Daily Journal 📓

iA Writer is cancelling their Android app because it seems impossible to comply with Google Drive connection rules.

I see so clearly that we need a user-owned file sync protocol.

Jesse Rodgers, who is helping run Startup Barn in Waterloo, makes a pitch for getting back to basics with the term Startup — just build:

“Startups, at their core, come from people creating something of value for others. They are born from the act of building, not from the rituals of the startup religions or the blessings of the Venture Capitalists.”

The Bluesky team put together a simple Hello World app to showcase atproto called Statusphere.

It showcases custom data types (Lexicons) as well as OAuth, and runs locally.

Wired article on Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute: Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

Brad Neuburg on Y Combinator “YC model doesn’t work for (deep tech) startups, and is focused on the last tech war”.

This is the same for all these accelerator programs. See When Tailwinds Vanish for more.

John from Ascent is in Vancouver this week, holding office hours at Z-Space. If you’re building a startup, especially company formation or raising, come through and meet with him.

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drives.

via alice

Blaine told me he built Slocan Helps as a front end on top of Grist after my recommendation and it worked out well.

I’m looking for other cool Grist projects — got any to share?

I use Obsidian as an editor for my website, and git for sync between devices & publishing.

On my Daylight Computer which runs Android, I haven’t managed to get git setup.

What Obsidian plugins should I look at to do my own sync?

Automattic is planning to migrate 500M+ Tumblr blogs to WordPress, with the nuance that the front end shouldn’t change (and they’re looking to hire)

We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside.

I put together a new site ATProtocol Dev where I’m going to be hosting tech talks and resources about open social protocols.

My first set of talks will look at emerging Proto Apps that go beyond microblogging.

The FeathersJS team wrote up a trip report of their DWeb Camp experience, as well as David’s presentation at the Causal Islands Tiny Talks in SF.

Signed up for Spaceship, a new domain registrar that is in fact Namecheap, but starting over with a new brand and new codebase.

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.