Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.
Great read on Open Sourcing Kinopio:
I’ve long been thinking about how to share the amount of work that goes into Kinopio. The more you know how something is made, the more you appreciate it – even more so when it’s a quality product built to last a lifetime.
(For license nerds, PolyForm Noncommercial)
I presented Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead yesterday. I did a quick survey tour of some interesting licenses I like sharing, and in other ways promoted a kind of back to basics: open source is working together.
Death of the Junior Developer by Steve Yegge “It’s a bad year to be a junior anything…within a few years, the norm for source code will be that it is written and modified by LLMs via prompting”
Writing up notes as I work on Vancouver Hack Day stuff. Trying to get Lieu deployed, going to make a LOCALHOST / DWebYVR webring.
Went ahead and setup Causal Islands Berlin as a LinkedIn event. We announced new dates and a selection committee today.
Anyone looking for their first ops hire / chief of staff / GSD special projects, I’ve got a great person for you.
This is a great write up on the role by Posthog
Jeremy Ruston, creator of TiddlyWiki, is making native apps for iOS, MacOS, and iPadOS. I use Quine on iOS today, will be great to have across systems.
I’m giving a talk next week here in Vancouver Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead, followed by a panel discussion. Come join!
Highline Beta is launching Highline Hub “a curated community & space that empowers pre-seed startups”. 5000 sq ft in downtown Toronto.
The IxDA non-profit is shutting down, seen via @jarango who comments: “how do we build a community of practice in a world where in-person conferences are no longer a viable means for funding community orgs?”
I have many thoughts on this, and we’ll be exploring this for Causal Islands.
If you let a channel be used for self-promo, then people will just ignore / mute it. Celebrate a “promo” channel and nuke it in all other topics.
I’ve published my Tech Event Budget Template. This is a very basic starting point for scoping the costs and ticket + sponsor revenue of an event that is mainly talks and networking.
Mozilla is funding Local AI (aka “on device AI”) with their Mozilla Builders Accelerator.
Application deadline August 1st, up to $100K in funding per team, 12 week program Sept to December.
Dispatches from the media apocalypse by Ben Werdmuller: “The internet landscape has been largely static for well over a decade”
And goes on to explain search and social crumbling and the rise of AI answer engines all impacting newsrooms.
A write up about Local-First Conf by Browsertech Digest Trip Report. Highlights covered: local-first vs offline first, sync engines, hybrid data queries, and app data interop.
Ryan Hoover curates The Evolution of Software as another rebuttal to Chris Paik’s End of Software. This is a topic we should cover at Causal Islands.
Caught up with John Edgar, who is quietly launching Ascent: a founder-aligned suite of legal support and other services for Canadian venture scale startups. Excited to see this evolve!