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Experiment take two slowly taking shape, new url: elements.diffuse.sh Not usable quite yet, just interesting to note how all the custom elements fit together. Also added descriptions to most elements so people can get a better idea of what a component actually does.

If all (web) software is malleable and composed of small pieces built by various people; how do data schemas fit in? Can the system be designed in such a way that data interoperability in itself is optional? We can only abstract so much, but what is the ideal balance?

Nostalgia level: 💯 (yeah this is a working music player & browser) Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org

Is there a CLI tool that scans a directory, detects duplicate files and makes symlinks so that only one instance of the file remains? Thinking of making a versioned web app deploy system/flow based on content addressing that should also work on non content-addressed systems like Netlify.

Is there a CLI tool that scans a directory, detects duplicate files and makes symlinks so that only one instance of the file remains? Thinking of making a versioned web app deploy system/flow based on content addressing that should also work on non content-addressed systems like Netlify.

Now we wait until signals are a browser standard 🤝 No more component libraries that are tied to a specific framework 🙏 I know we already have that latter part, but signals are so much nicer to use than events (for reactive data at least).

I was thinking the same thing the other day. I was trying to figure how to programmatically tell if some piece of javascript had been executed in the browser by a shared worker or a regular worker. It failed miserably. I would’ve been more happy with “I don’t know bud, carry on”

📣 Looking for some part-time work if anyone needs help with anything web, distributed tech, cryptography, etc. Currently doing some protocol work for totemgrid.io, but while we wait for funding, I could really use some money. AT Work profile: atwork.place/u/tokono.ma Website: tokono.ma

Alright, we’re turning the ship around for the next version of diffuse.sh The applets.diffuse.sh version was so close to my og vision for a malleable music player/browser but it came just short. Rewriting it from scratch now using what I learned from that experiment on top of custom elements.

I've always envisioned ideal user-owned data as "bringing your own usb drive that you plug into a piece of software". And, that might finally become popular now with the ATProto PDS, which combines storage + auth in a convenient package with a great identity system besides it.

It’s that time again where neoliberalism is annoying the fuck out of me, so here’s a few reminders to myself: * billionaires = bad, find ways to reduce their assets, or the worth of those assets * one way to do so: support cooperatives with non-tradeable shares * inequality makes everything worse

Rewatching Benn’s “manifesto”, hits so much harder than the first time I watched it. Actually took some time to learn about financial markets, and now.. well.. 💀

I hacked something together earlier this year that technically does that: byov.tokono.ma The thing is, I don’t like doing the passkey AND the Storacha auth. I wish I could just do the passkey for activating cloud sync and be done with it. Keyhive will for sure fix that w/ Beelay, but still …

Started moving away from Github by pushing my code to multiple code forges (using `git push origin --all`) You can follow me at: * tangled.sh/@tokono.ma/ * app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.r... No clue why my v4 branch on Radicle isn't updating though.

Anyone got some thoughts on monetarycommons.com? To me this sounds very reasonable. I haven't read the full paper though, just this webpage. Clearly different from aboutcircles.com which takes a whole different approach, which focuses more on personal currency creation, trade & trust.

Had an interesting chat with @chrisshank.com this week about making the web more "composable". I'm definitely going to try to use more custom elements so that those components can be easily modified using just the DOM. Also going to use regular CSS classes so one can restyle elements effortlessly.

At this point, Spotify, I’m just … 🤣 no words 🥲 Very curious to see what happens next with whole music ecosystem.

Trying to devise a way where a website can sign any content offline without exposing the private key. Any ideas? My idea: when opening the website with an internet connection, create a tunnel between server and client that transfers the private key into a non-exportable indexedDB webcrypto key.

i don't enjoy the romanticizing of some golden past of the web that web never died you made all the decisions about where to publish and where to spend your time

Malleable software project is on hold. Realised that this has a big privacy concern, namely that every website can read your data. Trying to figure out a user friendly way of solving this; permission dialogs are so not it.

Back from vacation, missing Italy already. I needed the escape tbh, too much stuff that feels overwhelming. Rich getting richer, climate worsening, wars, fascism, not having an income, managing health issues, etc. Luckily I can somewhat manage the latter two, not sure what to do about the others.

I was wondering about the inverse of this recently, what if there was no same origin; the address book data came from a specific origin and could spread freely to other origins if opted in. What would the permission prompt look like then? Do we even want data prompts?

New blog post up.

David Van Reybrouck: ‘Er wordt niets gedaan om ons roofzuchtige economische systeem aan te pakken’ www.mo.be/interview/sa...

Short retro on the iframe experiments: * Loading iframes is expensive af * Anything happening in the main thread of iframes blocks the main thread of parent context as well * Web workers don’t do parallelisation out of the box * Reuse iframes from parent context for perf * Shared workers are back

Bit burned out by working so hard on this experiment (applets.diffuse.sh) and there’s still so much to do; but I need to put it down and get back to earning some income and maybe enjoy summer while it’s here. Looking forward to work on www.totemgrid.io though! Loveliest people over there ☺️

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

Here's a diagram of all the weird applet stuff I've been talking about. Gets even more complex in some scenarios but that's a story for another time. This seems to be working okay, but needs more testing. The goal here is: spread work cross-origin, but avoid blocking main thread as much as possible

Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

Any hot takes I can read about how to escape the current financial system? aboutcircles.com sounds promising, but how would it fit into the bigger picture? I guess there’s always the issue of personal wealth transfer. Do you put everything into assets and then sell those using the new currency? 🤷

I think this web applet experiment is almost at its end, pretty sure this'll be the next version of Diffuse. This "deck" applet here can be used standalone (web page on the right) where it automatically inserts tracks from your collection into the queue; or use it in a DJ theme (left side, wip).

I’m so out of touch with the positive developments of the blockchain scene (if there are any). Circle looks very interesting, but still skeptical about the underlying tech. How do we feel about the Gnosis chain? At least cool you don’t have to sell all your shit to run a validator as opposed to ETH

@dewereldmorgen.bsky.social Wou eventjes laten weten dat de link 1.2 op www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025... niet werkt. Bedankt voor het geweldig werk dat jullie doen 🙏

Thought for the Day…

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 broadcast channel + web applets combination is turning out so good. I can create different UIs for the same data & audio playback, and it updates/interacts smoothly across all my browser tabs. Super easy to for example have the currently playing screen on one tab and the catalogue in another.

I totally forgot to mention the easiest solution of all. Use the File System Access API and benefit from the user's file syncing solution on the OS level. Hat tip to Obsidian. Sadly only works in Chromium-based browsers though.

Once again looking at bring your own user-data storage options (for my malleable software experiment this time). What do people think are some user friendly options that don't require any OAuth apps to be created on the server? ie. no Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive & other services like that.

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

Getting somewhere with this web applet edition of Diffuse. This is a custom setup of Webamp connected to various Diffuse applets. The applets generate a list of tracks with a unique URI, process the metadata from the tracks if needed, and cache the list + metadata in a location of choice.

Initial stickers for the new laptop. Thanks again @mosh.bsky.social 🙏 Coincidentally I just rewatched Back to the future, great CAR choice 👌

Bye old laptop 👋 No more touchbar 🎉😂 Framework laptop has been less stable than I hoped it would be though, but most likely a Linux issue? The whole thing would freeze up after a while when 4k monitor is connected and I would play video 🤷 Somewhat better after changing some bios & kernel stuff.

Our client can now use web applets! This has been a big missing piece since we set out to create this client from scratch in January. You can now add an applet from our directory, with just a URL, and interact with entire apps on the web — all driven by your LLM of choice, locally on your machine

reality eventually reasserts itself. "smart" is always what it takes to adapt to one's environment, whether that's preserving attention span despite dopamine saturation (the past ten years), or acquiring independent thinking despite automated reasoning (the next ten years)

youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2... This is why I don’t like these data centres. Though I don’t understand why we would need them in the first place, is it to create the LLMs? Definitely not to serve the APIs like ChatGTP, right?

. @dnlklmn.online This is the video I was looking for. Thanks for guiding me trough the new @radicle.xyz desktop app, looks great so far! Excited to see a v1 of that, and to have reliable P2P software in the world 👏 unternet.co (client with cool tricks coming soon) applets.diffuse.sh (bit of info)

Al decennialang draait het dominante economische model om groei en winst, vaak ten koste van mens en milieu. We een fundamenteel ander economisch systeem nodig - een economie die is gebouwd op samenwerking, eigenaarschap voor iedereen. Daar komt de #gemeenschapseconomie in beeld. (1/5)🧵

The world’s political and economic systems can all unite over one central tenet: your mum does the washing. “Libertarianism: Your mum does the washing. You believe *you* did the washing.” [kottke.org]