Mircea Nistor
@mirceanis.xyz
Trying to exist in the present while building the future. https://mirceanis.xyz
So, you want to use a DHT and glancing @libp2p.bsky.social kad DHT? Check ProbeLab's comprehensive guide on how to set things up, what to use and what not to use, what to avoid and what to pay special attention to: probelab.io/blog/libp2p-...
So, you want to use a DHT? Let us help you configure it correctly.
From public servers to private clusters: a practical configuration walkthrough for every libp2p DHT deployment pattern.
probelab.io
I gave pigeons.computer a spin and I have to say: those n0 kids have nailed it _again_. There really aren't many teams that can so consistently deliver.
Pigeons
SSH to any machine without an IP address, behind a NAT or firewall, with no port forwarding or VPN setup. Carrier pigeons always find their way home.
pigeons.computer
2026 @localfirstconf.com is truly one of the few places that unite disparate communities—open source, LLMs, p2p, interface design, standards—behind a shared value: user agency and empowerment. How refreshing to witness the openness and curiosity everyone brings to the discussion.
huggingbay.xyz looks like The Pirate Bay, but it's for open LLMs. Not about piracy at all, just a well structured catalog that uses torrents for model weight downloads.
Hugging Bay | Verified Open AI Artifact Registry
Hugging Bay is a verified open-source AI artifact registry with broad catalog metadata, source provenance, license clarity, community trust signals, answer packs, and selective hosted mirrors with has...
huggingbay.xyz
holy fuck the open printer lives. i repeat. THE OPEN PRINTER LIVES!!!
Progress Update & Details About Our Nomination for a French Design Award!
We are working tirelessly on the finishing touches before we launch our Crowd Supply campaign at some point in the next few months. Here is a look at where we stand and what we are refining right now.
crowdsupply.com
This looks cool as heck. makerspet.com/blog/buildin...
Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet oomwoo - Makers Pet
I’m starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 2D LiDAR, Home Assistant, 3D printed, local-first — and open from the first com...
makerspet.com
My parental leave is coming to an end and I'm for hire starting September. Hit me up.
I'm available for consulting from June. Dev work, DevRel, Dev Education, Content Creation, and helping teams make sensible decisions about automation without betraying their users. 17 years exp, Vienna-based, remote across Europe and beyond. Boosts massively appreciated 💜
This. The whole point of engineering is to make everyone's life better, not 0.001% of lives better. We need universal basic income funded by taxation.
Andy Cameron@andcam.bsky.social · 4mo agoConstantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.
Been experimenting with did-method-webvh in the atproto-identity crate, and it's got me thinking: we urgently need to extend did-method-plc to support multiple registries. This is critical infrastructure and is long overdue. 🧵
We really really really need a better auth model here. Most apps request this kind of access. Even with the best of intentions, it is scary. How about @ucan.xyz instead (or as well) ?
An IEEE conference has published a plagiarised version of a paper I wrote with @seph.bsky.social. I already reported it to the conference chairs and the IEEE Ethics Reporting Line 3 months ago, and nothing happened. Original: arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252 Plagiarised: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...
Collaborative Text Editing with Eg-walker: Better, Faster, Smaller
Collaborative text editing algorithms allow several users to concurrently modify a text file, and automatically merge concurrent edits into a consistent state. Existing algorithms fall in two categori...
arxiv.org
re: atproto oauth we should be able to review active permission grants and revoke them. i feel like that's a pretty sane feature and obviously the UI is there but...
aly@aly.codes · 4mo agore: atproto oauth i feel like you should be able to upload blobs without everything else transition:generic gives you???
Working on zkal, I realised I was tackling a general problem: returning to the benefits of open data for communities, but with modern privacy protection for the individual. Came up with a pattern that might be useful (or flawed!) blog.voboda.com/proof-projec...
Proof Projectors
Everyone's focused on what ZK proofs hide. We're missing what they can usefully reveal. Reputation, attendance, commitment, these used to require surveill...
blog.voboda.com
the weird thing about companies and open source is that it's incredibly easy to make a fucking huge impact and almost no companies do so many companies could just bankroll the IBB as a write off, and yet... we've lost it. there's so many easy wins and instead you're worried about AI SEO instead 🙄
Node.js — Security Bug Bounty Program Paused Due to Loss of Funding
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
nodejs.org
In 2026, manually ssh’ing to a production server and changing its configuration is a clear anti-pattern. Let’s do the same for software changes. Humans don’t change software. Only their agents do. Sounds irresponsible until you examine the ramifications of that constraint.
The Conversation Is the Commit
aicoding.leaflet.pub
Links and notes for my talk at #AtmosphereConf about did:plc, how it could break, how we might be able to recover if it did and so forth edochan.com/talks/did/ 5pm today (Sunday), room 2301 Will also mention did:cow if I have time cow.watch
DID:PLC War Games
edochan.com
there are still good things in the world
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 4mo agoEuropean regulators have approved acoziborole, a new treatment for sleeping sickness that cures the disease with a single oral dose. The drug replaces complex regimens requiring hospitalisation, spinal taps and weeks of monitoring. buff.ly/KX3Ld2B #ShareGoodNewsToo
Statisticians, assemble! Does this refer to the mean, median, or mode?
Adrian Bowyer@adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 4mo agoNeologists assemble...
Given today's LiteLLM supply chain attack, what are people's preferred development environment sandboxes on MacOS these days? I think it's time I started running my development environments somewhere where rogue code can't steal all my ~/... credential files
I did: a thing! I'm learning more about ATproto, so I prompted a sort of explainer tool into existence: mirceanis.xyz/atproto-trus... It's supposed to walk you through the process of verifying the origin of a post.
ATProto Trust Explorer
mirceanis.xyz
did:cow: Another idea to billionaire-proof ATProto IDs, also "art of using a blockchain without using a blockchain". Blockchain-managed wrapper ID, no tx to create, points to a did:plc/did:web but you can move it if something goes wrong. Got carried away and made a resolver and front-end cow.watch
did:cow
cow.watch
Edmund Edgar@goat.navy · last yr.Wrote up an idea to improve the DID:PLC system to protect us from the inevitable corporate enshittification phase when the centralized server stops serving mirrors for a bit then starts screwing us over. It's kind of "art of using a blockchain without using a blockchain" github.com/edmundedgar/...
