[Each new tab feels like a choice: how do I want to spend my time?]
What a 'new tab page' this is! I prefer queries (via keystroke launchers like Quicksilver or 'Command-K') over big lists, but this is beautifully personal and makes me drool; stable options can leverage muscle memory and reduce distractions. 👍🏽
Provokes me to wonder about social patterns and 'formats' like /now or 'daily note', ways of organizing that many people can practice and share so that we can all learn from each other.
[Welcome:
- Does everyone feel invited to participate?
- Does the space guarantee users a safe experience?
- Does the space encourage the humanization of others?
- Can people express themselves without compromising their identity and data?
Connect:
- Does the space cultivate a sense of belonging?
- Does the space encourage fruitful connections between groups that aren’t naturally alike?
- Does the space strengthen emotional, structural, and participative ties to geographically local communities?
- Does the space make it possible for people to be heard by those in positions of power?
Understand:
- Does the space allow for shared concerns to be raised for broad attention by society at large?
- Is the information being elevated and shared reliable, factual, and true?
- Does the space build civic competence and encourage democratic participation?
- Does the space promote thoughtful conversation and room for respectful disagreements?
Act:
- Does this space boost a community’s resilience in the face of significant stress or adversity?
- Does this space facilitate our ability to participate in each others’ lives and shape society?]
Tagged: contribute, relate.
This document aims to be an open guide to funding of open source projects.
[Grants, Notable Projects, Other Organisations, Crowdfunding]
Tagged: succeed.
A curated list of awesome resources for funding open source projects and authors.
[Products, Donations, Bounties, Licensing, Articles, Organizations]
Tagged: succeed.
A handy guide to financial support for open source
This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work.
[Donation button; Bounties; Sponsorware; Crowdfunding (one-time); Crowdfunding (recurring); Books and merchandise; Advertising & sponsorships; Get hired by a company to work on project; Start a project while currently employed; Grants; Consulting; Paid support; SaaS; Copyleft + paid license; Open core; Foundations & consortiums; Venture capital; Restricted license]
Tagged: succeed.
Embark - Dynamic documents for making plans
Travel-certified trip planning demo combining end-user programming and customization, spreadsheet-like formulas, text as super app.
Tagged: interop.
Search for human friendly intents and run the resulting commands in the browser.
LocalCan™ - HTTPS domains for localhost and wi-fi network
Develop your apps locally with .local domains and HTTPS using LocalCan™ app for macOS
Nicer than my current setup of editing /etc/hosts, adding 127.0.0.1 loc.whatever, entering my password… But I hesitate to have an experience too difference from another person who would run my apps.
Like the concept of Changelog as with Ghost and others. Not sure yet if this pattern would fit somewhere in my universe.
Open Box Computers & Electronics
Was able to find an iPhone mini here not available anywhere else. 'New' here means brand new sealed in box. Claimed over the phone they resell returned items from Costco.
[We generated and wrote to disk all mathematically possible melodies, then dedicated them to the public domain.]
Tagged: music.
An app that listens to your environment, adds filters, plays it back to you via headphones in real time. Filters include ‘relax’ (drone in the background higher frequencies turn into water dripping), 'happy’ (as if raining and everything is echoed with long decay), 'sleep’ (combination of waterfall or white noise and echoes the environment); each filter has various levels that can be customized. Fun to play with, regardless of whether it actually helps you chill out or doze off—I’m curious to try them with more intention.
Whitepaper | Circles UBI | Handbook:
[Everyone has their own currency operating by a shared set of rules, culminating to form a kind of monetary fabric.]
[Each personal currency mints new coins for the associated person every minute, and the quantity inflates each year.]
[To mitigate the risk of any account turning into a sybil, trust can be revoked, which allows the revoker to continue spending the revokee's coins but not receive new coins from them.]
[If Carol and Bob are strangers (not yet established mutual trust) but both extend trust to Alice, they can send each other money by transacting in AliceCoin; through transitive chains of trust Carol and Bob receive BobCoin and CarolCoin, respectively.]
[If a trusted person creates a Fake account, other people cannot receive FakeCoin until they trust it, and that person can only spend it if other people trust it.]
[People receive CRC unconditionally and the supply is constantly increasing, which incentivizes spending (flowing) over hoarding.]
[The current dominant monetary system is like agricultural monoculture, which devitalizes the soil and requires pesticides to protect. Circles is more diverse:] if you lose your strawberry fields, you will still have your roses and potatoes and cannabis.
[Being careless with trust in Circles mostly hurts you personally and not the whole system.]
[Trust limits are the percentage of your Circles that you are willing to hold in a given person's coin (50% by default, but may be lowered or cancelled eventually); they prevent you from losing all your tokens through transitive transactions.]
[You can start your own local Circles community without three trust connections by sending 0.1–0.2 xDAI to your account, but this will only be useful if you invite your network to exchange products and services with you.]
["Shared wallets" do not issue UBI or receive trust, but they can be opened and shared by anyone in a group or organization. Businesses should not use personal wallets because taxes are complicated.]
[UBI stops if you don't log into your wallet for 90 days, thus incentivizes meaningful usage. To receive UBI after that you need to create a new wallet and transfer over your old CRC.]
[Circles is not on any crypto exchange as it is meant for spending, not for getting rich. You might convince someone to give you other currencies for your tokens, but the peer-to-peer nature of Circles makes it hard to give liquidity to the whole network.]
[The co-op covers transaction costs on the xDAI chain so that buyers and sellers can use the marketplace for free.]
collection of video games UI interfaces, screenshots and videos.
This personal portfolio has some affordances to make it interactive like a web app, and participatory like a social network: people can ask anything, comment on writing or bookmarks, say which apps they use. There are also some ‘evergreen’ resources like this digital security checklist and app dissection blog.
Demonstrates that we can construct spaces for community within a context that’s often highly individual, and without asking people to create accounts (sign in with Twitter, data stored on Firebase); like a purpose-built room with specific and relevant activities.
Hosting one’s own ‘Ask me Anything’ reminds me of Pat Metheny’s Question and Answer.
Would be nice to have RSS feeds for each ‘type’ as opposed to for writing only. The list presentation is unfortunately Designed to disappear.
See the source code for how it’s made.
