Daily Journal 📓

ActivityBadges extends Open Badges with ActivityPub support.

Seen via @[email protected]

Just read David Phelps’ Proto-App Thesis aka “Protocol Apps”.

It matches a lot of what I’m thinking, except I think apps will build on top of ActivityPub, atproto, or Farcaster. I’ll collect some thoughts at Proto Apps.

Clew is an independent web search engine “focused on writing by independent creators”.

Tailscale posts about fixing their pricing so that everyone can use OIDC-compliant SSO on any plan.

This sentence about their mission stood out:

Our mission at Tailscale is to build the new internet, and we take a strong stance that the next internet has to be secure by default.

I wrote up my notes on what I submitted to the Ghost survey: Feedback on Federating Ghost. I truly believe that any app that cares about user interaction should look to federate beyond a single install.

John O’Nolan, founder of Ghost, makes a post asking for feedback on federating Ghost with ActivityPub. Please share what you write in the survey!

Ben Pate has posted a demo video of a federated Bandcamp, built using his ActivityPub “Social web toolkit”, Emissary.

Paul Frazee shares a few thoughts on paying for email to stop spam. This is of course purely in reference to email. Not to any other kinds of posts.

Chris Riccomini PostgreSQL Extensions or Protocols: Architecture Roulette - I feel like a lot of early open source is now exploring the protocols vs platforms space. Including “de facto” protocol status.

Gordon Brander writes Decentralizability:

“Immutable data, universal IDs, user-controlled keys… and just using HTTP. I think this is probably minimum viable decentralizability.”

Pretty close match to my definition of Web3.

Kneeling Bus’ Brazilianization of the Internet is an important read. I need to think about how my Community Search Engine exacerbate “enclave-gated internet” spaces.

Ken Kantzer writes “GPT is the Heroku of AI”:

“a very, very expensive way to do ML features without needing an ML team. It’s actually not even that expensive compared to the value, but it is expensive compared to cheaper locally run LLMs and using a traditional ML model, once it’s been trained.”

Ivo Velitchkov @kvistgaard talks about what he’s missing from the reMarkable:

1. Export of highlights from PDF and EPUB
2. Links between notes and related to that:
3. Persistent IDs of every object (note, notebook, folder, tag) so that they can be referred to from other places and opened up in the desktop or mobile app.

Strong agree!

“Computation is the medium of our lifetimes - it’s not just a technical medium but a cultural medium as well. We should explore the culture of computation” by Myron Krueger, as said by @zachlieberman

Matt Roberts writes “Who killed Canadian Venture?” digging into the history of Canadian pension funds and RRSP investment rules.

TLDR In the 90s, 80% had to be Canadian. In 2003, this was changed to 70%. And then, in 2005 — no Canadian investment minimum.

One of the things I did during Vancouver Hack Day was set up a Polis poll around DWebYVR / Vancouver tech topics. It’s a way to gather feedback while also mapping consensus or differing opinions.

More setting up my Z-Space desk. Using my RK71 keyboard, configured using Karabiner Elements and downloaded bbeerr’s RK61 scripts to have an escape key as well as backtick and tilde keys.

I bought a few things for my desk at Z-Space, including this j5create docking stand and mini dock.

Ubicloud is “an open, free, and portable cloud. Think of it as an open alternative to cloud providers”.

Open source AGPL that you install on bare metal servers to run your own cloud.

Chad Whitacre: Open source is not a grocery store (pay first), not a soup kitchen (not charity). Open source is a restaurant (eat your meal with others, then split the check).