Sam

@samsour.de

Developing not just another side project @eny.social and social clouds on @eny.space. For a better social web. final_final_v4 plant based🌱

This is what we've been working on over the last few weeks. It's our own little contribution to the atmosphere: "zero friction" PDS hosting. There are still lots of great features in the pipeline, but we wanted to get started early and share our progress openly with you.

eny.space@eny.space · last mo.

We needed PDS infrastructure for @eny.social, so we built managed, "one-click" hosting. Now you can use it too. AT Protocol account management still lives in a terminal. Our first post on getting it into a browser and the migration hiccup that kicked it off: eny.space/blog/putting...

I was today years old when I found out that the 1976 Game Breakout was made by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs before they founded Apple

Had a funny conversation with my mail delivery guy: You've got mail from, uh, Boris. Whoa! He wants money from you. That'll be €16. What? Just kidding, it's just customs. @bmann.ca

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the painful thing about it is that with maybe a week of work, @bsky.app has the power to make account migration ACTUALLY ACCESSIBLE AND USABLE to non-technical users. it almost is — but these three or four papercuts each ruin the flow

everyone has those bsky group chats with friends where there's always one person missing from the group.

Kept thinking about the Cal.com thing. The security argument is the small story. Maintainer burnout + AI generated PR floods + faster-than-human vuln scans, all pressing on the same 30-year dev stack, is the bigger one. Something made it #OutOfMyNotetakingSoftware

Software is changing

Open source maintainers are burning out, AI is flooding repos with plausible-looking garbage, and vulnerability scanners are outpacing human patches. Going closed source isn't the answer.

sams.leaflet.pub

Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

Tell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram Messages

Meta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're co...

mozillafoundation.org

has someone recently used an iPad for (web) development? There has been this 2021 approach to just host a VSCode instance and use it in the browser. But are there local alternatives today that are really usable?