Welcome to the IPFS Weekly. 👋

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) (opens new window) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identity. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Since that’s a pretty large scope, we track development across the ecosystem in this weekly dispatch.

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Here are some of the highlights since the last IPFS Weekly.

The latest

Learn how to use go-ipfs as a Library 📚

The title says it all. (opens new window) Learn how to use go-ipfs as a library with this new tutorial and take full advantage of the go-ipfs Core API.

js-ipfs 0.39.0 released 🎉

Woo hoo! Configure your node with preset profiles! Limit outgoing browser requests! Start your node from fresh with one command! All with js-ipfs 0.39.0! (opens new window)

IPFS in the wild

Do you follow IPFS on Twitter (opens new window)? For the latest mentions of IPFS in the news, check our Twitter feed or see the latest articles on Awesome IPFS (opens new window).

• PHOTO: Tim Berners-Lee seems to be a fan of IPFS and libp2p (opens new window), Twitter, 29 Oct 2019
• RTrade Technologies Partners with Dappkit Utilizing Enterprise IPFS Infrastructure & APIs (opens new window), Temporal, 28 Oct 2019
• PHOTOS: After #devcon5 and #CrosslinkTaiwan, we were at #IPFS meetup last Monday! (opens new window) Twitter, 27 Oct 2019
• Observer October update: IPFS and Built-ins (opens new window), Paul Rumkin, 27 Oct 2019
• Why Tech Can Still Create a Bright Future, as explained to my skeptical father. (opens new window) Alex White, 25 Oct 2019
• TUTORIAL: How To Setup A Public IPFS Gateway (opens new window), Raptoreum, 25 Oct 2019
• Towards Autonomous Organizations — Past, Present, Future (opens new window), Jose Jubin, 25 Oct 2019
• Ocean Protocol and IPFS, Sitting In The Merkle Tree (opens new window), Ocean Protocol, 24 Oct 2019
• Introducing Embeddable Textile (opens new window), Textile, 23 Oct 2019
• TUTORIAL: Embark is Awesome! (opens new window) Andrej, 23 Oct 2019
• ARK Development Roadmap: Moving Towards 2020 (opens new window), ARK, 23 Oct 2019
• Function X, a Modern Smartphone with Blockchain technology (opens new window), Afton Aila, 21 Oct 2019
• PODCAST: Distributed Web: The democratization of the web? (opens new window) 14 Oct 2019
• Designing a Distributed Ledger Technology System for Interoperable and General Data Protection Regulation–Compliant Health Data Exchange: A Use Case in Blood Glucose Data (opens new window), Hawig D, Zhou C, Fuhrhop S, Fialho AS, Ramachandran N, Journal of Medical Internet Research, June 2019

Open Positions working on IPFS

• Tech Lead, Distributed Systems Test Infrastructure (opens new window), Protocol Labs, Remote
• Distributed Systems Engineer, IPFS Cluster (Go) (opens new window), Protocol Labs, Remote
• Senior Backend Engineer (opens new window), MXC Foundation gGmbH, Berlin, Germany
• Distributed Systems Technical Lead, IPFS (opens new window), Protocol Labs, Remote

Updates and new releases

See the latest releases of IPFS tools and projects across the ecosystem.

• async-std v0.99.11 has been released! (opens new window) Includes added sync::channel, added Future::delay, added Stream::timeout, fixes for task::block_on, and faster fs::File operations.
• Ocean Protocol v1.1 Released (opens new window): A minor maintenance update with some new features: IPFS file hosting integration, new Events-Handler component, and Commons as default UI in Barge.

Tools and projects we ❤️

Awesome IPFS (opens new window) is a community maintained and updated list of projects, tools, or pretty much any things related to IPFS that are totally awesome. To see more, or add yours to the list, visit Awesome IPFS on GitHub (opens new window).

• os (opens new window) – Experiment to build some kind of operating-system-like environment where executables are all in WASM and are loaded from some IPFS-like decentralized network.
• The Graph Network In Depth (opens new window)
• Witness (opens new window) – Immortalize files on the Ethereum blockchain with IPFS

Coming up in the Community

Did you know IPFS has a community forum at discuss.ipfs.tech (opens new window)? Sign up to participate in discussions about coding, tutorials, see announcements and learn about upcoming community events.

• 28-30 October 2019: Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2019 (opens new window) will feature Trevor Conn of Dell Technologies presenting “Securely Store IOT Edge Data with IPFS and Distributed Ledger.” Lyon, France.
• 30 October 2019: OPO.js Meetup #10 (opens new window) is hosting the next free Porto JavaScript Community meetup, supported by the ScaleUp Porto initiative. Porto, Portugal.
• 30 October 2019: Data Science Wrangle Palo Alto (opens new window) – Come network, socialize, and trade notes with practitioners at the leading edge of data science innovation and learn how professionals are driving business outcomes with ML in their day-to-day workflows. Palo Alto, CA (US)
• 6 November 2019: Paris P2P Monthly Peer to Beer (opens new window) is a monthly meetup organized by and for the community of P2P and cryptography enthusiasts. Paris, France.
• 14 November 2019: DWeb Talks: Carson Farmer of Textile.io (opens new window) hosted by ProtoSchool Seattle. Come and hear from decentralized web developer Carson Farmer on Textile.io! Seattle, WA (US)
• 6 December 2019: React Day Berlin (opens new window): Build code, not walls. Take part in the exploration of the React universe! Focusing on in-depth talks, hands-on workshops, and finding new opportunities, React Day Berlin conference provides space for everyone to make friends and develop stellar apps together. Berlin, Germany.

Thanks for reading ☺️

That’s it for this week’s news on all things IPFS. If we missed something, send us an email and let us know! That way we can feature you in next week’s edition.