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Building the library of Alexandria
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MichaelJ 4 months ago
This is a story worth watching for anyone interested in a free and open web. Oracle, legally, still owns the trademark for "JavaScript", despite the fact the language's standards and ecosystem have been open-source for well over a decade. Deno has launched a petition to deregister the trademark on the grounds that it has been abandoned, and that "JavaScript" is now a generic term. The petition is now entering legal discovery. The result of this process could shape the future of the relationship between private companies and the open-source software community. You can read more on Deno's blog:
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MichaelJ 4 months ago
Has anyone considered making an ephemeral-message relay based on Redis/Valkey? I could see it being a good data store architecture for large group chats, message passing servers, and other applications that require only transient storage of notes.
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MichaelJ 4 months ago
Getting a WebAssembly binary running inside #alexandria feels like magic ๐Ÿช„
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MichaelJ 4 months ago
When you've got Claude working on something, and it hits you with "this file is completely broken" image
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MichaelJ 5 months ago
A new version of Alexandria is live! @Silberengel has been hard at work on the app's omni-search features and universal event viewer. @Nusa will be helping us to polish up the UX over the coming weeks, but we're stretching and experimenting and trying out some power user features to see what will stick. You can try them out too! Go to next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu, log in, and click on "Events". Take some time to explore, and please give us your feedback!
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MichaelJ 5 months ago
I just discovered a kind 30023 long-form article via Alexandria's topical search, skimmed it within Alexandria, and then microblogged about it, also from within Alexandria. It's starting to become a complete Nostr app, y'all.
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MichaelJ 5 months ago
Every so often I'm up late jamming on #Alexandria, then @Silberengel wakes up over in Germany, logs onto our OneDev server, sees my commits rolling in, and drops the ol' ๐Ÿฟ I'm not used to programming with an audience.
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MichaelJ 6 months ago
Just hatched an idea with @Silberengel this morning. TheForest relay has a pubkey now. Check it out: https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/events?id=npub1229y50ruvq9hjdxsjknh43gq4n9ef7h3h5hc4ezzrkg0q7kgg0tsv9a402 This is inspired by @Niel Liesmons's communikeys. If a user can have a NIP-05 address that verifies the npub and specifies that user's preferred relays, why can't a community do the same? Your relay-based community can have a NIP-05 address that specifies which relays that community uses. We've got plans for this in #Alexandria, but other devs might find the idea useful as well.
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