Category: open
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Who owns the graph?
Bluesky is the talk of the Internet, and for good reason. It’s a great product, carefully designed, well implemented, with some fascinating architecture choices. It’s basically an early Twitter clone with some important new features, like custom feeds and labelers that anyone can make. Bluesky is built on the open AT protocol, so users have…
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when selfish acts become altruistic
My first open-source contribution was in 1998, when a ragtag bunch of web hackers and I published the first version of one of the first web application toolkits. In 2000, after I’d left the original project, a few other hackers and I “forked” that codebase to make it work on an open-source database, meaning we…
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