Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

#FunctionalScript repo now has a small local MCP server for working with a local CAS (content-addressable storage). github.com/functionalsc...

Most of the editors that render Markdown input on the fly in the same editor (for example, hide inline code span backtick) are complete crap! Don't do it, it's not an improvement! Nobody needs it, nobody asks for it!

I think, UTF16 is also a billion dollar mistake.

Dear friends, if you're working on OSS, I would be glad to review some of your PRs in your repo, in exchange for you reviewing some of my PRs for github.com/functionalsc...

I wrote an article about the Emergent #Testing paradigm that I'm using to test #FunctionalScript, #TypeScript, and #JavaScript code, but it can be applied to other programming languages as well. I would like to hear your feedback. medium.com/@sergeyshand...

When I hear people discuss AI consciousness, it reminds me of discussions about free will, similar to white noise.

In the epoch of automation and AI, we definitely need UBI. However, we also should pay people when they learn something new and pass exams. We will need many more smart people, and learning is hard work; it has to be incentivized.

The idea behind Mi.dō Privacy, local-first, no accounts medium.com/@kodi.mabere...

Is it just me, or is the quality of applications getting much worse than before? #ios #android #macos #windows #web #app

A set of right questions is much more important than good answers on irrelevant questions.

One of the properties of intelligence is the ability to simplify things. This's not what I observe from regular vibe coding.

Recently, we added Effects to the FunctionalScript library. Here's a simple file server written on FunctionalScript using the Effects: github.com/functionalsc...

One of the many problems with AI (LLM) coding is that generated code is usually more complicated than a good software engineer would write. I know that I can try to adjust my prompts, but sometimes it's easier to just write the code myself.

Happy debugging: // a.js export const then = () => {} // b.js await import('./a.js') console.log('hello')

Results from the Basic Income for Artists scheme in Ireland were published in September, and they showed the scheme was a huge success across every metric. I spoke directly with some of the recipients to get their thoughts on the scheme and how it could be improved moving forward.

I don't care much about people who are with me only when I succeed, but I do care about people who are with me when I fail.

I look at the modern music players, and I'm curious, can we get Winamp back?

I asked ChatGPT to reduce noise in answers. Now it adds "No noise" to every answer.

Without UBI and progressive taxes, most systems are doomed to collapse due to a positive feedback loop of growing inequality in wealth redistribution.

When I watch Totoro, I feel calm and at peace. When I see AI-generated "art", I feel dizzy and want to puke.

Amazing! Free Code Signing for Open Source software signpath.org

Another supply chain attack Shai-Hulud 2.0. Another confirmation that we urgently need investments in: 1. decentralized networks with trusted connections and 2. purely functional content-addressable programming languages.

🤩💫 that feeling when a manually written cryptographic method passes all test vectors.

First country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for: scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...

All digital communications (emails, DMs, etc) should be based on chains of connections. If there is no connection, then it's junk information. If you have a connection to a spammer, break the chain.

Is it the moment we start to switch to decentralized ID with relative names, or should we continue to rely on centralized DNS as a global identity until the next outage? #Cloudflare

What's a risk you'd be more comfortable taking if Universal Basic Income (UBI) provided a floor of income you could never fall below?

I wish TypeScript would apply `readonly` to all types by default. I'm tired of typing `readonly` in my code. PS: Yes, I know about `Readonly` helpers.

I am looking for a full-time job. Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me. If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂

How private health insurance works in the USA: You pay for it when you have income, work, and are healthy. And you lose it when you are sick, lose your job, and income. It doesn't make any sense, none, zero. It's absolutely anti-human.

Just an idea: if we have digital, decentralized, trusted networks for communities, these communities can exchange promises internally (e.g., one human hour) w/o relying on expensive, external, trustless blockchains. No need to mine promises. Transactions are incredibly cheap and can work offline.

🚨 #NuGet Malware: Our research team uncovered malicious NuGet packages impersonating Nethereum via a Cyrillic “e” (homoglyph). The packages XOR-decoded a C2 and exfiltrated mnemonics, private keys, and keystore data. Read more: socket.dev/blog/malicio...

Internet: failing because of dependencies on centralized data centers with vendor lockins. VCs: let's invest more money into bigger centralized data centers for AI.

“CO2 growth rates accelerated significantly from an average of 0.8 ppm per year in the 1960s to 2.4 ppm per year in the decade from 2011 to 2020… From 2023 to 2024, CO2 in the global surface atmosphere increased by 3.5 ppm; this was the largest one-year increase in the 1/2

Did I just spend almost 3 hours watching a video on post-quantum cryptography? This video is so well made and unfortunately the algorithm won't push it to people because of its length. youtu.be/aw6J1JV_5Ec #cryptography #postquantumcrypto #postquantumcryptography

Switching back to the more permissive license. 0.8.0 is published under MIT. www.npmjs.com/package/func...

One interesting consequence of #UBI is that it eliminates the need for a minimum wage. That could make small and local businesses competitive in the age of automation and AI.

A question for developers who work on the future decentralized web/internet/systems: Why did we forget about protocol-agnostic content-addressable URLs? www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6920....

This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows! techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The future of the Web should be global-addressable, local-first, protocol-agnostic, free-format data. This data should be the primary source of truth. Applications and services should constantly evolve to parse and interpret the data.

Full IOCs + mitigation in our writeup. socket.dev/blog/175-mal...

Decentralized trusted networks can collectively verify that an account belongs to a real person, so some communities can issue digital/crypto UBI every day w/o burning energy like most blockchain do. These tokens can be used inside the community to boost its economy.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Hey digital freedom supporters in Seattle 👋 We're hosting an EFF meet up at Stoup Brewing! Learn more and RSVP today: eff.org/speakeasy-s...

I care about poverty, mainly alleviating it.. When I discovered this one piece of research it changed my whole approach to understanding poverty. "Why People in Poverty make Poor Decisions" explores this research which points to a simple solution. Listen or read at: nonzerosum.games/poverty.html

That confirms that networks with trusted connections work as a positive sum game, while networks where anonymous users and bots can be louder than your friend destroy the game. Most social networks have this problem. We @nolock-social.bsky.social are working on a foundation for trusted networks.