Josiah

Thinking about @protocolsforpublishers.com Toronto last week. For me, the most interesting insight came when discussing trust: thegreenline.to building trust with their readers by hosting in-person events, meeting and interacting with people IRL.

Its one of those things which in hindsight makes perfect sense but isn't immediately obvious to everyone (at least not a bunch of protocol-minded software developers 🙃). I've long believed in the importance of local community but had not connected it to building trust online in this way before.

Unfortunately not going to make it to @localfirstconf.com this year, but have a couple tickets now that aren’t going to be used. If you’d like to go but couldn’t afford tickets give me a shout!

NPM publishing is such a pain. I understand the reason behind their move with granular tokens but it was managed so poorly. This week finally got around to migrating all the DXOS packages to trusted publishing and was only able to do it because of Claude Code.

The crazy thing is this whole thing with Claude Code definitely took me less time than doing all the packages manually because I tried doing that and gave up after extrapolating how long it would take to get through all the packages.

NPM publishing is such a pain. I understand the reason behind their move with granular tokens but it was managed so poorly. This week finally got around to migrating all the DXOS packages to trusted publishing and was only able to do it because of Claude Code.

This is something we’ve been thinking about a bit for @dxos.org & Composer as well. We have an existing identity system (HALO) but it would be very cool to be able to send space invitations to someone just based on their atproto did handle, even if they don’t have a HALO identity yet.

To add someone to an ECHO space today you need to add their HALO identity key into the credential chain of the space. However it should be possible to integrate with external identity providers that are also public key based.

Another UX concept that we've been experimenting with in Composer's deck layout is something we call "attention". Attention supercharges the OS/web primitive of focus and imbues it with application level information about what exactly is currently in focus.

I love how this demonstrates user-centered design having compounding impacts to the application. What started as a way to try improve the UX evolved into an application primitive that enabled building features such as those mentioned relatively easily.

Another UX concept that we've been experimenting with in Composer's deck layout is something we call "attention". Attention supercharges the OS/web primitive of focus and imbues it with application level information about what exactly is currently in focus.

Presence is another example of something which is being powered by attention in Composer. Once you're in deck having something open is a little less meaningful of a signal. Attention allows the noise in that signal to be reduced by indicating more clearly what someone is currently working on.

Another UX concept that we've been experimenting with in Composer's deck layout is something we call "attention". Attention supercharges the OS/web primitive of focus and imbues it with application level information about what exactly is currently in focus.

What I like about it is that it's simple yet has also proven to be a very useful tool for building on top of the deck. Since attention is setup to track the item which is currently focused by the user it makes it easy to hook into that information for other functionality.

Another UX concept that we've been experimenting with in Composer's deck layout is something we call "attention". Attention supercharges the OS/web primitive of focus and imbues it with application level information about what exactly is currently in focus.

"A perspective is by nature limited. It offers us one single vision of a landscape...The more complex the object we are attempting to apprehend, the more important it is to have different sets of eyes, so that these rays of light converge and we can see the One through the many."