Things I find cool
Page last updated: 2024-05-28
Articles
"Keeping platforms open" by Seirdy (Gemini)
"Keeping platforms open" by Seirdy (Web)
"De-federating P92" by Seirdy (Gemini)
"De-federating P92" by Seirdy (Web)
"24/192 Music Downloads... and why they make no sense" by Monty
Protocols
XMPP is probably more complex than it has to be but at the same time I feel it's the best protocol we have for E2E private messaging.
Super simple (but well-adequate) protocol for messaging in public channels.
Protocol for sharing information over the internet without the feature creep of HTTP/S, HTML and the ECMAScript® Language.
Software
Really well made GUI client for Gemini, that works both on desktop and mobile.
Media codecs
I love Opus...
Programming languages
Simple but relatively performant language. Good for building networked applications.
Simple and performant language for systems programming. A better C, if I may.
Python.
Games
Anime
Music
Virtual Self (Porter Robinson's side project)
Projects
Amazing Public Domain music metadata database.
Organizations
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Things I find not so cool
- Copyright (at least in its current form)
- Copyleft and the "Free Software" movement
I don't believe copyleft actually fills its claimed purpose, while massively reducing the freedom of developers.
- Late-stage capitalism(?)
I'm not sure if there is a viable alternative to capitalism though...