2024-05-17: Rhymes, Go, Wanix
(If you work at FF/FFDW 🄽 links will send you to a local, editable page in the Filecoin Foundation Notion. If you are in the Filecoin ecosystem, you may be able to join the #monologue-danny Slack channel where I answer questions, take meeting bookings, talk to myself and the other voices in my head. In the glorious decentralized ocap-enabled future, such data-hoardings will be a thing of the past, but we live for now in a fallen ACL world.)
[I know, it's Monday/Tuesday, and this is Friday's edition. I'm caught in a time-loop! Normal service will be resumed yesterday!]
Three Things I Did (on Friday)
1. Spritely check-in
Okay, maybe a little too much Spritely Institute this week, but they are doing great stuff. Andy Wingo wrote a nice (rhyming) blog post on some of the deeper work they've been doing with the Guile compiler to get it working in WASM land. And lots of interest on the Lisp Game Jam on Hacker News and random people saying stuff at loud on Twitter. Though actually Christine Lemmer-Webber , Kaitlin Donovan and I mostly talked about plans for Dweb Camp this year, which is fast incoming. No spoilers, but Spritely have more exciting stories plans than me (mine revolve around interoperability, maintenance, and usability, as bloody usual).
2. Go go (go)
Realising, as I peer at libp2p , Singularity and (yes) Anytype code that I really should learn go if I want to make it in the Filecoin Extended Cinematic Un...iverse. Expect me to honk on about my fumblings shortly. I'm torn between learning via Learn Go With Tests, Go By Example, or just swooning at Russ Cox while he writes Go code in a plan9 editor.
3. Check In With STFILlers
I committed to updating our STFIL Updates and FAQ pa every Friday at least. Still not much in the way of good news, but people are working together and appreciating each other's contributions. I sincerely believe that a huge chunk of online frustration is a feeling of powerlessness, and if you give people control, place, and connection (that doesn't hurt others) the atmosphere naturally improves.
TIL
- The Anytype client and middleware is source available not open source! Sadness! I think I am impure enough to still want to use it (their underlying protocol is MIT license and it's still better than Notion) but I know that means I will have friends who won't want to use it. Clearly I must write bridges and two-way syncs and new frontends and...
Links Du Jour
- Wanix -- Unix-like dev environment that runs in a browser, with a shell and native go compiler. Freaky! (hattip to bengo)