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Constellation Providers Lightning Talk at Decentralized Storage Summit Constellation Providers Lightning Talk at Decentralized Storage Summit

Boris presented a lightning talk at the Decentralized Storage Summit on Constellation Providers. Includes video plus extended notes and further reading.

Can grant-making be faster and lower overhead? Can grant-making be faster and lower overhead?

Can a grant-making process that focuses on speed lead to lower overhead and better outcomes?

First release of IPFS Portable User Settings App First release of IPFS Portable User Settings App

New Fission team member Daniel shares the IPFS Portable User Settings app he built, as well as the related IPFS tech that we built to support it.

FISSION Fragments #7: Weekly Links Roundup FISSION Fragments #7: Weekly Links Roundup

Fragments weekly links: OpenID Foundation asks "Sign in with Apple" to comply with the spec, Golem launches gWASM, Textile talks IPFSCamp, dschenkelman talks about internal tools teams.

Coworking in Nanaimo + Input Cowork Nanaimo Tech Meetup Coworking in Nanaimo + Input Cowork Nanaimo Tech Meetup

Join in for a coworking day trip to Nanaimo, and join the Input Cowork Nanaimo Tech Meetup with the FISSION team.

Bear & Penguin Illustration Bounty for BOSS Bear & Penguin Illustration Bounty for BOSS

The final selections from the bear & penguin illustration bounty, and a brief announcement of the Berlin Open Source Salon in August 2019.

FISSION Fragments #6: Weekly Links Roundup FISSION Fragments #6: Weekly Links Roundup

Welcome to FISSION Fragments #6 - our regular newsletter of awesome links. Want to get them delivered straight to your inbox? Subscribe! We tweet the links after we publish on our Twitter account @fissioncodes, or join our Discord chat to see them in real time. That elusive phrase work-life balance is brought to our attention by @Bosefina pointing at @tranhelen's article: Thanks @tranhelen for conveying a feeling I have had about work, passion, meaning, and the elusive search for “balance” tha

Open Collective Interview with Brooke Open Collective Interview with Brooke

Alanna Irving from the Open Collective team interviewed Brooke on Witchcraft: the magic of math, functional programming, and community. Did you know she started in music composition? Programming absolutely scratches the same part of my brain as music composition. Instead of writing instructions for an instrumentalist, you’re writing it for a computer, but the parallels are very clear. All but one person in my composition cohort (who became a professor of music) are now programmers, because it

Brooke presenting at ØREDEV 2019 in Malmö, Sweden Brooke presenting at ØREDEV 2019 in Malmö, Sweden

We're pleased to announce that Brooke will be presenting at the ØREDEV Developer Conference in Malmö, Sweden, November 6 - 8th, 2019. Her talks in the Polyglot & Fringe sections will cover her work with Elixir and Haskell, as well as decentralized web work with IPFS and beyond. Early bird tickets are available now » We keep track of interesting developer events and those we are organizing and speaking at in our Events Calendar.

FISSION Fragments #5: Weekly Links Roundup FISSION Fragments #5: Weekly Links Roundup

Fifth edition of our newsletter with content from around the decentralised web. Catch up on the League of Entropy, recursive lists, Dev.to on your blog, core skills, and data privacy policies.

FISSION Interviews: Y3 FISSION Interviews: Y3

Dive into an IPFS hack from ETHNewYork by Kian Molani called Y3: a decentralized and censorship-resistant video streaming application

FISSION Interviews: Diffuse FISSION Interviews: Diffuse

Interviewing Steven Vandevelde, the creator of Diffuse: a tool that connects you to your cloud/distributed music storage.

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