Christopher Lemmer Webber

@dustyweb

GNU (MediaGoblin, 8sync, Guile, Guix) hacker, ActivityPub co-editor, occasional artist. Also at:

Joined July 2012

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    Jan 4

    the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

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  2. Once upon a time Packard Bell made a thing called a Corner Computer. To go in the corner.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    what kind of monster decided to make a "buttered popcorn" jellybean flavor anyway

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  4. 19 hours ago

    BTW anonymous internet strangers, we ack this stuff *is* hard, and we (the & proximate communities) went through a lot of shiz so you don't have to. You can ask us things in at or [...]

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  5. 16 hours ago
    Replying to

    My favourite part is "actual work"

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  6. 16 hours ago

    On standards divisions and collaboration (or: Why can't the decentralized social web people just get along?)

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  7. 16 hours ago

    One of the early rough outlines for stuff by via the process of converting my random babbling into something coherent as it can be (circa 2015). Coffee stains were included for free.

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  8. Jan 24

    God Dammit Brain-Bat h/t Fipi Lele

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  9. 20 hours ago
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  10. Jan 25
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  11. Jan 24
    Replying to

    Huh, I'd missed that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized learning about decentralization for 2018. Maybe he'll start coming to Social Web Community Group meetings . Or buy out nextcloud . Or withknown . Uh huh.

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  12. Jan 24

    it's really weird to be working with javascript where right now doing continuation passing style manually... manually!... with async is considered the hottest thing oh no I'm being one of those smug scheme/lisp weenies that everyone hates right now aren't I

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  13. Jan 24

    Kudos to everyone who has made ActivityPub a success!

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  14. Jan 22

    I think about this all the time.

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  15. Jan 24

    A lot of people are praising my work on ActivityPub and I really appreciate that. AP was a group effort though and I want to make sure other people get the credit they deserve. Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of some people who helped make AP happen:

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  16. Jan 24

    Maybe now's a good time to mention: I'll be speaking at Libreplanet 2018 on the state of federation. Clearly with ActivityPub making it to recommendation, there's a lot to say :) My spouse will also be speaking on a panel about academia and free software. Good times!

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  17. Jan 24

    This article on federated social networks was written last month in LWN, but somehow I didn't see it until today. It's good though!

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  18. Jan 24

    Exciting news: thanks to all the hard work from a team including founder Chris Webber , has finally been made an official W3C recommended standard!

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  19. Jan 24

    "One thing you may have noticed in the last decade is that many decentralized free software social networking applications have been written. Sadly, most of those applications can't actually speak to each other -- a fractured federation."

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  20. Jan 24

    Wow hey, ActivityPub is #1 on Hacker News right now I'm not endorsing HN, but I am endorsing being #1 on HN ;)

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  21. Jan 22

    あまりにも神ゲー…

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