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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · 1d

Long awaited!

Interplanetary Shipyard @ipshipyard.com · 9d

🚢 Kubo 0.38 is out!

🧹 Opt-in Sweeping DHT Provider handles CID announcements predictably with reduced resources
🚨 Gateway errors with retrieval diagnostics
🎨 WebUI v4.9 w/ Diagnostics screen
📌 Pin name and MFS fixes
⚙️ Simplified Provide config

github.com/ipfs/kubo/re...

Release v0.38.0 · ipfs/kubo

NoteThis release was brought to you by the Shipyard team. Overview 🔦 Highlights 🚀 Repository migration: simplified provide configuration 🧹 Experimental Sweeping DHT Provider 📊 Exposed DHT metr...

github.com

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · 1d

Helia now supports periodically republishing IPNS records for you!

Save on chain gas costs with your ENS names by pointing to an IPNS name!

github.com/ipfs/helia/p...

feat!: add ipns reproviding/republishing by 2color · Pull Request #764 · ipfs/helia

What This PR adds the functionality necessary for a Helia node to reprovide records it created before expiry. Fixes #367 #750 Related: ipshipyard/roadmaps#1 Breaking changes BREAKING CHANGE: ipns.p...

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · Mar 20

youtube downloading is fixed reliably! (for now, at least)

go try it with various settings, all formats & qualities should be back: cobalt.tools

it’s unknown for how long this will last, but hopefully it’ll be all sunshine and rainbows for a bit

cobalt

cobalt lets you save what you love without ads, tracking, paywalls or other nonsense. just paste the link and you're ready to rock!

cobalt.tools

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · 22d

QUIC Address Discovery in @iroh.computer is pretty neat

www.iroh.computer/blog/qad

Moving from STUN to QUIC Address Discovery

Moving STUN into QUIC

www.iroh.computer

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 9

Soon. But basically replacing an an old DS216play with an HP EliteDesk G4 800

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 9

Software RAID > Hardware RAID

If you care about data longevity

Powerful hardware is cheap enough today to run zfs
and being able to hotswap hardware and import your zfs pool gives peace of mind because it ensures data longevity.

#homelab

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Berlin Swapfest @swapfest.berlin · Sep 8

Our lovely event hosts @c-base.org have a great backyard on the Spree!

Come by the Swapfest, swap some electronics, get a drink from the @c-base.org bar bot and enjoy the weather!

Registration is open until the 28th!

www.swapfest.berlin

A view from a backyard door with a c-base stand on the side, the backyard is green and you can see the river.

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 6

What made you realise this?

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SgtPooki @sgtpooki.com · Sep 6

on X: “which browser can i paste a CID into”

Wild how IPFS gets flak for not being “built into browsers,” while BitTorrent needs a client and Tor needs its own browser. UX is about the same; easier, even, with ipfs-companion or gateways. The tech isn’t the problem 😬, the expectations are. #ipfs

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 5

What?

Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 5

Finally we have a UnixFS spec published in the @ipfs.tech specs!

specs.ipfs.tech/unixfs/

#ipld #ipfs

UnixFS

UnixFS is a Protocol Buffers-based format for describing files and directories as dag-pb DAGs and raw blocks in IPFS.

specs.ipfs.tech

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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · Sep 5

What 15 years of design debt looks like

A really confusing parking payment machine that has dozens of options that all seem to have a different user interface and no consistency whatsoever.

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 5

Faster Peer-to-Peer Retrieval in Browsers With Caching in the Delegated Routing HTTP Server

blog.ipfs.tech/2025-delegat...

Faster Peer-to-Peer Retrieval in Browsers With Caching in the Delegated Routing HTTP Server

How caching and active peer probing in the Someguy, the Delegated Routing server accelerates peer-to-peer content retrieval in browsers and mobile applications.

blog.ipfs.tech

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 5

Is Alaska generally expensive or is it certain things?

Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 3

www.thenexus.media/your-phone-a...

Your Phone Already Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It.

Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit...

www.thenexus.media

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JSNation | Tech Conference @jsnation.gitnation.org · Sep 3

Learn from @norman.life at the past conference talk on #IPFS. Learn about its integration with the web platform and real applications for web developers.
https://gitnation.com/contents/demystifying-ipfs-a-web-developers-guide-to-content-distribution

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 3

TIL the limits of older hardware

Enabling seal (encryption and integrity checks) for an SMB3 mounted volume (Synology DS216play with 2 HDs in RAID) causes read speeds to plummet from ~45 MB/s to ~15 MB/s

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IFPS - on a caring situationship with HTTP @ifps.tech · Sep 1

Bitswap workers get no vacation!

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SgtPooki @sgtpooki.com · Aug 20

Anyone looking to adopt a battle-tested TypeScript polyglot? 🐙
Ex-PayPal, Amazon, Protocol Labs — raised the bar at Amazon, led OSS with ~60k–100k+ MAU, and helped shape IPFS & libp2p.
Looking for a fun, high-impact project to code, mentor, and keep pushing systems (and people) forward.

#adoptMe

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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · Sep 1

I'm happy to announce that today is my first day at the #IPFS Foundation. I'll be working on tooling, #DASL, #IPLD and related tech like #ATProto. With a focus on geo.

So I'm doing more #geospatial things again. Stay tuned #FOSS4G.

Photo from some conference of a slide introducing the IPFS Foundation. There are three pictures of the folks that are part of it. On the right side there's a blank space. There is a scribbled face with curly hair and glasses with the name Volker.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · Sep 2

Sitting on a panel about tech sovereignty and democracy, and hearing the Commission's absolute vacuum of a position, made me think very hard of @ecmemes.bsky.social.

Big Lebowski meme: Am I the only one around here who gives a fuck about a real tech sovereignty strategy?

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 2

I just revived my ask me anything page

It now uses @prisma.io PostgreSQL which has a generous free tier and a lot of niceties!

ama.norman.life

Ask Me Anything

Answering questions, just for fun.

ama.norman.life

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Sep 2

Apple now recommends SMB over AFP for network attached storage.

Setting up my #homelab

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Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Aug 30

Is there a way to prevent @vscode.dev extensions and plugins from accessing .env files?

Daniel Norman 🎗️ @norman.life · Aug 29

Thanks. Just deleted the app.

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