#0003 November 4, 2026

Lightning Mesh Hackathon

Every other Wednesday at the Embassy

We open-sourced the login server. A machine on the mesh can take a passkey without phoning a stranger. Come build on it Wednesday.

Event · November 4, 2026

Lightning Mesh Hackathon

Lightning Mesh Hackathon poster. A red mesh of nodes on a grid, titled Lightning Mesh Hackathon. Side text reads Freedom through local-first resilient communication networks and Lightning Mesh: WiFi mesh, Connectivity = Commons. The footer reads every other Wednesday, November 4, 6–9 PM, Embassy, 399 Webster, San Francisco.

Wednesday, November 4, from 6–9 PM at the Embassy, 399 Webster, San Francisco. Lightning Mesh Hackathon meets every other Wednesday.

Freedom through local-first resilient communication networks. Lightning Mesh is a WiFi mesh, and connectivity is a commons.

Connectivity = Commons

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Since the last dispatch

We open-sourced our login server, the OpenID provider we use the way other sites use Google Login. It is a Rust program you can run on the machine in front of you, and a service on that machine can register itself there. The protocol crates are published too: a password-encrypted wallet, capability tokens, and a signed log of actions that still verifies after parts of the record are hidden. Login stays passkey-first. Email is now an optional way back to the same account, and the longer tour of all of this is the next issue.