DWeb Camp is in Canada this year. Will I see any of you there?

DWeb Vancouver

DWeb Camp Cascadia, Aug 8-10th, Salt Spring Island

DWeb Camp Cascadia takes place August 8th to 10th, 2025, at the Salt Spring Island Farmers' Institute in the Southern Gulf Islands, BC, Canada. Jo...

Last week I wrapped up my employment with @rabble and the gang at Verse Communications. Over the past 3 years I got to work on

Planetary - Social media for humans, not algorithms.

Planetary is an open, humane and decentralized social network that respects your privacy and honors makers and creators. The world’s first mainst...

, https:/nos.social, and more recently a communities-focused social app codenamed Plur. Working to build healthier social media with such a diverse team and community was such a transformative opportunity for me, and I'm sure I'll always look back on it as an inflection point. For now I'm taking some time to work on my own projects. Probably not Nostr-related for starters, but I’ll share more when there is more to share :)

Passkey update: Bitwarden, Firefox, and Safari all seem to play nicely together now when it comes to passkeys. I’ve been creating and saving passkeys into Bitwarden whenever a site prompts me to set one up. Signing in with them works how I would expect. It’s not really a different UX from signing in with a username and password using a password manager. And I think I’m defeating the purpose of passkeys by storing them in a central vault, but hey if websites won’t log me out or ask for 2FA so often that’s a trade I will happily make. The accounts I really need secured get the Yubikey.