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About Hi, I'm JC Brand, and I run a boutique software consultancy named Opkode. I specialize in integrating chat and instant messaging systems into various platforms and applications, often relying on XMPP and Converse, a popular open source XMPP chat app that I originally created for Star Alliance.
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Introducing Converse 11: A Major Leap Forward for XMPP Webchat
I'm thrilled to announce the official release of Converse version 11.0.0! You can try it out online at chat.conversejs.org or download the desktop app (the Tauri based releases are coming soon). span class="gatsby-resp-image-wrapper" style="position: rela
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Adopting Bitcoin, Cape Town, 2025
I attended the Adopting Bitcoin conference in Cape Town the last weekend and thought I'd do a quick writeup about some interesting things I learned. Some background, South Africa has quite high crypto adoption (Bitcoin in particular). Our 2nd biggest reta
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Converse 8 has been released
I'm happy to announce that, after almost a year of development, the latest major version of Converse has been released. Converse is an XMPP chat client, written in JavaScript, that runs in your web browser. It can be used as a single application, or integ
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Mergebounce: Increasing performance by batching IndexedDB writes
Converse is a browser-based XMPP chat client that I've been working on. It stores lots of user-data in the browser, so much data, that users were regularly running into the localStorage limit of about 10MB. Luckily there is an alternative storage solution
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Bitcoin as commons
I recently saw an interesting interview with former Canadian prime minister Stephan Harper 1 , where the topic of Bitcoin briefly came up, and I noticed that he referred to Bitcoin as a "private digital currency". iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.
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