Jan

Looking very SF out there. Ventured out got coffee and burrito. Tried to expose myself to sunlight early to reset the body clock.

@janfj.bsky.social flight got cancelled due to hitting something on runway so he won’t be here until tomorrow.

I’ll take the opportunity to sit and write for the day

Sync Conf Community Day · Luma After the main day of Sync Conf, we're running a community day! We'll be open from 10am - 5:30pm and can use the space for small group discussions, demos,…

Join us on 13. November in SF if you are interested in next gen browser architecture and user agency luma.com/l28n75qt

for Server User-Agents Notes from the 41st IIW

its.whenthetimeca.me/p/for-server...

photo of a guy demoing a better browser

Darc/Xenon demo from @janfj.bsky.social and @lukeinth.bsky.social

a web page that is a browser that can load itself

Honestly, i am very excited reading this. Can't say i understand 100% of the architecture and protocol but at least it is not fundamentally tied to p2p like radicle or a central corp like github.

A photo of a silicongraphics Undo, which did not have the case crease typical of its sister, the Indy. It's a cyan blue computer against a white sheet background, taken in a promo photo style.

SGI Undo.

Open Book In which Lyre Calliope sets expectations for this leaflet publication

I'm starting a @leaflet.pub publication! Leaflet is an app that uses the AT Protocol just like Bluesky which I think is hella cool.
This is separate from my blog @SpaceCadets.love and will be a bit more frequent and informal.
Subscribe to both! More info in my first leaflet.

We need a new cdp browser automation library that:
- is js
- does not auto attach but surgically limits its attach behaviour to minimum
- tries to be as stateless as possible

is there anything out there i am not aware of?

After spending a day with @playwright.dev protocol I am just shocked how bad it uses cdp. It does everything in the worst most greedy and inefficient way that could only ever be useful in a testing environment where you have short lived full browser instances launched for your little task.

“[Web literacy] it’s really for me about helping people gain autonomy and empowerment and liberation from these extractive, colonialist forces at play,” Chartier said. “It’s such a powerful medium to disseminate and distribute information. And I don’t think we’ve really discovered as a species how to actually realize that potential.” – Gabriel Chartier

❇️

btw if anyone has projects on vercel that they would like to move I'd be happy to help 👋🏿

A picture of a yellowed-platinum beige textured sphere with a rainbow apple logo on it, and a cable running off into the distance.

Power Macintosh G3 Orb.

Implicit Feudalism: Why Online Communities Still Haven’t Caught Up with My Mother’s Garden Club Alongside whatever else mothers and sons talk about, I have begun receiving regular updates on the governance of my mother’s neighborhood garden club. They make

"Implicit Feudalism: Why Online Communities Still Haven’t Caught Up with My Mother’s Garden Club" by Nathan Schneider (2021)

www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...

What a glorious day :)

actual lol

Darc now running perfectly in helium browser @wukko.me Its a perfect match, helium as the streamlined minimal browser engine and darc as the maximalist everything browser UI

and im not talking about usability, eg. i can never remember the flags for curl or git, but the inverse is also not true.

the feeling of something a bit bolted together where things fall apart at unexpected places or where it mostly works but it does not feel like you should trust it. (eg. homebrew)

Don't have good examples and its quite fuzzy, sorry. Don't you know this feeling of using a solid, well build, responsive piece of software where the error modes make sense, the behaviour is usually how you would expect and you feel like its something you can rely and build on (eg. curl) vs.

im genuinely interested, im sure in the cases where its great i dont even see its ruby or python so i only see things like github, homebrew or dvc, dagter etc.

just as in great software. fun to use, failure modes that make sense, assumptions that make sense. feel like properly build. feel like not obvious they would have been much better if done another way. feel like the language and runtime are not a "thing" that is always in the way.

Is there anything ever created in python or ruby that is "good"?

A photo oof a Macintosh SE on a Macintosh Table, a wooden stylised kind of 80s looking table, with a glass vase of blue purple (irises?), external drive, mousepad and a pen & writing folder next to it, and an actual clock. to the lower left is a cabinet attached to the inside of the desk with books, probably real manuals, standing up in it. The whole scene is in front of a stonewashed denim looking photographic backdrop.

This is as far as computing should have ever been allowed to get.

A photo of a closeup of a CPU on a logic board. The CPU is dark with a frosted dark translucent cover that shows rows of registers and such as dotted red lights shining through.

The Macintosh Quadra 605 Connection Machine had the prettiest insides of any Apple machine, but was hidden inside the case of a barely upgradeable machine.

It's estimated only nine people ever got to see the CM040's blinkenlights.

A Macintosh Quadra inside a bun with cheese, pickles, sauce and onions. A Quadra Pounder with Cheese.

Quadra Pounder with Cheese

photo of a sculpture of a man in a business suit who is kinda centaur-like but with a wolf back half, walking and holding two gas cans

friday feels

User & Agents demo time hangout later today on discord.

discord.gg/Tdp46pRq?eve...

Thanks that means a lot, happy to engage in any other channel if you get some reply.

Isn't it crazy there were no stories of billionaires who had an email client or browser custom built just for their liking? They do that with yachts but use gmail like everyone else?

@notwes.bsky.social Exciting to see first falcor commits in years, what is the current status of usage at netflix? I think im still the last active user and would love to keep it alive. Especially now that the industry hysteria about graphql is over it might be time for a revival?