Daily Journal 📓

Flohmarkt, which means “flea market” in German, is a “federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub” aka Facebook Marketplace clone.

Had this pointed out to me via @blaine, as we were chatting about serving real local / regional needs with Fediverse tools.

Many area have Buy Local and other Facebook Groups and Marketplace where a huge amount of community work gets done.

This isn’t the answer as just a piece of tech, but really looking at what is being used and will need to have similar functionality to really be adopted.

Bluesky posted their 2023 moderation report. Their moderation system is codenamed Ozone and they plan to open source it, as well as make the moderation backend self hostable.

Do I want to add Mastodon powered comments to my site? I don’t think so. I cross-post to have discussions over on those other systems.

Orbstack for MacOS:

a fast, light, and simple way to run containers and Linux machines on macOS. It’s a supercharged alternative to Docker Desktop and WSL, all in one easy-to-use app.

Free for non-commercial usage, $96/year per business user.

The Future is not Docker

The future is not Docker, but containers are.

We started building Depot back in January 2022 to solve our own pain of living with slow Docker image builds in generic CI providers like GitHub Actions, Circle, etc. We were annoyed by having to save/load layer cache over slow networks, the lack of larger managed runners, and having to rely on slow emulation for multi-platform or Arm image builds.

Fedica has an updated page describing how they handle cross posting RSS feed items. With many more networks at play, teams like Fedica are going to be updating how cross-posting and other aspects work. It’s hard to normalize across all these systems!

the web starts to feel a bit like one giant website, that’s so fast it’s just…​ part of your computer.

@[email protected] talking about the Dillo Plus browser with user stylesheets.

Polar.sh is like a Patreon optimized for software creators that use GitHub. Newsletters, subscriptions, and issue-based funding. The platform itself is open source. Business model is 5% of funds transacted.

CasaOS is a home lab management app. Storing & syncing between commercial data clouds — GDrive, Dropbox, etc — is the starting point, also installs apps via Docker containers.

depp, a static page generator for git repositories.

via @[email protected], who has an instance running from a home lab.

Write up by Molly White of her migration from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. She moved to a Digital Ocean droplet and spent the most time configuring DNS and email / Mailgun settings.

I added some notes to my Ghost note.

Check my Facilmap for storing bookmarked places.

I’m taking notes on building Boris Map using Facilmap: a privacy-friendly, open-source versatile online map that combines different services based on #OpenStreetMap

You can self host it. This feels like another good option for Cloudron.

Go read Kharis O’Connell’s article, The Glimmer

All this Spatial Computing hype about to start (again!)…I can feel the frenzied frothing-at-the-mouth-need-for-a-gold-rush building in the tech industry. It’s probably a good time to repost my Spatial Computing article from last June

#SpatialComputing

Just saw that Meetup was acquired by Bending Spoons. This is the same company that acquired Evernote.

For me, Meetup is the epitome of platform capture. I won’t use it for anything I organize. Luma is what I use, but just for RSVP / attendance, and I can export email as needed.

Stats from Appfigures show Flutter as #2 SDK on Android / Google Play, and #4 on Apple App Store.

Welcome to the year of tiny hardware experiments. Just bought a refurb Lenovo M900 Tiny for $179CAD.

Rally is open source, self-hostable “pick a date or time to meet” software.

I’ve created a note page for it locally with some more details, like their suggested social obligation to pay the equivalent of one year managed hosting if you host it yourself.

#CloudronApp #selfhosting #CommonsFunding #AGPL

Just launched at CES, the Rabbit Tech r1, “your pocket companion”. A $199USD hardware device with screen, camera, analog scroll, push-to-talk mic, usb-c, sim card.

I pre-ordered and put together a Rabbit Tech notes page.

I’d like to see web hosting look much more like installing an app on an iPhone.

This is at the end of Ben Werdmuller’s response to Giles Turnbull’s Let’s make the IndieWeb easier.

I couldn’t agree more. This is part of the deep dive I’ve been doing on Cloudron and similar Bring Your Own Server management systems.

More generally, I’ve been concerned with the practices of open source software builders. There is very little Design for Deployment that makes it easier for less technical users to self host.

I think open app stack packaging formats like Buildpacks is a good direction.

tally is a funky looking modern commercial SaaS form builder.

I’ve been experimenting with NocoDB, an open source Airtable alternative that supports forms, and is installable on Cloudron.