Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
Hurray!
My homeserver is up.
Yours futuristically,
— @julian:foad.me.uk
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Matrix: Final countdown to 1.0
Matrix announced today the Final countdown to 1.0
Hurray!
How healthy is the internet?
Mozilla has published The Internet Health Report 2019. I’ll be browsing many of its short articles.
Very exciting to see how Matrix is gearing up to provide a sorely needed Open alternative to the proprietary silo chat systems. This blog post gives a good, long, round-up of how it’s coming along.
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/12/25/the-2018-matrix-holiday-special/
Working for Assembla, Julian Foad is now developing Shelving and Checkpointing for Apache Subversion, announces CTO Jacek Materna in Next-Generation Subversion — unveiled.
Decentralized Web Summit — Lightning Talks
Here is one of the best resources I have found so far to hear about the exciting new technologies which may underpin the next phase of the World Wide Web.
Go to the Decentralized Web Summit home page, scroll down to the “June 9th, Meetup” section, and watch the lightning talks (5- to 10-minute presentations) about decentralized web technologies such as IndieWeb, micro-payments, and the Inter-Planetary File System.
A Year In The Saddle
A lady from Nottingham called Kajsa Tylen is attempting the world record for the furthest distance cycled by a woman in a year.
http://www.ayearinthesaddle.com/
The record she needs to beat is 29,603 miles, set in 1938 by Billie Fleming (who lived to the age of 100).
A Free Software Extremist?
Bryan Lunduke‘s article “The World We Leave Our Children: How I became a free software extremist” gave me pause for thought.
(I came across it while reading about his experiment in switching away from Gmail and from all other Google products and services. It’s interesting to read in his conclusion which ones he’s happy to leave and which ones he goes back to.)