youtube downloading is fixed reliably! (for now, at least) go try it with various settings, all formats & qualities should be back: cobalt.tools it’s unknown for how long this will last, but hopefully it’ll be all sunshine and rainbows for a bit

QUIC Address Discovery in @iroh.computer is pretty neat www.iroh.computer/blog/qad

Software RAID > Hardware RAID If you care about data longevity Powerful hardware is cheap enough today to run zfs and being able to hotswap hardware and import your zfs pool gives peace of mind because it ensures data longevity. #homelab

Our lovely event hosts @c-base.org have a great backyard on the Spree! Come by the Swapfest, swap some electronics, get a drink from the @c-base.org bar bot and enjoy the weather! Registration is open until the 28th! www.swapfest.berlin

on X: “which browser can i paste a CID into” Wild how IPFS gets flak for not being “built into browsers,” while BitTorrent needs a client and Tor needs its own browser. UX is about the same; easier, even, with ipfs-companion or gateways. The tech isn’t the problem 😬, the expectations are. #ipfs

Finally we have a UnixFS spec published in the @ipfs.tech specs! specs.ipfs.tech/unixfs/ #ipld #ipfs

What 15 years of design debt looks like

Faster Peer-to-Peer Retrieval in Browsers With Caching in the Delegated Routing HTTP Server blog.ipfs.tech/2025-delegat...

Learn from @norman.life at the past conference talk on #IPFS. Learn about its integration with the web platform and real applications for web developers. https://gitnation.com/contents/demystifying-ipfs-a-web-developers-guide-to-content-distribution

TIL the limits of older hardware Enabling seal (encryption and integrity checks) for an SMB3 mounted volume (Synology DS216play with 2 HDs in RAID) causes read speeds to plummet from ~45 MB/s to ~15 MB/s

Bitswap workers get no vacation!

Anyone looking to adopt a battle-tested TypeScript polyglot? 🐙 Ex-PayPal, Amazon, Protocol Labs — raised the bar at Amazon, led OSS with ~60k–100k+ MAU, and helped shape IPFS & libp2p. Looking for a fun, high-impact project to code, mentor, and keep pushing systems (and people) forward. #adoptMe

I'm happy to announce that today is my first day at the #IPFS Foundation. I'll be working on tooling, #DASL, #IPLD and related tech like #ATProto. With a focus on geo. So I'm doing more #geospatial things again. Stay tuned #FOSS4G.

Sitting on a panel about tech sovereignty and democracy, and hearing the Commission's absolute vacuum of a position, made me think very hard of @ecmemes.bsky.social.

I just revived my ask me anything page It now uses @prisma.io PostgreSQL which has a generous free tier and a lot of niceties! ama.norman.life

Apple now recommends SMB over AFP for network attached storage. Setting up my #homelab

Is there a way to prevent @vscode.dev extensions and plugins from accessing .env files?

How did notion detect I'm in a meeting (in Chrome) and how do I disable it? I checked in the macOS Privacy & Security settings and Notion isn't listed there

It was much more work to get Bitchat in to the google play store than it was to make it. Finally the real official, none scam, version is in the store. There were hundreds of fakes! play.google.com/store/apps/d...

IPFS QuickLaunch is now on the Chrome Web Extension Store chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ipfs-...

Oh yeah — Ed25519 is now available in Chrome! Read what the ineffable @bumblefudge.com has to say about this wonderful piece of news. ipfsfoundation.org/ed25519-supp...

Great tool for newsletters. We use it for the @ipfs.tech newsletter

If Wifi-Aware on iOS and Android works well, it'll give birth to a wave of software truly elevating user agency P2P all the way down the bottom of the OSI layer unlocks use cases previous hard with syncing data in mesh nets. @libp2p.bsky.social @ipfs.tech @iroh.computer @radicle.xyz @canvas.xyz

There's a new CID Congress coming up in a few weeks! We're now using both @smokesignal.events and Luma (next in thread) — but of course our 💗 is with the former 😉 smokesignal.events/did:plc:rnt6...

TIL: BlackHoleBlockstore can be used to calculate CIDs without keeping the blocks with Helia @ipfs.tech github.com/ipfs/js-stor...

This made me belly laugh multiple times. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

I've been hacking away in the evenings on a little piece of JS you can drop into any page and let someone add comments. State is stored in the URL, and the plan is for me to use this to get feedback on my posts. I give them a URL, they send it back. No server, no fuss.

what we actually want are systems that prioritise: - free flow of information - user agency and control - interoperability/composability - censorship resistance - resilience against points of failure - and plenty more 5/12

The long term value of Recreational Programming (apart from enabling you to enjoy what you are doing again) comes from allowing you to explore unusual things outside of the local optimum that the market pressure forces you into.

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.

ICYMI: @ipfs.tech now works behind @torproject.bsky.social .

IPFS launcher is an experimental browser extension with local pet names, version management, smart CID discovery, and gateway management. youtu.be/hkrxLH7TD-o

I've been hoping for years that someone would build an event sourcing engine for local-first apps, and now @schickling.dev has done it! Hooray! livestore.dev

This is also why "accept Zcash / crypto as an alternative" is necessary but not sufficient: as long as credit card companies are a major channel for a site's revenue, they are a major source of coercion. "If you sell NSFW content via any payment rail, you can't use ours" is the barrier to overcome.

this interplanetary shit got hands

Trust @gordon.bsky.social to formulate the nature of a problem so eloquently Signed Zero-trust DaTa. Pronounced "Samizdat". Signed CBOR for censorship-resistant data archives. github.com/gordonbrande...

“AI can fake all kinds of things, but it cannot fake a cryptographic signature” – @gordon.bsky.social Watch the full conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ... github.com/gordonbrande...

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill

Winding down from making a YouTube video by watching a YouTube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZtq...

Learn to Debug js-libp2p & Helia in Browsers and Node.js youtu.be/AKNGtn7EZxI?...

We're now pursuing a both-and strategy for opening up web standards. - Build P2P stuff that works with existing web capabilities (the Service Worker P2P implementation is live! Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtIJ...) - And also keep pursuing web standards, but in smaller pieces. (1/2)

this is so gatekeepingly fuzzy - unclear evaluation criteria - impossible requirements - ambiguous outcome "potential implementers" = you convinced either Apple, Google or Mozilla oh, and this is just asking permission to discuss an *informal proposal*. github.com/WICG/proposals

OpenTrackr, a free to use Torrent tracker, serves tens of millions of users and handles ~200K connections per second on commodity hardware. It runs the open source erdgeist.org/arts/softwar...

EIP4444 reduces Ethereum execution node disk usage by ~500 GB blog.ethereum.org/2025/07/08/p... ethresear.ch/t/a-local-no...

Simplified and community-driven man pages. `npm install -g tldr` Thanks me later

It didn't work for me even a few weeks ago on a fresh Chrome download — tried now and it works 🎉 Finally: Ed25519 support in all major browsers (Chrome was the holdout) Thanks to @burrito.space , @igalia.com , @protocollabs.bsky.social & many others for ushering this multi-year process through 👏

Are you cypherpunk? @kuehlewindt.com at @web3summit.com

Tomorrow! UCAN is an authentication system that uses web tokens for granting access to resources, rather than relying on a central authority. Lots of overlap with IPFS projects (including @storacha.network) across web2-2.5-3, and we're excited to see the community calls resume.