Casey Kolderup

Goodbye Brussels 👋

I’m not staying up too late, I’m preparing for the timezone shift back to the west coast

Here's the talk I gave at FOSDEM this weekend. It's about my social bookmarking platform Postmarks, the crisis of confidence I had after its initial release, and the fatigue I feel with what I'm calling the "flattened web". https://motd.co/2025/02/fosdem-2025-postmarks/

client to server gang just got good news from @matthias at #SocialWebFOSDEM

I kept telling myself “at least I’ll finally sleep well after giving my talk”. I gave my talk and then proceeded to meet like 20 people who all had brilliant new things to say about what I’ve spent the last two months processing. Found myself wide awake at 3am thinking about what they shared 😭

thanks everyone who listened to my #SocialWebFOSDEM talk today! I’m going to publish the full script later this weekend— I had to abridge things a bit—and I’ll make sure to post a link to it here so you can read it at your own pace instead of my anxiety-filled speed rant.

Leave it to @darius to be the positive version of the “I actually have a comment rather than a question” guy #SocialWebFOSDEM

Just published a one-month update about #Postmarks, with information about the changes that have happened in that time as well as information about both work already in progress by repo contributors and the user-facing work I consider to be highest priority! https://motd.co/2023/10/postmarks-one-month-update/

A little bit surreal but Postmarks was featured in O’Reilly’s “Radar Trends to Watch” update today! It’s in the “Web” section alongside really cool projects like Quiet, a P2P group chat built on Tor; and Wavacity, an awesome WASM-powered port of the Audacity audio editor. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-october-2023/

I think I could actually use macOS Stage Manager if it would let me label groups of windows… basically every group I make is one Firefox window, one VSCode workspace, and one Obsidian tab, so the icons & thumbnails do not help me at all