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2022

Feedchain is a standalone news feed project

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TL;DR: I implemented a file format to support a standalone feed of news similar to what I have on Twitter, as well as a proof of concept code for a reader, a writer, a publishing node, and some more. oh and fuck you, elon, you’re a dick. This is not my activity report # This is not my activity report which I’ll publish later this month or early December. I’ve worked on several projects but I thought this one would be better off discussed in a dedicated article.

April 2022: plakar keys and UI stuff

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TL;DR: I did key and UI stuff, mostly search related. There’s going to be plenty of images in this post. Reworked plakar keys # I won’t expand much on that as I’m not done yet, but I spent a couple days reworking the way plakar handles keys for encrypted repositories.

March 2022: plakar clone and plakar sync

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TL;DR: implemented cloning and synchronization between plakar repositories Slacked a bit # Shortly after I published my yearly retrospective, I was hit with two highly annoying personal issues that kept me very busy these last two months. I finally got everything back under control, my mind is mostly free again and I resumed playing with plakar.

2021

December 2021: a bit of plakar, a bit of go-fastcdc and some useless stuff

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TL;DR: I worked on plakar, go-fastcdc a FastCDC implementation for plakar, and some useless stuff. This activity report will be short # This activity report will be short because I spent the last ten days caring for my kid who got sick… before catching his stomach bug myself and spending the last few days in a somewhat familiar and unpleasant hell, unable to do everything I intended for this month.

October 2021: mostly Plakar

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TL;DR: I have a discord now, feel free to join. I refactored plakar, implemented a local cache, improved parallelism, modified the push strategy, played with fuse and networking. I also did other stuff but let’s keep that out of this article. I have a discord now # I have a rubber duck sitting on my desk…