Daily Journal 📓

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.

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.

We’ve got a new network at Z-Space so I found QiFi, a pure JS qrcode generator to make a code for people to scan and automatically connect to the visitor wifi.

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