Every other week I hear from yet another European clone of some big tech social media, except with "European values" (which are conveniently never detailed). We need something different, because we can do so much better. That's why we're building Eurosky.

Hey Bluesky devs! Is there a chance to get github.com/bluesky-soci... merged? It's really only about smoothing out things for local development.

Bürokratieabbau: Regierung will Tankrabatt künftig direkt an Ölkonzerne überweisen www.der-postillon.com/2026/05/tank...

It's one of those rare cases where you want to yell out to the world about this tiny moment you just had. But you know it's too private and hardly anyone would understand it anyway. But what I can share that everyone understands: I'm very happy.

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Nice overview (from Cassandra) on how to make database keys that would need a custom comparator work with one that just compares byte-wise: github.com/apache/cassa... Found via github.com/fjall-rs/lsm...

Look what I've done. #atproto

Today at #FediForum, we launched a feature we sneak-peeked at #AtmosphereConf last month! You can now migrate from Mastodon to *any* PDS in the Atmosphere, as long as you have access to it 🤩

Looks like interactive spinning globes are a must-have: source.coop atproto.com

Another round of patch releases for Rust `cid` and `multihash` are out. Last time it was kind of a hot-fix due to a yanked dependency. Those releases clean things up a bit. Thanks github.com/hanabi1224 for the patches, reviews and very short turnaround times!

New blog post "JSON, CBOR and numeric types" about the distinction between integer and #floats in JSON: vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog... #atproto

Der Wackelkontakt des Verlängerungskabels ist echt super:

Die Bundesregierung will geheimhalten, wo sie neue fossile Infrastruktur in Deutschland plant. Wir schaffen Transparenz und zeigen, wo neue Kraftwerke, Bohrungen, Pipelines und Flüssiggas-Terminals entstehen sollen – und wie ihr dagegen aktiv werden könnt: fragdenstaat.de/aktionen/cli...

Today we’re releasing Portal - a new interface for your account and what we hope will become a new home for your on the web. This is is just the start, we’ll be adding features and integrations over the coming months. Check it out and let us know what you think. portal.eurosky.tech

New patch releases of the Rust `cid` and `multihash` crates are out. If you see failures in regards to the `core2` crate, please upgrade. If you run into issues with the newly released version, please open an issue. Thanks everyone involved, I woke up and had PRs ready to be merged.

@stavola.xyz Thanks for merging my changes on MLF. This way I'm able to produce the Lexicon at github.com/ipfs-fdn/mat... straight from the MLF file without any manual modifications.

@lexicon.garden FYI: I've published a new version of lexicon.garden/lexicon/did:... yesterday. It wasn't picked up yet. The change is about making "preview" a ref instead of nesting it. So it was purely a syntactical one, in case that matters.

Vorsicht: Union, Polizeigewerkschaften und Verkehrsverbände verbreiten Falschinformationen zu einer möglichen Entkriminalisierung von Fahren ohne Ticket! FAKT: Eine Entkriminalisierung führt *nicht* zu mehr Fahrten ohne Ticket. Das erhöhte Beförderungsentgelt bleibt bestehen, nur Gefängnisstrafen..

I published a new version of the the Matadisco Lexicon `cx.vmx.matadisco` that now also validates on PDSls pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... It's just a refactor, no breaking changes.

I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents. AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering. The post-mortem: lalitm.com/post/buildin...

A new blog post: vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog.... This time it's a reply to @davidgasquez.com excellent Atmospheric data portals post bsky.app/profile/davi... #atproto #geo #matadisco

New blog post about my impressions from the #FOSSGIS conference last week vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog... #geo #atproto #matadisco

Anyone here has some experience to share (good or bad) after introducing an 🤖 LLM policy in an #opensource project? Was that actually enforced, did it change anything? I'm curiouuus thx 🙏

Watersheds & Drainage Basins Of Europe’s Major Rivers brilliantmaps.com/watershed...

Good morning, Day 2! @robin.berjon.com will be sharing Matadisco, a system for publishing metadata for open data at 4:40. Come find him or @mosh.bsky.social to talk open data discovery, DASL.ing, or webtil.es! #atmosphereconf

A recording of my Matadisco talk (In German) from yesterday is online at media.ccc.de/v/fossgis202.... The CCC video team is just awesome as always, pushing out all the videos in such a short time at such a great quality. #FOSSGIS

🪩 Introducing matadisco.org! — a way to discover open datasets via #atproto that doesn't depend on any single institution staying online. 🕺🏼 We have more public data than ever (satellite imagery, climate models, genomic sequences), but finding it is still painfully hard.

My Matadisco talk at the #FOSSGIS went well, find my slides (in German) at the bottom of pretalx.com/fossgis2026/...

On my way to the #FOSSGIS conference in Göttingen! I'm so thrilled to meet all 1000 of you.

After a long time, there's finally a new blog post. I've been working on in the past few months on a new project called Matadisco! It's about metadata discovery and publishing on #ATProto: vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog... #FOSS4G #geo

Vor 31 Jahren warnte der wissenschaftliche Beirat der #BuReg in einem Bericht an Umweltministerin #Merkel vor einer #Klimakatastrophe. @umweltministerium.de

I'm also happy to release ramjet, a relay consumer that supports configurable forward and track collections, as well as record reconciliation. tangled.org/ngerakines.m...

CfP is open! May 1 — CFP closes May 15 — candidates notified June 1 — speakers announced June 15 — schedule announced We want to hear from YOU!

Um #SunnysFlowerfield im Play Store veröffentlichen zu können, muss ich mind. 12 Leute für mind. 2 Wochen einen Test durchlaufen lassen. Bis Google der Auffassung ist, die Testergebnisse seien ok. Alle, die Bock haben: E-Mail des Google-Accounts per DM an mich oder an [email protected] Weitersagen 🙂

Today I learned about #ATProto sidecar records. This way you can extend/annotate existing records. It's cool to see how seemingly small design decisions, like keys being unique per collection can have such an impact. trezy.com/blog/atproto...

#rust rewrite of #gdal I am skeptical, but let's see ... https://github.com/cool-japan/oxigdal

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO. More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Global remote, 🚨paid🚨 open source grant program from @igalia.com for folks to learn more about Linux, Graphics, JS DevTools, Multimedia + GStreamer or Web Standards. - apply by April 3 - €7k for 450 hours over 3-6 months - uni students or self directed learners www.igalia.com/coding-exper...

@kanadgupta.com Thanks for the fix at github.com/bluesky-soci.... I was running into this yesterday and was about to fix it right now, but then I luckily found that it's already fixed.

@lexicon.garden I couldn't find any repo powering the site, hence posting feedback here. In the "Adding Lexicons" guide in the "Creating DNS Entries" section, it talks about the DID, but not how to get it. I would mention that you can get it via `goat resolve <your-account-name>`.

You can't write a compelling promotion packet about the thing you didn't build. And that's the whole problem. terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/n...

"The future of AI" by Lucija Gregov is really a good philosophical read on where AI stands and where we are heading lucijagregov.com/2026/02/26/t...

This info just came over the (highly recommended) #geohumanities mailing list: The working papers from the very productive #openmapsmeeting hosted in 2024 by @TUDelftLibrary at the National Archives in The Hague is online. Documenting innovative work with #historical #maps using #iiif Hopefully […]

Length of Africa vs Russia 6 more maps: brilliantmaps.com/mercator-...

New blogpost about atproto It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical. www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

@bobbl.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/reba...

Population Density Map Of Italy See 100+ more: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...

New blog post is up! When we talk about controlled data on ATProtocol, we focus on users and who they grant access to. But there's always a third party: the applications that store, relay, and render the data.

7 months ago ESA asked: can the open-source ecosystem handle Sentinel Zarr? 🛰️🗺️ We pushed early GeoZarr conventions with: → GDAL → OpenLayers → TiTiler/rasterio → STAC → rioxarray No proprietary format. No lock-in. Just interoperability. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-02-13-eopf-explorer-launch

Palestine’s West Bank Archipelago More about the map: brilliantmaps.com/palestine...