Trees in the park
Month: May 2019
Yellow
I like this concept of “local-first software”. This is a very comprehensive survey.
Foundational part of it are Conflict-free Replicated Data Types. Can’t say I know a thing about the details, but they sound pretty good:
CRDTs emerged from academic computer science research in 2011. They are general-purpose data structures, like hash maps and lists, but the special thing about them is that they are multi-user from the ground up.
Just as packet switching was an enabling technology for the Internet and the web, or as capacitive touchscreens were an enabling technology for smartphones, so we think CRDTs may be the foundation for collaborative software that gives users full ownership of their data.
Motherfucking Brexit Party. What the fucking fuckity fuck.
Communication is vital for refugees.
Mobile Refugee Support are an amazing org providing charging stations, wi-fi access, and device repairs for refugees in Calais and Dunkirk in Northern France.
You can donate old phones, cables, power banks to them if you have any going spare. (Probably easiest if you’re in the UK, but you can post them I think.)
Legends of Catalonia
#StreetArt #London
Also, don’t hesitate to write about little ideas and observations that might seem too small or unimportant to share. We all have our unique perspectives and even the smallest experience is worth sharing.
This is so true. Everyone brings a different perspective. The view of someone completely new to a topic always shines new light.
Thinking about privacy, and what we choose to reveal and not reveal on online, following the session in Utrecht. It made me remember ‘gevulot’ from the book The Quantum Thief.
Gevulot is a form of privacy practised in the Oubliette. It involved complex cryptography and the exchange of public and private keys, to ensure that individuals only shared that information or sensory data that they wished to. Gevulot was disabled in agoras.
Gevulot comes from Hebrew meaning “boundary”.
David Shanske from david.shanske.comOur first episode since January. David Shanske and Chris Aldrich get caught up on some recent IndieWebCamps, an article about IndieWeb in The New Yorker, changes within WordPress, and upcoming events.
GWG: “If you’re not there, it isn’t raining”
Came for the IndieWeb. Stayed for the poetry.
(Learned about some nice new features in IndieWeb WordPress too – including On This Day posts, and being able to have a feed where you exclude certain post types.)