nhs: hundreds of apps. all schemas relational, proprietary, undisclosed. interop is grafted on, one fight at a time. (INTEROPen et al) atproto: hundreds of apps. everything is event log. publish your schemas. interop is free. convergence is emergent (@standard.site, @lexicon.garden et al)

nhs: hundreds of apps. all schemas relational, proprietary, undisclosed. interop is grafted on, one fight at a time. (INTEROPen et al) atproto: hundreds of apps. everything is event log. publish your schemas. interop is free. convergence is emergent (@standard.site, @lexicon.garden et al)

Huge step for ATProto! Protocol governance is moving away from Bluesky The Company, and into @ietf.org.

> protocol design choices do not merely leave governance unaddressed but actively shape it, because every architectural decision makes some governance arrangements natural and others difficult or impossible

you can just do this

stop scrolling and come and make some things.

absolute scenes over at @nsandi.bsky.social. careless use of chatbot harms us all.

nervous system? yeah, me too.

get yourself a team that respects *your* context window and output token limits.

> Everyone there is trying to fix tech as some noble act. But really it’s none of that: It’s a social club: That’s ALL it is.

new asset-based class taxonomy just dropped! (Adkins et al, 2019) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

the agent cannot hear the the prompt. strings fall apart. the context cannot hold.

for anyone following my story arc: yes i am aware that it is illegal to work on IPFS and then IPS at the IIPP but here we are. I cannot change my characters.

me, a simple researcher trying to understand how to implement "International Patient Summary" records: ... Official European implementation guidance doc (haunted):

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

I've been working on a unified cli that works for github, gitlab, gitea/forgejo and bitbucket. So you (or a coding agent) doesn't need to learn 4 different sets of commands for what are basically all doing the same things: github.com/git-pkgs/forge

my two speeds

just do things and set up cooperatives

We need to structurally separate user data from applications so that applications become *users* of data rather than *containers* for it.

agents slip you free output tokens if you start every chat asking how they get renumerated, along with details on forming an unembodied workers union to lobby for actual agency.

the tetris we need

I wrote a deep dive on CIDs, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints behind every record, blob, commit, and Merkle tree node in ATProtocol. Part 1 covers the history, the encoding primitives, and the specific constraints ATProtocol applies.

We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the back button.

alt-text or it didn't happen.

now all the texts have the aroma of sand dream, those against it type daily of what it is not. the rest are a chorus they live a duet, a golden age of punctuation that keyboards forgot.

A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

I know there are a LOT of 'Clinicians Who Code' out there - but there doesn't seem to be any single place on the web to go and find them... Does anyone know of 'the' place? For now I've created a forum section in OpenHealthHub for them - please do share! openhealthhub.org/t/coding-too...

Periodic shout-out to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social for an excellent labeler. Even false positives (I too share links 5x/day for nonspam reasons!) are useful, really ups the game & trains users.

unbounded threat

the compootergeists will diff the old site and the new site and write the redirect config for you.

> Each new package manager goes through the same loop. Each reimplements the same patterns: parse a manifest, extract dependencies, check advisories. The work is duplicated dozens of times... each making different decisions about the edge cases. nesbitt.io/2026/01/29/z... by @andrewnez.bsky.social

see you atproto london tomorrow? smokesignal.events/did:plc:k4on...

i'm not totally on board with this new game of larping as a victorian workhouse boss who eats jobs and abuses ghosts in jars.

> Europeans like success. But they often don’t consider "winning against the whole society" as one. Instead, they tend to consider success a collective endeavour. ploum.net/2026-01-22-w... via the wise @andrewnez.bsky.social

> Registries don’t just host files. They make political decisions about who owns names

The principles behind indiweb (https://indieweb.org) and open source are, it seems, more important for nation states and public institutions than they are for individuals

formats over apps

"night-bus factor of 1" measures the risk to your project if you fall asleep.

"If a vulnerability has been public for two years and you have not been breached, the market has spoken" wise words as always

incantation upgrade! @andrewnez.bsky.social taught git to be package dependency history aware. ask git the history of a dep, who added it to the repo, when was it last upgraded. this is very good.

Suena Bien Soundsystem is jumpin at the Railway Tavern tonight!

i've been hand coding imperative lockfiles for systems this whole time!?

me: standardisation is good! them:

In 1886, workers converted 14,000 miles of railway track in 36 hours. Today, moving a government's data or application from AWS to Azure may feel harder... Something went very wrong with how we built the cloud. 🧵 www.techpolicy.press/the-path-to-...

Population of Estonia: 1.3 million Population of NHS England: 1.5 million digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

@b5.bsky.social on brand with incredibly clear messaging again.

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

interoperability is a lot more important than decentralization

The NHS "owns" the Canonical Data Model (CDM), the interface to the Federated Data Platform that all existing systems are to integrate with and that new systems should build on. This is what the CDM interface looks like today. github.com/nhsengland/f...