Daily Journal 📓

Happy birthday Drupal! There’s a new Drupal CMS 1.0 release, which is a “distro” of configuration & plugins.

Out of Your Element is a “modern Matrix-to-Discord appservice bridge”. Seems simple and robust — just a NodeJS server. Discovered via Muni Town.

I’m a Weird Nerd -> weird.bmann.ca. The Muni Town team shipped paid subscriptions powered by Polar. Read their blog for background on where this personal page builder is going (including atproto integration).

User & Agents is a new community stewarded by Ankesh Bharti¹. Here’s one line from the home page: “Our goal is to empower individuals with software that enables them to create their own agency”. Go read the whole thing and come join!

Tailscale has a new feature, Taildrive: shared folders over WebDAV accessible by other users and devices.

Playing around with the Obsidian Web Clipper. It has variable template types and basically just triggers new pages in your app.

Have to figure out an “archive” mode where I want to save the entire page, without republishing it.

I have a whole bunch of notes to share on installing Ampache on my local Cloudron. This all started with getting music onto my new Tangara player. And new music, too!

I bought Path of Exile today, it’s at home downloading onto my Steam Deck, which is currently listed as unsupported.

MacOS also not supported for Early Access.

So of course I’m looking at Bazzite for the MiniPC PL63.

Very inspired learning about UKAI, who are hosting some workshops at Z-Space:

“Our mission is ‘culture for what’s coming’”

“…we seek and test out approaches to culture that make sense of the world we are creating and handing down to future generations. 

We call this work cultural research and development, and just like R&D in other fields, we are trying to make things better. In our case, we are trying to build resilience to massive volatility and change.”

Doing some research on Public Mobile.

Low cost cellphone plans in Canada. They’re a TELUS subsidiary.

Anyone have personal experience?

Martin Fowler’s 2024 thoughts on the state of social media:

If I find someone doing what I’m doing - posting on Twitter and on other sites - I prefer to follow them on a different site. As far as I’m concerned, Twitter is in decline, and although I’m not leaving it for the moment, I prefer to follow activity in other places.

Gordon Brander, Places to intervene in a system:

“If systems are fictions, maybe we can learn to hold them loosely, to trade between them, or even to let go and allow reality to speak back?”

Ibis has just been announced as a federated Wikipedia alternative. It’s based on ActivityPub and written by one of the Lemmy developers. “built on a stack of PostgreSQL and Rust, …with a frontend written in Rust Webassembly”

I’ve been using Grist, an open source and self hostable Airtable replacement, and excitedly telling people about it. They’re hosting a summit in Paris in early December, where I also found out about the French government’s La Suite, a government collaboration platform.

Had a catch up call with Tarun from Gitwallet. The platform has been iterating to serve developers doing open source consulting. A new thing they’re experimenting with is Echo: an software ecosystem explorer. Very cool!

The future is interfaces: @piratesoftware.live shared a short video of doing demos at a public conference with keyboard + mouse and with a game controller. The punchline of what kids gravitated towards is a good one.

Subvert is launching today: you can become a co-op founding member for $100USD by buying the zine “Plan for the Artist-Owned Internet”, or for free as a founding musician or label. I’ve joined, love to see more projects like this.

Had an inspiring call with the ZKorum team this morning. They’re trying on some new taglines, including “building citizen networks rather than social networks”

End of an era. I futzed around and switched my blog publishing back to Github Pages, after 4 years publishing to IPFS via Fission, according to the Colophon. My next protocol adventures are going to have more atproto.

Frontpage is a link aggregator (think Hacker News) defined as a new Lexicon data type on atproto. It’s out of invite only access, and you can use your existing account to login.