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I'm really curious how BroadcastChannel works under the hood. I haven't been able to find anything on it, curious if anyone here has any insight!

Hell yeah! Hyperbee is very cool. I'm still trying to get an intuition for the "embedded indexing", and how it compares to a standard b-tree. I did some cursory looking around and couldn't find much on it.

For work in a similar vein, Mikeal Rogers has recently been working on IPSQL[0] based on peer-to-peer prdered search indexes[1] built on IPFS, which shares the content-addressed nature of BitTorrent.

[0]: https://github.com/mikeal/IPSQL

[1]: https://0fps.net/2020/12/19/peer-to-peer-ordered-search-inde...

Thanks! I'm a big fan of html.energy.

Also, I'm planning on picking up the tours again soon, so if you, or anyone else, has some suggestions for folks it'd be cool to see, let me know!

For a bit I was running these "Personal Website Tours"[0] and had a couple of folks mentioned in this article do one! They're basically just an interview around their websites, how they maintain them, how they originated. It's fascinating seeing the different workflows people come up with, and how they intersect with their personal goals.

Having your own website is an incredibly powerful tool because of the diversity of ways you can use it. It's only getting easier to do so, especially with the massive amount of static site generators available today. I do think it can get even more accessible though. I ran a lil course [1] earlier this month that aimed to provide a supportive environment for people getting started with it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEXbN99LY3OCarUeXcxWe...

[1]: https://hyperlink.academy/courses/internet-homesteading/22

Monome is such a fascinating example of sustainable open source ecosystem around a hardware product.

Their entire software stack is open-source, and the community contributes an incredible amount. Just take a look at the release notes for the latest norns update [0].

The software itself is also just of a really high quality, especially the balance between accessibility and power. The norns runs lua scripts that interact with a bunch of specific APIs for making sounds, interacting with hardware, or drawing the UI. It's incredibly quick to get started, but folks have made some wild scripts[1]

[0]: https://llllllll.co/t/norns-update-201023-201029/37646

[1]: https://llllllll.co/t/arcologies-v1-2-5/35752

Any update on open sourcing that window tiling abstraction in React? Sounds very useful!

Check out the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators [0]! They're credit card sized electronic instruments. They've managed to fit a full fledged sampler in the PO-33 and a voice synthesizer in PO-35. The others aren't as processing intense but still have really powerful patterning and sounds. All running off of 2 AAA batteries, with months of battery life.

[0] https://teenage.engineering/products/po

Does anyone have instances of forking open-source software that supports a business in order to undercut that business?

Absolutely loved this book, though I thought the best parts of it were the influx of ideas and worldbuilding in the first 3/4ths of Too Like the Lightning. The last quarter seemed to rush to tie together the threads laid down and I felt that carried over into Seven Surrenders.

Of course I think my approach to reading it also changed as I was eagerly awaiting that resolution. Haven't picked up Will to Battle yet, but very excited for it.

Stable coin systems are going to be massively important and there's a ton of different projects trying to make it happen.

This [1] is a really solid explanation on how one of them, Dai from MakerDAO, works.

[1] https://medium.com/cryptolinks/maker-for-dummies-a-plain-eng...

I definitely see where you're coming from, but I think the danger there is not necessarily anything to do with the coupling of assessment and learning but the coupling of assessment with the learned, i.e those who possess a skill/piece of knowledge/trait should be the ones who define the assessments around it. I like that you bring up guilds because that's very much baked into their process I think.

I think the latter is possible, but even without there are options.

There's a long-tail of credential consumers beyond traditional employers that holds a ton of value. Community level organizations, digital social networks, even open-source communities.

There's also a decent set of skills that can't currently be measured or conveyed by traditional standardized credentials.

Both of these represent an opportunity for a new academic/assessment paradigm to step in and create real value today.

That being said there's definitely going to be huge hurdles in getting to traditional employers, their logic is not necessarily based on best placement or best skill set, but often times on bureaucracy/ass-covering/good-enough mindset. Not to say that isn't valuable at very large scale organizations.

I don't see the advantage of tying assessments to singular institutions especially ones structured like College Board. What this promotes a bottleneck of what can be communicated to others meaningfully. Currently the SAT can be broadly communicated (because CB and others have invested very large amounts of resources into it) and so students optimize for it. Instead they could be putting their efforts to towards learning that is more personally and socially valuable.

I don't think this is just because the SATs are bad tests but fundamentally emerges from the institutional single source of truth model, where the incentive is for the institution to make their test as general/broad as possible and the most broadly accepted , as to capture the most students and hence fees.

It's kinda crazy that assessment has been coupled with instruction for so long, it pretty obviously creates a warped incentive model that stands on some real shaky ground.

I think the model also doesn't scale well for assessment, which prompts the creation of few, ineffective, but highly scalable assessments upon which the functioning of the entire system rest, which in turn prompts practices like teaching to the test. This creates even more messed up incentives but this time facing students and teachers as opposed to institutional practices.

I think that assessment, when decoupled, can't be done with an institution or institutions. Instead we need social networks that use a consensus process to define knowledge and who has it.

I don't think this needs to be directly tied to public education. My concern is more that educational startups tend to assume an institutional model (i.e an institutions defines what is being learned, how it's being learned etc etc). They don't need to change public education but rather create services that embody a different educational paradigm.

For example a matchmaking service for shared learning goals or interests could for sure be within the power of a startup. Something like 42[0] but without a fixed institution. Or community level organized learning environments for various subjects. Or even to go more in the vien of Papert and Turtle, a npm type system but with a strict pedagogical focus.

There's a ton of systems that can be hugely powerful without depending on a classroom model or a school/institution. And there's no reason these can't be as impactful or more as systems and services targeted towards public/institutional education.

[0] https://www.42.us.org/

These all seem to be assuming the institution-teacher-student model of education we have today. Even the "New school models" section is assuming a delivered experience, which has an institutional bent.

I think biggest area of disruption in education would be in building fundamentally new architectures for educational systems, based on networks and social communities instead of funnels and institutions. The latter have a pretty huge list of undesirable properties and negative externalities, especially in how they limit diverse experiences and learning.

An eye-opening read on this front for me has been Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich [0]. It's insane how much of what he wrote 40 years ago still holds true.

[0] http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html

Here's[0] an interesting take on a possible way forward to achieve that, very much inline with the recent ICO trend.

In general I think the token design space is an extremely interesting one, and seeing how different models lead to different social structures and outcomes will be extremely interesting.

Of course this is not new (currently reading Debt: the first 5000 years), its just radically easier than before, to design, deploy, and use. As a result we'll see an explosion of variety, diversity, and competition, which'll be fascinating to see.

Already the differences in ICO mechanisms are extremely interesting, though they have a long way to go.

[0] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/tokenize-the-enterprise-23d51baf...

I just downloaded Ardour (after trying it out a while back and somewhat giving up) and it's a pretty fantastic application.

What prompted me to get into it again was that I wanted to combine it with Hydrogen (http://hydrogen-music.org/hcms/) using JACK (http://www.jackaudio.org/).

I can _immediately_ see the power of JACK, but I just can't get my immediate use to work, which is when I hit play/pause in one application, the other starts as well.

In general though the potential in JACK just seems awesome, it's almost as intuitive as just routing patch cables in meatspace and I can't wait to get into it more. It also seems like something that'd be brilliant for a touch-screen.

I'm considering setting up another partition just for audio work.

I don't think assessments are fundamentally numerical. Assessing is at its core simply about recognizing experience and I think systemized ways to do so would be incredibly valuable, as opposed to an ad-hoc system where everyone builds their own judgements. While that is more flexible its also far far less efficient. Companies hiring, other educational institutions, all need a way to efficiently parse experience without having do it themselves, and so a systemized assessment network I think will be necessary.

Experience could even just be a boolean value, has or doesn't have, instead of anything numerical. Or there could emerge separate numerical systems for each area of knowledge. The important part is that the system is based on social consensus of people who actually possess the experience, so that its the most relevant and applicable system possible.