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Brooklyn's digital garden — notes in various stages of completeness, published in the spirit of working in the open.

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this-firefox-runtime

I always forget how to find the Service Worker and Shared Worker panel in Firefox, and having to go looking for it is annoying. For future reference:…

💎 Bijou

Bijective variable-length encodings for unsigned integers.

Ghostty Shaders

Shaders for the Ghostty terminal emulator.

Understory

Repo

Surelock

Hello r/rust! Thank you for the interest in this work and for the delightful conversation ❤️

Subduction

GitHub Repo

Zellij Scrollback

If you set the Zellij scrollback setting above ~5000 lines and open a session's worth of panes, it can get stuck and AFAICT there's no way to save that session.

W2

First week back from the holidays!

Notes on Writing Wasm

I've been writing an increasing amount of Rust‑based Wasm over the past few years. The internet has many opinions about Wasm, and wasm-bindgen is -- let’s…

wasm-bindgen

Crate

wasm_refgen

While working on the Wasm bindings for Subduction, I was dissatisfied with how brittle custom_typescript sections are. I doubt that I'm the first one to come…

DWeb Meetup Online

The online version of the DWeb meetup.

PrivacyTests.org

"Best Private Browsers"

What Lies in the Path of the Revolution

Author: Antranig Basman

Keyhive — ReCAP'25

A talk that I gave at ReCAP (2025) about Keyhive.

ReCAP (2025)

The "Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy" (ReCAP) Workshop

Safe in the Keyhive — LoFi Conf '25

A talk that I gave at Local-First Conference (2025) about Keyhive.

Local First Conf

Website

Local-First Conference (2025)

The 2025 edition ofLocal First Conf

Academish Voice

Link

W18

W18 2025

Bear Pond Espresso

Bear Pond Espresso is a coffee shop in Tokyo. They do a very thick espresso-like drink that they call the "angel stain" — I've never had anything like it…

Representing SHA-256 Hashes As Avatars

Blog Post

Wardley Map Mini Course

A little introductory course about Wardley Maps

Consensus is Impossible

Brendan O'Brien and the number zero team put together a talk based on one of the proofs mentioned in A Hundred Impossibility Proofs. They asked me to be one of…

Vancouver Local First Weekend

11 Jan 2025 and 12 Jan 2025

We Are Canadian

In the early 2000s there was a beer ad that went viral (for the time) with the catchphrase "I AM CANADIAN".

DWeb Vancouver

The Vancouver chapter of the DWeb meetup.

DWeb Seattle

The DWeb Seattle Node is a meetup dedicated to dweb topics.

Keyhive

GitHub Repo

Safety in the Keyhive — Seattle Edition

A talk that I gave at DWeb Seattle about Keyhive.

Local First Access Control — DWeb Vancouver

A talk that I gave at the Vancouver Local First Weekend 2025. It was mostly about Keyhive, but also touches on some parts of UCAN.

Software Unplugged DWeb Online Edition

A shortened variant of the Software Unplugged talk that I gave at the DWeb Meetup Online on 2025 August 27

Safe in the Beehive

I gave a talk about Beehive at the Local First Software Meetup on 29 October 2024.

Local First Software Meetup

The lofi meetup

Beehive Community Update Sept 2024

A talk that I gave at the Automerge Community Call Sept 2024 about the Beehive auth project.

The Jump to Hyperspace (GOTO)

Abstract

!!Con 2024

Website

GOTO Chicago 2024

Website

GOTO

Website

Automerge Community Call Sept 2024

The September 2024 edition of the Automerge Community Call

Automerge Community Call

Run by Ink & Switch

W31

W31 2024

Software Unplugged

A keynote that I gave at Our Networks about Local-first

Our Networks

Website

W30

W30 2024

End-to-end encryption demystified

Conference Talk by Nik Graf about Serenity

Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers

Conference Talk by Maggie Appleton about Local-first

Lessons for the future of programming languages from a decade of local first

Conference Talk by Alexander Stigson about Realm

Start with offline

Conference Talk by Philip Lam about GoodNotes