Oskar @owi@qoto.org

@markgritter That's awesome. I'd like to copy that...

@cford could also bet on others posting the articles. Sometimes that happens and they get traction without my active involvement.

@cford could work, but I'm afraid of falling back into the abyss.

@cford like using it as write-only maybe?

@bjoreman for that reason I'm staying on here, at least.

@bjoreman yeah, there might be some hard-to-measure effect.

@martin Yeah. If licence validation would involve a developer-provided server (like for getting a public key or something), a failure to communicate could effectively unlock the app.

And I agree, this shouldn't be prescriptive. I'm just curious of what pathways you can see right now. People might come up with other hybrids or entirely new approaches to funding these projects.

I'm considering going off X and LinkedIn for "networking", which are the only real reasons I've kept those accounts, and relying on email, personal website, and going to physical conferences regularly.

It seems that social networking isn't actually providing much value for me in a "professional" sense. People that know my work seem to have seen it on my website or in talks, or heard about it by word-of-mouth.

X probably has some part to play still, but it doesn't seem at all as important as it did 5-7 years ago, perhaps because of the scattered social network situation after Elon.

My most valuable connections and opportunities seem to rely on actually meeting people, making friends, direct messaging, and published work.

Not sure if I'm thinking about this backwards or missing something? Would love to hear how others deal with it.

@martin hey, I enjoyed your talk a lot.

What do you see in terms of compatible business models for startups in local-first software? Subscriptions for the syncing services makes sense, but not as clear how app devs could have recurring revenue while app is in use. A licence-locked app would violate your definition of local-first, right? Are we back to "lifetime" licences, like buying software before the SaaS era?

New blog post: Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12

https://wickstrom.tech/2024-05-23-statically-typed-functional-programming-python-312.html

@janl it's different but I've been enjoying Zulip.

I'm very impressed with the speed of zed.dev. Going to try it on Linux as well now that it's getting supported.

@cford lots of barrowing as well.

What are some fun starting projects if you want to learn Z3? Real-world problems you could solve in a few hours.

I'm doing a mob programming meetup and need some inspiration.

Rewriting the garden in Rust. It's heavy, fiddly, time-consuming, but most importantly a great joy.

@shriramk Wonderful.

Fully Autonomous Accessibility Testing with Squidler!

https://squidler.io/blog/posts/2023-12-01-introducing-accessibility-testing-in-squidler

Returning to my home office next week after parental leave. Now with a "new" desk that I'm feeling very good about after some small modifications.