IPFS Weekly 57
by Jenn Turner on 2019-09-03
Welcome to the IPFS Weekly. 👋
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identity. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Since that’s a pretty large scope, we track development across the ecosystem in this weekly dispatch.
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Here are some of the highlights since the last IPFS Weekly.
The latest
You can now PubSub with the JS IPFS HTTP API client in the browser!
Now that the fetch API supports cancelation, and has done so for a while, PubSub Support has arrived! Hooray \o/ Read all about it on the IPFS blog.
Catch up on the latest IPFS Weekly Call
Long holiday weekend keep you from joining this week’s IPFS Call? Catch up on the meeting in the recording here!
IPFS in the wild
Do you follow IPFS on Twitter? For the latest mentions of IPFS in the news, check our Twitter feed or see the latest articles on Awesome IPFS.
- Tutorial: Build a Zero Dependency Notes App on IPFS — Part I, SimpleID, 3 Sept 2019
- Fake News: A Universal Solution, Towards Data Science, 2 Sept 2019
- Memolabs: Ensure the Validity of Data at Low Cost, 1 Sept 2019
- The Gathering in a Nutshell, 29 August 2019
- Expanding Beyond Financial Services, RTrade Technologies, 29 August 2019
- How Blockchain Adoption is Expanding Beyond Financial Services, RTrade Technologies, 29 August 2019
- Getting Started with IPFS in Ethereum Grid, 28 August 2019
- Creating a private IPFS Network, 28 August 2019
- Tech and Research Updates, Web3 Foundation, 26 August 2019
- 10+ Resources Every IPFS Developer Should Know About, Hackernoon, 21 August 2019
- Securing and Deduplicating the Edge with EdgeFS, The Startup, 11 August 2019
Open Positions working on IPFS
- UX and Web Designer (HTML/CSS), Blender, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- React Native Developer, Berty, Paris, France
- Senior Backend Engineer, MXC Foundation gGmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Senior Golang Engineer, Textile, Remote
- Distributed Systems Technical Lead, IPFS, Protocol Labs, Remote
- IPFS Documentation & Technical Content Strategist, Protocol Labs, Remote
Tools and projects we <3
Awesome IPFS is a community maintained and updated list of projects, tools, or pretty much any things related to IPFS that are totally awesome. To see more, or add yours to the list, visit Awesome IPFS on GitHub.
- Koos, a decentralised social network
- Diffuse – A music player that connects to cloud/distrib
- TulipTools is hosting snapshots for all Tezos networks via IPFS to make it even faster to run a Tezos node
Coming up in the Community
Did you know IPFS has a community forum at discuss.ipfs.io? Sign up to participate in discussions about coding, tutorials, see announcements and learn about upcoming community events.
- 4 September 2019: Paris P2P is a monthly meeting organized by and for the community of P2P and cryptography enthusiasts. Paris, France.
- 6 September 2019: Would you like to help create a next-generation navigation for docs.ipfs.io? Join in a discussion on the existing navigation structure of the IPFS documentation site, plus a collaborative “card sort” exercise to explore alternative possibilities for getting around the IPFS docs. Join the video chat from 1700-1830 UTC.
- 16 September 2019: Victoria Tech Meetup September 2019: sign up to attend once they’ve confirmed date and venue! Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- 20-22 September 2019: Our Networks 2019 RE: Infrastructures explores the collective care and maintenance of alternative networking practices—new protocols, peer-to-peer connections, offline-first computing, and community-based governance. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 27-30 September 2019: Offline Camp Oregon had to be postponed, but it’s still happening! Hear how past campers describe this unique unconference retreat focused on the Offline First approach to web development and design.
Thanks for reading ☺️
That’s it for this week’s news on all things IPFS. If we missed something, send us an email and let us know! That way we can feature you in next week’s edition.