Automerge: a new foundation for collaboration software

Local-first software is an effort to make collaboration software less dependent on cloud services, and Automerge is an open-source library for realising local-first software. In this talk I explain our motivation for creating Automerge, and map out 7 years worth of research projects that are feeding into this project.

Engelbart understood the uniqueness behind Bush’s memex machine, particularly the notion of duplicating a trail so that information could be shared with others. “Making it easy to establish and follow the associative trails makes practical a new symbol-structuring process whose use can make a significant difference in the concept structuring and b[a]sic methods of work. It is also probable that clever usage of associative-trail manipulation can augment the human’s process structuring and executing capa[b]ilities so that he could successfully make use of even more powerful symbol-

The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of ideas, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. The mind has other characteristics, of course: trails not frequently followed are apt to fade; few items are fully permanent; memory is transitory. Yet the speed of action, the intricacy of trails, the detail of mental pictures, is awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature. Man cannot hope fully to duplicate this mental process artificially. But he can certainly learn from it; in minor ways he may even improve on it, for his records have relative permanency. But the prime idea to be learned concerns selection. Selection by association, rather than by indexing, may yet be mechanized. Although we cannot hope to equal the speed and flexibility with which the mind follows an associative trail, it should be possible to beat the mind decisively in the per- manence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage.

I really appreciate your little emails as trail markers. Everything I snarf from the web, annotate, link to, notice in writing forms my Mind's Graph Mark the Trails I blaze with TailMarks

Why Information Grows January 15, 2018 by Eugene Wei It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an illusion. Meaning is derived from context and prior knowledge. Meaning is the interpretation that a knowledge agent, such as a human, gives to a message, but it is different from the physical order that carries the message, and different from the message itself. Meaning emerges when a message reaches a life-form or a machine with the ability to process information; it is not carried in the blots of ink, sound waves, beams of light, or electric pulses that transmit information.

Deep Humanity — The Time for a Collective Awakening to our Higher non-selves

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There could be a trap there. Worse can lead to way of pain. Once you have users, you may never have the luxury of comming out of the corner you have coded yourself in. Been in the Personal Knowledge Graph business. there was that gaping gap, but there was no market in that gap.

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the three muses putting their fingers in a vortex of meaning, in whirling information currents.

all that stems from the genuine desire to relate.

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A Semantic Text Conversation — Teodora Petkova

Next week is the February 2022 edition of Fission's #distsys reading group hosted by @expede. The paper being reviewed is "Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems”, presented at Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS ’21) last year

Meet the RDF-native Knowledge Graph notebook! 00:00 Notebook paradigm 01:17 Login with Google 01:56 Access requests 02:57 Data-driven content 03:18 Chart from Wikipedia's SPARQL results 06:19 Forking RDF documents 08:27 RDF resource as content 09:09 Chart as content 10:11 Decentralized read-write access

‘imagination’ as the very force that shapes reality!

web3.storage in the browser A demo using the web3.storage client in the browser to pre-calculate the CID for an asset then store it on web3.storage. Content addressing, IPFS, Filecoin, web3.storage... it's all pretty rad! Here is gateway URL for the Content ID of this example, (stored via web3.storage of course!) so you can check it out in your browser! https://dweb.link/ipfs/bafybeic5r5yxjh5xpmeczfp34ysrjcoa66pllnjgffahopzrl5yhex7d7i

web3.storage in the browser

Checkout some example projects in the Web3.Storage GitHub repo

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History.pushState() In an HTML document, the history.pushState() method adds an entry to the browser's session history stack.

MDN Web Docs Data and tools related to MDN Web Docs (formerly Mozilla Developer Network, formerly Mozilla Developer Center...)

Home of the MDN interactive code examples.

TeamPage combines the best aspects of social media, project management software and authoring tools to create a comprehensive business solution that helps teams of all sorts stay connected and accomplish their goals

intentionally flexible design

Google reaffirms 15% of searches are new, never been searched before Google processes trillions of searches every year, and still, 15% of those queries have never been seen by Google before.

Quantum Cryptanalysis: Hype and Reality By Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Simson Garfinkel Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 8:01 AM

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Replying to @TrailMarks and @codexeditorBy the same token (sorry!), I could leave a great deal unsaid about a name, making its reuse meaningful only when I reused it. Much like current name to name mapping in conversion tools. All the next party has are bare names.

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do MetaSpace tourist and billionaire programmer Charles Simonyi designed Microsoft Office. Now he wants to reprogram software.

Making Sense of Web3 Debate: Why Stateless Protocols & Data Portability Matter

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So, What is The Open Metaverse?

Is Crypto *Actually*Destroying the Planet? “Quantify the impact, reduce it as much as possible, and offset the rest”says Joseph Pallant - founder of the Blockchain for Climate Foundation

P2P infrastructures are designed in such a way as to allow the autonomy and participation of many players

value crisis for capital, since the value creators are not rewarded,

The Radical Left Has Hijacked American Institutions: Victor Davis Hanson #Interview

Brooklyn Zelenka and The Exciting World of Edge Computing

The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be solved quickly.

Steve Cook introduced the P vs. NP problem to the world in his paper, "The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures."

Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible

NP-completeness

I call it "GOING META."

Welcome to the MindSkills PlaybookThe Playbook for Acing the Game of Life By George Silverman

(To be clear — there are a number of thoughtful thinkers in crypto who don't think decentralization is the be-all and end-all.)

Crypto is not decentralizedBecause technical decentralization does not decentralize power — it only hides it

2022-02-08 PJB Call with Wendy McLean

Chris Hedges How the USA has LOST IT

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April Rinne is equal parts global authority, advocate, ally and adventurer. She sees trends early, understands their potential, and helps others do the same. April helps individuals and organizations navigate a world in flux.

Welcome to a life of flux! A changing world requires a new mindset that does not see constant change and uncertainty as something negative. "Flux" helps you turn conventional ideas of leadership, success and a good life on its head - and live well in a changing world. Listen to change navigator and Young Global Leader April Rinne talk about the book during :)

The Shocking Truth About Jordan Peterson | Must Watch!

It's Official: We Were WRONG About the Big Bang

RICHARD ROHR | Re-emergence of the Non-Dual Mind & Reflections of a Lesser BrotherDownload SubtitlesEnglish (auto-generated)

David Allen + Jerry Michalski = spontaneous mind-meld!

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if they were interested they could probably get it now i mean any you know when it's a it's a it's a google world you know so 00:12:18 you could probably find a lot of information if you really if you care about that but to have a community that sort of built itself around the sharing of that kind of information that's what turned me on to that that last uh 00:12:29 podcast i heard you do jerry thank you which i just don't see i i don't see it yet what do we need to do

i drew a picture of the globe and the world connected sort of 00:11:12 electronically with the small towns i thought if the small towns could sort of get what i teach or what they teach what they've learned how do they manage their own small community and share that with all the 00:11:26 other small communities and i've waited for a long time to watch whether something like that would actually show up or not and i don't know what all the barriers have been economic political 00:11:40 cultural god knows why yeah why why all of that is not there that's why i think you know yay jerry what do we do how do we get you know every small town 00:11:53 you know either onto the brain or to to find some collaborative tool to say look here's how we handled sewage in our town here's how we handle diversity in our town here's how we handle transportation here 00:12:04 in town here's how we handle whatever and everybody's got all those resources they could use

i feel like i'm the anti-matter david allen like where you personify getting things done and efficiency and productivity and all of that 00:05:09 i am just nowhere in that space i am you know i have a whole series of initiatives my brain is like this space where i'm curious about everything and if you wander around through the half million things i put in there uh it's everything 00:05:22 from cocktail recipes to why donald trump uh is donald trump and how he works to uh completely you know apolitical things as well

jerry and i met god uh two or three lifetimes ago

Jordan Peterson - The SECRET SKILL the UNIVERSITIES are NOT TEACHING

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A collaboratory, as defined by William Wulf in 1989, is a “center without walls, in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to physical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, [and] accessing information in digital libraries” (Wulf, 1989).

scale network-native research & development across the PL Network.

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A Story to Bind Us: The Intellectual Deep Web and a New Meta-Narrative

The main dilemma from a software (and data) perspective is that, unless we fix the ecosystem, we keep reinventing the wheel, creating code sprawl, unnecessary data siloing and error-ridden complexity in the process. An application-centric architecture traps logic in application code. Most of that logic, instead of being trapped, could be shared, in the form of data, as logic within a knowledge graph, for example, where that logic would be accessible and reusable.

https://events.eventzilla.net/e/the-enterprise-data-transformation–knowledge-graph-adoption-symposium-2138821542

Denial is the main reason we keep waking up to AI winter every morning on Groundhog Day.

Weaving a Decentralized Semantic Web of(Personal) Knowledge

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Cite the author's name, screen name, or user ID, etc. If the work is being published on the Internet, it is nice to link that name to the person's profile page, if such a page exists.

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‘Woke capitalism’ is a new ideology for a digital economy

conversion of “corporate form” to public benefit corporations should put it to a shareholder vote.

Can Programming be Liberated from the Two-Level Style?Multi-Level Programming with DeepJava

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The File System Access API: simplifying access to local files

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Blocks created using the Block Protocol can easily move between apps

The Block Protocol makes interoperable, block-based data possible

To fix this, we’re going to create a protocol called the Block Protocol.

I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if blocks were interchangeable and reusable across the web?

Everything else, though, is completely proprietary and non-standard.

insert block” user interface concept is showing up in almost every blogging tool, web editor, note-taking app, and content management system. People like it and it makes sense.

Making the web better. With blocks! News You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long list of potential blocks that you can insert into this page:

Konsolidate is a team of passionate developers, architects, strategists and analysts with one shared belief: people should gain control over their own personal data.

With the polyPod your data stays where it belongs. Under your control!

👀🚨How much do VCs and Founders make from initial token allocations when new Blockchains are launched? You might be surprised…Increasingly, Blockchain projects focus on win-win and creating value for the ecosystem and community, but there is usually an amount of tokens that are retained by the founders as their ‘compensation’ for creating novel platforms. And of course, if those tokens appreciate they can be worth a LOT!

not a platform that users flock to; instead, when individual, autonomous users flock together like birds, they begin to weave their own Decentralized Autonomous Network of Networks.

JavaScript modules as NFT's

Ah yes, NFTs, which in my mind translates into uNdeniably F**king Tulips. At least with the tulip mania of the late 18th century, you had a garden full of tulips when everything fell apart. With NFTs, you end up with a badly pixelated 8-bit image.

History and Philosophy of Science

expanding our collective wisdom about the future more than it is about tapping the wisdom of the crowd for unexpected ideas.

IFTF’s foresight engine

The Mutant Futures Program: Methodological Hybridity and Creativity

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A task without a vision is drudgery. A Vision without a task is dreaming. A Task with a Vision is hope for the World

Grant that the day's work of my hands, lofty Fortune, I may complete! Grant that they will not exhaust me! No, these are not empty dreams: now but mere poles, these trees will one day give fruit and shade. Hoffnung Hope

Grant that the day's work of my hands, lofty Fortune, I may complete! Grant that they will not exhaust me! No, these are not empty dreams: now but mere poles, these trees will one day give fruit and shade.

“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”

Google might be proudly saying, we are doing a lot to help people find things on the net frontier, Who is doing the job of maybe making better maps understanding the frontier"The IndieVerse will do the job of people-sourcing a better maps of understanding the Web frontier by combining a people-centered autonomous spontaneously emergent InterPlanetary InterPersonal network connecting people via shared interests to ideas true Symmathesy meta : and here is an example of annnotating the annotations for : The Endless Frontier of all Human endevour not just science but Life, the Universe and Everthing where Man IS the measure of Everthing

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permissions and identity are orthogonal in many cases

Why can’t the tokens in a UCAN’s proof give access?

Imagine an unencloseable system where no one can gain influence by simply controlling the medium of communication.Could #ThePowerofPeertoPeer help us solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems?

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