Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.
Fark founder Drew Curtis writes about the state of the Internet today & effects on Fark:
“The core problem that we can’t fix is if people hate the entire news cycle because of stuff, they are going to struggle to want to keep Fark as a daily read.”
ycc is @why.bsky.world’s coding harness:
“A docs-driven coding harness: a coding agent that works from a spec.md and a backlog of tasks. ycc is a single binary that is client, TUI, and daemon in one.”
I met one of the devs who work on Fibery at Local-First. I like the description “an operating system for orgs run by nerds”.
Kind of Grist-like, not open source, and SaaS per-seat pricing after the first 10 users. (They do have free to use for OSS).
Vic made an Airglow automation which saves starred @tangled.org repos to your own @semble.so collection.
Tangleflow: Convert GitHub actions workflows to @tangled.org pipelines and vice versa.
By @43801j.com
PropterMalone released Clade: “Your own contact rolodex, built from the data exports the big platforms already owe you — merged, enriched by web research, searchable.”
LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Bluesky as sources.
Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity
While the podcasting sector has seen growth, this has occurred almost entirely on platforms like YouTube2, and the independent podcast app userbase has mostly just stood still.
Dustin Bluck of Castro on indie podcast apps
The majority of FOSS developers are one-man-shows, and the only cOmMuNiTy they have around them are the users requesting features or reporting bugs while most of the time not contributing in any form whatsoever
TIL caffeinate is a built in MacOS CLI command that makes it so your Mac doesn’t go to sleep.
As part of adding search to my site, I found an old journal entry referencing @byjp.me IndieSearch and Pagefind. This is exactly why I take notes!
I met Luke @luke.kanies.com at @localfirstconf.com & answered some atproto questions at the beer garden. He wrote Building on atproto with a lot of questions about permissioned data and how this meshes with local first.
Software today is more malleable than ever. In some way this means that it can be released in a more fluid way.
Not just development, distribution of software may change as well by @antirez.bsky.social
I have made an atproto powered journal editor on my website. I can login with my @bmann.ca or @bmannconsulting.com accounts, and then have a very simple editor for making Bluesky-length microblog posts, with an optional link field.
It supports rich text that I input using Markdown. Realistically, this is only ever used for links. If I make a post that is over 300 characters, then it publishes it as a @standard.site article using @markpub.at. This is also how unthread.at is setup when I looked into it.
It also uses the out-of-band tags field. By default, everything is tagged as “bmcjournal”, and integrated back into my site. So I can also use whatever tools I want as long as I use that tag. Deck.blue and Ouranos are two examples.
Fig builds Microcosm. You can sponsor on Github
Fig is awesome! @bad-example.com
Editable Website is a SvelteKit template for building CMS-free editable websites. Uses Svedit. Being built by @michaelaufreiter.com
Oh ya! I am moderating a panel at DWeb Camp Berlin with Christine Lemmer-Webber and Daniel Holmgren called Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub.
Rolling up the ladder behind us, by Xe Iaso. “Who will take over for us if we don’t train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.”:
I had a lot of respect for Anthropic before they released this feculent bile that is the Model Context Protocol spec and initial implementations to the public. It just feels so half-baked and barely functional.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.