What's that? A combo meetup with @publicgood.tech?? Feb 17 @ the Bow Market

Been mulling over @bnewbold.net's recent post on community spaces and atproto's next frontiers. I wrote about why building for organizers (not just users) might be the key to making it all work.

📍 Mural, Artez 2019 Other · Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain Exploring Madrid day, a mural I came across on my way to a coffee place. https://beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3me4dmyiies2b #BeaconBits

A written version of the FOSDEM 2026 talk on @teleportal.tools: pckt.blog/b/nick-the-s... First time blogging on @pckt.blog, looks fantastic!

it's pizza time

As jobs begin to shift with AI, I think there will be increasing numbers of people feeling like Aditya (former CTO Dropbox, early Facebook engineer, etc). People are more psychologically resistant to major changes than you might expect, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy to reconstruct meaning.

I’ll be talking about @blackskyweb.xyz with the folktechnology.org community on February 18th. Pop out

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @dholms.at, Head of Protocol at Bluesky, with a talk about the ATproto Ethos.

@margin.at interop just dropped in Semble 🤝 Your Margin bookmarks now show up directly on Semble ✅ The Atmosphere has no walled gardens 🌻 Happy cross-pollination 🐝 More details on how it works below 👇

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

My FOSDEM talk recording is up! Here is the video (mirrored in Peergos of course): peergos.net/secret/z59vu... The abstract: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

@patak.dev @baileytownsend.dev @zeu.dev is it a known issue that if you login from a package page you end up on @npmx.dev home page? If not I can file it.

@sequoia.pub 0.3.0 is out! - OAuth is now supported! Use `sequoia login` to try it out. HT to @nekomimi.pet for the nudge and the reference from @wisp.place! - New `update` command makes it easy to change your config or your publication record! HT to @stordahl.dev for the idea

📍 Parador Nacional de Chinchón Hotel · Chinchón, Community of Madrid, ES I did in fact make it to Chinchón yesterday. Here for a week with Ink & Switch for team retreat, staying at an old convent. https://beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mdztlap4hk2r #BeaconBits

It's early days and it will take many people and orgs together but we'll get there. My personal target: 50% of European social media users on open platforms by 2030.

Hello! Update on eurosky[.]social accounts. - PDS is ready with backups and observability - We've onboarded a small number of testers to see how things are holding up - We'll start sending invites to folks who registered in the next few days We're doing this slowly, here's why 👇 #eurosky

as i said, silliest atproto integration

One of our New Year’s resolutions was to start sharing monthly updates, so here’s one for January!

Wrote blog.exe.dev/expensively-... to dig into how cache reads costs dominate LLM agent conversations. Several visualizations and one terrible pun included!

We’re very excited to have @smcgrath.phd present “Reigniting the Party: Lessons from a Stalled Migration to Bluesky” at #ATScience! The talk will detail an effort to migrate the @amia.org community to Bluesky. Scott will share lessons learned and outline revised strategies to rebuild the network! 🧪

So happy to see that my #FOSDEM talks have been uploaded: 1. What's new in BlockNote: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... 2. Y.js 14, BlockNote & Prosemirror: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... 3. Teleportal sync server: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

📍 Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 Other · United Kingdom Landed Terminal 2, used the egate with Canadian passport. #BeaconBits

atproto folks with a special knowledge and interest in calendaring / events! I've got questions! 💜 discourse.atprotocol.community/t/recurring-...

Look what i found

Yes. I took a peek at LinkedIn. It’s being called GEO.

📍 YVR International D Gates Other · Richmond, British Columbia, CA Starting my journey to Madrid for Ink & Switch team offsite. #BeaconBits

February DwebYVR events: dwebyvr.org/dwebyvr-febr...

okay, fun hypothetical about software pricing and creative tools (one of my top ten favorite topics): if @leaflet.pub were to launch a pro plan with additional features for writers, what's the thing that'd be most likely to elicit a "👀 shut up and take my money 💸" type reaction??

Update on the Skyreader improvements I've made over the last week and a peak at the roadmap

The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via fightchatcontrol.eu to defend your privacy and digital rights!

TIL, Chrome 144 ships some new pseudo-classes. 👏 Within limits, you can now style the matching strings of the "find in page" search. ::search-text { // matching strings } ::search-text:current { // currently matched string } More on the blog. 👇 www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

small #fosdem sticker haul, but quality

We are officially closed for Early Bird tickets for #ATmosphereConf! Standard tickets are only $50USD more. We appreciate everyone that made early decisions. We have over 160 of you joining us so far! More speaker announcements & remote tickets this coming week.

I forked everyone's favorite terminal, Ghostty, and added git worktree support so to better manage parallel AI agents

I've noticed a microgenre shift in SF over the last year - or possibly just in the books I've come across. Specifically, a bit of a boom in big concept space opera books working in the Banks/Hamilton ideaspace. Meaning SF that simultaneously delivers a strong action storyline against a backdrop

I am just in the midst of finishing Slow Gods, so glad to find this thread and get Project Hanuman up next bookhive.buzz/books/bk_p93...

A small tweak to reduce "Show less like this" in For You by 36%

I loved working full-time on @vite.dev hired by StackBlitz. High praise to companies hiring OSS devs! But as I did when starting @vitest.dev with @antfu.me, for this new community adventure, as project steward of @npmx.dev together with @danielroe.dev, I'll be going independent. Here we go again ❤️

another one! earlier this time, 2pm central time / noon pacific what do you wanna talk about? reply here! or are there forms on atproto already 🧐 smokesignal.events/did:plc:xbtm...

Fixed! news.atmosphereconf.org Thanks @leaflet.pub crew

Just wrote up some thoughts after trying out all the "VPS as a service" products which reached the Hacker News frontpage over the past month - lalitm.com/trying-sprit...

iPhanpy – The best Mastodon client now has an iOS version: https://eay.li/3z0 #blog

My FOSDEM talk is live! Decentralized Public Broadcast with Streamplace: video.fosdem.org/2026/k4601/P...

We will be at #FOSDEM and will bring something exciting: Invitation codes for the beta phase of @air.ms, our new secure messenger based on MLS! ✨ Hit @julianmair.com up if you’d like to join the beta with your friends.

#LocalFirst devroom at #FOSDEM will be live at 09:00 CET ! For those who are not with us in Brussels to attend 8 hours of the best speakers lineup ever, there is a live stream. You can interact with the speakers during Q&A sessions by using Matrix. See you in a bit. live stream: openlocalfirst.org

Exciting news for the local-first community! 1. Local-first Conf Berlin is back on 12–14 July: www.localfirstconf.com 2. The nice folks at @cultrepo.bsky.social have made a documentary about the movement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...

Has anyone created an ATProtocol Lexicon LSP?

I'm visiting CMU for a talk at the Language Technologies Institute on feb 12/13th. Looking forward to chatting with folks about frontiers in RL and building agentic language models. Email me with "CMU Visit" in the subject if you're interested in chatting & why!

📍 Vancouver Public Library Bar · Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Staircase Sounds - noon concert on the 8th floor. Band today is Sudanda. https://beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mdqm5nkllc2e #BeaconBits