this stuff is magical and bizarre - whole habaneros fried to a crisp, in oil - texture is melty, like a glazed old fashioned donut - spike of intense heat that dies off quickly - tastes like a strange fruit!

Well that only took... 12 or so years. But if you'd ever like to hear how hard this was railed against internally for more than a decade, even with the espousal of the internal education team even though this is being sold as an education win, buy me a drink sometime.

These cohort meetings are a bright spot in my month - hearing and sharing with young activists doing inspiring work despite numerous difficulties and the risks of restrictive settings.

extensibility surface rugpull is real, been burned by it too many times. "liquid software" solving that problem alone is huge. interesting that the combination of things that unlock *fun* is also == to what it takes to survive: solid kernels excellent sandboxes maximal extensibility at the core

@userandagents.org demotyme

physical computing still not here yet: after >5yrs of wearing an Apple watch, i accidentally discovered that you can stop a timer with a very specific hand movement! is not discoverable, no UI prompting you to try it and a very unnatural motion that feels like a design failure every time i do it

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

fine-tuning opportunity...

found my place

super old guy on the plane turned out to be old, blind, gay, barely mobile, Dutch... *and* an open source absolutist. spent an hour talking taking notes on his browser, Linux, maps a11y traumas, then got him from plane->train->tram. one-handed bluetooth keyboard he made to type braille to phone:

📣 🚨 🪩 I'm delighted to announce "Funding The Web: a covenant for browsers, search, and people", new work from yours truly generously supported by D//F: ftw.fund. It's a complicated topic but it only impacts the whole web, so please bear with me a little! 🧵

Mozilla had over a billion $ in nearly-liquid assets alone back in 2022, wonder what it is now deer.social/profile/did:...

and clearly all had the same speaker training instructions they followed religiously, was kind of endearing

mass weaponization of left-pad against fortune 500 supply chain

$215,000,000 per year per company, at the low end bsky.app/profile/did:...

need cmd+k for Signal desktop

lovely time yesterday on the water, thanks @charismagic.bsky.social for mobilizing us into skipping chores and enjoying the sun instead group selfie:

ominous

Frecency violations are rampant.

Are you coming to @igalia.com's @webengineshackfest.org ? Have something you'd like to talk with people about or show off? Missing W3C breakouts? We have them too! Submit a breakout: github.com/Igalia/weben...

three museum day

want

Wrote up an event report about the Atproto Amsterdam meetup in March. Which now seems like 100 years ago. I'll be at RustWeek in Utrecht later this month, maybe other Atproto-interested people there want to have a meetup of some kind?

didn't really age well, but still some choice shots

heat

Today (May 1) is Bandcamp Friday where Bandcamp waives its fees for artists. If you'd like to support my new release (and the other releases on the label I co-curate with Chris Miller aka Gunnar Haslam), today is a great day to grab some copies. critiqueofeverydaylife.bandcamp.com

update: Xteink says only Chinese sales have firmware locked, device shipments outside of China are unlocked *if bought directly from them*

more lies, probably can't even capslock right

nice weather today and the weekend looks not great, so skipped work to cycle to Edam.

mass freakouts on r/xteinkreader after they announce they're locking down the devices, no more custom firmware we need a good word for these types of company self-owns (no, it's not enshittification) www.reddit.com/r/xteinkerea...

i will not miss this

really want a collab tumblr experience on atproto so we can all collectively contribute our screenshots of websites with ServiceWorkers saying: "please reload this application, a newer version is available"

I very much appreciate whoever made the screenshot

a few atproto tools which made it easier to cryptographically verify individual records would make it matter less where records live and we could move away from a single-PDS world for use-cases which don't need universe-scale state (not saying go full Nostr, just thinking on a happy medium)

note to self: do not go to raves in the middle of the desert in a conflict zone

Hisorty today is a good one hisorty.app

Konigsdaag crowds thickest crowd today was right where some Google "collab" was selling food 🤷🏽

I'm helping draft regulations for browsers I cannot reference web standards directly because they're not normative in this regulatory context (or at all, for browser extensions) So I have to say "as written in the technical documentation" Which makes me hear it in his voice every time...

User & Agents is moving off Discord, and been thinking on platform portability patterns for Peek. How to move a community from platform A -> C without pre-determining C? Experiment using Atproto as B, in A->B->C migration, via opt-in revocable membership "proofs" (badges?): link.portable.agency

One reflection from web standards land is that standards do not begin by collecting stakeholders in a room to hash things out. There is always a first mover who proposes something that has demonstrated traction (criteria for judging traction may vary).

For anyone building new apps and tools on ATproto that are … 🌐 on the Open Web 🌱 past the prototype stage ✨ reimagining the social internet New_ Public, @publicspaces.net and @waag.org are investing up to €10,000 in alternatives to Big Tech Learn more, share, or apply by May 1st newpublic.org/OSA

i switched to witchsky as default client a while back but it's broken today anyone know who makes it?

proof-of-sun

If anyone needs a little advice on how to set up (and firewall, and drama-proof) a sponsorship contract for standards work, whether at IETF or W3C or both, that's actually kinda my day job and I'm happy to help. It costs less $$ and drama than you'd think to have "ears on the inside"!

ok rolling up to Mama Africa night at the club at 2am is new default jetlag strategy, whether it works or not.

Open to new opportunities! If you know of any senior eng / fullstack roles (remote or PNW based), especially in the open source / decentralized tech space, shoot me a DM! 10+ years fullstack, currently building on #atproto, check out @grain.social

back home back to noodle soup

Still room for tonight's event! See you there!

like what @mauve.moe did in Agregore for reading/writing IPFS CIDs

long before i computered, i lived in New Orleans, and left with a particular set of skills: i can peel and de-vein 1000 shrimp with my eyes closed i can pit a 5 gallon bucket of kalamata olives in an hour, with a carrot peeler i can make and transport a life-sized albino alligator cake