Daily Journal 📓 December 2023

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






⭐️ sissbruecker/linkding Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

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⭐️ localForage/localForage 💾 Offline storage, improved. Wraps IndexedDB, WebSQL, or localStorage using a simple but powerful API.

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- If your domains / email are with NetNation, that is actually Hostway, and these email settings are what you need to set up your IMAP and SMTP https://support.hostway.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000368264-How-do-I-configure-my-email-client-General-Instructions-imap-settings - Webmail is available at https://webmail.netnation.com/appsuite - If your MX records are mx.siteprotect.com for a domain (use dnsrecords.io to check), this should work - For Mattermost on Cloudron, you can go into /app/data/config.json and change settings Commons Computer - In this case, I have my first user that never…

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  • Examining crypto’s product-market fit by polynya #crypto
    • A primer, first. Public blockchains are centralised, unfair, and inefficient. For almost everything, they are useless, if not outrightly dangerous. Humans and our societies are extremely complex and nuanced, and expressing subjectivity is simply not possible with blockchains. However, for a couple of things, they are invaluable, and the only way to achieve them. Broadly, these are usecases that require strict global consensus, something objective money and objective identity require. With that said, let’s get right into the usecases


- The platformisation of software development: Connective coding and platform vernaculars on GitHub Github opensource - I’m still tracking down Open Source 2.0 as a concept. This mention of “post-F/OSS” is perhaps one example - They propose the concept of post-F/OSS to describe a platform culture that co-exists alongside F/OSS and proprietary coding. This comprises widespread practices of publicly posting mundane code projects without a licence and with little to no documentation to help users understand these projects. According to Fuller et al., this ‘general indifference to the discussions…

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- Ben Yoskovitz writes about Venture Studios future of venture on LinkedIn - Venture studios are emerging as a legitimate asset class. It's an interesting way of thinking about it, because it warrants further clarity and definitions, without being overly prescriptive. - Created Venture Studio Checklist, a GSheet working through different models - 1. Internal Company Structure and Methodology: This covers how you’ll structure your studio, how you’ll work (including the framework/playbook/process you’ll use for validating startups) and the makeup of your team. - 2. The Founders: Next, you deep…

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