User testing surfaced something we didn't expect: most people don't photograph labels. They remember the wine later — at home, in a shop, halfway through conversation about a different bottle. So we built around that. 🧵 1/2

shoutout to this magnificent piece of public art

Lovely, impressionistic, write up of @monkigras.com 2026 by @letorey.co.uk of London Web Standards fame letorey.co.uk/leets/monkig... Trans rights, community, data, governance, food and beverages.

Bluesky is not the everything app but atproto may well become the everything protocol.

Time to talk about this on main. Vivino, my go-to wine app for years, became an unusable, ad-infested PoS. I bitched about it for so long that I decided I had to either shut up or roll my own. Incoming #atdev / #atproto thread... 1/

Thank you Monki Gras 2026 and thans to @monkchips.com for this brilliant event! I met a f*ng tons of awsome people in those day! Crafting is fucking awsome! Now I need to figure out how to craft me in something better. Big shot out to my friend @ricardo.bsky.social wine make connection! ‘1964

My co-authors @wiredferret.bsky.social @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social and @azimman.bsky.social are very caring people. They give me life. Kindness is an energy.

OH I MISSED THIS HAPPENING claude.com/blog/1m-cont... didn't realise that they'd removed the premium for long context! I'd been artificially turning long context back off because I thought it was extra usage or extra expensive!

3 of the authors of @progressivedelivery.com have made me cry today, in a really good way #monkigras

It is so inhuman to take what other people need. I think there are a lot of people with a “wendigo spirit” in power right now. Great talk on resilience in communities by @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social and @wiredferret.bsky.social #monkigras

@wiredferret.bsky.social and @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social talking about resilience in Community. Shout out to Rural Oaxaca and Minneapolis!

Moving talk from @azimman.bsky.social about being the cis male parent of a trans kid. I don’t have any kids, but the message about treating people with kindness and being mindful your interactions carries through. You don’t get to define who others are. #monkigras

with Bluesky PBC growing their team after the Series B raise, now would be a great time to hire a dedicated Accessibility Engineer 🦋 someone who is focused on making the app and all user-focused experiences as accessible as possible across all platforms @alexbenzer.com @pfrazee.com @toni.bsky.team

@azimman.bsky.social Talking about his life experience as a cis parent to trans children. 🥰🏳️‍⚧️ #monkigras #TransLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights

“What if we could create a new order of cognitive abundance” @daniloc.xyz #monkigras

Never thought about how “science fiction” a toilet is — you have a magic bowl, press a button, and whatever you need to get rid of is just… gone 🤣 @daniloc.xyz #monkigras

1Password will give support to open source projects - @hollycummins.com That's incredibly valuable for open source continuity #monkigras

As probably the only other person at #monkigras that uses Nuxt, I’m really enjoying @danielroe.dev ‘s talk. Thank you for your work!

"a talk about how I craft myself". @hazelweakly.me on Prepping Hazel Weakly. #monkigras this talk will only happen once. So proud and happy to platform this talk.

Wow. @hazelweakly.me sharing a deeply personal story about crafting and reinventing her outlook on life. #monkigras

Preparation means expending effort and marshaling resources that you have otherwise saved when you need to handle a situation on short notice. @lizthegrey.com #monkigras

Immigration and trans rights. Everything is super fucked up and trans people are increasingly having to become legal experts. @lizthegrey.com on, for example, what it means to be a refugee or stateless person. Important talk at #monkigras. The UK EHRC ruling is also super messed up.

So @suesmith.lol is helping us remember that the shit they say on linkedin about AI is not what's happening when it comes to people with normal software development jobs in places outside the bubbles.

“The incumbent abstraction level acts as an important point of leverage.” Sue Smith on why it’s still important to get involved with creating code even in the age of LLMs. #monkigras

You will not forget to code because you used an LLM to generate some of it. Acquiring a skill is different to retaining it - @suesmith.lol #monkigras

The #monkigras captioning (Breeze Translate) does a brilliant job of correctly handling technical terms and accents! The only thing it’s struggled with is the name of this conference. So far, we’ve seen MonkeyGraha, MonkeyGrawer, Monkey gras (so close!), Monkey graph, and monkey gra. 😁

Dear lord our speakers are absolutely smashing it this morning. @ashley.rolfmore.com is doing fantastic framing from first principles. In this case the amount that a single person gets in governments per month to live on. 400.14. but also the nature of time, double entry book-keeping, and trust

Systems will fail, but they need to fail in a way that minimizes human damage. Design for safe failure. @ashley.rolfmore.com #monkigras

"How do you build a partner rather than another accuser?" That's a fantastic question when building a solution of any kind. #monkigras

On model capabilities: People don’t buy engines, they buy cars. Adoption is not based on features but feelings (connected to what @lauratacho.com said about narratives overpowering questions). @anthrocypher.bsky.social #monkigras

Trans rights matter!!! #monkigras #TransRightsMatter 🏳️‍⚧️

What I love about #monkigras is that it doesn't apologise for having opinions.

The gap between what devs and leaders consider a problem is growing (44% in 2024 to 63% in 2025!). @lauratacho.com #monkigras

“Skepticism is the main cornerstone of being prepared” - Laura Tacho #monkigras

“Adoption doesn’t mean impact” - Laura Tacho @lauratacho.com #monkigras

Laura Tacho taking about data vs hype, and Percival Lowell’s story of Martian canals. “Tools to know better.” #monkigras

Bloody hell this talk is already great. @lauratacho.com crushing it, arguing and explaining how our sense of wonder can blind us to the realities of the situation. #monkigras is go.

"I can see your lies" Every developer (93%) is using AI #monkigras

“This is not a place for vibes. This is a place for measurement and quantitative decisions.” @lauratacho.com on AI productivity gains. #monkigras

Opening remarks by @monkchips.com for #monkigras has the room in stitches. "A conference about being prepared.... So we're running late... But time is relative, so whatever"

kicking off #monkigras with @monkchips.com! (this year’s conference is about preparedness, with a decidedly RedMonk amount of chaos mixed in)

Can’t wait to see @monkchips.com workout video 🤣 “Prehab is better than rehab” #monkigras

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I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

i have put together what is going to be a *delightful* conference next week. i keep looking at the speakers and smiling to myself. So many nice experiences ahead. www.monkigras.com

David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

alt text the destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm

I mean there are going to be so many great speakers but @charity.wtf giving a survivalist talk. get in! more on this later.

One thing I am super happy about is that we will be running our D&I program as usual. Inclusion makes communities smarter, stronger, kinder, and more resilient. A big big shout to Oracle then for sponsoring this critical aspect of the event. Thanks @mjasay.bsky.social and team!