Daily Journal 📓 December 2022

Shorter dated entries, links, and microblogs, plus GitHub & Tangled stars.

Dec 202212:00am

- Followgraph for Mastodon - An app that allows you to see who your followers are following - via Gordon Brander boosting Pawel Orzech - Computer History by Graydon Hoare history of computing - I was asked over on mastodon whether I had any recommendations for studying either the period of computer history post-WW2 (thus "post invention of stored-program digital computers") or even pre-WW2 (thus "all the random stuff we used before then"). - Includes a reading list https://openlibrary.org/people/graydon2/lists/OL218915L/computerhistory - Ben Brown announces Shuttlecraft “a social media server…

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Dec 202212:00am

- One of my favorite Engelbart sayings might relate to the ‘Mastodon is too confusing to learn’ claim. Paraphrasing, he said that if ease of use was the ultimate aim for a tool, the bicycle would never have evolved beyond the tricycle. Howard Rheingold Nov 17th, 2022 mastodon.social Mastodon quote Douglas Engelbart - via Harold Jarche mastodon musings - Archive your Tweets with Tweetback, a Twitter/Archive by Zach Leatherman powered by Eleventy - Tweetback looks like it can handle 50K archives like mine - And: Tweetback/Canonical maps archives to each other - Attempted to install Littlefoot…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Priorities to Make the Fediverse Sustainable by Alek Tarkowski - via Ton Zijlstra, who asks for examples of large Mastodon instances contributing code maintenance upstream - Mentions commons based peer production which immediately makes me take notice - Yes, we should be pooling software engineering time to maintain and improve software! - Points out the BDFL model of the Mastodon codebase: - The production model of Mastodon also has consequences for its governance. GitHub statistics show that @Gargron has single-handedly produced and committed at least 80% of Mastodon’s code. But more…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Mastodon Brought a Protocol to a Product Fight by M. G. Siegler Mastodon protocol collapsed:: true - Yes it’s a great title and line - He seems to be expecting a Twitter competitor to go toe to toe with, and doesn’t believe in protocols - Mastodon and mastodon.social not being better integrated or run at scale is a problem of that project — a product issue, for sure - This should mostly be seen as the starting gun of an opportunity for many different people to experiment with social network products on top of the ActivityPub protocol - Is RSS - in blogging form or podcast form? - the…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Git Gud Git collapsed:: true - via replies to Tim Bray asking for git tutorial recommendations - IndieVC is back future of venture collapsed:: true - Got forwarded an email by Campbell Macdonald that bryce sent out - That pairs with this article Sea Change by Oaktree Capital, looking at what changing (higher) interest rates do to investing generally - I think When Tailwinds Vanish: The Internet in the 2020s still applies here — you have a competitive advantage with 10-100x changes in tech, or you operationalize execution using next gen techniques - Perhaps the open question is, how much a…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Unbundling Tools for Thought - I’ve written something like six or seven personal wikis over the past decade. It’s actually an incredibly advanced form of procrastination - I can feel this! Basically what I’ve found is that I need to be able to write and be able to publish from mobile as my baseline in order to use the thing! - via Abraham - The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 - 44M to 80M Matrix IDs in the main global network - ((63af8f03-71a9-4ae0-96d0-20f8af929184)) - Besides the good news, Matrix needs funding, Matrix Foundation is setting up to do more of this -…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Am I reading the Internet and posting links on Christmas? collapsed:: true - I am! Christmas Eve is my traditional German celebration - Cory Doctorow What the fediverse (does/n't) solve collapsed:: true - Links to Cat Valente Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media - I’m so tired of just harmlessly getting together with other weird geeks and going to what amounts to a digital pub after work and waking up one day to find every pint poisoned. - Twitter is and was the home to so many small artists who clawed their way to an…

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Dec 202212:00am

- A Tweet Before Dying by Paul Ford in Wired - Paul Miller new elliptic curve cryptography library, via @paulmillr on Twitter - Announcing noble-curves: the culmination of work on elliptic curve cryptography. - Pkg defines ed25519, ed448, secp256k1, P384, P521, bls12-381, bn254, pasta, stark curves. - Edwards, Weierstrass, Montgomery primitives, hash2curve & pairings are also in. - https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-curves - Pedro Gomez in the Twitter thread asks why the new library, some great background from Paul - Supply chain security: no dependencies, or minimal dependency on a package…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Pace layers in science and technology by Konrad Hinsen via Gordon Brander and Subconscious/Discord Discord thread link pace layering - Had a catch up call with Rosano collapsed:: true - “Welcome to the show” edition - In Berlin - Looking at a hack on the beach event - Some travel to Vietnam, Malaysia - Vietnamese food recommendations from a recent meal at Do Chay foodwiki - Specifically Banh Xeo Crepe - Consolidating on Ghost for lots of things - Members - Apps - Updates, where Updates from apps are available to all users - Maybe take Ghost content and put it in GitHub so people can make…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Barnard’s Star and the ‘Wait Equation’ collapsed:: true - via Matt Webb Do not buy three decades of loo paper, nor depart today for Barnard’s Star - Current technology would allow us to reach Barnard’s Star in 12,000 years, setting off today. - Or: wait. - If technology growth is likely to double every 100 years the speed at which this journey could be made, then, using equation –1, it would seem that a voyager need only wait 690 years or so to make the journey in 100 years or less (i.e. at a speed of 6/100 speed of light). In other words, the star could be reached in well under a thousand…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Web app manifests - New to me feature of having LogSeq notes as files on iOS — Spotlight indexes them! - If you do a regular search, the Files section of results will show matching content - Here’s an example search for “cloud” - - Clicking on them brings up the Markdown plain text file - Apps can use the Spotlight API to customize this directly in their app (and it would be useful for LogSeq to do this), but “just” having files on disk be part of the index automatically is pretty great — integration through the file system in action - I wrote about Indie Kit yesterday and it turns out…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Just reading through Yancey Strickler’s The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet again as I add it here since it’s linked from Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses - Uh… while he tags The Three Body Problem book right at the top, he is defining dark forest as the opposite of how I think about it - - No no — the Internet at large is a dark forest. The private spaces are cozy web - Anyway, it’s a good article. The ending, which talks about large open platforms becoming more dangerous as people of good intent leave, is very telling as people set up shop on Mastodon -…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses - This is an article from August 2021 - Incredibly dense, I’m still processing links and including linked articles around cozy web and dark forest - I actually sort of started RSS reading again, NetNewsWire on my phone - Mostly “old feeds” and getting rid of high volume stuff - Adding a few RSS feeds of Mastodon accounts of people, like Simon Wardley https://mastodon.online/@swardley.rss - First Impressions of Stage Manager on an Ultrawide Display - Tao of Mac Rui Carmo iPadOS Stage Manager - Plugging an iPad with a Bluetooth mouse…

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Dec 202212:00am

- Flipped over to Github/Pages for testing publishing - Available at https://logseq.bmannconsulting.com - Key point: need to go into LogSeq (three dots top right) → Settings → Editor, and toggle "All pages public when publishing" - DONE Figure out what the tagging custom is for public vs private pages to potentially combine my notes STARTED: [2026-09-22 Tue 00:15] CLOSED: [2026-09-22 Tue 00:15] - ARCHIVED Figure out LogSeq custom commands or some other way to get unicode arrows → from - - Posting about this new-but-temporary site - Can I post an image from mobile? - - Mobile screenshot of my…

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Dec 202212:00am
  • The Coming Game Engine Inflection Point

    • In 2022, game engines sit at the centre of a key ideological and economic battleground and the two most popular game engine companies face uncertain futures. What is the alternative?

  • Digital Life Collective Wardley Map 0.6
    • DL WARDLEY.pdf
    • Bottom of PDF says: Developed by Joachim Stroh
    • This has been sitting in my downloads folder for a while, and needs some annotation and looking for…where I got it from!
Dec 202212:00am

- Tom Macwright writes Playing with ActivityPub, on continuing to use his Jekyll static blog and adding federated photo sharing - via @[email protected] - Building at the Edges Podcast episode with Dan Romero from Farcaster Dan Romero Farcaster - Dan Romero is the co-founder of Farcaster, the decentralized social network that many in crypto are turning to as a Twitter alternative. Jess and Dan explore what it means to be a decentralized social network in 2022, the critical differences between stewarding an open protocol and a client, the transition from users to customers, and how to build for…

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Dec 202212:00am
  • Moved forward with CoSocial today
    • Met with Tim Bray
    • Explained what I know about and my experiences with Open Collective
    • Talked about potentially using ghost for membership management, using Stripe for collecting funds directly into the (future) co-op bank account
Dec 20229:05am

⭐️ makepad/makepad Makepad is a creative software development platform for Rust that compiles to wasm/webGL, osx/metal, windows/dx11 linux/opengl

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Dec 202212:00am

- collapsed:: true - Take responsibility for Social Media, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University - Perhaps the easiest to understand analogy is email: from a personal mail address like [email protected] you can reach anybody else, regardless of whether they have a Gmail address, a Hotmail address or another institutional mail address. - We propose that institutions should step up and take responsibility and host their own servers. Institutions, like universities, research centres, newspapers, publishers, broadcast companies, ministries and NGOs, all…

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