Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.
I’m helping to organize a Vancouver Hack Day this coming Sunday, April 7th, 2024.
Get a quick overview of some interesting tech, including atproto, Everywhere Computer, Local First, and Enhance. Then spend the day learning and coding, or bring a project of your own. Demos end of day.
Substack introduced a “Follow” feature that makes it more like a social network destination rather than a newsletter / blog platform.
And they don’t share follower email addresses with authors.
Yet-another-proprietary-social network. Yes, I told you so.
Write up on The Wrap
Chad Whitacre on the Redis re-licensing:
“For a relicensing to be a rug pull, there has to have been a true developer community around the project—not just users, developers.”
Also has a graph showing Sentry (where he works) being almost completely company maintained.
Did a quick test of the whtwnd ATProtocol blogging platform. Made by @knksm5.final-techblog.com:
“The body of blog articles is stored on your Personal Data Server (PDS) and is not saved on WhiteWind servers or the like, and viewers retrieve articles from your PDS.”
Ana Hevesi from Uploop posts a fire article Stop wasting time on community:
“…today’s leaders can build followings at scales that were once the exclusive domain of religions and nations.”
Ana says: get serious about defining and serving your extended constituencies.
Daniel from Bluesky goes through the evolution of the network to today’s federation.
Old blog post by Moxie on the Signal blog on how open-ended protocols stall.
Surfaced by Gordon Brander, “innovation by definition is not standardizable” — ecosystems move too quickly as they first emerge.
I just signed up to rent a desk for 3 months in a shared space in Vancouver. I’m going to try getting out of the house regularly, it’s a cool space I want to support, and it’s got some event space that I’ll use for some upcoming things.
New note for Universal Blue: using containers as the basis for a desktop OS. “That’s nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client: the reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop”
Bazzite is a Linux distro for gaming with Steam support out of the box.
Web Recorder actually records websites so they are replayable rather than just a static archive.
ParadeDB “a modern ElasticSearch alternative built on Postgres and Tantivy, in Rust”
Radicle has reached v1.0. It’s a “distributed code collaboration stack” — local first nodes that connect p2p and stores everything in git, identities are DID-based Ed25519 keys.
Uncut.wtf is “a free typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type. There are currently 152 typefaces featured”
via @depatchedmode, we’re using Overused Grotesk at Fission.
Doing Weeknotes, by Giles Turnbull: “Weeknotes are a format for regular communication about work in progress.”
via Ben Werdmuller
I kind of hate this Fast Company review of the 2024 MacBook Air called “Dawn of the AI laptop” — but it’s the label that’s selling laptops today. Without “touchscreen capability, fancy rotating hinges, folding screens, or other features” that PC manufacturers are attempting.
I took some downtime this weekend and played many hours of Caves of Qud, an RPG / roguelike that has a vast world and many commands and abilities.
Found myself searching a lot of basics, like “How do I fill a waterskin with liquid?”, and deciding how many arms and legs I wanted my mutant character to have.
…is a Deno/TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards
Still in early development. Also using Deno’s new JSR packaging format.
It’s been 20 years, and I brought Zoe up in conversation again: a local IMAP server on your Mac that gave you an interface for exploring, searching, and working with your email. I’ve added a notes page for it.