October, 2021

October was a return to my preferred rhythm of existence: a departure from working 8 hour days to something that ebbs and flows more naturally each day. This coincided with the end of the (fantastic, learningful & companion-laden) SSB NGI grant, where I’d spent the past 6+ months growing as a Go programmer & general project collaborator through working on various scuttlebutt tasks, the majority circling the go-ssb implementation championed by my friend cryptix.

Below you can read a summary of outward-facing project updates that occurred from mid-October and until month-end.

halloween-skinned my website, as spurred on by the spontaneous avatar changes in the mastodon community i’m part of

SSB

• Posted a well-received Scuttleverse Newsletter interview with Mix
• Accepted a spot on Glyph’s PeachPub team, taking on the role as the project’s ssb-go engineer. We will be working on making a responsive and web-enabled pub manager for configuring and controlling a running go-ssb instance. An offshot of the PeachCloud project. For more details, see ssb %zk2gaso2pReUrg81fFEzKD2zg+OEv9o6V3qKTlCHI78=.sha256.

Cabal

• Finished up and published the work that allows cabal to be used in the browser, PRs:
  • https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal-client/pull/76
  • https://github.com/cblgh/caballo/pull/3
  • See the proof of concept running. Works in most newer desktop browsers.
    (note for the pedantic: it is a proof of concept, and deliberately not a fully fledged client—for something approaching that, see react-cabal)
• Started implementing (end to end encrypted) private message support for cabal-client & cabal-cli

Lieu

• Implemented a search function allowing visitors to search the wider web from the perspective of webring denizens, by way of indexing and making searchable the webring’s outgoing links
• Implemented the site:<domain> filter to allow searching the webring for results from a single site
• Made it possible for static sites to implement search for their sites using Lieu, example code

End

Until next time, traveler

i leave u with this loaf i baked in october