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This year at ACM Hypertext, there was a Narrative Games Showcase and I had the joy of playing some games made by students at UAL! Here’s a thread about my favorites.

A rich text editor is a document system with a schema, transactions, selections, and identity — not a decorated <textarea>. That's why I built Seed's editor on ProseMirror. Full writeup: seed.horacioh.com/writing/rich...

It’s weird that we created open source to be free to fork and personalize however you want without any agreement from upstream, and then we created social norms where we shame people for doing that

Hypervinculo Desvincularse

Y yo estaré el próximo jueves firmando en Barcelona!

Cal.com became proprietary because they were building software. Not growing software.

" Por más salvaje que sea la crisis que está por venir; por más bandazos que sigan dando los sátrapas en EEUU, en Israel o en Rusia: si nos lo proponemos y le dedicamos el mejor de nuestros esfuerzos, no tenemos nada que temer."

Over a year in the making. I'm very glad this is out the door!

Today in the Open Office Hour we'll kick off our discussions around the movement of knowledge and the movement of thought. Feel free join us. 4:30-6:30 UK For information: futuretextlab.info/2026-welcome/ and for today: futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/

I’m helping organize Lab Day at @localfirstconf.com as part of @inkandswitch.com Please apply for the CFP for a main stage talk, and if you’re doing something hands on, creative, malleable software, programmable ink or similar that aligns with user agency, leave a note that lab day might be a fi

CfP is open! May 1 — CFP closes May 15 — candidates notified June 1 — speakers announced June 15 — schedule announced We want to hear from YOU!

Local-First Conf 2026 is back, and I want to hear what everyone's been doing this year. What have you built? What have you learned? How about interesting challenges we need to overcome?

Boston-area mutuals: I'll be giving the MIT HCI seminar this Tuesday at 4PM. I've got some open time on Wednesday morning—DM me if you'd like to chat! 👋

I had an 'epic time' (his words, not mine ;p) today with @gabo.bsky.social and @eric.vicenti.net talking about augmenting human collective intelligence, the future of the internet, the open web, @seed.hyper.media and #atproto. And I made a point about AI I'd like to develop here 👇

📍 La Nueva Bar · Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES ★★★★★ Scheming the future of ATProtoMAD over aperitif at Maria’s local. It’s great! The bartender told me I have to practice a song. w/ @maria-alvarez.com https://beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mellvqayqc2b #BeaconBits

Starting now! www.oreilly.com/live/in-conv...

ethereal kickoff to @protocolsforpublishers.com London by @chadkoh.com

You'd be surprised how few people see any problems with this slide:

DID is a great concept ("Decentralized Identifiers") But its a shame that the most common DID (the one used by Bluesky) is did:plc. And the PLC is centralized Ironic that the most popular decentralized identifier is centralized.

Interesting to see what research articles cite our paper on local-first software. Today: automatically monitoring sea turtles 🐢 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Structured argumentation tools like @seed.hyper.media are more potent than IRL Conversations. You achieve deeper, less emotional, and peaceful conversations. Knowledge emerges through the process, resolving disputes harmoniously. Great for open source software communities!

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags! On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags. #WebDesignHistory

ok welllll it looks like there really is no API for the issue tracker for the open source browser used by 90% of the people on earth

Today's meeting focused on Patrick Lichty’s presentation about virtual narratology and spatial information structures in XR environments. JOIN US ANY MONDAY! futuretextlab.info/2025/09/01/1...

An Update about Shipyard and Libp2p: ipshipyard.com/blog/2025-li...

Jack Dorsey has open-sourced Bitchat, a decentralized, encrypted, peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks github.com/jackjackbits...

The question is: how much decentralization must be compromised for the sake of user experience? The answer is simple: ZERO. We are not compromising!!!

This post by @dustyweb.bsky.social et al is an absolute banger files.spritely.institute/papers/imple... It has been a major inspiration for our implementation of "web of trust" in @seed.hyper.media Although, there is a slight mis-representation of Zooko's triangle. I should write about this...

Haha yeah it's "sort-of-Zooko's Easier to Explain Triangle" I guess We had a debate about it, I find the "human meaningful, decentralized, secure" analysis really hard to explain, because secure is so *vague* there, so I kinda pushed the version that's in there Glad you like the paper!

"The big questions of Local First" Incredible insights from @adamwiggins.bsky.social, @pvh.ca, @aaronboodman.com and @martin.kleppmann.com in our discussion panel. The ideals of Local First, where AI fits in, and how important offline support is.

Good post by @joehellerstein.bsky.social on the theoretical foundations behind CRDTs. Automerge has exactly the layered structure he describes (commutative ops on top of a partially ordered log semilattice). Looking forward to the rest of the series jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-tu...

¿Por qué el urbanismo en España es tan malo? Quizás tenga algo que ver con la falta total de debate público Ejemplo: plan urbanístico de Villanueva de la Cañada Periodo de “debate”: 10 de julio a 13 de septiembre ¿Dónde se produjo ese debate? Sigo buscando por Internet. Por ahora, cero éxito.

We're lucky to have such great foundations as IPFS+libp2p! This greatly accelerated the development of our decentralized publishing system

Seed Hypermedia builds upon the powerful foundations of @ipfs.tech for immutable data storage and auto-archiving And of course @libp2p.bsky.social powers our networking to enable direct publishing between users on the network (as well as servers)

I want to interact with Bluesky through libp2p and ipld. These are my conditions.

I wrote a quick note about archiving. Seed Hypermedia is a Xanalogical system in which every node is an archiver. Our initial goal is creativity, sense, and consensus-making, but it also resulting a great tool for archiving. I have many open questions! seed.hyper.media/community/pr...

We’re starting our community call in just 20 minutes! @seed.hyper.media Don’t miss this chance to check out our latest proofs of concept—from embedded comments and parallel pages to deeply linked citations & backlinks Jump in and share your ideas, see you in Discord! discord.gg/kWp4wT9V?eve...

Upcoming events on local-first: • Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks • Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)

Knowledge communities will only operate in full capacity under decentralized circumstances.

You can do it now with a @seed.hyper.media website. You can see it on hhg.link

The web community needs to renew our focus on building decentralized trust, community preservation, and accessibility of publishing for non-technical people This is why I love working on @seed.hyper.media every day Our product is open in every way, and you are all invited to join the cause!

In @seed.hyper.media, decentralization is not negotiable.

Remember that you can comment and start the conversation on my site inside @seed.hyper.media. It used to be the case that you needed the app but now that's not needed anymore: just go to this link and create your web account! hyper.media/hm/z6Mkvz9Tg...

read Javi's post from last month about Chromium's Ed25519 implementation to learn about the challenges in getting the last bits over the finish line. nothing is easy when you want to change the web. blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/2...

relieving and gratifying to see this ship in all three engines after kicking off the effort years ago. @igalia.com stepped into an area new to them and did an incredible job getting all the parties aligned and keeping things moving amidst major differences, and sticking it out until the very end.

We're also looking for someone for a similar role to work on social media protocol for private groups and communities.

How Llama’s Licenses Have Evolved Over Time Quick rundown on all the various licenses/use policies Llama been released under, together with a quick comparison of what the changes between the versions are notes.victor.earth/how-llamas-l...

FIXED! (it was an easy fix tho 😁)

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