Daily Journal 📓 March 2021

Shorter dated entries, links, and microblogs, plus GitHub & Tangled stars.

Mar 20211:00am

  • Many are more familiar with the Chrome DevTools console than they are with a Unix command-line prompt. More familiar with WebSockets than BSD sockets, MDN than man pages. Bash and Zsh scripts calling into native code will never go away. But JavaScript and TypeScript scripts calling into WebAssembly code will be increasingly common. Many developers, we think, prefer web-first abstraction layers.

    — Announcing the Deno Company

  • The people behind the Deno programming language announce a commercial company with venture investment.

  • Not pursuing open core, full MIT License for the language.

  • People noticed the NodeJS bashing going on.

  • Also Deno Deploy:

  • Deno Deploy is a distributed system that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge, worldwide. The service deeply integrates the V8 JavaScript runtime with a high performance asynchronous web server to provide optimal performance without unnecessary intermediate abstractions.

Mar 20211:00am

  • @levelsio writes about how you can’t really contact him, on purpose.

  • Reading public tweets sent to me, and replying. People behave much better in public messages than in direct messages, so that’s also nice. And the message length limit really helps keep things efficient.

  • This is really not how I’m wired. I like meeting people and getting on calls with them. But, I already do mostly answer things publicly, work on my digital garden here, and blog so I can share the same answer multiple times.

  • Also makes me think about Derek Sivers You Don’t Have to Be Local https://sive.rs/local

  • I have been in global mode again for a couple of years, and I see that continuing … except I do go “local” when I travel, eg the folks I know in Berlin.

Mar 202111:27pm

⭐️ silvyn/tw-n0d1 Un TiddlyWiki prêt à l’emploi avec mes personnalisations favorites

Semble

Mar 202111:19pm

⭐️ saqimtiaz/streams TiddlyWiki plugin for rapid data entry with a keyboard driven workflow. Divide content into smaller tiddlers as you write.

Semble

Mar 20219:50pm

⭐️ Marxsal/TiddlyGoo TiddlyGoo is a project for sharing Google spreadsheets with TiddlyWiki files. Currently it consists of the plugin “sheetsin” which imports spreadsheet tabs and contents. See the associated website for demo and details.

Semble

Mar 20211:00am
Mar 20211:00am

  • I’m finding it pleasant to flesh out Moa Party pages on the website.

  • It’s small, and it’s a constrained area of knowledge. The notes graph is fun to look at.

  • I worked on the Pleroma and ActivityPub pages, which was fun learning a bit more about those two things and gathering links and descriptions.

Mar 20211:00am

  • Kevin Drum: Why have blog audiences declined over the past decade? #blogging

  • Short (theoretical) answer: RSS impacts the insertion of advertising.

  • You can’t separate the software from the community that built it. Therefore, true openness must dictate how that community is formed and run. We are what we choose to tolerate; in the same way that free software communities do not tolerate proprietary lock-in, they should not tolerate exclusionary social practices that lock people out.

— Ben Werdmuller Equitable Community Software

  • Computers and Creativity, Molly Mielke:

  • “Computers and Creativity” asks: How can we utilize the full potential of creative thought and computational actualization to enable human innovation?

In fewer words: How can we make computers better bicycles of the creative mind? — @mollyfmielke

Mar 20217:48pm

⭐️ knadh/tg-archive A tool for exporting Telegram group chats into static websites like mailing list archives.

Semble

Mar 20211:00am
Mar 20211:00am

  • The American Dream is Going Digital

  • Naturally, the mom-and-pop businesses of today are YouTubers, Twitch streamers, Shopify dropshippers, webcomic artists, podcast hosts, Tik Tok stars, OnlyFans creators, indie game developers, streetwear resellers, Etsy store owners, Clubhouse hosts, Substack writers, and many, many more. Deploying on top of the distribution railroad tracks that have been competitively laid by internet platforms over the past decades, addressable online customers have never been more abundant.

  • via (and by) @cpaik

Mar 20211:00am
  • The High Blogging Era, defined by Robin Sloan as mid-2000s. Hmmm. I was there and was a part of it, and RSS and blogs was all there was, before Twitter and Facebook etcetera that then became labeled as social media.
  • Google Reader removed social features in 2011, and was shut down in 2013. I think the “high” era more properly is the mid 2000s until the fall of Reader. When many people were blogging, not just the early few. Maybe 8 years? A good run.
  • But everyone will have their own nostalgia tinged view.
  • Are we at the beginning of digital gardens and Second Brains? Will this be looked back on as the High Era? I’m more interested in getting it into the hands of everyone. Hmmm. Has Nora Young done a segment on Spark yet? I should attempt to get on a CBC Radio morning or afternoon show to talk about it.
  • via Robin Rendle, Blogging and Dimly Lit Bars.
  • via @jamescham, need to read The Man Who Lied to his Laptop #HCI
Mar 20211:00am

  • Set up #Gitlab Service Desk for Moa Party, including forwarding email from Google Domains.

  • It’s really interesting to have a shared email inbox included in the service for free. Will be interesting to see how many people use it.

Mar 20217:08am

⭐️ rcaden/Frontier UserLand Frontier is a web application development platform that includes a scripting language, integrated object database, code editor, debugger, outliner, multi-threaded runtime and integrated HTTP server. It has been used as a weblog and website hosting service, local scripting environment and web services client and server.

Semble

Mar 20211:00am
  • The presentation I gave to the #IPFS Local Offline Collab group is on Hackernews
Mar 202112:00am
  • I find most of the tension between the recently labeled content web vs app web.
  • The people who complain about unreadable pages bloated with JS to read a blog post are right.
  • The people who want to build local first, browser-centric apps are right.
  • From a discussion in the wikilinks Matrix channel with @karlicoss
Mar 20219:46pm

⭐️ authelia/authelia The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.

Semble

Mar 202112:00am

  • Just prepaid for a year of Beeper. This is letting me “jump the line” and get into the beta. Plus, I reserved my username as @boris there. It is supposed to connect all your messaging apps in one “app” — even iMessage on non-Apple systems, through a jail broken iPhone.

  • I really do have the need for a unified messaging app. I’m not super interested in a proprietary paid service to do it, but I’d like to try it out.

  • @acroll is posting on Substack. I don’t understand why he’s posting somewhere without mapping it to his own domain name.

  • His latest is Nothing in the middle, about the creator economy. Good read.

Mar 202111:30pm

⭐️ mariusor/brutalinks Link aggregator inspired by (old)reddit using ActivityPub federation. (mirror repository)

Semble

Mar 202112:00am
  • I got invited to Simon Wardley’s every two week “interesting people” video chat. Lots of discussion around Wardley Maps, a bit of serverless thrown in. An interesting group of people. Some have tracked me down on either LinkedIn or Twitter.
  • For the next call, the suggested topic is to look at applying mapping to health / healthcare.
  • This connects directly to @tonzylstra’s recent post It’s more logical to host an event than attend one.
  • Someone day I will publish the extensive chat notes and article links between @hitsmachines and I, talking about NFTs and art.
  • The answer to some of your questions currently are xDai Chain and Nifty.Ink.
  • I posted the Back to IndieKit blog to Mastodon.
  • I’m thinking about automating posts from this journal to Mastodon. The people there are likely interested in the type of stuff I post about. I would need to build a JSON Feed and then I can use my existing Micro.blog subscription to cross post.
  • Hmmm. Since the Revue newsletter builder is part of Twitter now, and I looked at using it for Fission, maybe I’ll put the Journal feed into there, that could be interesting.
Mar 202112:00am

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

No, this is not your first day.

Mar 202112:00am

  • More agora thoughts: what about pulling in openly licensed general purpose Git content?

  • For instance, terms.dev is a repository of software industry terms and definitions. It uses the Zola engine to build the live site, but the source is Markdown in git.

  • Well, this @ctbeiser Twitter thread will help point me towards lots of other notes to flesh out:

  • if you were making a syllabus on tools for thought what would be your key inclusions?

especially interested in ones beyond the “obvious list”:

Footnotes

Mar 202112:00am

  • I keep looking at Microlink so I guess I should at least post a quick journal log before I write it up more:

  • From the home page:

  • Browser as API

Fast, scalable, and reliable browser automation built for businesses and developers. Proudly open source.

  • You can turn websites into structured data, take screenshots, turn pages into PDFs, and more. Power embeds, etc

  • The list of open source components is super interesting.

  • Brave Browser bought a search engine, “promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version”.

  • Good timing for clearing my tabs of other Brave related stuff. This PDF white paper describes the Brave Search Team’s plans — Goggles:

  • This paper proposes an open and collaborative system by which a community, or a single user, can create sets of rules and filters, called Goggles, to define the space which a search engine can pull results from. Instead of a single ranking algorithm, we could have as many as needed, overcoming the biases that a single actor (the search engine) embeds into the results.

  • via Daring Fireball

Mar 202112:00am

Nothing on fire that can’t just burn until morning.