Daily Journal 📓 March 2021

⭐️ TylerJewell/DevLandscape Developer-Led Landscape

- Many are more familiar with the Chrome DevTools console than they are with a Unix command-line prompt. More familiar with WebSockets than BSD sockets, MDN than man pages. Bash and Zsh scripts calling into native code will never go away. But JavaScript and TypeScript scripts calling into WebAssembly code will be increasingly common. Many developers, we think, prefer web-first abstraction layers. — Announcing the Deno Company - The people behind the Deno programming language announce a commercial company with venture investment. - Not pursuing open core, full MIT License for the language. -…

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⭐️ crewdevio/Snel A Cybernetical tool for svelte applications on deno

⭐️ NicolasPetton/Notebook Notebook is a clean, uncluttered theme for TiddlyWiki.

⭐️ NicolasPetton/Shields SImple TiddlyWIki plugin to render project badges

⭐️ NicolasPetton/Projectify Project management for TiddlyWiki

- @levelsio writes about how you can’t really contact him, on purpose. - Reading public tweets sent to me, and replying. People behave much better in public messages than in direct messages, so that's also nice. And the message length limit really helps keep things efficient. - This is really not how I’m wired. I like meeting people and getting on calls with them. But, I already do mostly answer things publicly, work on my digital garden here, and blog so I can share the same answer multiple times. - Also makes me think about Derek Sivers You Don’t Have to Be Local https://sive.rs/local - I…

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⭐️ buggyj/tiddlyclip webclipper for tiddlywikis

⭐️ thediveo/TW5FontAwesome ⚑ Embedding Font Awesome in TW5

⭐️ silvyn/tw-n0d1 Un TiddlyWiki prêt à l’emploi avec mes personnalisations favorites

⭐️ saqimtiaz/streams TiddlyWiki plugin for rapid data entry with a keyboard driven workflow. Divide content into smaller tiddlers as you write.

⭐️ Marxsal/Quinoid01 Application to use TiddlyWiki on Android

⭐️ Marxsal/TiddlyGoo TiddlyGoo is a project for sharing Google spreadsheets with TiddlyWiki files. Currently it consists of the plugin “sheetsin” which imports spreadsheet tabs and contents. See the associated website for demo and details.

⭐️ Marxsal/tw-resources Listing of TiddlyWiki Resources available somewhere out there

⭐️ ageitgey/medium_to_ghost Instantly move all your Medium.com content (formatted posts + images) to an open source Ghost blog!

• Ari’s Garden Electronic Cookbook App

• Open source ElmLang and NodeJS app for recipes, with actual helpers in the app to help during cooking.

• The main site is at https://arisgarden.theiceshelf.com/

• Looking at #recipe formats again because @icidasset was asking what the best apps are. I’ve never found one I like for a variety of reasons.

• Paprika Recipe Manager was the one that most people recommended.

• Google has this JSON-LD format for structured recipe data. As well as rich search results, it can be used by “assistants” to read out by voice.

⭐️ floccusaddon/floccus :cloud: Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices

⭐️ benwebber/srd5 :dragon: Export data from Systems Reference Document (SRD)

⭐️ CondeNast/atjson atjson is a living content format for annotating content

⭐️ paulmillr/noble-bls12-381 DEPRECATED: use noble-curves instead. Fastest JS implementation of BLS12-381.

• I’m finding it pleasant to flesh out Moa Party pages on the website.

• It’s small, and it’s a constrained area of knowledge. The notes graph is fun to look at.

• I worked on the Pleroma and ActivityPub pages, which was fun learning a bit more about those two things and gathering links and descriptions.

- Kevin Drum: Why have blog audiences declined over the past decade? blogging - Short (theoretical) answer: RSS impacts the insertion of advertising. - You can’t separate the software from the community that built it. Therefore, true openness must dictate how that community is formed and run. We are what we choose to tolerate; in the same way that free software communities do not tolerate proprietary lock-in, they should not tolerate exclusionary social practices that lock people out. — Ben Werdmuller Equitable Community Software - Computers and Creativity, Molly Mielke: - “Computers and…

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⭐️ gordonbrander/lettersmith_py Python tools for static site generation

⭐️ filecoin-project/filecoin-docs Filecoin Docs

⭐️ knadh/tg-archive A tool for exporting Telegram group chats into static websites like mailing list archives.

⭐️ usecanvas/logoot-js JavaScript implementation of the Logoot CRDT

⭐️ sil-org/certmagic-storage-dynamodb DynamoDB storage implementation for CertMagic

- https://github.com/knadh/tg-archive - A tool for exporting Telegram group chats into static websites, preserving chat history like mailing list archives. - Run Python locally, syncs to SQLite local DB and then lets you generate a static site. Uses Telethon library. - Single file Jinja HTML template for generating the static site. RSS feed created. - Internet Connectivity Working Group at the Bowen Island Municipality from 2016. - There’s a discussion about community economic development on Bowen Island going on, and I submitted the suggestion of a Community ISP. - I think this could be done…

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⭐️ TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWikiLinks Link aggregator for the TiddlyWiki community

⭐️ lumenpink/curld cURL for Distributed Web

• The American Dream is Going Digital

• Naturally, the mom-and-pop businesses of today are YouTubers, Twitch streamers, Shopify dropshippers, webcomic artists, podcast hosts, Tik Tok stars, OnlyFans creators, indie game developers, streetwear resellers, Etsy store owners, Clubhouse hosts, Substack writers, and many, many more. Deploying on top of the distribution railroad tracks that have been competitively laid by internet platforms over the past decades, addressable online customers have never been more abundant.

• via (and by) @cpaik

⭐️ bgins/fission-sharing-public-files A demonstration of webnative public links

⭐️ chiffre-io/chiffre Privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted analytics

- The High Blogging Era, defined by Robin Sloan as mid-2000s. Hmmm. I was there and was a part of it, and RSS and blogs was all there was, before Twitter and Facebook etcetera that then became labeled as social media. - Google Reader removed social features in 2011, and was shut down in 2013. I think the “high” era more properly is the mid 2000s until the fall of Reader. When many people were blogging, not just the early few. Maybe 8 years? A good run. - But everyone will have their own nostalgia tinged view. - Are we at the beginning of digital gardens and Second Brains? Will this be looked…

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• Today was a team activity day at Fission. Two RPG sessions playing DnD over Zoom. A new experience, I think everyone enjoyed it.
• A good excuse to use our new TiddlyWiki app to write down notes on my character.

• Community-curated knowledge networks @sariazout

• We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks 

(a thread on why)

• Set up #Gitlab Service Desk for Moa Party, including forwarding email from Google Domains.

• It’s really interesting to have a shared email inbox included in the service for free. Will be interesting to see how many people use it.

⭐️ jlengstorf/rehype-local-image-to-cloudinary

⭐️ karlicoss/HPI Human Programming Interface 🧑👽🤖

⭐️ rcaden/Frontier UserLand Frontier is a web application development platform that includes a scripting language, integrated object database, code editor, debugger, outliner, multi-threaded runtime and integrated HTTP server. It has been used as a weblog and website hosting service, local scripting environment and web services client and server.

• The presentation I gave to the #IPFS Local Offline Collab group is on Hackernews

⭐️ uso-archive/data Full mirror of UserStyles.org

⭐️ sveltejs/kit web development, streamlined

⭐️ SnapDrop/snapdrop A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

• I find most of the tension between the recently labeled content web vs app web.
• The people who complain about unreadable pages bloated with JS to read a blog post are right.
• The people who want to build local first, browser-centric apps are right.
• From a discussion in the wikilinks Matrix channel with @karlicoss

• Micro.blog just moved their help site to Discourse: New help center using Discourse.
• Great to see. It has SSO with your existing Micro.blog account.

⭐️ authelia/authelia The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.

⭐️ kilomeow/TiddlyWiki-FissionPublisher TiddlyWiki plugin that adds support of exporting TiddlyWiki as a static blog to fission.codes platform

• Just learning more about Google’s third party cookie replacement, FLoC, Federated Learning of Cohorts. The EFF says: Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea.

⭐️ rosano/hyperdraft Turn your notes into a website.

- Just prepaid for a year of Beeper. This is letting me "jump the line" and get into the beta. Plus, I reserved my username as @boris there. It is supposed to connect all your messaging apps in one "app" -- even iMessage on non-Apple systems, through a jail broken iPhone. - I really do have the need for a unified messaging app. I'm not super interested in a proprietary paid service to do it, but I'd like to try it out. - @acroll is posting on Substack. I don’t understand why he’s posting somewhere without mapping it to his own domain name. - His latest is Nothing in the middle, about the…

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⭐️ mariusor/brutalinks Link aggregator inspired by (old)reddit using ActivityPub federation. (mirror repository)

⭐️ replikativ/datahike Versioned, fast, distributed Datalog engine for everyone.

- I got invited to Simon Wardley’s every two week “interesting people” video chat. Lots of discussion around Wardley Maps, a bit of serverless thrown in. An interesting group of people. Some have tracked me down on either LinkedIn or Twitter. - For the next call, the suggested topic is to look at applying mapping to health / healthcare. - This connects directly to @tonzylstra’s recent post It’s more logical to host an event than attend one. - Someone day I will publish the extensive chat notes and article links between @hitsmachines and I, talking about NFTs and art. - The answer to some of…

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⭐️ WICG/privacy-preserving-ads Privacy-Preserving Ads

- Vanilla JavaScript Repository - A listing of single purpose scripts and widgets that use Vanilla JavaScript rather than being part of a larger framework. - Microsoft is proposing a [privacy-preserving advertising approach]() called PARAKEET. - via @johnwilander - who works for Apple on the Safari tracking prevention team. - From discussing with Claire, also related to Google’s FLoC, and this article Building a privacy-first future for web advertising. - Just bought There Is No Antimemetics Division: - An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic…

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• Digital Favela and High Tech Gothic is my short hand for two future states, as described by Bruce Sterling.

• ARCHIVED I’ll flesh out those notes later, here’s one transcription of the original talk which is actually labeled Gothic Chic in the Future Favela.

⭐️ androolloyd/dappnode-urbit

⭐️ Jermolene/tiddlywiki-on-fission TiddlyWiki Application for Fission

- More agora thoughts: what about pulling in openly licensed general purpose Git content? - For instance, terms.dev is a repository of software industry terms and definitions. It uses the Zola engine to build the live site, but the source is Markdown in git. - Well, this @ctbeiser Twitter thread will help point me towards lots of other notes to flesh out: - if you were making a syllabus on tools for thought what would be your key inclusions? especially interested in ones beyond the “obvious list”: - Englebart Augmenting Human Intellect - As We May Think - Plans and Situated Action - Inventing…

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- I keep looking at Microlink so I guess I should at least post a quick journal log before I write it up more: - From the home page: - Browser as API Fast, scalable, and reliable browser automation built for businesses and developers. Proudly open source. - You can turn websites into structured data, take screenshots, turn pages into PDFs, and more. Power embeds, etc - The list of open source components is super interesting. - Brave Browser bought a search engine, “promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version”. - Good timing for clearing my tabs of other…

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⭐️ benawad/dogehouse Taking voice conversations to the moon 🚀

⭐️ jaredwray/keyv Simple key-value storage with support for multiple backends

• I have to do some more Webfinger research.

• I added a file to this site at .well-known/webfinger to try out delegating a remotestorage account, and it worked!

• More details on the Fission forum, working with @rosano.

• What else speaks Webfinger and can be delegated like this? It’s very IndieWeb feeling.

⭐️ ipfs/local-offline-collab Local Offline Collaboration Special Interest Group

⭐️ OokTech/TW5-Bob A plugin that makes tiddlywiki a multi-user wiki on node

⭐️ jaredpalmer/tsdx Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

⭐️ joshuafontany/VSCode-TW5-Syntax TiddlyWiki5 Syntax Highlighting for Visual Studio Code

Nothing on fire that can’t just burn until morning.