welcome :3 this is where we post progress updates about capsul💊, our tiny lil cloud <3 check out our latest post: reintroducing capsul! we may al...
returning to the project 🗒️ NOTE: This blog is moving! check out this post or re-subscribe to RSS on blog.breaksoftware.xyz . It's been half a year since our last post, j3s has been busy moving to a different city, and I fell off the pattern of working on capsul regularly. Too many other things were taking up my attention, and I was struggling to muster up motivation. Initially, we had planned to…
today, forest and i discussed all of the future paths that capsul could take. we decided that before we launch any new features, we need to focus on our most burdensome source of technical debt - the language we chose. when we first wrote capsul, we chose python + flask because we figured that was the most accessible language for our community in the case that random people wanted to contribute…
capsul has a rich history. born through cyberia.club , our first server was literally cobbled together on the rooftop of my apartment complex. about 10 of us were there, perhaps a little drunk, and we covered the first 1u server in stickers. it's still around the clubhouse at layer zero - we named the server "baikal", after the deepest lake in the world, and a joke on "cyberia" sounding like…
NOTE: there's a media-rich HTML version of this post on forest's blog: https://sequentialread.com/capsul-rumors-my-demise-greatly-exaggerated/ Forest 2021-12-17 WHAT IS THIS? If you're a wondering “what is capsul?”, see: https://capsul.org Here's a quick summary of what's in this post: cryptocurrency payments are back we visited the server in person for maintenance most capsuls disks should have…
Forest 2020-05-20 WHAT'S NEW IN CAPSUL? Capsul has been operated by hand so far, with business conducted via email. Obviously, this isn't the best user experience. If no one is on the other end at the time, the user might feel as if they are shouting into the void. Ideally, users could pay for service, create and destroy capsuls, and monitor their capsul's status at any time. So we set out to…
Note: this post is ancient and out of date! +———————————————————————————+ | | | ANNOUNCING CAPSUL | | | +———————————————————————————+ https://capsul.org Over the last year we've moved at light speed. Cyberia Computer Club is now an entity. A formal nonprofit organization with a democratic structure. We organized and bought a server. We crowdfunded, and spent countless nights testing different…