Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...
If you work at one of the large tech companies that, in the last few weeks [or months], have laid off thousands of employees, you may be wondering what the hell is going on. Especially if the company you’re working for is not actually struggling economically right now. If you work for Google, say, you must be thinking, “What...
One of the best features of Lemmy is that it supports a combination of image and text. I wish including the source link of a comic would be a standard practice on the fediverse, just like alt-text already is....
Oxide is a personal project that takes inspiration from the principles discussed in “Notes on a Smaller Rust” and its follow-up, “Revisiting a ‘smaller Rust’”. It aims to explore a new language design that simplifies and optimizes the development process while inheriting Rust’s best qualities.
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages....
I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism....
Kitsune is still pre-alpha so it’s not yet ready for production use, but it’s getting very close now and several new contributors have come along to help out....
Social bookmarking is a novel use case for ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything....
Tauri 1.0 was released in June 2022 and introduced an app toolkit for developers to build apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with the security and performance of Rust. Tauri has been pivotal in redefining and asking the question: “What is an app?”...
I’m already sponsoring Voyager on GitHub, but now that the app even exists on the AppStore I really hope you’ll consider adding an actual Paid Subscription, as many of your users (probably most) don’t even have a GitHub account....
Groups as both a formal ActivityPub spec and general concept deeply invigorate me. I previously wrote about group-to-group following (FEP-d36d) as the missing glue layer to successfully transition /r/rust to the threadiverse....
Cyber is an embeddable language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting, ideal for rapid iteration in games and app development. Made with Zig....
The proletarianization of tech workers (doctorow.medium.com)
archive.ph/hMZPi...
GitLab plans support for ActivityPub (gitlab.com)
Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing ActivityPub! 🙌...
Matrix 2.0: Radically faster client, OAuth logins and native video calls (matrix.org)
Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? (davekarpf.substack.com)
On Marc Andreessen’s “techno-optimist manifesto”...
An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer (medium.com)
If you work at one of the large tech companies that, in the last few weeks [or months], have laid off thousands of employees, you may be wondering what the hell is going on. Especially if the company you’re working for is not actually struggling economically right now. If you work for Google, say, you must be thinking, “What...
Normalize including links with comics
One of the best features of Lemmy is that it supports a combination of image and text. I wish including the source link of a comic would be a standard practice on the fediverse, just like alt-text already is....
Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web (spectrum.ieee.org)
How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens...
Age of Coordination (blog.erlend.sh)
Oxide: A Proposal for a new Rust-inspired Llanguage - Inspired by 'Notes on a Smaller Rust' (github.com)
Oxide is a personal project that takes inspiration from the principles discussed in “Notes on a Smaller Rust” and its follow-up, “Revisiting a ‘smaller Rust’”. It aims to explore a new language design that simplifies and optimizes the development process while inheriting Rust’s best qualities.
Federated Webrings (blog.commune.sh)
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages....
What Meta-corp can give the fediverse: Money (blog.erlend.sh)
I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism....
Announcing Comfy - a new fun 2d game engine in Rust/wgpu (github.com)
A few relevant links:...
Kitsune 0.0.1-pre.4 — Lightweight ActivityPub server (github.com)
Really fast post parser, notifications, OpenTelemetry, dedicated job runner, and more!...
Kitsune v0.0.1-pre.3 - lightweight APub server made with Rust (github.com)
Kitsune is still pre-alpha so it’s not yet ready for production use, but it’s getting very close now and several new contributors have come along to help out....
Beyond Discord (blog.commune.sh)
Like any other major network incumbent, Discord cannot simply be side-stepped altogether; appropriate off-ramps are required....
Evergreen content gardens (blog.erlend.sh)
Social bookmarking is a novel use case for ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything....
Roadmap to Tauri 2.0 — The Mobile Update (beta.tauri.app)
Tauri 1.0 was released in June 2022 and introduced an app toolkit for developers to build apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with the security and performance of Rust. Tauri has been pivotal in redefining and asking the question: “What is an app?”...
Ultima-like RPG creator Eldiron seeks feedback on v1.0 criteria (github.com)
Eldiron is currently under active development and a v1 is planned for 2023. Eldiron is open source and licensed under the MIT....
Leptos v0.5 — Islands architecture, static site generation and lots more (github.com)
Docs: leptos-rs.github.io/leptos/...
Paid subscriptions without DRM - the open source way
I’m already sponsoring Voyager on GitHub, but now that the app even exists on the AppStore I really hope you’ll consider adding an actual Paid Subscription, as many of your users (probably most) don’t even have a GitHub account....
Group Convergence (blog.erlend.sh)
Groups as both a formal ActivityPub spec and general concept deeply invigorate me. I previously wrote about group-to-group following (FEP-d36d) as the missing glue layer to successfully transition /r/rust to the threadiverse....
Cyber v0.3 - New JIT compiler, Embed API and lots more (cyberscript.dev)
Cyber is an embeddable language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting, ideal for rapid iteration in games and app development. Made with Zig....
Rauthy (OIDC provider) v0.20.0 – encrypted backups automation · bot and spam protection with spow · separate users cache (github.com)
Rauthy is an OpenID Connect (OIDC) Provider and Single Sign-On solution written in Rust.