Running a cloud deployment to get rid of a single extra comma in a function feels like overkill
Bryan Watts
@outermind.bsky.social
Software author on a lifelong quest to reimagine the systems we’ve inherited. He/him. Safe person. Local-first software/event sourcing/hypermedia nerd.
Oh great, Discord fell victim to the great lie of age verification. It’s time for this phase of the internet to die.
the browser is underrated web development is taken for granted it really is such a powerful engine for applications that anyone can use anywhere, with and without internet
Politics is subject to Conway's Law: change communication structures and you will change systems. The way forward is to give up the idea of globally-scoped software mediated by centralized power structures.
These principles name the opposite of the oppressive design elements being used against us, but like other cyberlibertarian frameworks, they stop short of the root cause: politics. Liberation depends on shifting political power, because power determines which values take hold. resonantcomputing.org
Overall the presentation went well. The second half was a bit rushed and highlighted how important dry runs are in establishing pacing. Dream is my worldview as a pattern and I will be refining this talk as a way to convey it. Timestamped: www.youtube.com/live/fVuXngr...
LoFi/32 (Local-First) Meetup -- Tuesday 8AM PST on November 25, 2025
YouTube video by Local First (LoFi.so)
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Come learn about Dream, an architectural pattern I've developed for organizing software around our innate grasp of stories
2️⃣ Bryan Watts @outermind.bsky.social is a solution Architect, and will talk to us about Composable Systems. Software engineering is often an art, and I'm looking forward to Bryan's talk on this.
Come learn about Dream, an architectural pattern I've developed for organizing software around our innate grasp of stories
📣 Tune in for #LoFi/32 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PST (November 24, 2025) for yet another exciting lineup. 1️⃣ Paolo Scanferla @pscanf.com - creator of Superego 2️⃣ Bryan Watts @outermind.bsky.social – Solution architect 3️⃣ Yurko Turskiy @yurko.me – Engineer at Capsule 👉🏽 LoFi.so
📣 Tune in for #LoFi/32 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PST (November 24, 2025) for yet another exciting lineup. 1️⃣ Paolo Scanferla @pscanf.com - creator of Superego 2️⃣ Bryan Watts @outermind.bsky.social – Solution architect 3️⃣ Yurko Turskiy @yurko.me – Engineer at Capsule 👉🏽 LoFi.so
Dark matter and energy are clearly the universe's OS partition