Daily Journal 📓 March 2025

Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.

09Mar 20253:01pm

I’ve recently gone down the rabbit hole of looking at JMAP (aka JSON Meta Application Protocol) which Fastmail supports (I signed up). It’s a modern http/json protocol being worked on at the IETF, supporting email today, then contacts, calendars, etc

09Mar 20251:35pm

It was about a year ago that I posted about Puter. It’s a web desktop and got me thinking about these types of interfaces so I put together a page about them.

09Mar 202510:24am

I used Cyd to migrate tweets to Bluesky on my @bmannconsulting.com account, self hosted on BringYourOwn.Computer.

Feature request: support replies using bsky’s facets to link to the Twitter original.

09Mar 20259:53am

Chris Joel aka cdata just posted an announce thread that he’s building Familiar, a “magical notebook”, bootstrapping a healthier web from today’s ailing one.

09Mar 20259:44am

Fideslang is “a proposed model for a human-readable taxonomy of privacy-related data types”, seen via Ted Han on bsky.

05Mar 20257:31am

Great Q&A with Robin Berjon about open social protocols wearing his Free Our Feeds hat in Columbia Journalism Review.

Explains open social protocols as roads shared by all, and gently pushes journalists to inform themselves & get better at explaining it.