Notices by sammy gwilym (gwil@post.lurk.org)

@cwebber christine.

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w35

This week, Sammy argues that always-online peers are more than just servers, okay? Aljoscha has a lot on his plate. And we have shout-outs for improvements to the Willow test vectors and Sneakerweb.

thank you to the girl who came to our demo table tonight to deliver us a sneakerweb file named piss.snk

@TodePond imo ‘local-first’ has always felt like a gentrification of p2p

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w28

This week, Sammy and Aljoscha are at DWeb camp, and leave updates to @danmw and @Miaourt. We even get a guest comic from @cwebber!

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w27

This week, we release the sneakerweb. Sammy has travelled to Berlin for DWeb camp. Less remarkably, Aljoscha is also in Berlin.

working on my willow talk while I can hear my 8yo son in the next room inciting a debate between three adults over whether there can be more than one mewtwo

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w25

This week, Aljoscha completes the Bab project, officially. We've got lots of good links, including a podcast interviewing Aljoscha! And Sammy has been toeing the line between the world wide web and the sneakerweb.

why do I put up with this

https://spectra.video/w/7hsRkrevhuTyV1q1qxkPjM

"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

How do we make the next generation of protocols more difficult to weaponise?”

Here’s a clean recording of my #FOSDEM talk “Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future”. This talk was a real labour of love, hope you enjoy it!!!

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w13

This week, Aljoscha thinks about confidentiality and statelessness. Sammy did another talk this week, and teases a new project. And finally: a comic for honest, hard-working readers.

today, the Hague -> Prague, a journey emphasising the wonders of the english language

@clarity thinking how wild it was that they had to mirror the entirety of zelda twilight princess to make link right handed

@cwebber You’re in luck! tomorrow we’re publishing part 5 of “why is worm-blossom called that?!”

@cwebber likewise! i’ve never been great with back on forth on fediverse, but maybe it would be fun to organise a spritely x willow call someday?

@expede @cwebber stop guys i’m gonna cry

after the last few p2p / local-first events I attended, I felt really buoyed by two things:

- seeing the widespread recognition of how inescapably cultural this kind of work is
- and not just a ecosystem of systems and ideas, but an increasingly mature network of practitioners who can call on each others’ (wildly different) experience

I’m very happy to be playing a positive-sum game with you all.

@cwebber @wingo @expede @shepherd thank you for this prestigious award!

Day 4 of the word “blobjects” intruding my thoughts

lovely post on (im)mutability in distributed networks by my bestie:

https://aljoscha-meyer.de/posts/mutability_and_rot/

> When I publish a mutable link to some data, I give agency to the author of that data. They are free to change the contents in the future, or even to fully remove the data. Like a verbatim copy, an immutable link would not award this agency.
>
> By granting this agency, I voluntarily cede control. The quality of my work will vary based on the future actions of another human. A web of mutable references is a web of human interdepence, and builds on the voluntary giving of trust.

@clarity @xjix @qxoko Oops, I forgot to use words and ended up really misrepresenting my opinion :s

What I meant to say was there is a problem with communal infra *which turn into hard failure points and end up putting undue pressure on volunteers*, e.g. a mastodon instance.

totally agreed that stewards are the lifebloods of communities. And I want them to be able to to retire / mysteriously disappear without necessarily taking the network along with them