markjgsmith

Decentralized Twitter rival Damus will be removed from the App Store over Bitcoin tipping - That does seem like a bit of an over-reaction. Surely they aren't the first iOS app to add a tipping feature on a social media app? appleinsider.com #

Freefaces - Open source typefaces gallery - There are some pretty neat looking fonts in this collection. freefaces.gallery #

Let's welcome Meta, not block them - The author Manton Reece, founder of micro.blog, writes about the movement to pre-emptively block Meta before it has even released it's product, mentioning Open APIs, data privacy, getting your own house in order, and monocultures. Micro.blog by the way supports posting to ActivityPub, Nostr and Bluesky. Pretty cool. manton.org #

Hugging Face CEO tells US House open-source AI is ‘extremely aligned’ with American interests - I'm still amazed at how easy and cool it is that anyone in the world can watch these type of government hearings. It wasn't always like this. Isn't the world wide web awesome? Btw Hugging Face is like Github but for AI and large language models (LLMs). Open Source AI is a very interesting topic that we are only starting to grapple with. We are still in the new-ideas-permeating-everything phase which is quite confusing, but some academics trained in thinking at a macro level are starting to ask very detailed & specific questions which are highlighting the magnitude of the sea change that is ahead. venturebeat.com #

Architecture of an early stage SAAS - This is a great writeup. It’s a somewhat more modern version of the nodejs architecure I used for my SaaS. The author also covers the frontend setup abd code organisation. It relies on Fly.io but you do get a lot of nice features out of the box. It is quite involved, but building and running a SaaS is complicated and difficult. feelback.dev #

🚀 New Post: Building digital asset economies - Distinguishing between the different digital asset classes that DeFi is making available, and looking at some specific examples that demonstrate the new reality that is fast approaching. We are entering a world where new digital asset economies are being forged. markjgsmith.com #