worm-blossom

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the development diary of the worm-blossom collective. We make https://willowprotocol.org and https://worm-blossom.github.io/bab/

A sketch of an oak tree.
A photograph of Sammy and Aljoscha standing together.
A portion of a screenshot of this week’s worm-blossom update. It reads: "Sneakerweb Released! We have been teasing the sneakerweb for weeks, a small application for storing, browsing, and sharing static websites without relying on the internet at all. And now we have finally released it. Head over to sneakerweb.org, where you can install the (command line) app.”
Album artwork. An illustrated Aljoscha sits on a beach, his back facing an old PC. The album is called “computer has no feelings”.
An illustration of Aljoscha slumped in a bench, spirals spinning in his eyes. He's wearing a stylish pink RBSR-themed t-shirt. Sammy pumps her fist behind him, and mushroom-Dan cheers from atop the bench.
Coloured pencil sketches of people and hands
A drawing of a Dutch street on a summer evening.
An illustration of a gelateria. Sammy sits out front, slumped in a chair and fanning herself. A little mushroom guy walks out of the gelateria, very pleased with himself. Aljoscha is inside, ordering lots of icecream. A helpful cat is serving him.
A drawing of a girl reclining by a pool. She has a drink in one hand, and a tiny book balanced on her knees. She is wearing a red ribbon and bathing suit.
A comic panel showing a panoply of distorted, sinister faces.
A screenshot of a portion of bab-hash.org. There is a download window saying “Connection lost. Progress verified and saved”. In two adjacent panels, we see someone annoyed that their phone has lost connection, and a self-satisfied figure who doesn’t mind that the connection was lost at all.
An cropped portion of a flow chart titled “The Willow Skill Tree!!!”
A screenshot of the 2026 week 16 update of worm-blossom.org.
A montage of illustrated vignettes of Sammy and Aljoscha’s week in Prague
A single panel comic, in the style of Stan Kelly of The Onion. The Statue of Liberty and a girl with long hair, wearing a t-shirt labelled "Honest Coders", weep at a laptop in front of them. Behind them, someone who looks a lot like Aljoscha peers in through the window, wearing a t-shirt saying "ufotofu sickos". He say "Yes...hahah...sey!". In the corner, Sammy comments: "Open source *pain*tainer.
A screen shot of the 2026 week 12 update of worm-blossom.org. There is a comic and and editorial by Sammy pictured. The comic looks exciting, and it has proper alt text on the site!
A screenshot of the 2026 week 11 update of worm-blossom.org.
A panel from a comic. We close in on a figure in a doorway. They have a round head, a face hemmed in by some kind of bonnet. They say "I'm lookin' for The Bottleneck".
A panel from a comic. A large, oddly proportioned figure sits hunched over a bar. A TV showing green and grey static hangs in the corner.
An illustration of two playing cards, bearing Aljoscha and Sammy styled as face cards.
A tiny Sammy jumps across the keyboard of a giant computer.
A screenshot of the 2026 week 6 update of worm-blossom.org. There is a comic, music, TWO (!) editorials by Sammy, and some links of the week. On the actual page there’s even more, I heard.
A crudely drawn portrait of Sammy, who has been drawn to look as though a portion of fence is being balanced on her head (???)
A drawing in a kind of pictographic style. A red tall block which looks a bit like a server stands atop a mountain peak, with wires leading to stylised users at their computers surrounding it.
A screenshot of the 2026 week 4 update of worm-blossom.org. There is a comic, an announcement of worm-blossom’s open collective, and a “we’re listening to...” feature.
A panel from this week’s comic. Sammy, pale green and bewildered, is silhouetted against a jaunty spiral as she descends into self doubt.
A screenshot of the week 2, 2026 update of worm-blossom.org. There are upcoming events at P2P Basel and FOSDEM, a comic with a curious speech bubble saying “PLEASE”, a “we’re listening to” feature with some album recommendations, and the beginning of an editorial by Aljoscha.
An illustration of a underground scene. In the distant background, we see two silhoutted figures, one looking towards the foreground. Close to us, we see a kind of monitor embedded in the rock, strange green waves on its screen. The caption below the illustration says "Did you hear something?"
An illustration of Aljoscha and Sam in mining gear, deep underground, surrounded by lava yet looking up towards the viewer with confidence.
A panel from a comic, prefaced with “Deep inside Aljoscha’s Lair…”. We see Aljoscha sitting at his desk, his face glowing in the light of a computer. In the background are wires, pipes, screens, papers strewn over the floor. The text in this panel reads: "Fuzz tests... passing. Readme... complete. Publishing..."
A panel of a comic. Aljoscha asks Sammy “So how was the conference? Get any insightful feedback on our work?”. Sammy eats a sandwich.
A screenshot of the week 49 update of worm-blossom.org. There is an advent calendar, a comic, and an announcement of a capability system being added to willow25.
A screenshot of the Week 48 update of worm-blossom.org. At the top, there is a new advent calendar. In the update itself are two panels of a hand-drawn comic, and an announcement for a new Meadowcap Rust crate.
A screenshot of the Willow Interactive Data Model. There are three columns, representing three peers: Alfie, Betty, and Gemma. They each have tabs representing the ‘namespaces’ they know about. Then there’s some UI for adding an ‘Entry’ to that namespace, with path, timestamp, and payload fields. Then there’s a list of each peer’s existing entries below that. Alfie and Betty have green entries in their lists representing entries which would be added by a sync operation.
A screenshot of the worm-blossom 2025 Week 47 update. There is a calendar showing some upcoming events, a scan of some flower sketches, and a “Rant form the Ivory Tower” with corresponding ivory tower illustration.
A screenshot of the 2025 Week 46 update of worm-blossom.org. There are two columns of content. On the left there is a portion of a comic. On the right there is an announcement about Ufotofu-based encoding and decoding.
A screenshot of the Ufotofu page. There is a symmetrical header, symmetrical code samples, and UFOs in the corners of the background.
A screenshot of the worm-blossom update for week 55 of 2025. The header is symmetrical! The music is symmetrical! There is a comic, an announcement, and app mockups drawn on grid paper.
A screenshot showing a portion of worm-blossom.org’s entry for Week 44 of 2025. An article titled “what’s with the name?!” is partially shown. It reads: “why is this website called ‘worm-blossom’? In this series we will explain why in a concise manner. PART 1: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION” A sketch of a man shrugging in ignorance is displayed next to it.
An illustration bearing a Willow emblem in the centre, and many dotted lines fanning out from it to different characters using their devices, talking to each other, fixing things.
A panel of a comic. Anubis, Egyptian God of the Afterlife, looks down upon a man and asks: “Imhotep! Do you bring anything with you into the afterlife?”
A screenshot of a cropped portion of the Week 42 of 2025 update of worm-blossom.org. There are four columns, with a comic, music, editorials, an announcement, and a food journal.
A screenshot of worm-blossom.org’s week 42 entry. It has a header with a squiggly flower + worm motif, a comic, and editorials with illustrations of the authors. There is a photo too. This is all in a multi-column layout and it looks pretty rambunctious.