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Working on Puter ( https://github.com/heyPuter/puter/ ), the Open-source Internet Computer! Building desktop environment in the cloud with built in cloud storage, AI, processing, app ecosystem and much more!
You can read more about it and watch a demo: https://blog.with.audio/posts/web-reader-tts
I buit this to get some traffic to my main project's website using a free tool people might like. The main project: https://desktop.with.audio -> a one time payment text to speech app with text highlighting and export mp3 and other features on MacOS (ARM only) and Windows.
We’re working directly with partner housing unions and charities in Britain and Ireland to build the first central database of rogue landlords and estate agents. Users can search an address and see if it’s marked as rogue/dangerous by the local union, as well as whether you can expect to see your deposit returned, maintenance, communication - etc.
After renting for close to a decade, it’s the same old problems with no accountability. We wanted to change this, and empower tenants to share their experiences freely and easily with one another.
We’re launching in November, and I’m very excited to announce our partner organisations! We know this relies on a network effect to work, and we’re hoping to run it as a social venture. I welcome any feedback.
Take a picture of an event flyer or paste in some text. The event gets added to your calendar.
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COCKTAIL-DKG - A distributed key generation protocol for FROST, based on ChillDKG (but generalized to more elliptic curve groups) -- https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/pull/164 | https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/issues/159
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A tool for threshold signing software releases that I eventually want to integrate with SigStore, etc. to help folks distribute their code-signing. https://github.com/soatok/freeon
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Want E2EE for Mastodon (and other ActivityPub-based software), so you can have encrypted Fediverse DMs? I've been working on the public key transparency aspect of this too.
Spec: https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
Implementation: Coming soon. The empty repository is https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/pkd-server-go but I'll be pushing code in the near future.
You can read more about this project here: https://soatok.blog/category/technology/open-source/fedivers...
It's been a great project to understand how design depends on a consistent narrative and purpose. At first I put together elements I thought looked good but nothing seemed to "work" and it's only when I took a step back and considered what the purpose and philosophy of the design was that it started to feel cohesive and intentional.
I'll never be a designer but I often do side projects outside my wheelhouse so I can build empathy for my teammates and better speak their language.
(It's a frontend to make searching eBay actually pleasant)
So I started working on Librario, an ISBN database that fetches information from several other services, such as Hardcover.app, Google Books, and ISBNDB, merges that information, and return something more complete than using them alone. It also saves that information in the database for future lookups.
You can see an example response here[1]. Pricing information for books is missing right now because I need to finish the extractor for those, genres need some work[2], and having a 5 months old baby make development a tad slow, but the service is almost ready for a preview.
The algorithm to decide what to merge is the hardest part, in my opinion, and very basic right now. It's based on a priority and score system for now, where different extractors have different priorities, and different fields have different scores. Eventually, I wanna try doing something with machine learning instead.
I'd also like to add book summaries to the data somehow, but I haven't figured out a way to do this legally yet. For books in the public domain I could feed the entire book to an LLM and ask them to write a spoiler-free summary of the book, but for other books, that'd land me in legal trouble.
Oh, and related books, and things of the sort. But I'd like to do that based on the information stored in the database itself instead of external sources, so it's something for the future.
Last time I posted about Shelvica some people showed interest in Librario instead, so I decided to make it something I can sell instead of just a service I use in Shelvica[3], hence why I'm focusing more on it these past two weeks.
[1]: https://paste.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/de80132b8f167f4503c31187...
[2]: In the example you'll see genres such as "English" and "Fiction In English", which is mostly noise. Also things like "Humor", "Humorous", and "Humorous Fiction" for the same book.
[3]: Which is nice, cause that way there are two possible sources of income for the project.