Somewhat counterintuitive, but I often find it easier to concentrate with just my macbook pro 14 inch laptop screen than with two 27" 4k monitors.
Usually it's in that initial getting into the flow window.
Kubo v0.40.0 is packed with UX and performance improvements:
Reproducible CID Profiles
better connectivity diagnostics
Friendlier ipfs dag stat output
Improved content providing after startup
Command to publish signed IPNS without key
& more
@ipfs.tech
github.com/ipfs/kubo/re...
New blogpost about atproto
It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical.
www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...
ESP32-C3 with a built-in OLED screen and the SCD40.
Source is here:
app.radicle.xyz/nodes/iris.r...
Currently it renders it on screen, but it wouldn't take much work to graph it (I did that in the past with InfluxDB and Grafana)
Happy to announce that I’ve officially started obsessing over CO2.
I’ve long been an avid Stoßlüfter — the German word for “House Burper”, but now I’m equipped with data
Ah yes, another source of self-imposed anxiety in the name of “optimising my life” 👌
I wrote a deep dive on CIDs, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints behind every record, blob, commit, and Merkle tree node in ATProtocol. Part 1 covers the history, the encoding primitives, and the specific constraints ATProtocol applies.
Excited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL!
Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.
Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles!
It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea!
webtil.es
On the publishing side, it's worth looking at @offprint.app @leaflet.pub and @pckt.blog, who are all doing interesting things that may be relevant to publishers. I spent some time this weekend digging deep on this, and it's very cool: standard.site
Every time someone tells me that interoperable protocols are too complicated for the average person, I point out that they use email and the web.
The goal needs to be to get atproto to the point that it is just "how the internet works" and the details fade into the background like https & smtp.
FOSDEM was a crazy weekend, with over 1,000 talks between two days! FOSS is flourishing 🌱
The Radicle maintainers were lucky enough to present two talks, check them out!
👉 ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDE...
👉 mirror.as35701.net/video.fosdem...
#radicle #decentralized #localfirst
GitHub Is Down, Radicle fixes this!
https://radicle.xyz/
You can also switch to @radicle.xyz 😉
Another day of GitHub incidents is good moment to remind folks that with @radicle.xyz you can always collaborate, because it's local-first.
You can create and review patches (PRs) without internet.
No censorship (remember how youtube-dl), because it's peer-to-peer and sovereign.
As part of ProbeLab's revamp of @ipfs.tech metrics, we now have data on the performance of traditional, as well as service worker gateways! Read more at: probelab.io/blog/ipfs-ga... and head over to probelab.io/ipfs/gateways/ for all the dashboards!
Open source is fun
The HackMD Sync @obsidian.md plugin was buggy, so I reached out to the author who gave me push access, and I just cut a release with bug fixes and new features.
I now use it daily to publish Obsidian notes for collaboration and feedback.
obsidian.md/plugins?id=h...
A dark grey door lettered NEWSPEAK HOUSE
Today is the day! #PfP✨London
protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/
Big Update to the Big DASL: it now supports streaming verification with range retrieval. Many thanks to @b5.bsky.social for bringing that in!
dasl.ing/bdasl.html
I think that single page applications, i.e. SPAs are close to the best *portable* container for local-first web applications assuming you ensure runtime configurability for any API dependency.
If there's one thing you can bet on working in ten years, it's a folder with HTML and some assets.
What if it’s in fact a belief in heaven?
@vmx.cx wrote up a quick tour of what happened in IPLD and multiformats this year:
🧱 New (much faster!) modular crates for Rust IPLD
🐦 Migration guide if you're still using libipld
✅ Rust multiformats (cid, multihash, multibase) production-ready
blog.ipfs.tech/2026-01-ipld...
So much progress in the world of @ipfs.tech and content addressing more broadly, and none other than @robin.berjon.com can narrativise it in such such a light hearted and cheeky fashion
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
Yes, it went through a number of iterations, but what they ended up doing is a good, minimal design.
Don't boil the ocean, reinvent the internet, just use existing tech whenever possible with some modifications to allow for the thing you actually care about to work.
Genius Scan by @thegrizzlylabs.com is neat
Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app
www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...
Microsoft Lens joining the enshittification ranks
And that’s what it looked like
Such good memories!
That’s also been my experience
