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I’ll be talking about ties, the federated bookmark manager, today at FOSDEM - 14:00 in the Social Web devroom.
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Here's v0.3.0 of ties, the federated bookmark manager, with a new light mode, flexible bookmark editing tools, and a critical security fix!
If you're using ties, please update at your earliest convenience. If you're not using it yet, now's a good time to try it out!
https://github.com/raffomania/ties/releases/tag/v0.3.0
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Plotted some voronoi diagrams I'm happy with. Still having trouble with ink flow though.
Pentel Energel on Clairefontaine mixed media paper
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Just merged the new bookmark editing form for ties. It's the most complex form I've built using htmx yet. During the process, I've learned a lot. A blog post is coming!
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I’ll be talking about ties, the federated bookmark manager, today at FOSDEM - 14:00 in the Social Web devroom.
Come join and get some ties stickers!
#fosdem #socialweb
Plotted some voronoi diagrams I'm happy with. Still having trouble with ink flow though.
Pentel Energel on Clairefontaine mixed media paper
#generativeart #penplotter #creativecoding
Building Progressively Enhanced Forms with htmx
In which I go into things I've learned over the course of the last year building moderately complex web UIs for ties, using plain HTML and htmx.
https://www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhan…
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> In an untested room, common sense like “LLMs should not be allowed to deploy code without human review” can kill your chances to make an impact before you’ve even started.
> Where possible, when raising issues…
Here's v0.3.0 of ties, the federated bookmark manager, with a new light mode, flexible bookmark editing tools, and a critical security fix!
If you're using ties, please update at your earliest convenience. If you're not using it yet, now's…
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Just merged the new bookmark editing form for ties. It's the most complex form I've built using htmx yet. During the process, I've learned a lot. A blog post is coming!
I switched to Wayland about a year ago but this post made me reconsider. I always thought the remaining Wayland issues were due to lack of manpower, but it seems governance and communication problems block a lot of progress as well.
https:…
You can now sponsor my work on ties, the federated bookmark manager!
Your support goes towards the implementation of new features such as localization, collaborative list editing and sharing, and new flexible ways to organize your bookmark…
One thing I wish more libre projects would do is write down their core values and goals. It shows users and contributors what to expect, and prevents misunderstandings, wasted work and frustration.
Here are values and goals I just wrote do…
Just released v0.2.0 of ties, the self-hosted federated bookmark manager!
The big highlights are website archiving and full-text search functionality.
This has been in the works for almost half a year. A lot of thought has gone into making…
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