Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

present is a function that consumes a stream of future and outputs a stream of past

unfortunately most of us are stuck with the imperative implementation

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

privacy is your local scope where you perform your local reasoning

maybe people who don't think privacy is important are okay with programming by only mutating global variables

the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

#introductions

Hi! You may most likely know me as co-editor of ActivityPub, the decentralized social network message which is more-than-likely how you're actually receiving this message! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Other things you may want to know:

- I'm a user freedom activist (free software, free culture)
- I post a lot of leftie politics stuff
- Expect lots of tech posts around lisp, decentralized network stuff, obscure-ish programming history

Some musings about properties of different transport systems https://dustycloud.org/tmp/vattp-routing-musings.org.txt

Updated the mega thread where I've been documenting learning about and implementing CapTP with some of the necessary toe-dipping into VatTP (or MachineTP) which seems necessary with 3-machine handoffs. Still excavating information from the past... https://groups.google.com/g/cap-talk/c/xWv2-J62g-I/m/Evq-tw5MBAAJ

So, because a lot of @spritelyproject's architectural design stems from the work on Electric Communities Habitat, I've done a lot of spelunking about its history...

But "why did it die?" I've been saying ".com crash" but... this post claims more: https://web.archive.org/web/20110723083144/http://thecan.org/in/communities.html

well I read through most of the old vattp docs and not sure I absorbed all of it (also looks like it was cobbled from several old EC Habitat internal documents) but there were some useful points there, especially re: the "crossed wires" bit

I'm pretty spent today coding-wise anyway. Gonna print these docs out, make some tea, relax, and go over them with a pen... the only good way to read documentation as dense as this...

Given what an enormous amount of time I've spent reading erights.org, how did I not read all the VatTP pages before I started this work...? :\ http://erights.org/elib/distrib/vattp/index.html

Also, unearthed an old review of the protocol from Hal Finney https://web.archive.org/web/20160418225821/http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/e-lang/1999-November/003008.html

Still amazes me that Gab decided to leave the fediverse all over a pink and rainbow covered copy of SICP though

Is 2021 the year of too many old teacups on the desktop???

(gonna clean them up later I promise)

Is 2021 finally the year of emacs on the desktop

I guess in my first implementation of handoffs, if Alice is handing a list of 5 references of the same Carol to Bob, each of those Carol refs will manifest as a *separate* handoff..

Resisting temptation to pause and try to implement the optimization. Do a thing that works first.

(I mean all of those steps always have some level of overlap, it's more what the level of focus is)

My work has been a cycle of co-building technical foundations, getting people excited, then community development (as people build stuff better than I would have on top), repeat?

I've been in steps 2+3 for ActivityPub for ~3 years; starting to move from 1->2 for @spritelyproject...

oh well I post what I like to post, and posting about progress keeps me excited about the work... even if it's deep in the weeds...

but making *tangible demos* is what gets most others excited (well, me too!)... so, really looking forward to what I'll be able to show off soon