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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti

@kevinak.se

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Cofounder of Svelte Society, Organiser of Svelte Summit 📍Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 4d

No, the problem isn’t the payments themselves, it’s having to register for VAT and stuff. Maybe I should just sell using Swedish VAT and people will have to live with the products being a bit more expensive?

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 4d

The Merchant of Records only allow digital products so doesn’t do anything for us, unfortunately :/

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 5d

Yeah I want to do this, trust me! But it’s tough to handle taxes across the board :/

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 5d

Ok - performance sounds like the differentiator then, because I can already use the SQLite driver and S3 driver with the Node adapter :)

It’s actually been great! I love that the debugging story has gotten better as well, debugging SQLite issues was a major headache before iirc

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 5d

Right... but like... what is the point of the adapter? 😅

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 5d

I have to admit, the bun adapter is not selling itself well. The node adapter works very well.

I assume it adapts the output to use bun.serve instead of polka or whatever the Node adapter uses? 🤔

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 9d

Don't you like workslop? Sounds like you're ANTI tech m8!

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

Then there's also the question of... who pays for the storage?

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

Yes, that's the kind of backup that regular users "like".

If you wanted to do it decentralized, maybe some kind of "raid" setup, distributed on multiple PDSes where you can lose N number of shards. If you lose one (server goes down), it "heals" by distributing a new shard to a new PDS 🤔

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

Yeah I totally get where you're coming from but my point is that the user shouldn't even have to care. It should just happen behind the scenes, automatically.

In the Nostr world it's "solved" by connecting to multiple Relays instead of just one but that isn't particularly user friendly either.

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

This is too technical for the average non-developer user, even if you slap a nice GUI on it. They have no clue what PDS they are using or what a PDS is.

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

I'm sure it's super easy but you can't expect non developers to use this in any meaningful numbers.

Ideally the user wouldn't even know their data is being backed up. It should be built-in to the applications! :)

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

I’m all for making it easier, would be great if they did make it easy to back up but I also wonder if the incentives align to make that happen. I guess it wouldn’t be an expensive feature so may e the incentives do t matter much 🤷‍♂️

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

Users that aren’t developers are not going to set up a GitHub action to backup their data - I don’t think they would even think about backing up data tbh.

I wonder if maybe the applications should backup to Google Drive or iCloud. That would make it easy for users.

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

Right - how realistic is it to expect users to do this in practice?

If I haven't backed up my data before the application "turns rogue" and removes the ability for me to get my data I'm screwed? 🤔

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

The Nostr model where you send data to multiple relays seems more censorship resistant. Maybe you can do that with ATProto as well?

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 11d

One thing I've been wondering is how does the protocol protect against a PDS just keeping data hostage?

One could imagine a VC backed company building an app and then once they reach critical mass, they just turn off the export feature. 😬

Hopefully I've misunderstood how it works.

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 12d

That sounds like fun! @willow.sh has usually done a lot when it comes to hacktoberfest - maybe they can pick this up and run with it?

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 12d

A couple of days ago I told you that we're putting the band back together. Well. Here's the pisode!

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We're putting the band back together. | Svelte Radio | Episode 82

SummaryWe're putting the band back together. Svelte Radio is officially back. This first episode is a bit of catch-up. Not a ton of Svelte chatter. Look forward to many fun and interesting episodes. N...

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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 14d

Gettin' the Band Back Together!

@brittneypostma.bsky.social
@antony.is
@sveltesociety.dev

A screenshot from a recording with Brittney, Antony and Kevin for the revival of Svelte Radio.

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 15d

Looking for a contractor that can help out with content moderation on the new Svelte Society website. It will mostly involve migrating old content and making sure submissions are accepted in a timely fashion. Would be perfect for a student or someone that is Sveltecurious and learning web dev.

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 15d

Let's go!

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · Aug 30

Doesn't give us enough team seats and is pretty expensive. Decided to try OneStream Live instead. Hopefully it's good enough :)

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · Aug 28

It's great, but unfortunately we want some way to easily have guests join the stream. I know vdo.ninja exists to handle this need, but it's too clunky :(

Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · Aug 28

We're starting up the Svelte Radio podcast again next week. We used to use StreamYard but it has gotten very expensive. Does anyone know any other services that are cheaper and give you roughly the same set of features?

+ if there's an easy way to add more team members.