# talk gave (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 10 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover talk gave. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Caretakers](https://leejo.github.io/2026/08/08/caretakers/) _2026-08-08 · Lee A Johnson_ If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 246 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN 1 . This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back. That’s an upload to CPAN, once a month, for over twenty years. Once a month minimum I should say, as many of the authors on the board are… ## [this-firefox-runtime](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/this-firefox-runtime) _2026-06-24 · Understory_ 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:… ## [A World of First Drafts](https://leejo.github.io/2026/06/14/first_drafts/) _2026-06-14 · Lee A Johnson_ Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny Valley Fiddlers in the Room The Last Hike Semantic Satiation of an Acronym A World of First Drafts I recently picked up a copy of “An Evening With Windham Hill” , a collection of early 1980s live performances by some of Windham Hill’s popular-at-the-time acoustic guitar players. I primarily bought the LP… ## [Magical Thinking](https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/magical-thinking/) _2026-06-12 · Marta Paciorkowska · Marta Paciorkowska_ The Left needs to stop dreaming about androids and abandon the technocratic vision of eternal growth More ## [💎 Bijou](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/bijou) _2026-06-06 · Understory_ Bijective variable-length encodings for unsigned integers. ## [Ghostty Shaders](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/ghostty-shaders) _2026-06-06 · Understory_ Shaders for the Ghostty terminal emulator. ## [Understory](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/understory) _2026-05-18 · Understory_ Repo ## [Surelock](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/blog/surelock) _2026-04-07 · Understory_ Hello r/rust! Thank you for the interest in this work and for the delightful conversation ❤️ ## [Subduction](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/subduction) _2026-03-02 · Understory_ GitHub Repo ## [Zellij Scrollback](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/wtf/zellij%20scrollback) _2026-03-02 · Understory_ 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. ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1SVnJN4WvtNe) _2026-03-02 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [W2](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/log/2026/w2) _2026-01-07 · Understory_ First week back from the holidays! ## [Notes on Writing Wasm](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/blog/notes%20on%20writing%20wasm) _2025-12-27 · Understory_ 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](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/wasm-bindgen) _2025-12-27 · Understory_ Crate ## [wasm\_refgen](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/wasm_refgen) _2025-11-15 · Understory_ 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… ## [Saffron Walden 2007 - 2013](https://leejo.github.io/2025/11/05/walden/) _2025-11-05 · Lee A Johnson_ The last of a three part series on skateboarding related things from 2007. Yours truly, 2025 Travelling down the A1(M) on a recent trip through the UK we decided to stop off in Saffron Walden for lunch, as it was very close to the place I would be picking up some photographic frames. I suggested we could sit at the skatepark, since the weather was reasonable, and watch the skaters while we ate our… ## [Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025](https://leejo.github.io/2025/11/01/print_costs/) _2025-11-01 · Lee A Johnson_ Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment 1 . That market of investors, speculators, and dealers who are working with mind-boggling prices. This isn’t surprising. The buyers in this market aren’t interested in art, they’re interested in the financial returns, and the last few years have seen more compelling investments in other areas.… ## [A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape](https://leejo.github.io/2025/10/17/oasis/) _2025-10-17 · Lee A Johnson_ TL;DR ? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious footnotes with links to much more information below. scalper noun \[ C \] US informal /ˈskæl.pər/ (UK: tout) someone who buys things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and then sells them, when they are difficult to get, at much higher prices: “A scalper offered me a $20 ticket for the… ## [Musings on Generative AI](https://leejo.github.io/2025/09/23/gaps/) _2025-09-23 · Lee A Johnson_ This is a sort-of transcript of a talk I gave a couple of times last year. If you’d prefer you can watch one of the recordings: GPW (Mar 2024) TPRC (June 2024) Alternatively you can read through the presentation with my notes here . This blog post goes into more detail, as I don’t have to constrain myself to a twenty minute slot. However, I know lots of people prefer to have a video or audio… ## [Backgrounds Are Important](https://leejo.github.io/2025/09/15/backgrounds/) _2025-09-15 · Lee A Johnson_ I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶ ̸\[̶r̷e̶c̶e̴n̷t̵l̷y̷ ̷a̶v̵a̸i̷l̸a̷b̷l̴e̷ ̸o̷n̸ ̵Y̴o̷u̶T̴u̴b̶e̸\]̴(̵h̸t̵t̷p̴s̸:̴/̸/̴w̸w̴w̶.̵y̶o̶u̵t̵u̴b̶e̸.̴c̷o̷m̷/̵w̵a̴t̷c̴h̵?̷v̴=̵G̵f̶H̶4̵Q̷L̸4̸V̸q̴J̵0̴)̷,̴ ̴b̴u̵t̷ ̴I̴ ̸c̷o̸u̸l̶d̴n̸’̴t̷ ̷g̷e̷t̵ ̴i̸n̸t̶o̵ ̷i̷t̸ ̴b̵e̶c̷a̷u̴s̷e̷ ̵t̴h̴e̶r̵e̴ ̸w̷a̶s̵ ̶s̵o̵m̶e̶t̷h̵i̸n̴g̵ ̵i̶n̵ ̴t̵h̸e̵ ̴b̶a̶c̵k̵g̵r̵o̸u̷n̶d̷… ## [DWeb Meetup Online](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/dweb%20meetup%20online) _2025-08-31 · Understory_ The online version of the DWeb meetup. ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Gwj04X7ftJW7) _2025-08-31 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [Google Merchant Center is a Whiny Pain in The Arse](https://leejo.github.io/2025/08/26/hey_google/) _2025-08-26 · Lee A Johnson_ fREW once said “As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time” and I think about this now and then. However, in my case I replace the word “ecosystems” for “anything”. There are exceptions, of course, but I’m not going to list them here as those should be obvious or self-evident 1 . Buuuuuuuut, there is an ever growing number of things being added to that list as… ## [PrivacyTests.org](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/privacytests.org) _2025-08-14 · Understory_ "Best Private Browsers" ## [What Lies in the Path of the Revolution](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/papers/what%20lies%20in%20the%20path%20of%20the%20revolution) _2025-08-14 · Understory_ Author: Antranig Basman ## [Always On, Always Connected, Always Searching, Always Distracted](https://leejo.github.io/2025/06/10/always_on/) _2025-06-10 · Lee A Johnson_ A "blog post" ten years in the making? I started writing this post on my iPhone during an overnight stay on Prince Edward Island (PEI) sometime in 2015. One stop on a short road trip in Canada. The photo I uploaded to Instagram at the time confirms that was indeed exactly a decade ago 1 . Since then I’ve completed a few long-term projects, visited numerous portfolio reviews, been to several… ## [Keyhive — ReCAP'25](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/keyhive%20— recap'25) _2025-06-09 · Understory_ A talk that I gave at ReCAP (2025) about Keyhive. ## [ReCAP (2025)](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/recap%20(2025)) _2025-06-09 · Understory_ The "Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy" (ReCAP) Workshop ## [Safe in the Keyhive — LoFi Conf '25](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/safe%20in%20the%20keyhive%20— lofi%20conf%20'25) _2025-06-09 · Understory_ A talk that I gave at Local-First Conference (2025) about Keyhive. ## [Local First Conf](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/local%20first%20conf) _2025-06-09 · Understory_ Website ## [Local-First Conference (2025)](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/local-first%20conference%20(2025)) _2025-06-09 · Understory_ The 2025 edition ofLocal First Conf ## [A Thousand Tiny Optimisations](https://leejo.github.io/2025/06/08/alttpr/) _2025-06-08 · Lee A Johnson_ This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago , and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't make it out of my drafts folder. Zelda is back in people’s minds again with the recent release of “Tears of the Kingdom” -… ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tydTldE9X8Ba) _2025-06-07 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Academish Voice](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/academish%20voice) _2025-05-02 · Understory_ Link ## [W18](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/log/2025/w18) _2025-05-02 · Understory_ W18 2025 ## [Eulogy for an Era](https://jessicaotis.com/academia/eulogy-for-an-era/) _2025-04-10 · jmotis · Jessica Otis_ We got the first long-term forecast warning of a hurricane forming on November 6th, 2024. We prepared for a Category 3 hurricane and that s what hit the National Science Foundation. But as has become common in the last few years, the hurricane underwent a rapid intensification and what hit the Institute of Museum and Library READ MORE ## [Bear Pond Espresso](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/bear%20pond%20espresso) _2025-03-11 · Understory_ 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](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/representing%20sha-256%20hashes%20as%20avatars) _2025-03-10 · Understory_ Blog Post ## [Wardley Map Mini Course](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/wardley%20map%20mini%20course) _2025-03-08 · Understory_ A little introductory course about Wardley Maps ## [Consensus is Impossible](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/consensus%20is%20impossible) _2025-03-07 · Understory_ 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](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/vancouver%20local%20first%20weekend) _2025-03-07 · Understory_ 11 Jan 2025 and 12 Jan 2025 ## [We Are Canadian](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/we%20are%20canadian) _2025-03-07 · Understory_ In the early 2000s there was a beer ad that went viral (for the time) with the catchphrase "I AM CANADIAN". ## [DWeb Vancouver](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/dweb%20vancouver) _2025-03-07 · Understory_ The Vancouver chapter of the DWeb meetup. ## [DWeb Seattle](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/dweb%20seattle) _2025-03-06 · Understory_ The DWeb Seattle Node is a meetup dedicated to dweb topics. ## [Keyhive](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/notes/keyhive) _2025-03-06 · Understory_ GitHub Repo ## [Safety in the Keyhive — Seattle Edition](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/safety%20in%20the%20keyhive%20—%20seattle%20edition) _2025-02-28 · Understory_ A talk that I gave at DWeb Seattle about Keyhive. ## [On turning forty](https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/on-turning-forty/) _2025-01-16 · Marta Paciorkowska · Marta Paciorkowska_ A few years ago, I had a conversation with my ex mother-in-law about turning forty. She told me she got a bouquet of roses for her birthday, and that she put it in a vase, sat down on the couch in front of it, and started to cry. It felt as if she mourned what… More ## [Local First Access Control — DWeb Vancouver](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/local%20first%20access%20control%20— dweb%20vancouver) _2025-01-11 · Understory_ 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](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/software%20unplugged%20dweb%20online%20edition) _2025-01-11 · Understory_ A shortened variant of the Software Unplugged talk that I gave at the DWeb Meetup Online on 2025 August 27 ## [Safe in the Beehive](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/safe%20in%20the%20beehive) _2024-10-29 · Understory_ I gave a talk about Beehive at the Local First Software Meetup on 29 October 2024. ## [Local First Software Meetup](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/conferences%20&%20meetups/local%20first%20software%20meetup) _2024-10-29 · Understory_ The lofi meetup ## [Beehive Community Update Sept 2024](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/beehive%20community%20update%20sept%202024) _2024-10-28 · Understory_ A talk that I gave at the Automerge Community Call Sept 2024 about the Beehive auth project. ## [The Jump to Hyperspace (GOTO)](https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/brooke's%20talks/the%20jump%20to%20hyperspace%20(goto)) _2024-10-28 · Understory_ Abstract