Empowering Developers, Disrupting the Norm!
Acorn | Open Source P2P Project Management for Software Teams
Agile project management made simple. Open-source, peer-to-peer, perfect for remote teams.
The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords
On Betraying Principles
Why Creative Commons must be about more than reducing friction on reuse This week, I had the experience of being told the work we are doing at Creative Commons right now is betraying the founding principles of the organization. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last.
TIL: Iroh: peer-to-peer networking for app developers
I came across Iroh (via, via) today as it hit 1.0 and found it a really interesting solution to a problem I knew existed but had not thought a lot about. Judging from the comment sections, it seems pretty clear that lots of people are confused as to exactly what Iroh is. I don’t think their launch post does their product justice at all, and their tagline is “IP addresses break, dial keys instead” which sounds cool, but if you think about it for just a second, you’ll end up with lots of questions. The biggest one is: “so how is this different from a mesh VPN like Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netbird, etc.?” It’s only after reading a lot of developers’ comments on the threads that I feel I understand: Iroh is aimed at application developers who want to communicate P2P between machines running their app, while mesh networks are aimed at network admins who want to connect devices they own/manage together.
CodePen 2.0
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the pl…
Software Should Be Allowed to Be Weird - Ewan’s Blog
A fairly large amount of the software I write would probably die in a corporate planning meeting. There would be questions about the target audience, the bu…
Can AT Protocol Fix Monolithic Platforms?
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.
Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
Spritely Institute
Spritely is building the next generation of decentralized networking technology.
Deep dive into iroh: A replacement for WireGuard or a P2P layer for your application?
Just last week, the iroh project announced the release of its v1.0. What is iroh? Well, I'm glad you're asking because it's a very interesting project that I'm following for
Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
If you’re like me and you’re trying to keep an open mind that there may someday be a non-scam application of blockchains, you’ve probably read some articles about “Web3”, which promises to re-decentralize the web by something something Blockchain.
Ep. 19 | AT Proto, MCP, and Open Source with Nick Gerakines - Overcommitted | Software Engineering and Tech Careers Insights - Episode 19
Summary In this episode of the Overcommitted podcast, hosts Bethany, Brittany, and Erika engage with guest Nick Gerakines to explore the intricacies of the AT Protocol, its implications for user data ownership, and the evolution of social media platforms. The...
Open Forks of Boring Apps With Authority - Woodys Rows
The Atmosphere can win by becoming the foundation for software people already need to use because of real-world relationships.
third-party apis: community infrastructure on atproto - Keith's Thoughts
you can just build things from an open set of tools
microcosm: atproto building blocks
Open-source atproto services and resilient community infrastruture to launch your next app