And start simple! You don't need all the hyped up setups.

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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

Vibe coding 2026

Keep your agency and feel the friction! mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0... Must read post by @mariozechner.at.

This took a bit longer. Here is the blog post about how to get @iroh.computer to work on an esp32: www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-on... It requires some patches to main, but we have made progress making the patch smaller. If you want to try it out, here is the repo: github.com/n0-computer/...

Started using Tobi's QMD recently and wanted it to be more declarative. Wrote a 10 line wrapper so it read a local project folder and index db. This also makes the index.yml easy to version control and share! github.com/davidgasquez...

In earlier eras of computing unreliable hardware forced system design discipline (checksums, retries, modularity). There is a lot of that we are rediscovering in the "Agentic Engineering" era! Wrote a small post about this idea. davidgasquez.com/reliable-unr...

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

Finally catched up with all nonzerosum.games podcast episodes over the weekend! Thanks for producing them in audio too @nonzerosumjames.bsky.social!

Once you experience shared lexicons and the benefits of a single portable identity, it feels like a new open network. But the most important part is that it practically works as an extension of the web. We can add social features to our websites without even mentioning atproto. Frictionless adoption

Made a silly CLI to run queries over markdown files and their frontmatter inspired by Obsidian Bases. github.com/davidgasquez...

AT Protocol is getting an IETF Working Group

New wallpaper perhaps?

Anyone knows if there is a chart with all the AT Protocol apps users over time? Would love to see popular and trending apps using AT Protocol!

Built a tiny pi.dev extension so I can launch task-specific agents. Each profile is a small YAML file: model, thinking level, system prompt, and allowed skills. Simple, contained, and surprisingly useful! davidgasquez.com/specializing...

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...

I hadn't spotted the link between Claws (the new category of personal digital assistants that started with OpenClaw and is rapidly expanding from there) and Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 but it's a pretty good one!

Cleaned and updated my notes on Agentic Engineering. davidgasquez.com/handbook/age...

Half baked idea and proof of concept but at least it is out there. I wrote about Tributary, a credibly neutral mechanism to incentivize and elicit useful datasets. davidgasquez.com/tributary-da... I worked on it 6 months ago at a research retreat (IERR 2025) but never wrote about it.

Half baked idea and proof of concept but at least it is out there. I wrote about Tributary, a credibly neutral mechanism to incentivize and elicit useful datasets. davidgasquez.com/tributary-da... I worked on it 6 months ago at a research retreat (IERR 2025) but never wrote about it.

Also made a cute embedding of all their products! datania.github.io/mercadona-ca...

Also made a cute embedding of all their products! datania.github.io/mercadona-ca...

Discovered Mercadona's API and wrote a quick scrapper that will run weekly and dumps everything into JSONs in HuggingFace. Useful to track prices over time, check new arrivals, ... Data. huggingface.co/datasets/dat... Code. github.com/datania/merc...

The team that built CXDB recently published their take on "software factories". Recommended reading as it contains a few cool tricks (e.g. holdout sets, ...). factory.strongdm.ai

Spotted this interesting design/implementation of a self-hosted context store for agents. - Turn DAG - Blob Deduplication / Content Addresses Storage - BLAKE3 - Dynamic types, visual debugging, ... github.com/strongdm/cxdb

If you are curious what a frontier coding agent feels like to use, and don't want to pay or put in a credit card to try it out, here you go: ampcode.com/code/AMP-BSK...

Why is the AI revolution happening on the command line first? Because the terminal is still the most open-ended general-purpose computing platform available. Unix Philosophy is All You Need.

Yeah, like please invest that effort into turning your app state into local Markdown and JSON (or SQLite) files so I can use my good AI tools to work with it

Wrote about "Barefoot Data Platforms", my take on minimal and agent friendly data platforms! davidgasquez.com/barefoot-dat...

Want to re-raise this banger of an article, which really helped frame the differences between atproto and bluesky, and turned me into a convert for atproto bsky.app/profile/dana...

Wrote about "Barefoot Data Platforms", my take on minimal and agent friendly data platforms! davidgasquez.com/barefoot-dat...

Best clanker out there!

TIL you can install Python tools without uv or Python with a single curl command! uvx.sh Useful for Docker, CI pipelines, or anywhere you don't want to mess with the Python installation or venvs!

It's amazing how many declarative data stacks have emerged since I started this topic. I just updated the list with the latest open-source once. Do you know of any others? Happy to append to the list. Check out the full breakdown at .

someone from github should write a check to tangled and merge it into main

Realized I haven't used Jupyter Notebooks in a good while. Codex/CC with PEP 723 inline metadata knowledge has been doing it for myself.

Data visualization: Every human language, from modern day back through protolanguage to a hypothetical common origin. Accurate, sourced, possibly complete. Includes sign language! Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info. 🛌 this project has been a beast

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

formats over apps

Shared an assortment of personal workflows I've found useful when working with "agents" across work, data, and research. In 2025, I had ton of fun tinkering with this new way of working. I'm sure they won't last until next year. Meanwhile, hope they're helpful! davidgasquez.com/useful-agent...

Updated the design of my personal website and I love it! davidgasquez.com/handbook

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

Been using Codex CLI for some tasks like tagging and entity extraction. Turns out tasks get way easier when you force more small, local decisions without global context and then a few "aggregations" on top. Accidentally rediscovered MapReduce again! 😅

the two types of organizations: spreadsheets and cults

Awesome job with this new series @jed.co! Love the topics and conversations.

I've been using this pattern to "specialize" Codex for vaguely defined tasks like classification, filtering, soft sorting, ... davidgasquez.com/specializing... Made more than 10,000 invocations so far (reusing my ChatGPT subsciption) and am really happy with the pattern!

I've been curating some "Agentic Coding" tips and tricks for a while. Check them out if you're into that! davidgasquez.com/handbook/art...

I've become one of those people who run multiple coding agents at once - here are my notes on embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/p...