Update 24 April

Big news this week is that we received more than 60 applications for the Impossible Futures (IF) challenge which is a tremendous response. The range of applications was super diverse across the three themes of Entertainment, Knowledge and Infrastructure.

https://forum.autonomi.community/t/update-24th-april-2025/41630

I'm developing a demo app to be called #Winsome to show how to use my #dweb #RESTful APIs for the decentralised #Autonomi network.

I struggle with raw HTML, CSS & JS and am much happier with Svelte but this is going to be an app in a single HTML file so it's taken a while but the hard part is done!

Thinking about next steps has clarified what else I need in the #REST API and how to provide a neat security model for p2p web apps!

I do love code!

I've been lax at updates to the dweb REST API which now supports most #Autonomi data types.

Web apps can POST/GET immutable data such as files and Archives (public and private), do multipart uploads of file(s), POST/PUT/GET Pointers (mutable references to other types) and POST/PUT/GET Scratchpads which are mutable storage for encrypted or public data.

To view #dweb #REST APIs:
- get rust
- cargo install dweb-cli
- dweb serve
In another terminal:
- dweb openapi-docs

David Irvine on why a peer to peer network needs something different from blockchain, why we need to be disrupted from our ‘collectivism’ and self-improving AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7QsYhfO9pY

#NVidia sjefen med tydelig beskjed om at selvkjørende biler er et tiår unna.
Menneskehjernen er ganske avansert og egnet til å løse problemer. AI kan egentlig ikke løse problemer på samme måte. Den må trenes på veldig mange ulike situasjoner for å gjøre det riktige.
Den skal ikke fungere kun under best case scenarioer men under alle forhold. Vær, veistandard, annen trafikk, myke trafikanter, dyr i veibanen, veiarbeid og mye annet.

https://www.elbil24.no/nyheter/vi-er-ikke-i-naerheten/82546812
#norsktut #autonomi #bil #norsktut

Having played a bit I'm now adding #OpenAPI docs with #Swagger UI to #Autonomi dweb using #utoipa and #utoipauto.

EDIT: switched from #utoipauto to #utoipa_actix_web

I'm neither a user nor, until now a builder of HTTP APIs so stumbling around, but these crates do a decent job of being usable even to a novice.

I really shouldn't be let loose with all this

@tokyo_0 #Autonomi aim to do just that. The network is live but still being worked on to get uploads and downloads reliable.

For my part I'm building on this to make it easy to publish and view websites, RESTful dapps and other things with my #dweb project. All working on local test networks so we're all waiting for the public network to work at scale.

I published my first two dweb apps for #Autonomi today. Just to github for now but I'll be publishing dweb properly in a few days, maybe Sunday, then I'll write about it all.

Simple, but still useful demos, not least of how easily an very low skill web dev like myself can build #p2p stuff in Svelte.

That's two apps in a week, while building the API they need into #dweb - in fact that was almost all the work.

Code has been flying this week and I'm having lots of fun seeing things come together so neatly... and work!

A whole new way of browsing the #dweb on #Autonomi with no additional setup, revamped simpler CLI and the start of Rust and web APIs for desktop and web apps using Autonomi to build a #decentralized #p2p web.

I'm having do much fun after a long slog to get here.

First working release coming soon on crates.io

#Autonomi have announced their decentralised peer-to-peer storage network.

The big deal here is:
- Autonomi nodes run on anything (Raspberry Pi, an old laptop, home server, whatever) so anyone can participate
- maximal #decentralisation, security and privacy
- storage for a one-off fee ensures data and websites will not be lost, link rot won't happen and developers have the ability to scale without infrastructure costs or VC funding

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/774326011/david-irvine-to-finally-launch-his-decentralized-internet
#p2p #decentralization #FOSS #GPLv3

Steady (aka slow ) progress as I learn how to get #Actix to handle multiple domains and routes on a single server, including domains which include parameters.

Why am I doing this?

For #dweb of course, to enable websites to be published to #p2p #Autonomi and served in a standard web browser.

Versioned websites that is! Every version ever published using dweb, viewable using dweb!

More at https://toast.happybeing.com
#RustLang

Today I added a "Share on #Mastodon" button to my #Publii blog, and fixed the "Follow" icon I had implemented using a crude hack.

The former saved me Euro 29 for an overpriced plugin. Let me know if you want to know how to do this for free yourself.

This is what I do when recovering from a nasty illness

As well as work on #Autonomi #p2p #dweb that is, the reason I have a blog.

Guess who snagged the name dweb for his first #Rust library crate on crates.io.

It also includes my first Trait and templated type, making it easy to create and manage a history of any data type saved to #p2p storage.

So it doesn't just support versioned #decentralised websites, or file trees, but versioned #decentralized anything.

t00t!

Implementing an app using a local web server for whatever reason has always felt wrong. Kindof viscerally.

And yet here I am nodding as I tick off the things this would solve for an #rclone backend for #Autonomi, one by one.

I feel a bit dirty but

- licensing
- max rclone features
- separation of dev tasks
- re-use in other projects

It's still wrong though, right?