My new job has me working in typescript/javascript daily. This, coupled with frustration with my slow progress realizing the potential of #jsfs has me thinking about achievable goals and shorter paths to a less shitty web.

https://jasongullickson.com/osw-operating-system-for-the-web.html

I feel like I could write a five-year roadmap for this project that could include significant product releases every 4-6 months just based on the ideas I have right now, and each time I actually experiment with the thing I get more new ideas

It hard to get this all down, so I apologize if it’s a bit incoherent but I’m going to try.

https://jasongullickson.com/an-operating-system-for-the-web.html

#jsfs #jsos

Catching-up on some https://www.nextplatform.com articles has me revved-up about #JSFS again...

https://jasongullickson.com/reducing-the-compute-memory-bottleneck-with-jsfsx.html

I’ve been using PeerTube for the experimental community TV station and it’s very slick, but it’s kind of overkill for what I need, especially because I’m running it on top of yunohost because I didn’t want to leave all the intricacies of setting up an instance.

Now that we’re past the sort of proof-of-concept stage (sorta), and because various things have rekindled my interest in working on media tech I’m considering moving the thing to a custom platform built out of #jsfs and other components I’ve worked on in the past for audio/video services.

We’ll see how far I get, but if it works it might make some of the other ideas I’ve had easier (looking at you #uhfplus ) and of course anything I build I’d be happy to share with others building community media projects.

Two things that I’ve never found a satisfactory design for in #jsfs (now #fzx) are identity/authentication and federation.

I’ve designed a few identity systems that can be implemented on top of #jsfs itself (or perhaps jsfs-x) but I’ve never loved any of them, mostly due to complexity and bootstrap problems.

I’ve drawn hundreds of federation designs (and implemented a few) but they all had limitations I found unsatisfying.

As I read the ActivityPub spec this morning, I got thinking… 🧵