Pocket is going away... Let's build a replacement with Solid!

https://spectra.video/w/1Eze8FZEdVn8DtjcCsEmbm

I feel like this one is going to be used in the #SolidProject community a lot: https://xkcd.com/3105/

I've started a draft spec defining high level processing and rendering rules to bind an RDF graph to HTML elements.

The UI data binding is specified using HTML attributes, which when hydrated provides valid RDFa.

The idea is to enable bringing pages of data together within a single document

Still early days, but here's the description of a subject-connected list

https://jg10.solidcommunity.net/open-with/rdf-ui-binding.html#subject-connected-list

A short part 5 in the pantry blog series introduces a pantry history event log as a point of truth - recognising that pantry data will only ever be a partial snapshot because updates are likely to be occasional and incidental as part of other activities.

Why not just look in the fridge?
Because a pantry app can act as a memory aid for what was in the fridge last time it was checked or used.

https://jg10.solidcommunity.net/pantry/blog/home.html#part5

Solid Unleashed | Solid Symposium 2025 | Noel De Martin

https://spectra.video/w/2778QZ99PHHfVLmV8xDp4A

Please welcome @PodOS to the Fediverse Follow it to keep updated about it's development and get interesting tips and tricks about what you can do with it and the #Solid ecosystem.

Part 4 of the pantry app blog series modifies the pantry and product panes and adds location and cookbook panes to answer the questions:

What can I cook?
What do I need to buy?

https://jg10.solidcommunity.net/pantry/blog/home.html#part4

We just posted a re-recording of the presentation of ActivityPods we did during #FOSDEM 2025. It focus on decentralized architecture, and mentions BlueSky and @nextgraph. It was nice meeting many people involved in the fediverse and #SolidProject !

https://peertube.virtual-assembly.org/videos/watch/a8dc6bcc-8cef-485e-bfd8-438f1bfc04d2

Too bad this event won't be livestreamed. If you're in Oxford on 26 Feb, try to attend!
"Towards re-decentralising the Web: an ethical web and data infrastructure" with Prof Ruben Verborgh, Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Sir Nigel Shadbolt
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/ethical-web
#EthicalWeb #SolidProject

Too bad this event won't be livestreamed. If you're in Oxford on 26 Feb, try to attend!
"Towards re-decentralising the Web: an ethical web and data infrastructure" with Prof Ruben Verborgh, Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Sir Nigel Shadbolt
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/ethical-web
#EthicalWeb #SolidProject

On the train to FOSDEM I quickly but finally bashed out a long-planned post on the Solid app I wrote that allows you to post to the Fediverse from your Solid Pod.

Main takeway: cool experiment, but @activitypods have the more feasible approach for now.

https://vincenttunru.com/solid-fediverse-mastodon/

Happy New Year! Next month, I'll be speaking in the #geospatial devroom at #FOSDEM on February 1st at 11:00 about how to make indoor positioning systems and environments more discoverable and accessible, using local/global discovery methods, linked data, and our SemBeacon specification.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4526-discovering-indoor-environments-and-positioning-systems/

Inspired by @noeldemartin , I'm experimenting with my own "now" page describing progress on my current projects related to #SolidProject

https://jg10.solidcommunity.net/devlog/home.html#now

I already use this Mastodon account as a devlog and build a wiki based on this content.

The now page allows for (slightly) longer form reflection as well as being organised by project rather than by topic or as a firehose.

The Open Data Institute in London (@ODIHQ) is a beneficiary of the @protonprivacy Lifetime Fundraiser 2024 By entering Proton’s raffle you will support a good Data Infrastructure - the bedrock of AI - that’s what the ODI exists to create #ResponsibleAI

Having taken on the governance of the #SolidProject, the ODI will help make sure your personal data is used by you, for YOU.

https://proton.me/blog/2024-lifetime-account-charity-fundraiser?utm_campaign=The%20Week%20in%20Data%20TWID&utm_medium=email&utm_content=339536381&utm_source=hs_email

So I did some research for options for the federated garden system and it could be done by using @activitypods or just Solid protocol. For now I am thinking about implementing server app with #solidproject support first and think about support for ActivityPods later. Some project that could become a starting point for this in #rustlang (I don't want to touch TS/JS :P): https://github.com/manomayam/manas

For start just Solid support for Obsidian notes could be interesting.

I think there's a tendency for devs to keep thinking in database terms when moving to #SolidProject

What clicked for me is to instead think of #LinkedData in terms of human-sized pages.

Yes, pages still need to offer app performance and few users would edit raw RDF, but a page is still a comfortable bite of content.

Similar to HTML pages but without the presentation layer, I can take one bite at a time, and follow links to find more, with my browser loading and caching extra bites as needed