Mauve 👁💜

New Blog post: I go over decentralized social media protocols like #nostr #ATProtocol and #ActivityPub and compare the tradeoffs between them.

Decentralized Social Media: What is it, how does it work?

This post will introduce you to the concept of decentralized social media and go over the tradeoffs between ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and Nostr. It

What's poppin tonight, everyperson?

Neat parallels between false confidence in using adderall to try to boost performance and #ai. tl;dr: You feel more productive but actually aren't https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add4165

arXiv.org

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled tr...

For front end #JavaScript devs that have a bit of framework fatigue: Check out this easy to use "data binding" library: http://rivetsjs.com/docs/guide/ No build step, just a plain old object bound to HTML with custom attributes for conditionals and iteration.

Spent a bit last night looking at the state of client apis for signal and matrix and I get ehy everyone is making new chat protocols instead of connecting to existing stuff.

I think I'm warming up to using local LLMs for helping me code. I don't trust them for large scale code generation but it's started saving me some time in looking up syntax and docs via DuckDuckGo. I still need to look up docs for most of the work I do but not so much for common use cases you'd find on stack overflow.

@dansup Might be relevant for loops, tiktok open sourced its recommendation algo.

GitHub

GitHub - bytedance/monolith: A Lightweight Recommendation System

A Lightweight Recommendation System. Contribute to bytedance/monolith development by creating an account on GitHub.

Systems which use neural nets to learn from user actions should expose physical buttons for reinforcement. Like if I'm teaching my machine a new gesture I'd want to tell it when it's doing a good job or messing up according to my personal criteria.

I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card. I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world. I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer. I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅