Daily Journal 📓 September 2024

iA Writer is cancelling their Android app because it seems impossible to comply with Google Drive connection rules.

I see so clearly that we need a user-owned file sync protocol.

Jesse Rodgers, who is helping run Startup Barn in Waterloo, makes a pitch for getting back to basics with the term Startup — just build:

“Startups, at their core, come from people creating something of value for others. They are born from the act of building, not from the rituals of the startup religions or the blessings of the Venture Capitalists.”

The Bluesky team put together a simple Hello World app to showcase atproto called Statusphere.

It showcases custom data types (Lexicons) as well as OAuth, and runs locally.

Wired article on Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute: Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

Brad Neuburg on Y Combinator “YC model doesn’t work for (deep tech) startups, and is focused on the last tech war”.

This is the same for all these accelerator programs. See When Tailwinds Vanish for more.

John from Ascent is in Vancouver this week, holding office hours at Z-Space. If you’re building a startup, especially company formation or raising, come through and meet with him.

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drives.

via alice