As much as I love fancy tooling, it pretty much always bites me in the rear whenever I stray even slightly from the happy path in their README.
This message brought to you by trying to use fastify and swagger and multipart/formdata at the same time. 🙃 Very surprising that it's not just built in. I'm guessing people that use swagger don't generally use file uploads?
One reason I want to create an @agregore OS based on Chrome OS is that there's loads of #ChromeBook e-waste that could be repurposed into #p2p #meshnetwork nodes.
They're probably cheaper to get a hold of than other computers since there's so many being flooded as schools buy and get rid of them.
Adding p2p mesh stuff and de-googling them somewhat would be useful to bring utility to folks with less means or in situations where always-on internet just isn't viable.
Really cool video by @b5 looking at optimizations over #kademlia #dht algos by taking latency into account when searching for data. Seems like it would be very useful for #p2p and #localfirst protocols.
i just let rip a new piece of writing:
a year-long observation on trends in the peer-to-peer space, namely the appearance of companies building platforms on top. outlined are a few of these platform companies, accompanied by questions regarding expected futures, as well as a small essay on the importance of community infrastructure
2 days till Open Brush 2.0! Next up is another hugely requested feature... 🥁
Layers support!
You can now organise your sketches with up to eight layers. ✨
Easily show/hide your references or drafting lines, merge and delete, it even works with exports! #vr #ar #opensource
We'll know the #fediverse has finally made it to the mainstream when we start seeing screenshots of posts on people's Instagram reels.
i think in general i feel that software developers are not meaningful innovators, or rather, i do not trust them to come up with a reliable encoding for a system (reputation) that whole disciplines have studiously avoided encoding because of its fluidity and relativity. so when a dev says to me, "we don't need more mods, we just need TrustPoints (TM)" i get very skeptical
It's amazing that database queries work at all given how groady some of the join pyramids people use are.
#SQL is powerful as hell but the evil magic that goes into making it possible is pretty intense.
excellent new post by @cblgh reflecting on the rise of commercial #p2p: https://cblgh.org/p2p-commercialization/
Does #ActivityPub have a spec for communities to expose their combined timeline?
I think that would be super cool to combine with #p2p indexing where you could follow entire instances by lazily querying data from their timline index on the fly instead of needing to load everything on your server first.
Playing #HypnospaceOutlaw really helped put the fedi into context for me.
They did a good job of giving the aesthetic of random trolls and blogs on the internet just kinda existing in their tiny communities.
It helps that they have a 90's/00's retro aesthetic, but it's pretty much just a more exaggerated version of what we have now.
Main thing I learned from shopping around for instances is that there's a lot of cool color schemes and themes on the fediverse and that isn't reflected in the feeling of browsing fedi from a client.
it'd be cool if we had a spec to add a background/font style to let people express themselves more openly.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.