Colin Williams
I was introduced to the hacking culture by my brother Winston Williams (RIP) / MrPrim8 . I have fond memories of the hacking culture of the 90s and the 00s. In my professional career I have worked as a software and data engineer. In the present quinquennium I have been considering. How might we hack the planet to make it a better place to live.
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li-nk is a social platform for planning and discovering activities and events. Members create and propose activities organized by interest, then connect with others who want to join. li-nk is actively developed and worked on signficantly through the #tcombinator at toorcamp 24'
Interests range widely, including outdoor adventures, arts, technology, sports, food, wellness, learning, games, and community causes.
li-nk grew out of a simple observation on Orcas Island and across the Salish Sea. People often live near one another and care about the same things, yet never cross paths. Rather than organizing around follower counts or feeds, li-nk starts with the activity itself, so community forms among the people who show up. The guiding idea is easy to remember: develop your interests, find your community!!
li-nk has strong geographical capabilities to help find activities currently across the USA, strong privacy controls. Custom E2EE encrypted video, voice , and messaging implementation supported through the olm / megolm encryption protocols. Li-nk currently provides an android client through a Google Play internal testing track and is waiting for Apple to approve a developer account to publish an iOS release.
Curious individuals may try the demo at demo.li-nk.social, no signup required, or learn more at li-nk.social.
li-nk contributes back to OSS projects which it employs at https://github.com/li-nkSN . Notable contributions include: the Zoned UID feature to the Open ZFS kernel supporting rootless containers employing the OpenZFS filesystem; A greater than 60% reduction in compilation times for the ProtoQuill integrated query library; Improvments to the Caliban GraphQL library including GraphQL Spec conformance and serialization helpers.
li-nk is dedicated to MrPrim8 (RIP) who ran a 2600 chapter in HS in SWFL in the 90s. Moved to Seattle metro in the 00s. Was part of the Seattle 2600 scene. And lead developer (PNWsoft) of the ConnectU platform developed at Harvard University counterpoint to "The Facebook" . In many ways, MrPrim8 was remarkably mature in his twenties. Growing up with MrPrim8 I really looked up to his integrety and values. I believe li-nk is a platform Winston would be proud of.