I think as web developers we have been collectively brainwashed into thinking that you must use React and Tailwind to create websites, when all you really need are vanilla web standards and a text editor. We should be making it easier to make websites than it is right now. You should not need a PhD in web design to create something that you can share and express yourself. We need more tools that make web development easy, not more tools that turn it into some 10 step build process #webdev
Low key been wanting to do this for years. (almost a decade?)
https://github.com/RangerMauve/mqtt-pattern
https://github.com/RangerMauve/mqtt-store
https://github.com/RangerMauve/mqtt-emitter
Probably in Rust tho so it can be embedded more easily.
Anyone wanna pay me to make an #MQTT inspired p2p database?
Holy shit this is incredibly good news https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes
Holy shit the new #Phi3 #LLM from microsoft is 3.8B params but performs better than a bunch of 7B models I've tried. Now I just need to find a way to get it to do function calling.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24137534/microsoft-phi-3-launch-small-ai-language-model
Ghost publishing platform joins the #fediverse with support for ActivityPub.
It’s fun seeing the support spread:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137296/ghost-newsletter-activitypub-fediverse-support
I have found it… the next evolution of curl | sudo sh
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/pdsadmin.sh
Shell script that takes a subcommand, downloads a script by the name of the subcommand from github, then executes it as root
@bryan @julia I have also said at one point that software should never be an experience, because if you are experiencing the software instead of the task that means the software is getting in the way or distracting you or both. The ideal user experience, IMO, is one where the software disappears entirely.
@gabrielesvelto @kbrosnan @fabrice @mhoye @mconley
I realise this thread has strayed way off its original topic, but... hot take:
Mozilla should bring back Firefox OS.
Putting decade-old company politics aside it was the most innovative and potentially disruptive thing Mozilla ever built, before and since, and is needed now more than ever.
For smartphones maybe, but also all manner of other smart devices where owning the OS is the only effective way to disrupt the incumbents.
i will have some availability to take on new client work in may! if there's anywhere my experience in graphics, full stack web development, game design/development, programming languages, or distributed systems can be helpful -- please reach out!
you'll not only be supporting me but my cooperative @emma too, which means supporting a democratically managed worker-owned workplace! which is cool!!!
boosts welcome!
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.