Announcements
IPFS Connect Istanbul is just around the corner, and we are closing the CFP on Wednesday, the 11th. Get those submissions in!
Tickets are on sale now. $49 for a full day of talks, workshops, and demos, and lunch is included. Interested in sponsoring? Email us at events@fission.codes.
We hosted the UCAN Community Call this week, and you can find the call recording and notes on GitHub.
Upcoming Events
EP04: End-Programmer Programming with Steve Krouse of Val Town
To achieve end-user programming where users can spin up personalized apps without knowing how to code, we need to start with end-programmer programming. With end-programmer programming, software engineers can build folk applications, integrations, and mini-apps to customize their experience interacting with third-party software.
In this episode, learn how Steve Krouse created Val Town to help programmers achieve this.
Wed Oct 18th at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT
IPVM Community Call
IPVM, or the InterPlanetary Virtual Machine, aims to be the easiest, fastest, most secure, and open way to run WebAssembly functions anywhere.
Using content-addressed data, public key infrastructure (PKI), and capabilities, IPVM liberates computation from its dependence on pre-negotiated services and paves the way for interoperability.
Learn more about our progress building Homestar, the first implementation of IPVM.
Tues Oct 24th at 9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT
UCAN Community Call
User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are an extension of the popular JSON Web Token format specifically designed to enable ways of authorizing offline-first apps and distributed systems.
At a high level, UCANs are a way of doing authorization (“what you can do”) where users are fully in control. There’s no all-powerful authorization server or server of any kind required. Everything that a user is allowed to do is captured directly in a key or token and can be sent to anyone who knows how to interpret this format.
Join us as we work towards the release of v1.0.
Thurs Oct 26th at 9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT
New On The Blog
Fission in St. Louis: TrainJam, Strange Loop, and LoFi Unconference
The second half of September was jam-packed with exciting events for local-first, programming language theory, and distributed systems aficionados. First, Causal Islands partnered with Gradient Retreat to host TrainJam, a rail adventure to St. Louis, to attend the last 😭 Strange Loop conference. Then, at Strange Loop, Brooklyn gave a talk on IPVM and Fission's edge computing stack, and we attended the PWLConf co-located with Strange Loop (and co-organized by Fission Staff Researcher Zeeshan). Finally, we capped it all off with the LoFi Unconference. Organized by ourselves, DXOS, and Ink & Switch, this sold-out event explored how we can bring local-first software into the hands of more users.
From the Discord
These are the most popular links shared on our Discord.
- GitLab is adding ActivityPub support as of 16.5, initially for project releases
- A fediverse explainer geared toward marketers
Thank you, and we'll be back next week with more exciting updates!
-The Fission Team