6 days ago
Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.
After signing up for “The Internet Phone Book”, Metalabel has been sending me emails about some “Dark Forest Operating System” project they’ve been working on with no indication whether it’ll be FOSS-friendly in any way. Today, Siiky posted about Willow Protocol.
Which seems to be a thousand times better implementation of that same idea.
07 Feb 26
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14 Oct 25
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.
Webmention is an open web standard (W3C Recommendation) for conversations and interactions across the web, a powerful building block used for a growing distributed network of peer-to-peer comments, likes, reposts, and other responses across the web.
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.
Octothorpes are hashtags that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet, without a central platform.
03 Oct 25
Most HTTP vulnerabilities don’t come from sophisticated attacks. They come from misunderstanding where your framework stops protecting you. This covers the edge cases that actually bite production APIs: Range headers, path traversal, encoding conflicts, and request smuggling
15 Aug 25
15 Jun 25
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01 May 25
Gemini is a minimalistic, text-centric internet protocol. Like HTTP or Gopher, it can serve any filetype (images, audio, video, computer programs etc.), but you can only link to them and can’t embed images or videos, ensuring that the page content is extremely lightweight.
15 Apr 25
Distribution package managers can’t keep up with the fine-grained hash-based dependency management that newer language package managers have (e.g. cargo)
28 Mar 25
27 May 24
This was a fun read.
I love protocols. Awareness of the protocols that rule us, and a willingness to hack on them and improve them, is (I believe) the path forward to save humanity from what capitalism currently is (a planet-gorging evil that makes Galactus look like a tin soldier).