In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.
  • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    15 hours ago

    I believe this article says what that program does but I’m not willing to read a whole new age book to learn if it’s of any relevance to me

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    15 hours ago

    I’m trying to understand what Bonfire is. It sounds interesting but all I can find are vague buzzwords. Positive buzzwords, but buzzwords.

    • chobeat@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      8·
      15 hours ago

      It’s a toolkit to build federated apps, with a social media+blogging+collaboration platform built on top of it.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        So it’s actually software that you can run, and with that build apps? Like a visual editor or something? Or is it a library? What’s a toolkit in this instance?

        • chobeat@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          7·
          9 hours ago

          It’s an elixir skeleton that runs a system of modules you can combine (just with configs) or that you can extend by adding new modules.

          The skeleton does the bare minimum and the modules contain all the logic. It’s not a no-code tool (that would be astounding, but doesn’t exist yet), you still need to write some config files (flavours) or write some elixir.