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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 12/02/2025

Clip: @genmon.fyi's multi cursor website as an example of how to compute as a group. @paul-rony.bsky.social "Any layer on the computer should be a playground for all of the users. Should be doable with what we have today"

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 01/10/2024

It's Berlin. Obvs we're going to have Club Mate available to keep hydrated -- regular and pomegranate. And Rhabarberschorle

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 27/09/2024

Rupert Manfredi joins us to give a lightning talk "Introducing Web Applets" — a new open standard for allowing language models to use rich, graphical software, built upon the web. They are small, local-first, interoperable bits of software. Join us in person berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 27/09/2024

Tomáš Mládek's talk is "The Missing Link" — our computing environments lack suitable primitives for the relations *between* objects. Does everything need to turn into a soup of tags or endless RDF schemas? The humble link may still have lessons to offer. Tickets here berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 26/09/2024

Aayush Gupta is presenting "ZK Email: Anonymous Verified Whistleblowing, Identity Proofs, and New Cryptographic Unlocks", briefly introducing zero knowledge and then explain the ZK Email primitive. Get your tickets to join us berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 26/09/2024

Sören Klein will be presenting his Ember Nexus project, an open source knowledge graph management software: it was created to bring data together, regardless of its origin or structure, to connect data elements amidst themselves and externally, securely. Tickets at berlin.causalislands...

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 26/09/2024

Anselm Eickhoff presents his talk "Tall abstractions to bridge Turing tarpits: two abstractions I’ve encountered that feel profoundly different: actor/object systems and CRDTs - lifting us to new heights with barely any computational material" Tickets here berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 25/09/2024

Alice @alice.bsky.sh is joining us to present "Old Web Fun with a New Protocol Feel: The Joy of an Extensible and Open Social Network", talking about @atproto.com Get a ticket and come join berlin.causalislands...

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 25/09/2024

Maciej Godek presents a lightning talk "What I want from a coding tool: GRASP - a structure editor with tactile interface and support for interactive visual syntax" Join us in Berlin for lots of great talks berlin.causalislands...

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 25/09/2024

Arbor is an artist and inventor using light as a medium and creating novel interfaces. He currently studies Art and Media at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). His lightning talk is "Cut-ups for Digital Media" See his talk berlin.causalislands... & more at derrekchow.com

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 24/09/2024

Bernhard Mayr is presenting a lightning talk "Holey - Towards Incomplete but Executable Programs: ideas of hole-driven programming to enhance the liveness of writing code by creating malleable artifacts that can be evolved naturally." Get your ticket berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 24/09/2024

We have @Paul_Rony presenting "From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us" He asks how we can return computers to being built and used by groups? Paul’s passion for tech started when he found an old Atari 800 in his grandmother attic. Watch his talk in Berlin berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 24/09/2024

Alicia Guo is a computational artist and poet based in Seattle, currently pursuing a PhD working on creativity support tools. She joins us with a talk "Learning from Poetic Practices: Creativity Through Computational Means" Join us in Berlin to see her talk berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 24/09/2024

Speaker Marek Rogalski @mafikpl is currently working on blurring the lines between users & developers using visual programming. Presenting "Snappy Animations - numerical tricks for low-latency visual feedback". Make your user interface feel amazing! Join us in Berlin: berlin.causalislands... 1/2

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 23/09/2024

Happy Monday everyone! We've got a great set of speakers and talks published to the website for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th & 5th! Read all about them and the provisional schedule on the website, where you can also buy tickets berlin.causalislands...

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 09/09/2024

The Causal Islands Berlin website is looking pretty! Thanks @orionreed.bsky.social for putting this together! Keynote speakers for each day have been announced, thank you Andrés Cuervo and Lu Wilson @todepond.com for joining us. If you want to submit a CFP, do it RIGHT NOW!

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 31/08/2024

Thank you to Garden Computing for supporting us with a community supporter ticket for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th - 5th Garden Computing are building Jazz Tools - a new way to build apps with distributed state jazz.tools 1/2

Screen shot of Jazz Tools home page

Instant sync.
A new way to build apps with distributed state.

Hard things are easy now.
Jazz is an open-source toolkit that replaces APIs, databases and message queues with a single new abstraction:

“Collaborative Values” — distributed state with secure permissions built-in.

Features that used to take months to build now work out-of-the-box.

Cross-device sync
Real-time multiplayer
Team/social features
Built-in permissions
Cloud sync & storage
On-device storage
Instant UI updates
E2EE & signatures

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 31/08/2024

Thanks @tomlarkworthy for becoming a Community Sponsor. Tom says “happy to support your wonderful work” Tom is an Observable ambassador observablehq.com/@to... 1/2

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