It makes me realize that git is probably some kind of append-only database too (and used for decentralization too).

I guess I can still thank blockchain for having introduced the idea to me.

Funding bug bounty programs kind of fail its objectives if they don't.

Congratulations on Notable, it's very slick, and exactly the kind of note taking app I was after.

I'm mostly concerned about keeping my data offline these days, so Google Keep and Evernote were no fit for me. I take tons of notes every day, and ended up using the note app from Kontact (the PIM suite for KDE), mostly because I'm a heavy KDE user and it was properly integrated with Akonadi (KDE's PIM backend). But it is very raw, especially compared to Notable.

Given Notable data is just plain text, it means I can get it indexed by Baloo (KDE's desktop search), so it's perfect for me. Thanks a lot :) And nevermind Electron haters, having an app in an AppImage, released on github, so that I can subscribe to release's RSS feed and just download/drop the update if I want to is furiously awesome.

One suggestion : I would love, when I create a new note when having a Notebook selected, that this new note is automatically added with this tag (currently, manually importing data from Kontact is painfully long). Autocompletion of tags could do too.

Initially, I started with ssb (secure scuttlebutt), but ultimately moved to dat/beaker.

I've been having a lot of fun with it, I love how this allows to publish side projects without needing to rent a server.

For next year, I'm interested in exploring the implications it has regarding interoperability of apps, given users host their own data and can give access to it to other apps.

Granted, I didn't know d&d back then, I guess if it happened now after playing d&d, Baldur's Gate would impress me more.

By the way, if someone from firefox team is reading this : I would _really_ love to be able to just load directories from my FS as extensions rather than having to trust someone on the internet that it does what it says it does. I love building extensions myself, but I just don't install extensions from the web anymore because I don't know what's in there (note that referring to a github repos is not enough : I have no guarantee the content of the extension is the same).

Personally, I see the dweb as internet of the early days, when we were all writing blogs and publishing tools just because we found it cool. If Dat makes it difficult for big players to launch commercial products on it, I would call that a feature (but it's too early to say if it's the case). They already have the web for that.

I don't try to build a consensus (if by that we mean conciliating possibly conflicting entries, like Stellar if doing, for example), I just merge feeds. For now, it's as simple as it gets : my feeds (one in each character's archive) are json array of objects each containing a timestamp and a message, I just concat them and sort by timestamp. Of course, this won't fly for long, I'll soon have to separate data sources in chunks and process them as stream to avoid loading everything in memory at once, but for now, it's good enough to explore what I can do with the protocol.

I have the feeling your questions could be sum up as : how do you implement authority if there is no central control of data? (my apologies if I got it wrong and make you say something you haven't). The answer is : you don't.

With a standard app on a server, if you don't enforce data integrity, one user can possibly break the application for all users. With an app like the one I'm building, an user only share their data with a small group of friends and can only affect them. If they corrupt their data, the app is only broken for them. "Congratulation, you broke your toy. Now what?" (edit: in my app case, removing that person from the group would be enough to fix the data).

Of course, this reduces seriously the scope of what kind of app you can build (forget banking apps, or anything where anonymous people interact with one an other at a public scale). I'm perfectly fine with that : I can build my usual small tool services without pondering if it's worth mantaining, renting a domain name and renting a server. I'm not trying to build uber or bitcoin.

Please note that I'm not saying that consensus protocol and security can't be implemented with Dat, I'm just saying that it doesn't matter for what I'm currently building (and which is my only experience with dat so far).

I'm toying currently with an app to do play by post d&d campaigns on Dat, I make one user create a Dat archive to hold game data, then each player has their own archive for their character, the game archive hold references to the public keys for each one, and then the application takes each character feed and merge them to present a seamless discussion.

This feels like contributing to the same document, and yet each user is in total control of their data (almost total control, because they cannot decide to erase it if other people are already seeding it). I also love the possibilities of scaling it implies : when each user hosts their own data, the number of users doesn't matter (provided they all interact in reasonably small groups, of course).

EDIT: oh btw, I can create archives on-the-fly because I'm using Beaker browser's api. I don't know if it's something possible with Dat by itself.

But actually, I realize both can easily be reconciled : we could send a "thank you" message to projects with low amount of github stars, and just star those which have a high amount. This would both cheer solo dev starting their project and avoid annoying bigger teams on well established projects.

I have an android wear, this allows me to play/pause, next/previous track volume up/down spotify running on my desktop from my wrist, this is super cool (although to be fair, you can also do that with the spotify app on mobile, used to control spotify on desktop).

https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/

I'm saying such comment is not OK because there's nothing as demotivating for a freesoftware developer than being blame for what they think is their gift to the world. With such comment, you're not only being dismissive of other people hard work, you're killing it for all of us as you may very well demotivate some core developers, or contribute to do so. This is basically negative contribution.

Those guys do an amazing job. Many thanks to them.

Something I wonder more and more often, lately, is if Connect should not be responsible to manage notifications.

I've seen that a rewrite of the notification system is on the table [1] to be on par with android's one, and indeed, I would love to have grouping and persistence in my notifications (I currently put the notification widget on my desktop ; it's good enough, but I need to click it to see notifications history and it quickly gets floody, without grouping).

The reason I would love to see it being part of Connect is to make it easy to handle shared notifications between several Plasma installs (currently, I spend a long time tweaking the send and receive notifications plugins in Connect, this works great with two devices, but starts getting ugly with three). I can see this being a killing feature, on Plasma mobile.

I guess users who don't use Connect wouldn't love that much to have a dependency on it for their notification system, though. But since the discussed rewrite seems mobile focus (IIUC), both systems could co-exist : the classic desktop style notification system currently implemented, and the mobile friendly one in Connect, with an option in system settings to select which one we want to use.

[1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications#Crazy_Ideas

Cryptocurrencies are tech products, various projects try various ideas. You'll have the initial blockchain idea from bitcoin, the privacy blockchain from monero, the programming contracts from ethereum, the decentralized exchange from stellar, etc.

I'm perfectly fine with that, I prefer to see people create new projects to test new ideas rather than to hear them complain bitcoin is not doing what they want.

There are still bugs here and there (which is perfectly understandable), but it's the most polished KDE experience I ever had. I'm actually wondering if it's not the most polished linux experience I ever had - except maybe a vanilla Ubuntu using as much defaults as possible, but I just can't help moving from defaults after a short while (that's the main interest of gnu/linux, to me).

EDIT: oh btw, worth mentioning: I'm using the user edition (the LTS one). I initially used the developer edition, but I found its constant updates annoying, and things were a bit less stable than the user edition (as one could expect).