Daily Journal 📓 December 2023

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

Dec 202312:39pm

⭐️ sissbruecker/linkding Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

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Dec 202312:24pm

⭐️ localForage/localForage 💾 Offline storage, improved. Wraps IndexedDB, WebSQL, or localStorage using a simple but powerful API.

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Dec 202312:00am
Dec 202312:00am
  • Examining crypto’s product-market fit by polynya #crypto

    • A primer, first. Public blockchains are centralised, unfair, and inefficient. For almost everything, they are useless, if not outrightly dangerous. Humans and our societies are extremely complex and nuanced, and expressing subjectivity is simply not possible with blockchains. However, for a couple of things, they are invaluable, and the only way to achieve them. Broadly, these are usecases that require strict global consensus, something objective money and objective identity require. With that said, let’s get right into the usecases

Dec 202312:00am
  • The platformisation of software development: Connective coding and platform vernaculars on GitHub #Github #opensource
    • I’m still tracking down Open Source 2.0 as a concept. This mention of “post-F/OSS” is perhaps one example

    • They propose the concept of post-F/OSS to describe a platform culture that co-exists alongside F/OSS and proprietary coding. This comprises widespread practices of publicly posting mundane code projects without a licence and with little to no documentation to help users understand these projects. According to Fuller et al., this ‘general indifference to the discussions of and loyalty to certain kinds of licences and the sense of ethics (GPL) or business models (Open Source) that these drew upon’ (2017: 58), marks a departure from the F/OSS movement’s practices.

  • How could open licensing protect democracy? #licensing #EUPL
    • The EUPL is new to me, a good read
Dec 202312:00am
  • Ben Yoskovitz writes about Venture Studios #future of venture on LinkedIn
    • Venture studios are emerging as a legitimate asset class. It’s an interesting way of thinking about it, because it warrants further clarity and definitions, without being overly prescriptive.
    • Created Venture Studio Checklist, a GSheet working through different models
        1. Internal Company Structure and Methodology: This covers how you’ll structure your studio, how you’ll work (including the framework/playbook/process you’ll use for validating startups) and the makeup of your team.
        1. The Founders: Next, you deep dive into the founders you’ll recruit: who they are, how you find them, compensation, etc.
        1. Startup Structures: This section focuses on how you’ll structure new startups emerging from your venture studio. This is a complicated section because it focuses on investment and equity, two hot button topics.
        1. Venture Studio Business Model: The final section covers the studio’s finances and business model, with different options for raising capital into the studio entity or a fund (or both). This is also complicated because studios don’t survive on management fees alone (or at all). The Venture Studio Checklist is free to use — just make a copy (it’s a Google Sheet) and start filling it in. I hope it helps people understand all the components of designing, building & launching a studio.