Stephan

@stephancill.co.za

cypherpunk wannabe interested in permissionless protocols and a better social web https://stephancill.eth.limo

i've been a duckduckgo user for a long time - mainly for their search bangs feature. as my search queries have shifted to LLMs, bangs are pretty much the only thing i use search engines for now and ddg is slow af so i made my own and it's 10x faster search.stupidtech.net

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I’ve come to the realisation that a good feed is an addictive feed. Feed choice just changes the flavour of the underlying problem. This doesn’t mean content feeds are inherently bad. I think they’re a great source of entropy. But they are a huge waste of time and it feels like we should do better

pds.js oauth coming in hot bringing back the single .js zero deps besides cloudflare worker stuff still ironing out stuff (and very basic scopes support) but it works on @pdsls.dev

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I set up a VPS with an opencode server and github credentials and I’ve been issuing orders in natural language from my phone to make changes to my apps / prototype ideas I feel liberated from my desk

experimenting with WWW-Authenticate headers for advertising oauth on permissioned endpoints (e.g. followers only) pretty easy to integrate with ethereum. the client or server initiating the request can then exchange a signature for a session token and re-request the data if they have access

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are there any ongoing discussions around adopting did:ethr (or a new smart contract-based DID primitive) as a decentralized alternative to did:plc? seems like a great fit

when private storage gets added to PDSes you could easily see it becoming a core internet primitive on the level of email today. a portable data backpack