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• MDN Changelog for July 2018: CDN tests, Goodbye Zones, and BCD

  Editor’s note: A changelog is “a log or record of all notable changes made to a project. [It] usually includes records of changes such as bug fixes, new features, etc.” Publishing a changelog is kind of a tradition in open source, and a long-time practice on the web. We thought ...

  Posted August 10, 2018 by John Whitlock

• AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027

  This post imagines a dystopian future where only the rich can stream video to their homes, and the democratizing forces of the internet have crumbled under corruption and greed. The author reports back from a troubled future in the late 2020s that is wholly fictitious. The open video codec AV1 ...

  Posted August 09, 2018 by Judy DeMocker

• Dweb: Social Feeds with Secure Scuttlebutt

  Scuttlebutt is a free and open source social network with unique offline-first and peer-to-peer properties. Mainstream closed platforms have become a more popular way of creating and consuming content than the Web. Instead of attempting to adapt existing Web technologies for the mobile social era, Scuttlebutt offers a new platform ...

  Posted August 08, 2018 by André Staltz

• Things Gateway 0.5 packed full of new features, including experimental smart assistant

  The Things Gateway from Mozilla lets you directly monitor and control your home over the web, without a middleman. The 0.5 release of the Things Gateway is packed full of new features including customizable devices, a more powerful rules engine, an interactive floor plan, and an experimental smart assistant you ...

  Posted August 02, 2018 by Ben Francis

• Introducing the Dweb

  This is the first post in a series about the distributed/decentralized web, introducing projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application platforms. All are decentralized or distributed, minimizing or entirely removing centralized control. You'll meet the people behind these projects, and ...

  Posted July 31, 2018 by Dietrich Ayala