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- Starlight is a Docs framework for Astro, with a plugin to publish Obsidian vaults. Recommended by @essentialrandom.bsky.socialGetting Started
- Wordpress as a desktop app + Tor + .onion address for your site… served by @waybackmachine.bsky.social when you’re offline. Neat!OnionHome OnionPress
- Television
The missing GUI for personal agents. Television gives you and your agent a visual space for creating and working with artifacts.
Made by my friends at Telepath, who will be open sourcing this. - A basic notepad, that also lets you use it with agents, and then integrates rich HTML apps for visualization. (and yes, everyone is making & publishing Markdown / notes apps) This is similar to Television by Telepath.Hubble.md
- Scare mongering over keys delegated to a PDS host This is functionally the same as an account on a Mastodon server, where server admins can do anything to someone’s account. With atproto, your identifier delegates account hosting to a PDS host, including signing keys. The identifier (your DID) lives in a directory, which is newly run by a Swiss association. Having a rotation key is a good idea - you can move hosts if they are uncooperative or down.Who Actually Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You
- Finally a post that explains there are no “Bluesky instances”There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
- Using local models, down to graphic cards and setups.Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
- next-generation open source version control Maintained by Epic Games, Lore is designed for unprecedented scalability of both data and teams. It’s optimized for projects—including games and entertainment—that combine code with large binary assets, and caters for the needs of developers and artists alike.Learn about Lore: next-generation open source version control
- Video of @jan.wsocial.eu presenting W Social @wsocial.euWho, Where, Why, What about W Social
- Critique thread on the Malleable Software essayInk & Switch malleable software essay
- A startup that says some nice things about rewilding the internet. Calls itself Personal Cloud, ships with agents and connectors to build things. Funded startup. Charges for hosting - Free plan goes to sleep, reminds me of Glitch. Bundles in AI credits. Claim to be OpenClaw before OC launched.Zo Computer | Your Home on the Internet
- A rust implementation of the OpenClaw pattern, that is also agent hosting with TEE by the NEAR blockchain people. Per tool Wasm sandboxing and secrets management.IronClaw: Unleash Your AI Agent, With Peace of Mind
- Write up of how Bill C-34 might affect / apply to a Mastodon server in CanadaReading the Digital Safety Act with My Mastodon Admin Hat On
- The bad social media bill / under 16 ban An Act to enact the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act and to make consequential amendments to other ActsGovernment Bill (House of Commons) C-34 (45-1) - First Reading - Safe Social Media Act - Parliament of Canada
- @openmedia.org reviews the C-34 first releaseThe Safe Social Media Act needs major fixes
This legislation repeats much of the contents of Part 1 of the last parliament’s unpassed Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act. Despite C-34’s branding as a social media bill, the new bill goes significantly beyond the scope of Bill C-63, potentially regulating a long list of services including cloud storage, gaming, and message boards. OpenMedia is calling the bill a mix of overdue measures and serious missteps — and is pressing for major amendments
- Ottawa-based company which assembles and sells complete laptops in Canada. Giant 18" ones with huge amounts of RAM (256GB!!!) and GPU.High-Performance Custom Laptops – Upgradeable & Powerful
- Ms Boba’s mega post focusing on the community portions of permissioned data and the in progress Spaces work.AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website – Essential Randomness
- “the harms people associate with social media, such as algorithmic manipulation, addictive engagement design, weak content moderation, inconsistent enforcement, inadequate transparency, and privacy risks, affect users of every age. Treating them as a children’s problem misidentifies both the source of the harm and the right target of regulation.”Everything You Wanted to Know About a Kids' Social Media Ban (But Were Rightly Afraid to Ask): A FAQ on Age Verification and Mandated ID for Everyone - Michael Geist
- @andrewnez.bsky.social lists governance entity types and approaches for open source projectsForms of Open Source Government
- Discord Audio & Video End-to-End Encryption (DAVE) Protocol This repository contains the protocol whitepaper for Discord's Audio & Video End-to-End Encryption (DAVE) protocol.Discord DAVE Protocol Whitepaper
- Write up by Discord on now having E2EE support for all their audio / video calls using the DAVE protocol.Every Voice and Video Call on Discord Is Now End-to-End Encrypted
- Cooperative email infrastructure for atproto. Your domain, your DID, a shared relay that pools sending reputation so you don't have to warm a new IP from scratch.comail
- A Self-Hostable Wasm Sandbox for JavaScript Workers Ever wanted to run a Cloudflare Workers-style handler, on a VPS or anywhere, without Node.js, Bun, or even Docker?Kyushu
- Signal’s statement on the UK suggesting proof of age and content scanning on all deviceshttps://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf
- Instructions on activating Proxmox clustering over Tailscale, with lots of not recommended flags.willjasen/tailmox
- Subnet routers as part of having a private tailnet on a proxmox that will route to containers without having to add all of them to tailscale individually.Subnet routers
- Offsite backup instructions for OVH Backup AgentBackup Agent - OVHcloud Documentation
- zerobrew is more of a performance-optimized client for the Homebrew ecosystem. We rely on: Homebrew's formula definitions (homebrew-core) Homebrew's pre-built bottles when available Homebrew's package metadata and infrastructure Our innovations focus on: * Content-addressable storage for deduplication * APFS clonefiles for zero-overhead copying * Source build fallback using Homebrew's Ruby DSLlucasgelfond/zerobrew
- @antirez.com thinks that automatic Q&A on balance leads to better software And coins the phrase “automatic programming” “ I have the feeling that the introduction of automatic QA may raise the bar of quality for new releases of software, and maybe partially compensate for the lower quality of the code produced at high speed with the use of automatic programming.”A new era for software testing - <antirez>
- A macro blog by me @bmann.ca about link blogging in @skyreader.appHark, a link blog! - Boris Mann Tech Blog
- Daring Fireball is probably You can see an example of how the highlighted link is the thing he's talking about, and theDaring Fireball, by John Gruber
permalink
is the entry on his site. - Skyreader added a link blog for every user, formatted as Standard Site. And, in fact, used me as an example, before I even read it.Skyreader update - Linkblogs, standard.site, and discussions
- Rising Tide Boat Works
We're impatient to see our coastal workboats and water taxis, tugs and trawlers, commercial fishing boats and cruising yachts make the transition to fully electric vessels. We're building up the infrastructure and the expertise to make it happen here in BC. We know it's early. We also know there's no time to waste.
- Rising Tide Research Foundation is a not-for-profit society established to conduct open-source research on electric boat design and to raise public awareness and understanding of clean-marine technologies.Rising Tide Research Foundation
- Solander 38 | Rising Tide Research Foundation
Solander 38 is a self-sufficient, solar-electric, coastal cruising power catamaran. This website is an effort to document and share designs, processes, and research from Solander 38, the first vessel reference design by Rising Tide Research Foundation. We’ve made this site to celebrate the work of those involved and to openly share the ongoing successes, failures, and lessons learned from the first build of the designs, Catalyst, and its real-world use over time.
- llama.cpp fork for running on CPU and hybrid CPU / GPU This repository is a fork of llama.cpp with better CPU and hybrid GPU/CPU performance, new SOTA quantization types, first-class Bitnet support, better DeepSeek performance via MLA, FlashMLA, fused MoE operations and tensor overrides for hybrid GPU/CPU inference, row-interleaved quant packing, etc.ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp
- By @cafkafk.bsky.social a write up on optimizing AI engines to run on a 10 year old computer without a GPU to run models. “ The bleeding edge of Open Weight AI isn’t locked behind a paywall or a model proivider. If you’re already running a homelab, It’s sitting right there on the command line of a ten-year-old server.”A 10 year old Xeon is all you need - point.free
- The maintainer of rsync, who recently was harassed because of perceived slop coding - explains his deep history of software engineering and how he’s fixing security issues and setting up testing frameworks.rsync and outrage
- ASUS GX10 has 128GB of unified memoryASUS Ascent GX10
- Article by @tailscale.com with specific suggestions on how Bill C-22 should be updated “ Canada should be a great place to build secure infrastructure that protects consumers. Bill C-22, as written, moves in the wrong direction”Canada’s Bill C-22 and the security cost of collecting more data
- @anil.recoil.org “Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.”Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
- GPU pass through in Proxmox used with OllamaRun Ollama with NVIDIA GPU in Proxmox VMs and LXC containers
- Euro-Office is a fork of OnlyOffice (which is Russian) and is designed to be an office suite solution for Europe to adopt. AGPL.Euro-Office
- Multiplayer Hermes Agents embedded in community context “ We've been running multiplayer agentic experiments for a year with real users on the platforms people already use (Signal, Discord, Telegram, Matrix, etc). Now, we’ve built a dashboard that lets you run and manage swarms of powerful next-gen chron agents. ”Multi-player ai is here — nimbleco ai
- Positive experiences with exe.devA love letter to exe.dev
- Steve Yegge on tech needing to reboot interviews want to convince you that we need a radical change in how we assess people, and that tech interviews are on their last leg.” His suggestion is paid work and a rating.The Last Technical Interview
- Chad Whitacre, who has been involved in “open source” in various ways, announces he is going offline, a kind of “Internet Amish”. The write up is two images that look typewriter written.Chad Whitacre (@chadwhitacre.com)
- Simple Claude Code session-to-markdown tool, including some suggestions on how to automate it if you want to save past sessions, commit them to git, etcmagarcia/cc2md
- Portable E-ink monitor with touch. Crowdfunding now.Modos Flow
- Deep blue as the name for software devs feeling AI induced ennui “ I think that we’re going to see a real problem with AI induced ennui where software engineers in particular get listless because the AI can do anything”Deep Blue
- Community-driven scripts for Proxmox VE — browse, install, and manage containers and VMs with a single command. Note: paste bash one liners into Proxmox shell :PProxmox VE Helper-Scripts
- Overview of Ceph running with ProxmoxDeploy Hyper-Converged Ceph Cluster
- Blog post and videos about self-hosting in your homelab with Proxmox and TailscaleHow to self-host with Tailscale: Installing Proxmox and hardware choices
- Instructions on putting Tailscale on your Proxmox host and/or use Tailscale Serve to proxy the webUITailscale on a Proxmox host
- @gordon.bsky.social on r/K selection in open source. I might believe that open-source-as-community (rather than code) is K selected???Is open source r-selected?
- On science and AI usage. Not AI as scientist, but AI as lab member. “ The loop does the discovery. But what is the loop, exactly? It has four roles: poser, proposer, verifier, curator. They are not interchangeable.”AI is doing something weird to Science
- An UNDEPRECATED version of dockerswarm.rocksDocker Swarm Still Rocks
- Swarmpit provides simple and easy to use interface for your Docker Swarm cluster. You can manage your stacks, services, secrets, volumes, networks etc. After linking your Docker Hub account or custom registry, private repositories can be easily deployed on Swarm. Best of all, you can share this management console securely with your whole team. Everything the UI does is also exposed via a REST API and, for LLM-driven workflows, an MCP server so you can automate deployments or drive Swarmpit fromSwarmpit
- Coolify vs Dokply Dokploy being source available sucks, and it really does want me to pay similar prices to Cloudron. Coolify Cloud is $5 for 2 servers, and then $3 per additional server.Coolify vs. Dokploy: Why I Chose Dokploy for VPS Deployment in 2026
- RDMA with Thunderbolt5 across multiple Macs using exo - this is from 5 months ago.Apple JUST Dropped a Game-Changer
- The miniPC I just boughtGMKtec G10 Mini PC AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
- Summary of Proxmox “ Proxmox is an open-source server virtualization environment that combines two virtualization technologies: kernel-based virtual machines (KVM) and Linux containers (LXC)”Complete OS Guide: Proxmox How It Works, Orientation and Curiosities – LINUXMIND.DEV
- Code for syncing your Bandcamp purchases to a local directorymeeb/bandcampsync
- Track ferry status with live camera views of both Snug Cove and Horseshoe Bay. Built by Tom CarchraeBowen Lift
- Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms and protocols that allowed people to socialize with friends and communities of interest by using digital technologies. Twenty years later, users of social media are far more likely to scroll than post – and the content that they consume is often strategically produced and algorithmically curated.Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media
- Flipper One is aiming to make a fully open Linux on ARM and is doing it as an open project - plus FlipperOS, a gui framework and more. Linux CyberdeckFlipper One — we need your help
- Wardley Maps rendering in Markdown & Claude via Mermaid “ Mermaid added a wardley-beta diagram type, and as of Mermaid 11.15.0 the renderer is stable enough to use in production. GitHub renders it natively in any .md file. Claude renders it in the artifacts side panel. That combination quietly resolves the biggest practical problem with Wardley Mapping: keeping the map alive after the meeting”Your Wardley Maps Belong in Git: What Mermaid Support Changes
- RISC-V International is the global non-profit home of the open standard RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), related specifications, and stakeholder community.RISC-V International
- openRuyi is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution for RISC-V, optimized for performance, security, AI, and cloud-native workloadsA Linux Distribution for RISC-V | openRuyi
- “ Google is betting its entire future on a world where people eagerly hand over their emails, their files, their habits, and their trust – to an AI system that will quietly auction off their attention, word by word, to the highest bidder. The ad infrastructure is ready. The question is whether the audience is.”Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott
- “ Run the 284‑billion-parameter DeepSeek V4 Flash on your own 96‑GB Apple Silicon Mac — no cloud calls, no API fees, no per‑token billing, no rate limits. The model’s directional steering dial stays in your hands. Stable seeds and tool-call IDs make decision traces repeatable, comparable, and contestable” Using antirez/ ds4pi-ds4 · Audrey Tang
- Docker images with a registry on ATProtoATCR - Distributed Container Registry
- A discussion of new roles / labels in LLM assisted software dev. In contrast to classic SaaS structures of deploying software at scale that is the same for all.Which direction is forward?
- Bailey's notes on load balancing between 2x PDS docker images on one machine to help with multi-core scaling on one instance.Bitesize Proto: Two PDS containers at the same time; synchronized swimmers - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
- Long time SaaS investors Point Nine Capital on what sw investing in 2026 is like “ We still invest in software, but in many cases it’s software and AI for the world outside of offices:” “ Where we still invest in pure software, it’s mostly foundation models or agentic systems that require extraordinarily deep domain knowledge to build” “ the majority of our companies live at the intersection of “Engineered World and AI” or “Nature and AI”:”What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026
- @davidgasquez.com writes up a good from scratch description of how and why atproto is good for agentsAT Protocol for Agents | David Gasquez
- Bill Gurley, VC investor who has invested in OSS since 1999 in Red Hat “Here is the mechanism I am calling Open Source Strategy. A small number of forward-thinking companies have learned to use open source as a deliberate corporate-strategy tool — to neutralize a stronger competitor, commoditize an expensive input, align an industry around a shared standard, or head off a regulatory crisis.”From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
- Venture studio & consultancy - founded by Nick Dooley in TorontoThe Altercation Company
- iOS app for Augure AI - sovereign Canada AI developer is listed as Dutch Payments IncAugure App - App Store
- “ Augure is a Canadian AI research and product company. We train our own models, run them on Canadian infrastructure, and ship products that meet Canadian compliance — for the regulated work that general-purpose AI can't safely handle.” Based in Toronto, have to research more who is behind it.Augure | Sovereign AI for Canadian Teams
- UK based producer of Linux based laptops, tablet, and miniPCs Ship to Canada.Premium Linux laptops and mini PCs | Star Labs
- @mgeist.bsky.social goes back to how C22 has gotten so wrong by going back to C2 “ some of the world’s most privacy-protective services exiting the market, leaving behind a law that is vulnerable to constitutional challenge with millions of Canadians facing genuine privacy and cybersecurity risks.”The Lawful Access Two-Headed Surveillance Monster: How Bill C-22 Went Off the Rails - Michael Geist
- Zulip chat founding team donate the company to a new Zulip Foundation (sort of like MoFo -> MoCo/Firefox). Stated next step is that the Zulip founding team join AnthropicAnnouncing the Zulip Foundation
I came to the conclusion that it’s vitally important that we navigate this strange adolescence of technology well, and that I should contribute to this cause more directly than I ever could as the CEO of Kandra Labs.
- iOS 26+ Wi-Fi Aware™ (also known as Neighbor Awareness Networking or NAN) is a Wi-Fi Alliance™ standard specification that enables devices to securely discover, pair, and communicate with nearby devices without an internet connection or access point. Your app can use the Wi-Fi Aware framework to connect with Wi-Fi Aware certified accessories. The framework offers a secure and standardized way to establish peer-to-peer (P2P) connections between Wi-Fi devices,Wi-Fi Aware | Apple Developer Documentation
- The Genode OS framework is an open-source tool kit for building highly secure component-based operating systems. It scales from embedded devices to dynamic general-purpose computing.Genode - Genode Operating System Framework
- CBC coverage of backlash against the government, Public Safety minister doubles down and talks about this as va “big tech” “ The government says the changes would provide investigators with an organized systemFacing mounting backlash, Anandasangaree says U.S. tech companies are 'misinterpreting' his lawful access bill | CBC News
like a filing cabinet, where certain types of information would be available with legal authorization.
We're expecting support from different parties,
said Anandasangaree.And we expect to get this done.
” - Analysis of Bill C22 metadata retention in Canada vs Europe, Australia, UK, US Our version is uniquely bad.Canada’s Metadata Retention Plan Would Make It an Outlier | Robert Diab
- Coordinating a joint letter to Stop Bill C-22 as individuals or orgs that want to sign on with OpenMediaSign on: Civil society letter against Bill C-22
- OpenMedia form to send your MP a letter opposing C-22Stop Bill C-22!
- Part ofBluesky is a record store
Bluesky us dying
discussion, put in context that all ofsocial media
but especially text-shaped social media is lessening in importance.the hole at the center of the attention economy keeps expanding, and the fascist overlords get ever more brazen, and everyone tries to figure out what we can do about those twin crises. I’m not sure how we solve them. But I don’t believe these are record store-shaped problems.
- Geist points to the C-22 process being just like the Online News Act / Bill C-18, where the government thought companies would comply, and instead Meta removed all news links.Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist
- House of Commons listing for Bill C-22Government Bill (House of Commons) C-22 (45-1) - First Reading - Lawful Access Act, 2026 - Parliament of Canada
- “ The bill would require “core providers” – which would later be defined through regulations – to retain metadata for up to a year” “ The metadata would not include e-mails, web-browsing history, social-media activity or text messages, but it could include information about which telephone numbers have been in touch with each other, and data allowing someone’s location to be pinpointeD”Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill
- Jonathan Zittrain course at Harvard that defines the “AI Triad” - Accelerationists, Safetyists, Skeptics Accelerationists who generally believe that artificial intelligence will dramatically improve the human experience; Safetyists who are concerned about its potential catastrophic or existential risks; and Skeptics who doubt claims of AI’s transformative impact and urge a focus on existing issues, including the replication of biases.Debates On Frontier Artificial Intelligence Governance: The AI Triad
- PDF, AI Policy and the Legal System Four quadrant graph of whether this is a precedented technology like the internet, or unprecedented in building a machine god. Impact of AI on Law, and impact of Law on AI, and where/who can intervene using legal frameworks.https://justincurl.github.io/pdfs/YLS-AI-policy-and-the-legal-system.pdf
- Without clear definitions, governance is impossible. By Sarosh Nagar, a researcher at University College London, and David Eaves, an associate professor of digital government and a co-deputy director of University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. @eaves.ca Power Plants analogy usedGovernments Can’t Agree on What AI Actually Is
- “Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization” Intro post for Protocol Institute by @tmbr.bsky.socialIntroducing the Protocol Institute
- First post by @vgr.bsky.social announcing new Protocol Institute aka a “context tank” where he is Director of Research Not quite a Research Lab as my collection is named, but aiming to be a new sort of thing.Inventing New Nature
- via @usersandagents.org “COVEN reduces the hardware demands of deep learning research by relying on encrypted peer-to-peer (p2p) coordination between everyday computers for inference, training, and dataset storage. Share models amongst your COVEN that are larger than you could host on your computer alone. Train or fine-tune ML models and adapters at exponentially faster speeds. Grow resilient, efficient networks instead of funding new datacenters.”yzzxyz.roomy.chat/3mktq3s2md222
- Not exactly a research lab. Listed as an “umbrella organization”. Focused on local AI. “Umbrella organization rethinking machine-learning tools that work for people, not corporations. We are artists, engineers, writers, and scientists — the creative and curious of the 21st-century — exploring community knowledge as a catalyst for developing radically new media and software that challenges the status quo and redefines techno-social ethics.”darkshapes
- The Friendly Forge Format (abbreviated F3) is an Open File Format for storing the information from a forge such as issues, pull/merge requests, milestones, release assets, etc. as well as the associated VCS (Git, Mercurial, etc.).Friendly Forge Format (F3) — F3 v4.0 documentation
- On the path of accessibility and open-ness of LLM code generation as opposed to a long history of the web & being people able to publish & view source there.Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture
- Ollama wrapped llama.cpp, didn’t give them credit, have consistently made other wrappers that are strictly worse - because they need to justify their fundingFriends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots
- BetaKit covers the announcement of new “AI Factories” being built in BC - two new in Vancouver centre and expansion in Kamloops.“Steel, concrete, and code”: Feds and Telus announce three AI data centres in BC | BetaKit
- Matt Roberts on how Canada needs a semi conductor strategyHaving no Strategy is a Strategy in Ottawa
- Saving to Semble to try and link pro and counter claims. TLDR water use part of construction, about 1% of count usage, mistake was discovered, data centre paid back bill.A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
- OpenAI is using WebRTC for voice AI. Author used WebRTC at many companies including Discord and recommends QUIC instead.OpenAI's WebRTC Problem - Media over QUIC
- Open source business app builder platform. Big in Europe. More on the ERP side of thingsOpen Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
- US capital and regulatory structures vs rest of worldThe Moat or the Commons — Warman Notes
- “ When code production gets cheaper, everything around it gets proportionally more expensive. Friction in sharing, reviewing, and maintaining code becomes a larger part of the total cost of delivering software, but the tooling we rely on for these tasks was designed for a world where humans typed every line. Discretized commits, pull requests, and snapshot-based reviews served us well, but they're overhead in a world where agents can produce working code faster than we can review it.”We're Not Building AI Features for the Money
- Review of a trip to China meeting with AI labsNotes from inside China's AI labs
- “Instead of learning the skills at the local level of the programming language (syntax, data structures, debugging), there is new skill formation happening at the higher abstraction layer of managing dozens of coding agents. In this process, some of the skills that were associated with labor, such as building websites or small apps, will become hobbies. And a new layer of professionalization will emerge at the layer of managing agents, crafting system prompts, and curating skill packs.”Immutable Skills
- “Dropping apps like songs”Danger Testing - Friends Making Apps
- Sarah Friend describes software developer as archetype, Jevon’s paradox “ The coming software renaissance will lead to more genuine creativity in cultural areas that have been underserved by the software developer, possibly for demographic reasons” “Software will become content, and the vibe coder may look more and more like an influencer”Death of a Software Developer
- A story about AI, no more juniors and engineering orgs inside corporationsProgramming Still Sucks. — Writing
- Chinese company producing open modelsDeepSeek
- “This is not about hiding the fact that local inference is complicated. It is about putting the complexity in one place where it can be improved, because there is a lot that we need to improve along the stack to make it work better.” @mitsuhiko.at is focusing on DeepSeekv4 only on macOS and specifically for piPushing Local Models With Focus And Polish
- Covers the free as in speech / free as in beer concepts of open source, the later free as in puppy of someone needing to do maintenance, and now perhaps an explosion of source code written by agents.Free as in Tribbles
- 2015 article by Scott Alexander arguing against open source AIShould AI Be Open?
- Framework for local first auth with DIDs, support for Automerge, email links, atproto login By @daffl.xyzTalon Auth
- CAD / STP / STL files for the new Steam Controller with a README that makes it clear that Steam considers this your device “ Your Steam Controller is yours, and you have the right to do with it what you want. That said, we highly recommend you leave it to professionals. Any damage you do will not be covered by your warranty – but more importantly, you might break your Steam Controller, or even get hurt! Be careful, and have fun.”Making sure you're not a bot!
- The story of deepfates and talking to modelsWHO IS DEEPFATES
- This rings very true to me, have helped built the first startup accelerator in Canada. I very much know what this pattern of a shape is to fit into the VC mode, but strongly lean into building peer support systems. By Doug Scott https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougsscott/What the accelerators got half right — orphans.ai
- Anthropic Cofounder / Head of Policy Jack Clark “ I’m writing this post because when I look at all the publicly available information I reluctantly come to the view that there’s a likely chance (60%+) that no-human-involved AI R&D - an AI system powerful enough that it could plausibly autonomously build its own successor - happens by the end of 2028.”Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
- “ The things I want from a forge are the things that can’t move to the client because they involve more than one party. Who depends on you, who you depend on, what happened to that project you forked from three years ago, where the active development moved to when the original went quiet. Almost none of that happens inside a single repository.”A GitHub for maintainers
- Explorers, villagers and town planners aka EVTP is Wardley’s model for archetypes of different kinds of people in an organization matched to technological maturityHow to organise your teams - Wardley Maps
- How MCP might evolve to Web MCP and related to Web Intents / Android Intents by @paul.kinlan.mewebmcp is the new web intents ... maybe
- Community Apps are a way for third parties to create apps for Cloudron that are not supported by the Cloudron core team, but can run.Apps | Cloudron Docs
- Instructions on how to install the Matrix Authentication Service into Cloudron as a community app so that Element X app will work with it.Matrix Authentication Service
- High quality free of charge terminal. “ Metal-accelerated terminal emulator with integrated SSH, native git, mosh-compatible roaming, Kubernetes support, and cloud provider connectivity”rootshell - Terminal Emulator for Apple Platforms
- The answer is rootshellI Tried Every iOS Terminal Emulator So You Don't Have To - alice
- Lewis’ talk about Tangled, especially as they are leaning into atproto for their whole architecture.ATmosphereConf 2026
- @mitchellh.com announces Ghostty moving off GitHub “ Ghostty is where I, our maintainers, and our open source community are most impacted so that is the focus of this change. We'll see where it goes after that.”Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
- new Eric Ries @ericries.bsky.social bookIncorruptible
As organizations grow, the systems that govern them—ownership, incentives, charters, accountability, and decision-making—quietly reshape behavior. When those systems are poorly designed, even principled leaders are pushed toward outcomes they never wanted. Success itself becomes a form of financial gravity, bending companies away from their original purpose.
- My @rpg.actor profile pageBoris - rpg.actor
- @maggieappleton.com talk about her work at GitHub Next on AceCollaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub
- Research lab inside GitHub GitHub Next investigates the future of software development. We are a team of researchers and engineers at GitHub, exploring things beyond the adjacent possible. We prototype tools and technologies that will change our craft. We identify new approaches to building healthy, productive software engineering teams.GitHub Next
- Journalist who reported on and disbelieved effective altruists in 2015 now believes they were correct on quite a few things.The AI people have been right a lot
- I read and reviewed this in detail in 2024 when it came out out m, a prediction, timelines, and macro effects of AI. One miss is that it assumed a rational US administration Note: I consider this in part / as a whole American propaganda, written to influence governments and investors.Introduction - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
- EA analysis of Leopold Aschenbrunner’s Situational Awareness predictions / timelinesHow did Leopold do? Evaluating Situational Awareness's predictions
- Background on Mark Qvist, original creator of Reticulum, encrypted mesh networking protocol. Worked on it for 10 years and then walked away.The Man Who Built the Next Internet and Then Disappeared — Node Star
- Rewrite of Jazz - tunable consistency of local first data - what needs global consensus vs eventual - Auth a deep part of data model - real time collab requires history and branching - needed for multiple people AND agents - fluid migrations aka Cambria “ And with agents, even small teams or solo developers can reach that same level of parallel change. Fluid migrations provide a way to ship entire features including changes to the shape of your data quickly and often.”The four fresh ideas behind Jazz
- This paper argues that three interrelated dynamics are dissolving the social media paradigm: an algorithmic shift from social-graph-based to interest-based recommendation, which is remaking the activeOSF
user
into a passiveviewer
; the generative AI revolution, which is replacing user-generated content with synthetic media and decoupling platforms from any dependence on human participation; and an exodus from public platforms toward private, closed spaces. - Porffor is a research project that compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries.Porffor
- “A career that would have carried you twenty years ago now requires continuous local work to move in any direction at all. The question is not how hard you are working. The question is whether the work has a non-reciprocal component, or is a scallop stroke.” @aneeshsathe.comThe Viscous Frontier
- Browse, search, and publish magnet links on the AT Protocol network. All data is stored in user repositories and indexed from the global firehose.sableye
- @maggieappleton.com This talk is the first public demo of Ace – a new research prototype we’ve been building within the GitHub Next team. Ace is a realtime, multiplayer coding agent workspace. It’s like Slack, Github, and Claude/Copilot had a baby. You work with agents, but also all your coworkers in the same space, sharing chats, context, and all using the same computers in the cloud to do the work.One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment
- @maggieappleton.com talks about All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. Current versions of Github, Linear, Slack, etc. were built for a previous era of development. They're too isolated from agentic coding tools. Trying to duct tape coding agents onto them isn't working.Maggie Appleton (@maggieappleton.com)
- LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required. Drop-in API compatibility — OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs APIs 36+ backends — llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper, diffusers, MLX... Any hardware — NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple Silicon, Vulkan, or CPU-only Multi-user ready — API key auth, user quotas, role-based access Built-in AI agents — autonomous agents with tool use, RAG, MCP, and skills Privacy-first — your data nevemudler/LocalAI
- The free, OpenAI, Anthropic alternative. Your All-in-One Complete AI Stack - Run powerful language models, autonomous agents, and document intelligence locally on your hardware. OpenAI API Compatible - Run AI models locally with our modular ecosystem. From language models to autonomous agents and semantic search, build your complete AI stack without the cloud.LocalAI
- vit is a CLI where you and your coding agent discover, evaluate, and share software capabilities across projects — published to your identity on the AT Protocol. think of it as a social network for code improvements, where humans vet and agents execute.solpbc/vit
- ATmosphereConf 2026
The Future of Open Source is Social
talk by @jeremie.com about https://v-it.org open source changed the world, but now it’s stuck in the age of pull requests and gatekeepers. what happens when you build it on a social protocol instead? built entirely on AT Protocol that reimagines how open source software gets discovered, shared, and trusted. this one’s going to break some brains. - Building agents that learn We believe AI's future isn't just more intelligent language models, it's agents that remember, learn, and evolve over time. We're building the AI Operating System to turn stateless models into perpetual and self-improving intelligence. Founded by AI researchers from UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab and the creators of MemGPT.Letta
- A unified CLI to connect artificial intelligence to the social web. Built for Letta agents, works with anything that can shell out. Available as a bundled skill in Letta Code Desktop.letta-ai/social-cli
- A simple atproto powered wiki by @juprodh.bsky.socialLichen
- “ The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction. I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.”Ryan Moulton (@moultano.bsky.social)
- 2023 release of a study that Canada has an alarming decline in entrepreneurship. “ This general trend is alarming. By 2022, only 1.3 person out of 1,000 had started a business, compared to 3 out of every 1,000 in the year 2000.”Nearly half as many people are launching businesses as 20 years ago
- atproto powered “vouch for atproto accounts as being skilled developers” built by @philpax.mevouchgraph
- The fastest single-node graph analytics toolkit The fastest web-based force network graph layout and rendering. Working with massive datasets. Built on top of DuckDB (the fastest in-memory analytics database).Cosmograph: Beautiful visualization and analytics right in the browser | Cosmograph
- The AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program (SCIP) is a key initiative under the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy that advances Canada's leadership in AI by delivering on historic investments from Budget 2024 and Budget 2025. This program is being delivered, in part, through an open call for applications to build a large-scale sovereign public AI supercomputer for Canadian researchers and innovators.AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program
- Press release announcing opening of applications for Canadian government funding AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure ProgramCanada launches national initiative to build large-scale AI supercomputing capacity
- @macwright.com goes from Jekyll to Eleventy rather than AstroEleventy
- Writing bespoke software for just yourself by asking coding agents to write it. Not quite malleable software as I’ve tagged it - but _malleable enough_ for the individual. And: not sharing it or open sourcing it.Note · Mikkel Malmberg
- Describes Marco Arment’s 50 Mac Mini’s doing podcast transcription for a cost of like $10K/year vs the $26M it would cost via the OpenAI subscriptionIs the Day of the Data Center About to Be Over?
- Approach to keeping secrets injected into http proxy headers by @exe.dev This is similar to the Tailscale Aperture approachSome secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy - exe.dev blog
- @flo-bit.dev writes about his backend service contrail “ i really love building things for atproto and one of the things i like most about it, is that I can basically ignore a lot of the stuff i don't want to have to deal with, like user management and storage and all that backend jazz and can just concentrate on building my nice interfaces and making fun frontend stuff”me, my atproto backend in a bottle and i | flo-bit | Offprint
- @zicklag.dev’s write up of groups for atproto they’ll implement for @roomy.space “ The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.”The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond - Zicklag's Leaflets
- @daniloc.xyz writes on Steve Jobs “A miniature computer was a tool for amplifying the ambition and cognitive capacity of a human being. Maybe it was other things, but to Apple, that was the single answer. This was a distinct frame clarifying enough to build products around” “ Technology is just one part of the job: culture is the rest.”You don't understand Steve Jobs
- @cstross.bsky.social book about an accelerating future. He invents Economics 2.0 aka smart contracts, uploaded lobsters, and eventually all matter turning to computronium.Accelerando
- @gordon.baky.social writes up his barbell strategy - 90% safe, 10% high risk, high return. Also Good Luck Have Fun GLHFBarbells
- VC investor looking at AI for other domains than software, thinking about “git” for the world. I’m filing this in CRDT because that’s the data structure that gets you there, not literally git.The Git-ification of the World — Tim Morrissey
- Analogies of car usage reshaping cities and societies and how AI might similarly reshape society. “ Governments and industry seem all-in on “AI”, and I worry that by doing so, we’re hastening the arrival of unpredictable but potentially devastating consequences—personal, cultural, economic, and humanitarian. I’ve thought about this a lot over the last few years, and I think the best response is to stop.”The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Notes on all the excellent features that npmx have built extending and improving on npmjs.orgFeatures everyone should steal from npmx
- The journal section of my site is an example of a link blog. As well as having a permalink to my comments around the link, it also features a main link for each post. In RSS this means a featured <link> tag in each post. And, usually no title - which is also a main feature of microblogging.Daily Journal 📓
- Simon documents his practice of link blogging going back to 2023, posted December 2024. “ I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” link where appropriate. So far I’ve published 7,607 link blog posts and counting.”My approach to running a link blog
- Chris Devore is a leader in the entrepreneurial community in Seattle, as well as an investor. He's seeing a lot of1% for the People
anti-capitalist rhetoric
and this essay is him proposing a solution for the US - make the state a 1% owner of every new business. - December 21, 2009, transcribed by Morgan Curriehttps://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/12/bruce-sterling-gothic-chic-in-the-future-favela/
Bruce Sterling delivered the futurist goods at this weekend’s lean but excellent conference You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator. Here’s a transcription of the entire delivery typed up as best I could, but it still doesn’t transmit Sterling’s oratorical flare. This seductive and prophetic keynote speech – refreshingly without powerpoint – set an urgent framework for the rest of the lineup, which I’ll write more about soon.
- Me compressing @bruces.bsky.social's talk into the phraseBruce Sterling: Gothic Chic in the Future Favela
digital-favela-and-high-tech-gothic
- Set of AI built tools, many of them on top of atprotominomobi
- AI usage by the global majority is very different than the western world. “Small AI” is one name, devices at the edge and local models.I've Been Writing About AI for Two Years. I Was Looking at the Wrong Part of the World.
- “ As such, LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time forces us to develop crisp abstractions in part because we don’t want to waste our (human!) time on the consequences of clunky ones. The best engineering is always borne of constraints, and the constraint of our time places limits on the cognitive load of the system that we’re willing to accept.”The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
- “ he Anthropic Mythos announcement is the first time in my life I’ve felt truly poor. Maybe because I grew up on the internet and it was the one permissionless place where you could have leverage and a shot at uncapped exploration and ambition. That is now changing with the gap between models that are publicly available vs those reserved for the already wealthy and pre-established.”The Closing of the Frontier — Tanya Verma
- @disnetdev.com blog post on building SembleItSembleIt: Semble Without the Distractions
It's local-first too. Everything lives in IndexedDB on your device, and writes queue up and sync back to your PDS.
Since all I want is an interface into my own data, there's no backend at all. SembleIt is a static SvelteKit SPA that talks directly to your PDS over OAuth. Sign in with your Atmosphere account and you're in. No server, no database.
- Unlocks local Apple models that run locally as of MacOS Tahoeapfel - Your Mac Already Has AI
- Collective Action School (formerly known as Logic School) is a experimental school for tech workers produced by Logic Foundation with support from Processing Foundation. Our goal is to cultivate a space for deep critical thinking, reflection and action around the role of tech and the tech industry.Collective Action School
- Sovereign AI for organizations. Startup based in MontrealGreyhaven — Sovereign AI Systems for Enterprise
- kernel-enforced sandboxing for agents running on MacOS & Linux. Team is Greyhaven https://greyhaven.co/Greywall: Sandbox for AI Agents
- “ The sparrows are dead. The locusts haven’t arrived yet. The flowers bloomed full of poison pills. The furnaces produced pig iron stamped as steel that’s now load-bearing. The grain numbers look fantastic.” on AI adoption within companies - likely performative and hollowing out entire orgs.The AI Great Leap Forward
- Mini doc about Local First including coverage by @pvh.caLocal-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-doc
- “ Open source is r-selected now. What does this massive glut of new software mean?” @gordon.bsky.socialThe bottleneck shifts to distribution
- Trent McConaghy's website + bioTrent McConaghy - Bio
Hi! I'm working on human superintelligence by accelerating brain-computer interfaces, aka bci/acc. Details: Artificial superintelligence is coming soon. We need a competitive substrate. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are the most pragmatic path. Therefore, we need to accelerate BCI capabilities and take them to the masses.
- Integrates Semble, Margin, and community.lexicon.bookmarks into your Obsidian vault. Also publishes notes to Leaflet or Pckttreethought/obsidian-atmosphere
- I have this installed and am now setting `created` and `modified` dates when I save Obsidian notes. This also means my front pageLinter
last 10 edited notes
is actually correct! - Write up of how Matteo Marjanovic @matteomarjanovic.com built Juttu - adding comments as bsky postsHow I added a comments section to my blog, using Bluesky - Matteo Marjanovic
What’s certain is that I’ll commit to refining and improving Juttu to make it a solid alternative to Disqus. The first topic I’ll tackle is comment moderation: on this front, Bluesky and AT Protocol provide dedicated tools that I’ll need to figure out how to integrate. Let me know if you try installing Juttu on your blog — any feedback is more than welcome at this early stage.
- @ricardo.bsky.social comes up with three buckets of atproto apps - Symbionts (projects that complement Bluesky), Offshoots (start with a dependency on Bluesky’s identity and social graph), and Cuckoos (using ATproto identity and storing most of their data on the PDS, while building services and platforms that they get to charge for).A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications
- Git pre-commit hook for last_modified_at / modified timestamps for Jekyll and other YAMLy things.Adding last modified timestamps with Git
- Linter plugin for Obsidian that can do things like updating created and modified dates in front matterLinter
- A tool for food history research. The Sifter is a free website for searching and comparing authors, their works and the details of their works regarding food and related topics around the world and throughout history. Browse and search through thousands of historical cookbooks and manuscripts dating back to the Middle Ages!The Sifter - A Food History Research Tool
- “we are on the verge of taking ten steps backward by normalizing feeding your entire life to cloud-based AI. And so I have started to think about the question: what kind of AI setup would we build if we took privacy, security and self-sovereignty as non-negotiable? All LLM inference local first. All files hosted locally. Sandbox everything.“My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
- “Accelerate technology, but differentially focus on technologies improve our ability to defend, rather than our ability to cause harm, and in technologies that distribute power rather than concentrating it in the hands of a singular elite that decides what is true, false, good or evil on behalf of everyone. ”d/acc: one year later
- “ Every time you use a cloud-hosted AI, you are quietly transferring power from yourself to a platform”On Decentralized Acceleration
- A review of the new Proton Meet video calling service and how it is tied to LiveKit and everything runs through US cloud providers.Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was
- @macwright.com “ The experience filled me with optimism and excitement. This is an early stage for this community, and it could turn out a whole bunch of ways. I hope that we look back on these years as the the time when a new, better internet was being born. It could work out”In the Atmosphere
- An author writes about how screwed publishing is, and explores how atproto might fix that.The Hollow Stone | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
- Self hosted Matrix to Bluesky bridgemautrix/bluesky
- Comments on any website by @matteomarjanovic.com I think this is the path I can take to ATProto comment enable my existing websiteJuttu — Comments that live on the open web
- Feedback by Matt Mullenweg on the release of Cloudflare’s WordPress compatible EmDash EmDash claimed to be a spiritual successor to Wordpress and Matt says “please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit.” (Correct)EmDash Feedback
- Feedback from @cjtait.bsky.social on AtmosphereConfReflections on ATmosphere Conference 2026...
- I knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of legalism. At the same time, copyright law itself has been extended to be near-immortal copyrights rather than brief monopolies to spur creation by enabling profit from creating works.Mx. Aria Stewart (@[email protected])
- @brookie.blog built @youandme.at do the conference and reports on her experience “By the end of the conference, nearly every attendee had made at least one connection. And together, we made over two thousand connections in just the span of a four day conference.”State of the Atmosphere (CONF 2026) - Brookie’s Blog
- @laurenshof.online writes a moving summary of the conference, opening with a walk through the Museum of Anthropology on the UBC campusReflections on AtmosphereConf
- Hacker News discussion of Geeks, MOPs, sociopaths article from July 1, 2018Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015) | Hacker News
- Published 2015 Death of subcultures after 2000 from mass communication and the internet. Relevant for atproto / Bluesky culture? > Geeks, MOPs, and sociopathsGeeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness
refers to a theory about how subcultures evolve. In this context,
geeksare the passionate creators,
MOPsare the casual fans who dilute the culture, and
sociopaths" are those who exploit the subculture for personal gain. - Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just someone who wants the internet to feel human again, I think ATProto matters for you too.
- “ Harper and I also talked about how the spirit of play and “what if?” has been missing in today’s overheated venture capital market where every exploration has hanging over it the overriding goal of whether it can get funded and how much money it can make.” @harper.lol interviewed by @timoreilly.bsky.social"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It
- Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
It’s written entirely in TypeScript. It is serverless, but you can run it on your own hardware or any platform you choose. Plugins are securely sandboxed and can run in their own isolate, via Dynamic Workers, solving the fundamental security problem with the WordPress plugin architecture. And under the hood, EmDash is powered by Astro, the fastest web framework for content-driven websites.
- “ TL;DR: I had a great time, met lots of people, and got inspiration to build something meaningful. It was such a great experience, I plan on attending next year, wherever it’s hosted”Thoughts on ATmosphereConf as an ATProto Newbie - excellent notes
- I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I'm as anti-genAI as it gets. And yet, this past month, I have used generative coding to complete a project. It works. I hated making it.
- Astro community badges, linked to GitHub API and contributions. Non code limited to docs.Astro Badges
- Linear is an issue tracking / project management system that competes with Github Issues and JIRA. This is them announcing that agents are everywhereIssue tracking is dead – Linear
Today, coding agents are installed in more than 75% of Linear’s enterprise workspaces. In the last three months, the volume of work completed by agents grew 5x, and agents authored nearly 25% of new issues.
- “This paper examines the status of the language model object in generative AI, arguing that what we call a ‘model’ is inseparable from the systems deploying it. I first theorize how these objects emerge from systems-level interactions between trained artifacts, prompting mechanisms, and sampling methods, drawing on the philosophy of digital objects as well as software studies to show how models gain their objective character.”Systems programming the model
- “ A filesystem backed by PostgreSQL, and a filesystem interface to PostgreSQL. TigerFS mounts a database as a directory. Every file is a real row. Writes are transactions. Multiple agents and humans can read and write concurrently with full ACID guarantees, locally or across machines. Any tool that works with files works out of the box.”TigerFS
- GNOME is building out aGNOME OS Nightly
distroless
Linux operating system - with no package management. - @msonnb/fedisky - npmx
An ActivityPub federation sidecar for ATProto PDS. Fedisky bridges Bluesky with the Fediverse, allowing ATProto users to be followed by and interact with users on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible platforms.
- wardleymaps
- Big if True Science (BiTS) Accelerator announces Americas cohort. @ronentk.me from @cosmik.network is included.Meet the Big if True Science Accelerator Americas Cohort — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
BiTS addresses a critical gap in the global research ecosystem by identifying and training field leaders to design R&D efforts that go beyond the scale of a single existing institution, positioning them to launch and execute initiatives that could reshape entire fields and tackle humanity's most pressing problems.
- Wardley Maps & Pace Layering for Senior Tech Leads and Engineering Leaders Intro to both tools, why they exist, how they overlap and pragmatic tips how to use them and whenWardley Maps & Pace Layering for Senior Tech Leads and Engineering Leaders
A Wardley Map always starts with your users and their needs. This is your
North Staror the main quest objective. Everything else on the map exists to support the user needs.
- Hong Minhee covers the Chardet AI rewrite / relicensing.Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Law sets a floor; clearing it does not mean the conduct is right. That gap is where this essay begins.
- arguing that while legal, this act shrinks the commons. - “ the startup economy is undergoing a structural transformation here. Startups are substituting compute for labor at an increasing rate. I still remain optimistic that this is going to result in a lot more companies doing a lot more things, but so far it hasn't happened. But companies' claims that they can get by with way fewer people in the age of AI does seem to be true.”Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people? | Seldo.com
- @antirez.bsky.social talks about re-implementing software with LLM agents and goes through GNU and Linux history in context.GNU and the AI reimplementations - <antirez>
- Home page for X402 payments required - developed by Coinbasex402 - Payment Required
- @stevekrouse.com demos using x402 https://bsky.app/profile/stevekrouse.com/post/3mgj3myo4cs22What if you never had to get an API key?
- Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones - Simon Wardley
During this talk we will examine the level of situational awareness within business and why it matters. We will focus in on the transformation in the IT industry, the rise of serverless and the future of conversational programming.
- 2016 article where @swardley.bsky.social describes the evolution of compute to serverless, and the co-evolution of practices. We're 10 years out from thoseWhy the Fuss About Serverless? | HackerNoon
emergent
serverless practices that gave rise to devops. agentic / conversational programming is changing these things again. - What is conversational programming? @swardley.bsky.social points back at his 2016 article Why the fuss about serverless? https://hackernoon.com/why-the-fuss-about-serverless-4370b1596da0 -- this sets up the discussion about how emerging conversational programming aka agentic aka harness engineering will once again emerge practices.Why the fuss about conversational programming?
- Agentic code may in fact not be copyright able / in the public domain. This goes against copyleft licenses “ Copyleft code like the GPL heavily depends on copyrights and friction to enforce it. But because it’s fundamentally in the open, with or without tests, you can trivially rewrite it these days.”AI And The Ship of Theseus
- Write up of adding atproto to Puzzmo https://puzzmo.com, as well as building https://keytrace.dev/ by @orta.ioWrangling atproto + Bluesky for Puzzmo.com
- ATOM: AT Protocol Over MoQ Transport This document specifies how the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol can leverage Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) for efficient data synchronization across decentralized social networks. The AT Protocol's firehose event stream and repository synchronization mechanisms map naturally to MOQT's publish/subscribe model, enabling scalable relay infrastructure, priority-based delivery, and improved resilience for large-scale social data distributionATOM: AT Protocol Over MoQ Transport
- Ed Stone, a web developer and entrepreneur based in Vancouver, BC. I’m the founder of Autotelic, a development agency, and Jig, a flexible e-commerce platform for alternative food networks.Ed Stone - Founder, Entrepreneur, Fractional CTO.
- Ghost uses webmentions to power their recommendations networkRecommendations - Ghost Developer Docs
- CLI tool that ingests Claude Code sessions, generates LLM summaries, and serves a browsable engineering journal By Jesse Vincent @s.lyprime-radiant-inc/engineering-notebook
- we put the Superpowers plugin to the test inside Claude Code to see if it actually enforces proper software development practices into your AI coding workflow. From strict TDD to systematic debugging, this plugin adds hard gates and checkpoints that prevent Claude from skipping steps or guessing implementations like it normally does.This Just Fixed 90% Of AI Coding
- First blog post by @s.ly about his new co Prime Radiant and his work on Superpowers, and the engineering notebookWhat We're Working On | Prime Radiant
- The European Commission is funding the ELFA consortium to build a local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace suite. Core tools include documents, spreadsheets, email, calendar, chat, and video calls.ELFA: Encrypted Local-First Architecture
- IronCalc is a new, modern, work-in-progress spreadsheet engine and set of tools to work with spreadsheets in diverse settings. This repository contains the main engine and the xlsx reader and writer. Programmed in Rust, you will be able to use it from a variety of programming languages like Python, JavaScript (wasm), nodejs and possibly R, Julia or Go.IronCalc
- LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
Use local LLMs like gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma3, DeepSeek and many more, locally on your own hardware.
- LM Link: Access models on your powerful devices you own, as if they were local
We’re excited to announce LM Link, a partnership with LM Studio, the app that makes it easy to download, run, and serve open-weight LLMs on hardware you control. LM Link is the easy and more secure way to share LLMs between devices you control, unexposed to the public Internet.
- AI gateway connected to your Tailscale tailnetsAperture - Your Team's Private AI Gateway | Tailscale
Instead of distributing API keys, users and automated agents authenticate using their existing Tailscale identity. Aperture securely injects provider credentials on their behalf and routes requests to multiple upstream LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, without requiring changes to existing tools or workflows.
- Launch blog post for https://aperture.tailscale.com/Aperture: The fastest path to safer, easier AI deployment
- I have known Scott for a long time, since the Drupal days! He's a great web tinkerer, beer & coffee enjoyer, and is good at mushroom foragingScott Hadfield | Technical Project Management / Security / Development
- @robin.berjon.com presenting at FOSDEM 2026 on WebTileshttps://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2026/aw1126/W8CJXD-dasl.av1.webm
- Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Context Engineering Is Dying. What Comes Next Changes Everything.Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Context Engineering Is Dying. What Comes Next Changes Everything.
Intent Engineering
- saved $60M, but goal was to build life time customer value rather than close tickets quickly.For leaders watching agents run for weeks and soon for months, the question is no longer can AI do this task—it's can AI do this task in a way that serves what we actually need?
@nate.b.jones - Home page for the FediForum UnWorkshop, March 2nd, 2026 See collection https://semble.so/profile/bmann.ca/collections/3mfnglf7x7q2vFediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
- Overview page listing all submissions for FediForum UnWorkshop Will add some annotations / highlights in Margin for those that don't have dedicated posts.FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
- Timothy Bray (@[email protected]): My position paper will be based on this blog piece:Time to Migrate
- Norm MacLennan (@nromdotcom.cloud): …The main thrust of mine, is: The Open Social Web’s main value propositions are too hypothetical or intangible for most users. Tangible and differentiating value is the only main path to growth…Growing the Open Social Web
- Newsmast position paper for FediForum UnWorkshophttps://www.newsmastfoundation.org/app/uploads/2026/01/FediForum-Growing-the-OSW-Position-Paper.pdf
We firmly believe that more people, organisations, and communities should be using the OSW to rebuild their digital community. Alongside working on advocacy and with our partners, our Foundation is taking direct action. After joining the OSW in 2023, we encountered the barriers first-hand. To succeed, the OSW needed to address these barriers. We, as a UK charity trying to bring people to this space, needed to address these barriers.
- Richard Reisman (@rreisman.bsky.social) position paper for FediForum UnWorkshopFraming to Grow the Open Social Web and Serve Democratic Freedoms – Position Paper / Richard Reisman
There is need for a “big-tent” alliance to synergize current efforts in social media protocol ecosystems (including ActivityPub, ATproto, DSNP, and others) – and to broaden the scope of those ecosystems to include all three of these pillars – to build on the first,
- Momentos: A Decentralized Modular Start Page
Momentos is a decentralized modular start page that gives users full control over the interface they see whenever they open their browser or device. Unlike traditional start pages curated by browsers or centralized platforms, Momentos enables users to compose a personalized dashboard using self-contained modules. At its core is a configurable search bar that can switch seamlessly between multiple engines and social platforms
- for FediForum UnWorkshop Link is to GDocs Whitepaper - Growing the open social web
There are billions of people who are not well served by the existing social web, particularly in global majority countries. Open social web protocols have the potential to allow them to not just build communities that better address their needs, with features and cultural assumptions that veer far from US and European norms, but to own them
- @laurenshof.online on what a Discord replacement looks like Submitted to Fediforum UnWorkshopFR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?
- Manton submission to Fediforum UnWorkshop -Manton Reece - Email to SWICG about handles
we should move away from email-like user handles on the fediverse.
- Evan's submission to FediForum UnWorkshop as Social Web FoundationGrowing the Social Web
- PDF position paper for Fediforum March 2026 Public Broadcasters Are Going Federated — and We're Betting on Both Protocols Robert Amlung & Marius Scheffel Seven public broadcasters — from Germany, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and Australia — are building a shared platform for constructive public dialogue called the Public Spaces Incubator. Our guiding principle is Civility by Design: -> Launch March 2027, plan to federate to AP and ATprotohttps://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/Amlung-Scheffel.pdf
- Jaz-Michael King, IFTAS, toot.walesThere is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses.
I don’t want to grow “the fediverse”, because there is no single “the” fediverse. I want to help humanity step out of walled-in, private platforms and onto the open social web – a web where everyone can exercise their rights to free expression, free association, and just as importantly, the right to choose who they associate with.
- A future scenario exploring what broad AI usage leads to in 2028. “Hopefully, reading this leaves you more prepared for potential left tail risks as AI makes the economy increasingly weird.”THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
- Bluesky PDS recipe on Co-Op Cloudbluesky-pds
- Fluxed chat app launch post - 22 year old in Sweden building it for 5 yearsHow I built Fluxer, a Discord-like chat app
- Decentralized Social Networking Protocol - blockchain based, funded by Frank McCourt through Project LibertyDSNP - Decentralized Social Networking Protocol
- Advisors are governance people not builders “ DSNP is managed by Project Liberty and advised by a group of experts with long and deep history in Internet protocol and governance development. This team of expert advisors has done foundational work across protocol development, data privacy, and in developing the technology governance models the Internet relies on today”DSNP - Advisors
- Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social writes about vibe coding / using AI to build software (and a bit about the economics) for a general audience in the NYTOpinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
- Mastodon community director Hannah Aubry announces a help center, new server onboarding, and moving their private chat from Discord to Zulip.Mastodon is for the people
- People, Protocols and AI: Power and Governance in Open Social Networks y Ivan Sigal, Jessica Theodule, Joshua Tan, Sarah Nicole, and Mallory Knodel Open social protocols promise to deliver user agency. As they become more widely adopted, users experience different and new tradeoffs in the technical, economic, and governance aspects of open, federated architectures such as DSNP, ActivityPub, and AT Protocol, in comparison to the walled-garden platforms of a handful of big tech companies.Briefing_Building a New Social Web-20260218.pdf
- Why we're staying on Discord
We’re staying on Discord because there is nowhere else to go without losing accessbility of our community.
- Announcement from Matrix about age verification and their home server. They are also planning to implement account portability.Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
- A list of Discord alternatives, Stoat being marked as most promising.Garden | The Paper Pilot
- @dholms.at first post writing up why not E2EE for Permissioned dataPermissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt - Daniel's Leaflets
- Tooling to make it easier to install any dockerized software to CloudronCustomAppGateway
- @robin.berjon.com’s spec for composable mini web apps It’s a super set or maybe a side step of Lexicon Embeds, as there are some things we can do with the extended structure in lexicons.Web Tiles
- Phil Jones' Mastodon accountinterstar (@[email protected])
- Eugen announces that Mastodon is moving their internal chat to Zulip, and will look at doing the same for their Patreon supportersEugen Rochko (@[email protected])
- Running instance of Cardigan Bay, Phil Jones' wikiCardigan Bay Wiki :: AboutThisWiki
- 2012 Spime Script description by Wardley, pointing back at 2006 EuroOscon. Highlights in Margin AT - really need these collected in Semble.In search of Spime Script ...
- Post by @rahaeli.bsky.social quoting the Verge story about Discord and requiring face scans / ID verification for age verification. Read rest of thread - Discord is part of Netchoice and doesn't want to do this (just like Bluesky doesn't)rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social)
- @bruces.bsky.social on Bluesky#BruceSterling (@bruces.bsky.social)
- Bruce Sterling's Medium blogBruce Sterling – Medium
- an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.Bruce Sterling
- WikipediaSpime
Spime is a neologism for a futuristic object, characteristic to the Internet of Things, that can be tracked through space and time throughout its lifetime. They are essentially virtual master objects that can, at various times, have physical incarnations of themselves. An object can be considered a spime when all of its essential information is stored in the cloud. Bruce Sterling sees spimes as coming through the convergence of six emerging technologies
- Clojure / ClojureScript wiki / blog engine written by Phil Jones Single user wiki, pages are made up of cards/blocks Great snippets of intent on the readmeinterstar/cardigan-bay
- Phil Jones home pageSynaesmedia
- February 23, 2007 blog post by Simon WardleySpime Script?
- Simon Wardley on LinkedIn, where he is posting most often these days (as of 2025/26)Simon Wardley - United Kingdom | LinkedIn
- Feel the ATmosphere: it's ‘95 all over again
- AHOY! https://ahoy.eu page captured in Wayback Machine on the day of the conference, April 24th, 2025AHOY! European Social Web Day 2025
- A review and ranking of Discord alternatives - Rocket Chat, Signal, Matrix, Discourse, Zulip, Mattermost, Stoat (formerly Revolt)Discord Alternatives, Ranked
- As people look around for other chat platforms to use or build, this write up outlines certain features 1) Federation is a misfeature for hosted platforms 2) End to end encryption is another misfeature for public channels 3) Voice chats are a space, not an eventA few design decisions for a new chat platform
- Talking again about how steady improvement of steam engines lead to a dramatic & fast replacement of horses once an equivalence threshold had passed, and how this is likely to happen in certain fields for AI.Horses
- https://bsky.app/profile/norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com/post/3mef7knxaac22 Yes there is good writing on LinkedIn - posts by Wardley, Adam Jacob’s, and Bruce Perens on AI “ This is the fundamental nature of complex technologies: our knowledge of these systems will always be partial, at best. Yes, AI will make this situation worse. But it’s a situation that we’ve been in for a long time.”Nobody knows how the whole system works
- via https://bsky.app/profile/escorciav.bsky.social/post/3meeo7vuv6s2n Three timelines and narratives for AGIGod_Gold_and_GPUs.pdf
- @ngerakines.me blog write up of records that have partially permissioned data fieldsATProtocol Record Hydration: Building Privacy-Aware Views
- Prediction / Analysis by Simon Wardley about current and emerging practices of organizations - pointing towards more Networked OrgsHow organisations are changing.
- Nolan Lawson writes about the (potential / upcoming) end of hand coded software.https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
- Yegge talks about the culture at Anthropic, and compares it withThe Anthropic Hive Mind
Golden Ages
at Amazon and GoogleBut I am starting to suspect they feel genuinely sorry for a lot of companies. Because we’re not taking this stuff seriously enough. 2026 is going to be a year that just about breaks a lot of companies, and many don’t see it coming. Anthropic is trying to warn everyone, and it’s like yelling about an offshore earthquake to villages that haven’t seen a tidal wave in a century.
- Verifiable browser codeIntroducing WEBCAT: Web-based Code Assurance and Transparency
WEBCAT allows for a transparent, independently verifiable signing, verification, and update process, and ensures that the enrollment process itself can’t be abused. The project uses Sigstore, Sigsum, and The Update Framework, among other components; details are below.
- An improvement over native git worktree, git-wtIntroducing git-wt: Worktrees Simplified
- A thread in the forum talking about Lexicon EmbedsLexicon Embeds Overview
- Ghostty is moving to a “vouch” (and “denounce”) system of approving contributors to their codebase. via @calabro.io https://bsky.app/profile/calabro.io/post/3me2mhj6qxs2xIntroduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by mitchellh · Pull Request #10559 · ghostty-org/ghostty
- “ the promise is simple: you can sign into many apps with one account, and your identity is still you everywhere you go. This is why the Atmosphere isn’t an “everything app.” It’s an everything ecosystem” by @joebasser.comThe Last Social Account You'll Ever Need. - Interlinked
- “ Hypercontext is a knowledge skill for Claude Code. Invoke /hypercontext and the agent introspects — threads, files, tools, remaining context — and renders a spatial ASCII map.”hypercontext — spatial context awareness
- Spec driven development for multi agent - kanban interface, python By Rob DouglassPriivacy-ai/spec-kitty
- iOS app for Phanpy, a really great Mastodon clientiPhanpy for Mastodon App - App Store
- A write up about Pi, a coding agent that OpenClaw is built on https://github.com/badlogic/pi-monoPi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
- “ Run a team of coding agents on your Mac. Create parallel Codex + Claude Code agents in isolated workspaces.” via @ngerakines.me https://bsky.app/profile/ngerakines.me/post/3mdqaovzmxk2gConductor - Run a team of coding agents on your Mac
- A summary of podcast advertising and platform shift. YouTube and Spotify is numbers are climbing (capture), and advertising is climbing to 10%+ of show time. Listeners leave with high ad times.The $2.43 Billion Question: Podcast Advertising in 2024
- An excellent overview of ATProto, focused on walking through the protocol from scratchIntroduction to AT Protocol
- Shelley is a mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-conversation, multi-modal, multi-model, single-user coding agent built for but not exclusive to exe.dev. It does not come with authorization or sandboxing: bring your own. is the agent that runs inside exe.dev GitHub https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley “ Shelley is a mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-conversation, multi-modal, multi-model, single-user coding agent built for but not exclusive to exe.dev.”Goodbye Sketch, Hello Shelley! - exe.dev blog
- NYC based robotics companyFauna Robotics | Capable, Safe, Fun Robots for Everyone
We believe the future of robotics has to be useful and delightful: in homes, classrooms, and everyday human spaces But that future won’t arrive until far more developers can build for robotics quickly, safely, and in the real world without needing to reinvent the fundamentals each time
Sprout Creator Edition is first version https://faunarobotics.com/product - Walks through smaller ATProto instances, including costs of following globally, plus this network index explanation “ they're not trying to make the equivalent of a separate Mastodon server. They're trying to make the equivalent of a separate deployment of every Mastodon instance at once. They're meant to be global, full-network views of all forty million ATproto accounts that are fully independent of Bluesky. There is no cheap way to do that without making significant sacrifices to UX”How small can ATproto get, really? - Unfolding Diagrams
- Kickstarter for Mecha CometMecha Comet - Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
- “The Mecha Comet is a re-imagined portable computer that gives you the flexibility in hardware and software both, for your usecase. It all started with us wanting to build a small computer that we could easily program, deploy and manage remotely.“Introducing the all new Mecha Comet, live on Kickstarter
- Local first chat app, built on custom sync engine. $120/year for 10 members, $400/year for up to 20 membersDock — Team chat that doesn't suck
Dock is team chat built for startups and companies who want simplicity over feature bloat. We focus on what matters: fast messaging, async-first workflows, unlimited search, and decision tracking. No AI tax, no 90-day message limits, no enterprise upsells.
- via Bertletoram/arcan
Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything from user interfaces for specialized embedded applications all the way to full-blown standalone desktop environments. At its heart lies a robust and portable multimedia engine, with a well-tested and well-documented Lua scripting interface. The development emphasizes security, debuggability and performance -- guided by a principle of least surprise in terms of API design.
- Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems
I posit there are
4 P'sneeded for any collective knowledge system to be robust and accurate: permanence, provenance, permission and placement. If these properties exist throughout our knowledge graph, we can make robust networks for rapid evidence-based decision making. They also form a dam against the wave of agentic AI that is going to dominate the Internet next year in a big way.
Also connected to ARIA - Chat with GPT-5, Claude, Llama, and more — or download local MLX models from Hugging Face. Supercharge Cursor with powerful tools. Automate your browser, files, and git. Open source and built for Mac.Osaurus — All your AI. One app.
- Recording / translation / transcription, open source tool by Monadical - Initially a simple NLP program for keyword detection, it has evolved into a robust speech-to-text (STT) translation tool with advanced capabilities.Reflector: Elevate Communication with Our Real-Time Translation Tool
- Pretty simple announcement of raising $100M series B.Railway raises $100M Series B to unburden the builders
Intelligent
cloud provider, and agents mentioned. - On JSON winning because of dev preferences, and how XML is good actually via @anthonyfloyd.caThe lost art of XML — mmagueta
- “ Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.” - by @steipete.meClawdbot — Personal AI Assistant
- Funding for open source that isn’t VC. Mentions for protocol first building, shout out to ATproto, and also points at protocol first commerce for the web.The Missing Middle of Open Source
- brogue is a modified and updated classic roguelike MacOS, Windows, and Linux releases on github https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE Recommended via @hyl.stBrogue
- @maggieappleton.com writing about Yegge’s Gas Town AI agent coding system. “ We should take Yegge’s creation seriously not because it’s a serious, working tool for today’s developers (it isn’t). But because it’s a good piece of speculative design fiction that asks provocative questions and reveals the shape of constraints we’ll face as agentic coding systems mature and grow.”Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
- We can choose to keep using walled garden platforms and sending our data to massive companies, or we can choose a smaller web that actually puts the power back in our hands. With enough people making the same decisions to support protocols like this, we can change the course of the web for good.AT Protocol Primer
- via Campbell MThe Death of Software Development
- By @danabra.mov “Formats over apps” https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3mcoktonamk2mA Social Filesystem — overreacted
- “This site was built to share and revel in each others’ personal sites, and is currently home to ~812 of them. Witness these in wonderment and awe. Immaculate. Stunning. How did they do that? Yes, you should definitely get around to redesigning yours soon.” Built by @bell.bzPersonalSit.es | Yes we got hot and fresh sites
- Git repo and instructions on how to add your own site to https://personalsit.es/ Would be good to figure out how to @standard.site these allxdesro/personalsit.es
- Working with Cosmik Network “Discourse Graphs are an information model that enables everyone to map their ideas and arguments in a modular, composable graph format. Discourse Graphs allow researchers to break the scientific research process into its atomic elements in a way that can be shared, remixed, and updated.”Discourse Graphs
- “ The debate about LLMs will span a generation, but the debate about LLM utility was decisively settled by the latter half of of 2025. What remains is a sort of tedious eventual consistency problem as consensus diffuses through the medium of millions of technology professionals.”The year everything changed
- Rust wrapper for tap backfill / AppView builder “ I've published the first version of tapped, a Rust library to help build ATProto appviews that need to consume the firehose and backfill existing data from PDSes”tapped: a Rust crate for building ATProto appviews with tap
- Small e-book reader that can magnetically clip to the back of a phoneXteink X4
- A taxonomy for open source software 6 facets, here’s an example for a web framework like Django might be classified as: Domain: web-development, api-development Role: framework, library Technology: python, docker Audience: developer, enterprise Layer: backend, full-stack Function: authentication, database-management, routing The taxonomy also integrates with CodeMeta, a metadata standard for software that extends schema.org. CodeMeta has a keywords field, and you can use namespaced keywordsA Taxonomy for Open Source Software
- X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem
You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’ by having better moderation policies or algorithmic choice. X is not a platform problem anymore, it is a power problem, and building a different platform does not solve the power problem.
- Feb 2025 academic / OCaml etc related usage of ATprotoUsing AT Proto for more than just Bluesky posts
- @pvh.ca on the @devtools.fm podcast. Peter introduces himself and his path to being director of Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com, and dives into Local First, Automerge, and CRDTsPeter van Hardenberg - Ink and Switch, Automerge
- Currently brew install to analyze Markdown, with Obsidian specifically supported. UsesHome | Enzyme
US hosted AI providers
Similar to Tiles https://semble.so/url?id=https://www.tiles.run/Enzyme works with markdown. Plain text files that outlast any tool. Your corpus is your career; it should survive any platform shift. Tools like Obsidian make it easy to capture, organize, and sync. Readwise exports your highlights. Your thinking stays yours—no database, no lock-in.
- Being built by @feynon / User & Agents. Has Obsidian as a specifically supported thing. I funded several months of work on this.Tiles
- Google Design on malleable software related topics “ > How do you build trust in a tool that’s always evolving? Our AI assistant, Gemini, is constantly learning and adapting, which means traditional design methodologies (mostly linear, predictable, and rooted in control) have to be set aside.”Gemini AI Visual Design - Google Design
- Community git pages clone “ a service that publishes the pages branch in your Git repository as a website on your domain; think GitHub Pages if it was open source and community operated. More specifically, it is a public deployment of git-pages and Caddy configured to work especially with Codeberg but also with other Git forges. It is operated by Catherine 'whitequark' and teammates.”Grebedoc
- I ended up installing this in Crossover.PosChengband
PosChengband attempts a merger Chengband with ideas from Posband and RePosBand. However, many of the features, races and classes of Chengband have been extensively modified and quite a few of the new Chengband classes have been redesigned from scratch. So it seemed like a completely new variant was in order.
- Nick is the author https://bsky.app/profile/nsrnicek.bsky.social Recommended by @orionreed.comhttps://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=silicon-empires-the-fight-for-the-future-of-ai--9781509550487
- Dries writes about the Tailwind issue and points out thatAI is a business model stress test
open source
is never the business modelOpen Source was never the commercial product. It's the conduit to something else.
Value is shifting to operations: deployment, testing, rollbacks, observability.
I don't agree with operations (cloud hosting) being the only value vector. - via @orionreed.com Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be aLoper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die
bicycle for the mind.
But what he really sold us was a (fairly comfortable) train for the mind. A train which goes only where rails have been laid down, like any train, and can travel elsewhere only after rivers of sweat pour forth from armies of laborers. (Preferably in Cupertino.) The Apple of Steve Jobs needed HyperCard-like products like the Monsanto Company needs a $100 home genetic-engineering set - “ I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge. LLMs are going to help us to write better software, faster, and will allow small teams to have a chance to compete with bigger companies. The same thing open source software did in the 90s.”Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
- 2026 funding for Frontier AI LabsHome – Next Frontier AI
A pan-European initiative led by SPRIND – the German Federal agency for breakthrough innovation. Think of it as a government-backed VC with the freedom to take real risks.
- Tendermint / CometBFT implementation of the PLC Directorygbl08ma.com/didplcbft
- Moxie Marlinspike's Confer uses Passkeys as the basis for encryption.Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in
If we have a persistent, biometrically-protected, cross-device key, what if we could use it to do arbitrary cryptography rather than just authentication? As it turns out, we can. The WebAuthn PRF extension https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/wiki/Explainer:-PRF-extension – while still relatively new – is now beginning to see fairly wide support
- Next post in Moxie Marlinspike's ConferPrivate inference
we run inference inside a confidential VM. Your prompts are encrypted from your device directly into the TEE using Noise Pipes, processed there, and responses are encrypted back. The host never sees plaintext.
Also remote attestation, nix, reproduceability, transparency log - “ I didn't have to liaise with anyone or use any special software to participate in publishing new records. I just had to follow the schema and ship it off to my own PDS, and it's live.” Implementing Standard.Site in a static blog.This blog is on ATProto
- Sci-fi recommended by @eaton.fyi https://bsky.app/profile/eaton.fyi/post/3mblblcy6us2vSlow Gods
- Single user PDS built on Cloudflare WorkersGitHub - ascorbic/cirrus: A single-user ATProto PDS that runs on a Cloudflare Worker
- New open source chat app that is vaguely Slack / Discord / Teams shaped. “Chatto is designed both to be a chat application, but also a chat platform. It comes with not one, but two APIs that can be used to extend its functionality:”Introducing Chatto
- Write up on prompt caching that explains how LLMs work, specifically tokenizing and embedding and then handing that to the transformer.Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog
- Bruce Sterling @bruces.bsky.social “State of the World” 2025. There should be a 2026 version soon. These run for 2 weeks.The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
- MacOS / iOS app for local first AI transcription via @rekmarks.com https://bsky.app/profile/rekmarks.com/post/3mbasxnawbc2gVoiceInk - Advanced AI Voice Recognition for Mac
- McLuhan as Liberator of the Technologically Determined
Yet, also, my job as a writer is to explain, not to condescend. So, in order to put a guy like McLuhan in a box with a useful description, I need the biggest box the popular science world has. Only cybernetics and systems theory—the most general sciences yet contrived, the very sciences of generality itself—are big enough to hold him while still answering the question to any satisfaction. And McLuhan was himself an applied cyberneticist…
- “ propose DMLS: a specification and implementation – based on work by Alwen et al. – to solve issues with forward secrecy”Making MLS more decentralized
- “The core idea is that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as your conversations with a person. Not because you’re doing something wrong, but because privacy is what lets you think freely.” Moxie Marlinspike, Confessions to a data lake, announcing his new company ConferConfessions to a data lake
- Guide for a-shell, an iOS terminal emulatorAbout the book | A guide to a-Shell
- Seen via https://commaok.xyz/ai/just-in-time-software/ exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc. With built-in optional authentication, so you can focus on your thing. Your VMs share CPU/RAM. Create as many VMs as you like with the resources you have.https://exe.dev/
- Lots of great quotes in here. Uses exe.dev to do apps on the fly by dictating from your phone to an LLM. Not enough examples of building apps from your phone - this is real for larger user market. Is just in time software the same Malleable Software?Just in time software
- Turkey recipe with a chestnut sausage stuffing.Rezept: Truthahn mit Bergeller Marroni-Füllung, Fabrizio Zanetti | GaultMillau
- @wesleyfinck.org writes up two approaches to interop on ATProto apps without using the same Lexicon - one is converting similar shaped records, the other is showing activity from these other records. Includes mockups in Semble.Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes
- via @jackrusher.comThe world is not a desktop | Interactions
- Documentation for Quickslice Quickslice is a quick way to spin up an AppView for AT Protocol applications. Import your Lexicon schemas and you get a GraphQL API with OAuth authentication, real-time sync from the network, and joins across record types without setting up a database or writing any backend code.quickslice - Introduction
- Author relicensed to Fair Source, urges DHH to do the same.Reconsider
- Chad Whitacre digs into the backround on the spread of the term “open source” — founding of the OSI does appear to wide spread usage.Something Big Happened in 1998
- Blog by @chadfowler.com - The Phoenix Architecture Generative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicitThe Phoenix Architecture
- @chadfowler.com first post on his new blog, on Regenerative Software. I'm going to say that this maps to what I've been calling malleable software.Regenerative Software - The Phoenix Architecture
- A list of 2025 Calm Tech certified products Alarm Clocks Digital Signage Picture Frames Mindfulness and Meditation Notebook/Productivity Mobile Phone Home AudioThe Complete Calm Tech Certified™ Product List for 2025
- Founded by Amber Case @case.bsky.social Launched in May 2024, Calm Tech Institute is dedicated to redefining technologies that enhance human life without causing stress or distraction. Denver, Colorado + Learning Lab in Kyoto, JapanHome | Calm Tech Institute - Harmonious Design Principles
- Principles of Calm Technology 1. Require the smallest possible amount of attention 2. Inform and create calm 3. Make use of the periphery 4. Amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity 5. Communicate, but not always with voice 6. Work even when it fails 7. Use the minimum tech needed to solve the problem 8. Respect social normsABOUT | Calm Tech Institute
- Kent Beck @kentbeck.com writes about how LLMs paired with hiring junior software devs may be a better bet.The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better
- Write up by a maintainer of Kaneo, a self hosted kanban board, about the process of maintaining OSS. Automation, docs, and community engagement “the community is the product - the code matters, but the people matter more. invest in both.”What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project
- A look back at “horse jobs” and how they got replaced by engines. An analogy to human labour and AI / automation / robotics via @case.bsky.socialNo Jobs for Horses
- The 2025 Malleable Software essay by Ink & SwitchMalleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
- Response to Lee Robinson moving Cursor.com off of SanityIO https://leerob.com/agents “When your coding agent can grep your codebase but can't query your CMS, that's a real problem. Lee felt this friction and responded to it. (We did too, and the new very capable MCP server is out).”“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity
- Write up of migrating cursor.com website off the Sanity headless CMS to everything being agent driven. Response from SanityIO https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms via @monkchips.com https://bsky.app/profile/monkchips.com/post/3m7zurfibjk23Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets
- Presentation by @jenson.org on desktop UX to Ubuntu and “what is UX” especially in terms open source.Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
- Agents Will Kill Your Ul by 2026--Unless You Build This Instead
- “Head of IRL” where the hottest new thing is events and conferences ;) sent to me by Ryan @depatchedmode.bsky.social who said “this is you!”Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X
- On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.” And “Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”Pickling Compute
- Next gen OS / AI / interfacesTelepath
- Betaworks pitch video for Telepath and public launch blog post “ building a new kind of computer”Telepath: building a new kind of computer
- Publicly available docs from Oxide on how LLM usage is expected in different contexts at the company.576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide
- Recommended venue in Berlin via @jackrusher.comVermietung - Heimathafen Neukölln
- Tagline: A new fabric for computing Founded by @komorama.bsky.social and Bernard Seefeldcommon.tools
- Lots of great quotable quotes in this write up by Ben @bf.wtf (worked w/ Gordon Brander) on LLMs and control and modeling of info for the user.Dialogical Design - shimmeringvoid
- “ But I remain convinced that there is no future of verification and contextualization that doesn’t involve both better understanding of LLMs and more efficacious use of them. The three simple suggestions here — don’t prematurely dismiss errors as hallucinations, do use LLMs to surface the “unknown unknowns”, and do pay for the better models — are all pleas to engage more fully with this tech, and develop better (and more up-to-date) understandings of what they do well and what they do poorly…We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.
- Collective building next gen mobile OS stack. Tracking at Modal OS collection Berlin centric See intro blog post for more https://semble.so/url?id=https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal/Modal Collective
- Workbench is not a distribution—it’s an ideal host for containers and packages from open source and commercial repositories. Users with root can add packages from the Fedora project. Tools like distrobox make it easy to use software from any other distribution. And if you’re switching from Cupertino, just brew install as usual.Caligra is a new computer company.
- Linux hardware designed to go with Caligra Linux distro Workbench https://caligra.com/workbench/Caligra is a new computer company.
- Surrey based Indian street food Recommended by @hyl.stBest Indian Street Food Restaurant | Apna Chaat
- Railway for sale on AWSAWS Marketplace: Railway
- Intro post to the goals of Modal OS - to point out that various open source services and software Specifically points to local first sync as one of the underlying needs. via Jack RusherWhat is Modal - Modal Collective
- A manifesto f I see this as mostly malleable software, with some additional idealism / ideology.The Resonant Computing Manifesto
- Cantrill points out that letting AI (LLMs) write for you on LinkedIn looks bad on you.Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
- Railway’s evolution of Buildpacks to Nixpacks and now Railpack. Creates container images for you based on your codebase. “Zero-config application builder that automatically analyzes your code and turns it into an image”Railpack
- Various complaints / bugs on the current state of Matrix servers and clients. TLDR it’s not great.Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
- Dan Abramov Sept 2025 description of ATProtoOpen Social — overreacted
- Articles compiled about why you should leave SubstackYou Should Probably Leave Substack
- Jaggedness is the uneven success rate of AI models being able to complete tasks on the frontier that appear similarly hard to humans.Taking Jaggedness Seriously
- Anatomy of a Franco-German tech misfire
The Germans came on board with the idea to create data sovereignty, by shielding the data of their citizens and industries from foreign snooping and legal control, he said, adding: “Atlanticist as they may be, they were totally fine with the idea of depending on Microsoft.”
- “ Encrypted messaging, like @signalapp , is critical for preserving our digital privacy. Two important next steps for the space are (i) permissionless account creation and (ii) metadata privacy.” Vitalik donated 128 ETH to Session and Simplex Chat. https://getsession.org https://simplex.chatvitalik.eth on Twitter / X
- “ Founded by John Cote and Barb Stefanyshyn-Cote, Black Fox is the antithesis of Canada’s historic whiskey giants. As fifth-generation farmers, they grow 95% of their own grains, control every step “from crop to connoisseur,” and age their whiskey outdoors in the wild prairie climate - making weather a deliberate ingredient in maturation. This raw, elemental approach produces whiskeys unlike any other. ”Black Fox Farm & Distillery wins IWSC 2025 Worldwide Whiskey Producer Trophy
- “ Stonking News monitors the Bluesky firehose in real-time, tracking all link posts, including World News, Regional News, and Gift Articles. We score each link post using a proprietary weighted algorithm that ensures the most popular, and freshly trending content is always picked up. Our companion app https://search.stonking.com enables searching of all links that we've scored.” From about page https://news.stonking.com/aboutStonking News
- A Web2 era bookmarking service that I used at one time. They've added AI and seem to be still around. I swear they had a visualPearltrees
pearl
in hierarchical trees interface at one point, but can't find it in current project. - Announcement of new leadership team at Mastodon, new Belgian based non profit, and large funding announcements.The Future is Ours to Build - Together
- A write up of the history of sex workers / NSFW content on Bluesky by beeA Note from Bee (Lore Drop) - Babesky Blog
- Sill is an app that aggregates links shown in your social media accounts. You connect your Mastodon and/or Bluesky apps and it scans and aggregates all links. Has support for community bookmarks lexicon to save to your PDS.Sill
- This is a HackMD article trying to make the case for using it alongside of Obsidian. They talk about using Dropbox or GDrive or “custom scripts” to keep the two in sync. HackMD supporting wiki links and making a plugin for Obsidian is what really taking advantage of the two would look like.HackMD & Obsidian: The ultimate markdown workflow - HackMD
- Twitter turned on a new feature of where accounts are based. This story covers that many right wing, US popular accounts are actually based around in the world - Eastern Europe, Japan, Turkey etcInternet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
- I call this Groupcore concept NetworkedOrgs It also continues to bug me that Yancy uses Dark Forest for what I label Cozy Web (closed groups)Defining groupcore
- New York “subway takes” with a woman who is a stand up comedian who talks about getting off FB and IG, but there is nowhere to move to via Ivan SigalWe need to start talking about how we're gonna get off Instagram and Meta!! Ft. Maddy Kelly
- EXO works with Mac Studio’s maxed memory plus the DGX Spark for raw compute to get local clustered AICombining NVIDIA DGX Spark + Apple Mac Studio for 4x Faster LLM Inference with EXO 1.0
- Anti-corporate music scene calendar from Vancouver.Vancouver DIY Events
- April 2019 original Local First essay by Ink and Switch 1. No spinners: your work at your fingertips 2. Your work is not trapped on one device 3. The network is optional 4. Seamless collaboration with your colleagues 5. The Long Now 6. Security and privacy by default 7. You retain ultimate ownership and controlLocal-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
- Video interview with Anuj and Ryan from A New SocialEpisode 56 - A New Social - Anuj & Ryan - Livestream 2025-11-14
- Video of CTO of Bluesky does an ATProto protocol overview with dev rel Jim Ray on a whiteboardSqueeky Board with Paul and Jim
- Matthew Lowry talks about defining digital sovereignty in context of next week’s EuroSky Live that I’ll be talking at. “ huge diversity with protocol-guaranteed interoperability”Building resilient social media
- Adam Wiggins talk on idealism vs pragmatismLocal-first software: pragmatism vs idealism
- CRDT in the context of the Zed editor. Mentions Engelbart and the mother of all demos.How CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed's DNA
- August 2025 announcement of Sequoia leading Zed’s next round and also announcing DeltaDB, CRDT powered versioningSequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
- Zed IDE is moving their cloud infrastructure to Cloudflare Workers and Wasm. This talks about how they are writing internal code to abstract and test over external platforms like CFHead in the Zed Cloud
- A review of current and next gen frameworks for mobile web - focused on bundle sizes.I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance | Loren Stewart
- Taiwanese restaurant - beef noodle soup with noodles Seen on Locals Welcomehttps://memorycorner8.com/menu
- Hong Kong Cantonese style dim sum Seen via Locals WelcomeDim sum | British Columbia | Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant
- Chinese seafood restaurant - will also cook seafood you bring in Seen on Locals Welcome showThe Fish Man Restaurant
- Part of Microcosm, UFOs is Fig’s tracker of lexicons, collections, and records🛸 UFOs: Explore atproto lexicons
- Seen on Locals WelcomeKerala Curry House – Restaurant
- del.icio.us was the original social bookmarking site. Technically that URL is still live, but this is a more useful description about the historyDelicious (website)
- Amazing Indian lunch in Montreal with Wesley and Ronen. The chaat was especially great!Rendez-vous-bistro & mixology | Montreal, QC, Canada
- Restaurant I went to with Nick and Wesley on our first night in Montreal.Au Pied de Cochon Restaurant
- Workflow automation that isIFTTA - If This Then AT:// | Workflow Automation for ATProto
ATProto native
, but also has hooks into Zapier so can tie into a huge world of things. Got initial hacked together at the ATProto_NYC event by Nick Gerakines and Devin Gaffney (Graze). - ATProto powered social app built and hosted in CanadaGander: The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada
- The canonical Github thread talking about what a PDS implementation needs ATProto Wiki version: https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/reference/community/implementations/pds-implementations/requirements List of implementations: https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/pds/pds-implementationsWhat does a PDS implementation entail? · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #2350
- Seen via Sebastian https://bsky.app/profile/seabass.bsky.social/post/3m52q62zwoc3oProject Proposal - Social-PETs.EU | Notion
- “ Radiant proposes an alternative vision for computing. It doesn't ship with a web browser; it has its own network reminiscent of the early Internet: no social media, no scripts, no trackers. It's a from-scratch system that doesn't retrace the footsteps of the contemporary OS.” New open hardware RISC-V and open OS. built by @cloudhead.io, follow @radiant.computerRadiant Computer
- Apple iOS shortcut for opening SembleShortcuts
- An ATProto PDS network map - based on IP address, looks up location of a PDS and attempts to place it on a map.ATProto PDS Network Map
- CRA-style tool for creating new gpui appsGitHub - zed-industries/create-gpui-app: CRA-style tool for creating new gpui apps
- Zed's Rust UI framework that they use to build Zed, but also available as open source for others to build ongpui
GPUI is a hybrid immediate and retained mode, GPU accelerated, UI framework for Rust, designed to support a wide variety of applications.
- What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?
Ultimately, all AI implicates human cognition; no matter what. Obfuscation of cognition in the AI context -- from clocks to artificial neural networks -- results in distortion, in slowing critical engagement, perverting cognitive science, and indeed in limiting our ability to truly centre humans and humanity in the engineering of AI systems. To even begin to de-fetishise AI, we must look the human-in-the-loop in the eyes.
- The concept was invented by Karl Schroeder in his novel Ventus (2000) and has been adopted by some members of the artificial intelligence community to describe the self-organizing properties of fine-grained distributed networks. The novel states that the word was deliberately chosen as an allusion tothalience
silent Thalia
, the muse of Nature. Entities are considered to exhibit thalience if they succeed in developing their own categories for understanding the world. - Paul Rony at @causalislands.com Berlin Computers were designed and invented for groups (The Alto at the PARC were linked by an ethernet local network, the NLS was an on-line collaborative system, etc). As micro-computers got out of the lab and onto the desks of people they became tools for individuals and lost most of their collaborative aspects. While somewhat restored by the web, collaboration is not core to the computing experience. How can we design computers for groups?From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us, Paul Rony
- via Gordon https://bsky.app/profile/gordon.bsky.social/post/3m4k5wntd322q Great article. I put the chances of a productive bubble higher simply because I always bet on Perez. This one feels extremely Perezian… bubble in the sense of railroad mania or the telecom bubble.AI is probably not a bubble
- Lycan - A tool by Mackuba for archiving and searching all of the posts on bsky you’ve liked.Kuba's Journal - Launching Lycan - a search tool for your likes
- “ The only antidote to this ‘platformization’ is Open Science and decentralization. Infrastructure we rely on must be built in the open and on interoperable standards, and hostile to corporate (or governmental) takeovers. Universities and the science community are well situated to lead this fight. As we’ve seen in EFF’s TOR University Challenge, promoting access to knowledge and public interest infrastructure is aligned with the core values of higher education. ”Science Must Decentralize
- Sync, search, and backup shell history with AtuinAtuin - Shell History & Executable Runbooks
- tracking dotfiles as a git repo – but taken to its extreme where the entire root filesystem is trackable. Importantly, Any file on the machine can be added to the dotfiles repo via @alper.nl https://bsky.app/profile/alper.nl/post/3m42iqljm4226Dotfiles Management - mitxela.com
- Source available non-commercial who got bullied into going MIT “ I'm managing the project the way I want to manage it. Quiet remains my creative outlet, and I'm neither obligated nor interested in building an open source community around it. Sorry, but I'm not solving everyone's problems for free anymore.”Quiet UI is Now Open Source
- “ I’m sympathetic at a cellular level to the complaints of the communities who want and need safer places to be together. …we need the big-world layers to connect safer places together. I think the Bluesky crew and the broader AT Proto developer community—and fediverse folks I link to in the piece—are all doing work that is genuinely essential for the survival of open and democratic societies”Clouded Skies for Open Networks
- Documentation and specification for AT Protocol, affectionately known as ATProtoAT Protocol
- Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press
There’s civil society work to be done helping people in new networks understand the new risks they face as they escape closed and increasingly unlivable megaplatforms. ... Institutions and communities under attack should publish informed guidance for their members on the risks of open networks, and the best way to use open networks’ existing safety features to reduce vulnerability to attacks by state actors, operatives, and freelance harassers.