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Super well written, as usual.

Thank you @maggieappleton.com for the insight that that when I'm doing intellectual "weight lifting" with an LLM, I should really tune the context window to be more critical to compensate for a de-facto sycophancy bias.

> Tooling around Groups and Communities is where it's at

Talk so heavy @ngerakines.me 🗣️🗣️🗣️

the running gag around the office is "multipath will fix this", so we wrote a blog post about what the heck multipath is & why it's going to make everything better: www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-on...

@blinry.org has been cooking for a hot minute!

screenshot from Ethersync's readme where they say it's based on Automerge, Iroh and Magic Wormhole

good things go great together

@iroh.computer + @automerge.org + magic wormhole

github.com/ethersync/et...

iroh 0.91.0 - Making relays use established standards 🎆 Release of iroh v0.91.0

I'm thoroughly enjoying my breaking 0.9x releases ahead of 1.0 😁
This time: A new relay protocol!
But: This gives me a better handshake 🤝, some future optimization potential 🚀 and removes non-WebSocket code paths 🔥

All about this & what it means for relay compatibility in the release blog post:

big gesaffelstein energy

Kintsugi: Decentralized E2EE Key Recovery Kintsugi is a protocol for key recovery, allowing a user to regain access to end-to-end encrypted data after they have lost their device, but still have their (potentially low-entropy) password. Exist...

📄✨ New paper! Emilie Ma (kewbi.sh) and I looked at the problem of users of end-to-end encrypted apps recovering their private keys if their device is lost, broken, or stolen. We found a cryptographic approach that is decentralised and resilient against social engineering arxiv.org/abs/2507.21122

YouTube video by Chris Joel Dialog DB "Serverless" Replication Demo

I've been collaborating on Dialog: a new kind of database that I plan to make use of in #Familiar. At Local-First Conference I gave a hallway track demo of how users of the database may query over partial replicas (even empty replicas). Here is a screen cast of the demo: youtu.be/0a_Nb2CAoJc?...

This is amazing! 🙌 thanks for sharing!

Build a small p2p file sharing application using @iroh.computer and introducted @iroh.computer to a bunch of folks last week. People were really excited about the potential opportunities with @iroh.computer @b5.bsky.social @rklaeg.bsky.social

Happy to chat whenever!

imagine a software library that made the whole world work like localhost. Dial devices no matter where they are, get encrypted connections that can send files, sync data, do video calls, or all of the above

Iroh is the #3 trending repo on all of github rn.

Have to say I'm deeply grateful for these career-high moments that are showing up lately. Thank you internet.

orange site giving dumbpipe.dev some love on a sunday 😎

YouTube video by 2swap Double Pendulums are Chaoticn't

turns out the whole time I was just shilling the big chaos lobby story. What a delightful video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtjb...

Another sketch is about weaker forms of layout in space, brushing on structure, that you can easily tear apart and rebuild.

U GUYZ LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL STUFF

Wouldn’t it be grand if local conversations happened on local connections?

Bluesky proto + p2p networking is a solid recipe for long term resilience

Just this whole thread. Yep.

Important changes are coming to Glitch We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.

At Heroku, we basically destroyed a generation of folks personal projects when we deprecated various free plans. (My own software died too.) Now Glitch is making the hard decision to do the same: blog.glitch.com/post/changes...

The lesson is simple: don't build in the cloud if you want it to last.

just got my ticket!

user agency matters even when you're combating phone addiction

Automerge 3 is here: the heart transplant is complete! Huge improvements in memory usage and (in most cases) correspondingly big performance improvements too. Backwards compatible on disk and the network so there's no reason not to upgrade today: automerge.org/blog/automer...

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web

the great retreat into the cozy web maggieappleton.com/cozy-web

psssst! We have tooling coming aimed at accelerating said research. It looks like this, is runs on *your* code, ties into CI and deployment.

let's catch up!

We strangled #P2P tech tree research in the cradle.

We must return.

there's the first 80%, and then there's the second 80%

Sendme's been getting a bunch of community love lately: github.com/n0-computer/..., thanks to everyone who's been using it & taking time to report issues!

This post was super inspiring! Just updated the homepage to call out some of our current use in real stuff. We have the usage, but it's not easy.

As for being rough on the edges, I would love to hear *any* feedback on where we can improve. Hoping to contribute to a more viable P2P LoFi world.