worm-blossom.org#y2026w7 This week Aljoscha considered breaking the symmetry. Sammy has recovered but has to program computers. And in the comic, Sammy receives brutal feedback.

worm-blossom.org#y2026w6 This week, Sammy catches us all up on p2p-basel and FOSDEM, and there's a video of her talk. Aljoscha is under the weather, but provides music anyway!!! Bless him. And in this week's comic, we take a look at Sammy's conference outfits, but what's that noise???

spectra.video/w/7hsRkrevhu... "Centralised systems were made with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.” Here’s a recording of my #FOSDEM talk on willowprotocol.org. This talk was a real labour of love, hope you enjoy it!!!

worm-blossom.org#y2026w5 This week Aljoscha is given free reign over the update, and Sammy will probably regret it later.

Centralised networks were weaponised. P2P systems will be exactly the same. How should we design the protocols of tomorrow? This is the lens through which we’ll look at Willow (willowprotocol.org), a family of open source p2p protocols this coming Sunday at #FOSDEM. fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

https://‪worm-blossom.org/#y2026w4 This week, Sammy and Aljoscha are on their way to Basel. Our Open Collective has been approved. And in the comic, a monitor asks for help, firmly.

worm-blossom.org#y2026w3 This week, Sammy whittles on about the FOSDEM talk. Aljoscha talks slice verification internals in Bab, and unwinds by playing some Sonic Youth. In this week's comic, Sammy reconsiders her choice of metaphors.

worm-blossom.org#y2026w2 This week, Aljoscha and Sammy talk about the mysteries of getting (un)stuck. We talk about what we've been listening to. And a voice cries out in the depths.

worm-blossom.org#y2026w1 This week, something sputters into life deep underground. Sammy did very little indeed. There is no announcement. Aljoscha relaxed the only way he knows how (researching audio and video file formats).

worm-blossom.org#y2025w52 Not update worm-blossom.org over the holidays? Not a chance! This week, Sammy reflects on the year that was, and Aljoscha plans for the year ahead. There is poetry about fuzz testing. And we announce the first of several Rust traits for (persistent) Willow storage.

Sam Gwilym will be talking about "Willow - A family of peer-to-peer storage protocols", at @fosdem.org '26 #Local-First & #CRDTs devroom! Come listen to the 25 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00. It is free! more details: openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#2...

worm-blossom.org#y2025w51 This week, a gift idea for the holidays. We release the Willow URI spec. Aljoscha talks about 'Cobweb', a new hypertext system. Sammy announces FOSDEM plans and reflects on announcements. And in Part 4 of "what's with the name?!", we travel back to the Netherlands in 2003.

worm-blossom.org#y2025w50 This week, Sammy recalls the important feedback she got at the conference. We release WebTT, a spec for tooltips on the web. Aljoscha talks about Bab storage, and Sammy reflects on splinternets.

Enjoy your Rust Unwrapped!!!

worm-blossom.org#y2025w49 In this week's comic, Sammy wants something for all the folks who don't use Spotify. We've added a capability system to willow25. Aljoscha adds *playlists* to the site. And there are links, shout-outs, and help wanted!

worm-blossom.org In this week's comic, Sammy is called from an unexpected location. We announce the Rust implementation of Meadowcap. Aljoscha explores mathematical equality. And we find the missing link between the Dreamcast and Swatch Internet Time.

willowprotocol.org/specs/data-m... We’ve added an interactive demo of how Willow works to the Willow Data Model page. You get three toy peers to add entries to and sync between! More fun than boring old ‘reading’ by far.

worm-blossom.org#y2025w47 This week, Sammy crafted an interactive demo of the Willow data model. Aljoscha vents in two rants, and has also figured out how to get a flanger-like effect into the music for the website. We release a Rust crate for variable-length integer encodings.

worm-blossom.org#y2025w46 Now on Fridays! In this week's comic, Aljoscha and Sammy are called out. Encoding and decoding lands in Ufotofu. We go back to 1998 to further explore why the site is called worm-blossom. There are opinions about fancy CRDTs. Aljoscha talks encoding and fuzz testing.

worm-blossom.org/ufotofu/ Ufotofu is a Rust crate for working with streams and sinks which we developed for our Willow Rust work, based on “Strict Principles for Lazy Sequences” (aljoscha-meyer.de/assets/landi...). Also when the webpage scrolls it looks like a UFO is beaming stuff up.

https://‪worm-blossom.org/#y2025w45‬ This week we release ufotofu, a perfectly symmetrical Rust library for streams and sinks. There's a cross-section of where most of the time in a worm-blossom project goes. Aljoscha looks back on years of p2p projects rolling their own streaming abstractions.

‪https://worm-blossom.org/#y2025w44‬ This week we begin our multi-part series on why worm-blossom is called that. There's also a new willow25 crate release with groupings. Aljoscha has a new order theory crate. And Sammy has been away and drew a bit of Wales.

willowprotocol.org, the home for our set of p2p storage protocols, has been updated! There’s a new Rust section. Confidential Sync prevents man-in-the-middle attacks. The Drop format encodes Willow data efficiently into a single binary. Dozens of new illustrations. And much more!

worm-blossom.org#y2025w43 worm-blossom.org W43: This week, Aljoscha meets Anubis. willowprotocol.org gets a big update, and Sammy explains what they did these last 18 months. The willow25 crate is released, and Aljoscha lays out the plans for other Willow Rust implementations.

More people should know about Matt DesLauriers. giving shoutouts to willowprotocol.org in an art interview is based hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz29/...

worm-blossom.org#y2025w42 This week on worm-blossom.org: the reviews are in, and people like the website! Aljoscha works on non-Willow projects like ufotufo and Macromania. Sammy draws a comic on indirect problem solving. We announce 'Frugal Async Rust', which is nothing less than a way of life.

welcome to ‪https://worm-blossom.org‬! It’s a shared development diary, one with comics and music and an update each week. In week 42, we try to regain our senses in the rabbithole, rename (and redraw) some specs, release Bab 0.1.0, and share some lovely music to mine to.