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.

⭐️ goeo-/cbsky.app see bsky.app (like fxtwitter but bsky and doesn’t accommodate for space bar heaters)

⭐️ cloudflare/partykit PartyKit, for Workers

⭐️ jhass/nodeinfo NodeInfo defines a standardized way to expose metadata about an installation of a distributed social network

⭐️ vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

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.

⭐️ tjmnmk/gadget_cdrom gadget_cdrom converts your Raspberry Pi to virtual usb cdrom

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

via alice

⭐️ bluesky-social/statusphere-example-app An example atproto application using ExpressJS and Typescript.

⭐️ aliceisjustplaying/zodiacsigns Zodiac Sign Labeler for Bluesky

⭐️ nfrastack/db-backup Backup and restore your databases to multiple storage backends

⭐️ jamsocket/plane A distributed system for running WebSocket services at scale.

⭐️ Freika/dawarich Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)

⭐️ SupplyComputer/weights

⭐️ astrenoxcoop/badgeblue Define, Issue, and Verify Badges for ATProtocol Handles.

⭐️ thunderbird/appointment Invite others to grab times on your calendar. Choose a date. Make appointments as easy as it gets.

⭐️ memorysafety/river This repository is the home of the River reverse proxy application, based on the pingora library from Cloudflare.

⭐️ pedrofracassi/bluesky-handles-google-sheets

⭐️ austinlparker/aparker.io