep such a plan alive is to slowly fill it with throttles, hidden limits and fair-use enforcement. We would spend our energy policing usage instead of doing what we are actually good at: running large open-weight models fast, reliably and at low cost.
So we are choosing the clean reset over the slow degradation.
What this means for you, as a Founding Max subscriber
Plates, restaurant menus on atproto, by jbhutch.bsky.social
Fark founder Drew Curtis writes about the state of the Internet today & effects on Fark:
“The core problem that we can’t fix is if people hate the entire news cycle because of stuff, they are going to struggle to want to keep Fark as a daily read.”
ycc is @why.bsky.world’s coding harness:
“A docs-driven coding harness: a coding agent that works from a spec.md and a backlog of tasks. ycc is a single binary that is client, TUI, and daemon in one.”
I met one of the devs who work on Fibery at Local-First. I like the description “an operating system for orgs run by nerds”.
Kind of Grist-like, not open source, and SaaS per-seat pricing after the first 10 users. (They do have free to use for OSS).
Vic made an Airglow automation which saves starred @tangled.org repos to your own @semble.so collection.
Tangleflow: Convert GitHub actions workflows to @tangled.org pipelines and vice versa.
By @43801j.com
PropterMalone released Clade: “Your own contact rolodex, built from the data exports the big platforms already owe you — merged, enriched by web research, searchable.”
LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Bluesky as sources.
Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity
While the podcasting sector has seen growth, this has occurred almost entirely on platforms like YouTube2, and the independent podcast app userbase has mostly just stood still.
Dustin Bluck of Castro on indie podcast apps
The majority of FOSS developers are one-man-shows, and the only cOmMuNiTy they have around them are the users requesting features or reporting bugs while most of the time not contributing in any form whatsoever
TIL caffeinate is a built in MacOS CLI command that makes it so your Mac doesn’t go to sleep.
As part of adding search to my site, I found an old journal entry referencing @byjp.me IndieSearch and Pagefind. This is exactly why I take notes!
I met Luke @luke.kanies.com at @localfirstconf.com & answered some atproto questions at the beer garden. He wrote Building on atproto with a lot of questions about permissioned data and how this meshes with local first.
Software today is more malleable than ever. In some way this means that it can be released in a more fluid way.
Not just development, distribution of software may change as well by @antirez.bsky.social