Over the past few years, I’ve had the good fortune to find a community of like-minded technologists working to make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape—one in which we risk becoming subservient to the very tools we’ve built. agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...

This was fun!

Increasingly rare indeed.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Congratulations, you’ve reached the end of your doomscrolling

This is how the world ends - not with a bang, but with 'circle back if you need anything' www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nb...

Any payments ideas brewing for ATProto?

The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality. It’s the walls around our data. A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵

@ruperts.world mentioning this thread: bsky.app/profile/chad...

@ruperts.world listing his buckets for thinking about different types of protocols #protocolsforpublishers

One tangible problem with AI hype is that there is a degree of provocative hypothesis that is necessary in order for people to think a little differently about old problems. But then the hype goes so far that it becomes detached from technical reality, and thus, disqualifies itself.

Excited for this one!

Excited for this one!

Anyone else trying out Germ? www.germnetwork.com/blog/germdm-...

Similr idea proposed by @aleixmorgadas.dev learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/extending-...

At a Hackathon with the @blueyard.com team this weekend and as we rapidly iterate I'm already wishing there was a standard or widely adopted convention to attach LLM prompts to the commits they generated. Software workflow is forever changed.

We're convening in the mountains of Bavaria to tackle the hardest frontiers of AI — from chips to co-existence. Apply here to join: blueyard.medium.com/climbing-har...

@gordon.bsky.social on the origin of the name Samizdat – from his conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT. Watch the full conversation here: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ...

the running gag around the office is "multipath will fix this", so we wrote a blog post about what the heck multipath is & why it's going to make everything better: www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-on...

I'll never not enjoy the elegance of destructuring in a language that supports it.

This reminded me of: blog.oshineye.com/2013/04/open...

Sax player Ivo Perelman with legendary bassist Reggie Workman & drummer Andrew Cyrille plus reeds player Chad Fowler explores jazz’s unifying and exploratory spirit, transcending geographical and generational boundaries. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ivo-p...

It was such a pleasure to see old and new friends at the last @rubycentral.org RailsConf <3

We wrote this after a gathering of folks working on the messy edge of identity, memory, and intent in agentic systems. The ideas are still forming, but the stakes are clear: whoever shapes context, shapes the future. Get in touch if you're work around this.

We'll break down how context and intent shape discovery, awesome conversation with @chadfowler.com coming up! 🎉

Can discovery happen without exposure? Join @chadfowler.com and Seref Yarar for a conversation and live demo on how Index Network is building a privacy-first protocol for intent-driven discovery. 🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th | 3pm ET 📍 www.youtube.com/live/oFFs9je...

“AI can fake all kinds of things, but it cannot fake a cryptographic signature” – @gordon.bsky.social Watch the full conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ... github.com/gordonbrande...

What if the axe could sharpen itself?

It's happening

Does it really take four hours to sharpen an axe?

Join @chadfowler.com for a livestream with Tim Robinson as he walks us through the motivation and architecture behind FreePay - the worlds first open source, fee-free payment terminal. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 23rd | 10:00am ET / 16:00 CET 📽️ www.youtube.com/live/eaqPCXq...

Happy birthday to the late #jazz saxophonist and composer Albert Ayler #jazzsky #goat

Evan said it better than I could.

Live from the final keynote of the final #RailsConf... And of course, it's @tenderlove.dev 🥲

Thank you @rubycentral.org for having me. It was a beautiful last RailsConf. 19 years. Not bad for a hobby project 😁❤️

A fun announcement, @davidhill.dev and I are hosting a new podcast from @rubycentral.org. We dropped the first episode at #railsconf. @chadfowler.com joined us for the first episode on how this all got started.

OG ⁦‪@rubycentralorg‬⁩ founders reunited at the final ⁦‪@railsconf‬⁩ ❤️ ⁦‪‬⁩

The LLM just responded to my suggested course correction with: “hell yes.” I think I might have just leveled up.

I’d be tempted to apply for this job if it was real. It’s only a matter of time.

on in 15min to talk about SZDT, Blake3, and censorship-resistant data

super fun to chat about content addressing, Blake3 verified streaming and all that jazz

Join @chadfowler.com and @gordon.bsky.social for a livestream on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT (Signed Zero-trust DaTa. Pronounced "Samizdat") 🗓️ Wednesday, July 2nd | 9am ET 🎬 www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ... github.com/gordonbrande...

Drum Power! Legend

Happy 79th birthday to #jazz drummer and composer William Hooker #jazzsky

Pretty stunned by the personal web site @anthropicai.bsky.social Claude Code made for me today chadfowler.com It's gettin' scary out there, software developers

This is pretty much what I've envisioned with Community Search Engines and local first data. I call the intent of what you're looking for a "goal workspace" - trying to accomplish something rather than just matching info. But it's a very good start: stop searching, start ambient matching.

"This is the system we pretend works: discovery as noise, identity as content, and visibility as a full-time job." blog.index.network/the-shape-of...

This comic strip from 2016 keeps proving itself true.