Daily Journal 📓 August 2024

Blaine told me he built Slocan Helps as a front end on top of Grist after my recommendation and it worked out well.

I’m looking for other cool Grist projects — got any to share?

⭐️ HiEventsDev/Hi.Events Open-source event management and ticket selling platform — perfect for concerts, conferences, and everything in between 🎟️ If you find this project helpful, please consider giving us a star ⭐️

⭐️ exo-explore/exo Run frontier AI locally.

I use Obsidian as an editor for my website, and git for sync between devices & publishing.

On my Daylight Computer which runs Android, I haven’t managed to get git setup.

What Obsidian plugins should I look at to do my own sync?

Automattic is planning to migrate 500M+ Tumblr blogs to WordPress, with the nuance that the front end shouldn’t change (and they’re looking to hire)

We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside.

⭐️ seaweedfs/seaweedfs SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling.

⭐️ gitbutlerapp/gitbutler-brand-assets A hub for GitButler’s essential brand elements – logos, stickers, visuals, and more 💅

I put together a new site ATProtocol Dev where I’m going to be hosting tech talks and resources about open social protocols.

My first set of talks will look at emerging Proto Apps that go beyond microblogging.

⭐️ flxzt/rnote Sketch and take handwritten notes.

⭐️ docmost/docmost Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

⭐️ desci-labs/desci-codex Reference implementation of the CODEX protocol, using Ceramic and ComposeDB

The FeathersJS team wrote up a trip report of their DWeb Camp experience, as well as David’s presentation at the Causal Islands Tiny Talks in SF.

Signed up for Spaceship, a new domain registrar that is in fact Namecheap, but starting over with a new brand and new codebase.

IndieSearch is a prototype of “decentralized and local-first compatible search”, powered by Pagefind. Seen via Alex Schroeder’s installation. I’ll see about adding it to my site.

Deobald: Third Wave (Commercial) Open Source

An attempted definition of three waves of (commercial) open source. It specifically sets aside ideology & peer production and focuses on licensing and business model.

And then highlights Local First as the “new ideals”.

I’d also highlight the DWeb Principles here.

⭐️ s5-dev/S5 Decentralized content-addressed storage network

⭐️ slatedb/slatedb A cloud native embedded storage engine built on object storage.

I’m so stoked to be onboarding to USB Club. So many delightful touches, audio, words.

I set up a QR code with my vCard info in it for DWeb Camp. Go QR is the generator I recommend.

Friend Ellie is selling [14TB hard drives with a USB adapter], pre-loaded with TBs of LLM models.

Heading to the airport to fly down to SFO. Start of my first DWeb Camp experience, including facilitating the unconference-style Emergent Day.

Paved over the Windows install on MiniPC PL63 and got Coolify running on it. The setup on the Z-Space network with a VLAN and DMZ probably needs more detail in the write up, but was the most interesting part.

⭐️ useplunk/plunk The Open-Source Email Platform