It feels weird to me that the state of tech means having a billion apps for chat and no unified system for consuming those chats.
Like, why is it I need to jump through hoops to get my signal and telegram channels in one place.
Modern tech really can't compare to scifi in terms of being useful and cool.
The local-only web.
With the File System API there's an interesting area of the web (kinda pioneered by TiddyWiki and put into practice by logseq) of having web apps store their data outside of their normal sandbox and not synced to the cloud.
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@octodon.social 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
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.