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📢The @BeakerBrowser project is now officially archived. Thank you everybody for your years of support and generosity; it meant the world to me. I hope we continue the mission with @bluesky.
Post-mortem here:
Paul Frazee ✌️
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Paul Frazee ✌️
@pfrazee
Product developer and protocol engineer @bluesky. Formerly @BeakerBrowser, dat, ssb. Doesn't eat cats. 🦋pfrazee.com
- Little kitty runs faster when my cpu usage goes higher. (I'm building something so the little guy's really movin.)
00:00 - fetch() api? Eugh. You’re using “objects” to drive a protocol that’s all about text. They’ve played us for absolute fools. Make HTTP requests the way TBL intended with HTTP-Template-Literal github.com/pfrazee/http-t…
- "Sure, I've written lots of those" [later] "Did you say 'election app' or 'Electron app'"
- Yo, decentralizers. If our projects are ONLY about censorship resistance and NOT about better algorithms for elevating truth, and NOT about creating constrained but real powers of moderation, then we're making things worse. 1/n
- ℹ️ Bash tip: if you need to run a quick command in another directory, surround your call in parenthesis. This causes the command to be run in a "subshell" which is discarded after the command runs, keeping your CWD the same. Example: (cd ~/work/foo ; npm install)
- New Dat 2.0 bench: Wikipedia served over the Wifi! No cached data, 11 million files across 2 directories. Pages rendered in 1-3s! (More details in this thread)
00:00 - FOSS can be tough on maintainers. One really simple trick to maintain positivity is to say something nice at the end of your issue reports. "Thank you for your hard work" or "I love this project." It's small, but it makes a big difference.
- Love that this is in the FF59 Extensions update. @firefox supporting the open and decentralized Web. blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01…
- Browser feature-support news is like Chrome: Announcing magical pixel api (standard in progress) Firefox: Devtools now cooks breakfast for you! Safari: CSS support added
