JC Brand @jcbrand@mastodon.xyz

A JavaScript-Free Frontend

https://dev.to/winduptoy/a-javascript-free-frontend-2d3e

The ancient Greek word for "bear" was άρκτος.

The Arctic is named after the animal; it's the place where bears are.

Naturally, when you find a place at the opposite side of the globe from the Arctic and where there are no bears, it's the anti-Arctic - in other words, Antarctica.

So the Arctic is Bears Place, and Antarctica is Not Bears Place.

The #XSF #Summit just officially ended.
Thanks to everyone who was there and contributed to the interesting discussions on the #XMPP protocol in #Brussels.

Next will be #FOSDEM!

Curious fact: "Jupiter" (the god and the planet) comes from a combination of 2 indoeurpean words: "Djëus/Djòs" -which Latin "deus" (generic god) also derives from- meaning "sky/lightning", and "Phter", meaning "Father". Check out corresponding chief gods in other indoeuropean languages:

Greek: Zeus Patér
Sanskrit: Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́
Persian: Daeva Pitr
Celtic: Dēuos Athir

A Djëus root is also found inside "Tuesday"

Sometimes low-tech is a cooler solution than high-tech.

This sensor device detects if your package was handled roughly during transport: no electronics, just clever engineering.

Weekend hack: Creating a retrofuture internet terminal by replacing the Motorola MDT-9100's i386SX with a BeagleBone Black and Teensy: https://trmm.net/MDT9100

#ProcessOne is removing facebook from their website and delets their fanpages.

Join the fediverse as a next step?

https://blog.process-one.net/moving-away-from-facebook/

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems

My employer @b1systems is now sponsoring #Converse, an #XMPP web client developed by @jcbrand.
https://conversejs.org/#sponsors

On the 30th of january the #XMPP community is organizing a development sprint focused on #UX and #UI in the XMPP ecosystem.

XMPP is a long standing protocol for federated chat which in recent years underwent impressive technical modernization that brought the ecosystem modern mobile clients, cross device chat and end-to-end encryption based on Signal.

The XMPP community organizes so-called sprints where developers gather from across Europe to work on the ecosystem.

Even though the ecosystem saw many improvements in recent years, the UX across the ecosystem still leaves a lot to be desired. To begin addressing this, the next XMPP Sprint will be focused on UX and UI, particularly in regards to naming conventions.

That is why we’d like to invite members of the open source design community to join us on the 30th of January in the offices of Open Source Publishing[1]. On february the 1st we will also do a smaller meetup in the margins of FOSDEM.

If you already have an account on the XMPP network, join us in our Sprint chatroom:
xmpp:xmpp-sprint@chat.cluxia.eu?join

If you don’t, the room is also accessible without an account via:
https://chat.cluxia.eu/anon/#xmpp-sprint

For more information have a look at:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2019_January_Brussels

[1]: http://osp.kitchen