sammy gwilym

today, the Hague -> Prague, a journey emphasising the wonders of the english language

Once again came up with a great throughline for a lightning talk during my kid’s kendo practice, there’s just something about screaming children hitting each other with sticks that gets the juices flowing

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w13

This week, Aljoscha thinks about confidentiality and statelessness. Sammy did another talk this week, and teases a new project. And finally: a comic for honest, hard-working readers.

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w17

This week, there's a skill tree! With crystals! Aljoscha's got lots of music. And Sammy's curating for DWeb camp, and a website for Bab.

awful dreams last night. I missed my flight back home, someone was throwing knives at me in a train station, and i really really needed to pee

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w12

This week, Sammy reports on her time at @xpub@post.lurk.org. Aljoscha has too many ideas. Both have been busy coding, and there is a Bab release to show for it. And in the comic, the mysterious stranger makes mysterious demands.

https://spectra.video/w/7RP8Hxjho7gr6uNwA4ZzB4

Here’s a clean version of the lightning talk I recently did for @dweb@social.coop’s virtual meetup, which tells a story of how data came to be hoarded and how we can design tools to deliberately loosen the hold over data. New drawings, new story, short!

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w14

This week, Sammy and Aljoscha have returned from Prague and are still recovering. Aljoscha hints to some of his thoughts from the workshop, but Sammy doesn't even try and just does extra drawings.

Once again putting forward a proposal to extend Csikszentmihalyi's flow model

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w16

This week, Sammy reports from Prague, Aljoscha stays silent. Blossoquest is going somewhere good. Blake is more than just a hash function. And we present the alpha release of persistent storage for Willow in Rust.

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w11

This week, Aljoscha talks about repetition. Sammy ponders a 'cultural API'. Aljoscha talks about repetition. And in the comic, we find the bottleneck.

https://worm-blossom.org/#y2026w15

This week, Aljoscha and Sammy start processing the Prague gathering. In part 7 of 'Why is it called worm-blossom', Aljoscha enters the story. And in the comic, he learns that no good deed goes unpunished. No wait, that is what he learned when reading the comic. It is confusing being a comic character.

which moral failing would you rather have in a collaborator you’re working on code with?