Daily Journal 📓

IndieSearch is a prototype of “decentralized and local-first compatible search”, powered by Pagefind. Seen via Alex Schroeder’s installation. I’ll see about adding it to my site.

Deobald: Third Wave (Commercial) Open Source

An attempted definition of three waves of (commercial) open source. It specifically sets aside ideology & peer production and focuses on licensing and business model.

And then highlights Local First as the “new ideals”.

I’d also highlight the DWeb Principles here.

I’m so stoked to be onboarding to USB Club. So many delightful touches, audio, words.

I set up a QR code with my vCard info in it for DWeb Camp. Go QR is the generator I recommend.

Friend Ellie is selling [14TB hard drives with a USB adapter], pre-loaded with TBs of LLM models.

Heading to the airport to fly down to SFO. Start of my first DWeb Camp experience, including facilitating the unconference-style Emergent Day.

Paved over the Windows install on MiniPC PL63 and got Coolify running on it. The setup on the Z-Space network with a VLAN and DMZ probably needs more detail in the write up, but was the most interesting part.

The largest ATProtocol PDS is Bridgy Fed. You can get a full list of the ~235 independent PDS instances via Mackubu’s Bluesky Stats

Nick Gerakines talks about why he chose atproto for Smoke Signal, his event and RSVP management system.

Includes closed platform issues covering Upcoming, Meetup, and Facebook.

“Platforms and ecosystems that prevent you from leaving have good marketing and bad intentions.”

We have identity. From wallets to passkeys to DIDs.

What we don’t have is re-usable accounts.

Social, permissions, auth, and multiple identifiers. Directionally, capabilities underly agentic computing.

I’m continuing to re-publish some templates as I get asked about them. The Consulting Agreement Template is up now — good for both selling your own services or using to hire consulting services.

Did a little Community Search Engine work today. This unstyled landing page is going to be the input list of links for the webring / search index crawl. First PR by Nicholas Tsang to add his personal website.

I had a great intro call this week with Kyle Briggs. He’s based in Ottawa and has a background as an academic researcher in biophysics and a founder of an acquired nanotechnology company. He writes at CanInnovate.

The FAAI is a working group of the OWTA “aimed at promoting the integration of federation features into more applications and advancing existing federation features, protocols, and standards.”

Openvibe, a “Town square for open social media” that connects Nostr, Mastodon, + Bluesky & Threads coming soon. Shows you one timeline and lets you cross-post. Available on iOS and Android.

I’m totally energized from talking to Jesse Sugarman of Osito. Osito hosted Minimum Viable Demos and we’ll be having the LOCALHOST Thursday social there.

I toured Jesse around Z-Space and we talked about the art / tech / music scene locally, and how we can support it and work together. Good vibes!

I’ve put together a Polar open source funding page for 11ty Second Brain. The goal is to build a great Eleventy Second Brain experience, that pairs with Obsidian as a Markdown editor, and integrates with LLM usage.

I was asked about Eternal September recently which reminded me about Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution. I’ve added both as notes.

This is the first month of the Z-Space non-profit fully taking over the 3rd floor of 505 Hamilton. We have a private office available to rent for 3-4 people, as well as a few flex or permanent desks left.

Just used Keynote HTML Export that is built in for the first time when publishing Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead. Also found Keynote Extractor which has slightly cleaner HTML.