I saw some talk about "everything apps" and it got me thinking a little bit about it. With the Atmosphere I feel like a really cool part about it is that we can make all of our apps "everything" apps. It's not "my app's data" or "your app's data" anymore. We can color outside the lines.

First episode of "atmosphere builders session" coming on wednesday with @lou.gg who's building https://colibri.social

Mythos' underwhelming results for curl are a great example of why Open Source is even more important now that we have access to these tools. curl is more secure because everyone can tinker with it. We should be doubling down on Open Source rather than closing projects in panic.

@there-hugo.dev hey! @exosphere.site and @roomy.space have a lot in common, especially now that a group-space standard is emerging. Let’s chat? ☺️

Great example of how atproto and the PDS model doesn’t only make *social* web apps easier to make, it really reduces the burden of app-making in general. Org-account functionality is very commonly absent from any SaaS upstart due to the added complexity. Now any atmospheric app gets it for free.

Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos, promising to be the "first" European social network? Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. It will require a government ID to set up an account. I wrote about it here: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-unc...

I'm wondering if a space lexicon is just a permission-set with a space resource type? That could cover collections, consent metadata, and permissions in one existing pattern:

A small thing that would go a long way for me in @tangled.org: proper embeds for links to atmospheric posts, mainly on the *sky apps right now.

"an everything app" = a set of platform apis and human interface primitives that enable the use, distribution, and composition of some basic unit of interaction. This is what the browser does, what iOS does, what whatsapp does, and what can be done again.

Definitely agree with the interpretation here, and the rest of the post generally. "Circles" are something we are extremly interested in with @roomy.space and our "arbiter" service is designed to provide them on top of the permissioned data proposal: zicklag.leaflet.pub/3mjrvb5pul224

HappyView 2.5 is out, and I've added support for one of the most anticipated things in atproto: Permissioned Spaces. 🧵

ICYMI: We have a new "AI Preferences" setting This allows you to announce to the entire ATmosphere network what you consent to regarding AI use of your public data. Other apps can see this but ~may not~ respect the settings We built this to give you a place to set these and will 100% respect them

Full episode: www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/219-...

Every energy transition in history has been additive, not subtractive, and the current push toward renewables is no exception.

Wrote up some thoughts on new *atmospheric generatives* Things that can generate value even in environments where everything can be copied, like: contextualization • fluidity • aggregation • relationality Riffing on a @kevinkelly.bsky.social piece from years ago; extending for the atmosphere!

You can actually set custom URLs on your leaflets already! zicklag-test.leaflet.pub/test-blog-po... There's just not a way to do it in the UI. I had to manually update the PDS records. Is there a reason we couldn't set custom slugs in the app @leaflet.pub?

🚀Rolldown 1.0 is here!🚀 Rust-based high-performance JavaScript bundler. 🏎️ Runs at native speed that’s up 30x faster than Rollup 🤝 Compatible with existing Rollup & Vite plugins ⚡The underlying bunder for Vite After 2 years, Rolldown is officially stable and has 20+M weekly downloads.

leaflet reader should: - easily let you one-off longpost - aggregate bsky, rss, and standard.site post - let you take notes on everything, save anything to lists, feed into drafts - keep track of events u are rsvp'd to - let you subscribe to and participate in community/aggregators

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

no new data centers under fascism Hypercompute is an instrument of state power. Every data center built during the autocratic rule of a warring nation is tantamount to another warship (with solar panels). Democracy first, then more data centers.

In policy circles I keep hearing about "horizontal" and "vertical" interoperability, notions that I haven't encountered in tech standards. I sat down to write about why it's a limiting understanding of interoperability and how we can do better. berjon.com/interoperabi...

Over three-quarters of the global population has never lived through a major global energy crisis, such as those of the 1970s. In early 2026, that is about to change as the world faces the largest energy disruption in history.

This is why I find the @emdashcms.com experiment so enticing, particularly its RFC for a decentralized plugins directory based on atproto and @fair.pm LLMs do not on their own make software more malleable to regular users. But already-malleable software can be more ambitiously modified with LLMs.🧵

To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.

So excited to share that Lazurite for Android is out (in alpha)! You can login via BlueSky or BlackSky to post™️, view your feeds, and more (there's a lot more, seriously)!

A GitHub for maintainers - Giving dependencies the same treatment the fork got nesbitt.io/2026/05/02/a...

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Yes! and I love regulations I love informed consent I love algorithmic transparency I love consumer rights I love environmental protections I love equitable ownership I love labor movements I love anti-monopoly enforcement I love democratic safeguards 😊

What if every atproto app supported custom domains, so that tangled could be code.sgo.to, bsky could be blog.sgo.to, sifa could be resume.sgo.to, streamplace could be videos.sgo.to, germ could be chat.sgo.to, and so on?

Many people saying this isn’t gonna work out well. I think it’ll work out because we all *need* it to work out; we need a web of trust. Of course this very first iteration isn’t gonna get it all right on the first go, but this is just a start. This is the open social web, it’s a living standard.

I have a new draft of the EmDash decentralised plugin registry RFC. It's getting a lot closer to being just @fair.pm on atproto. It gets a bit more in the weeds with the details now. Feedback welcome.

Making @lazurite.stormlightlabs.org a deeper client has been fun. Shoutout @bad-example.com

Big day: Leaflet now supports EMAIL NEWSLETTERS 📧📬💌 Turn on ~Newsletter Mode~ and readers can subscribe with email as well as atproto! This is in alpha, and only available with Leaflet Pro. Help us test & reach out with any q's! Drop your email at lab.leaflet.pub — we'll send something soon :)

Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust. Vouching is live on Tangled! 🎭 blog.tangled.org/vouching/

great vision / examples for how "atmospheric websites" can better serve organizers — from global event listings, to shared collections of resources, to interoperable social graphs… exciting space here to explore collaboratively!

The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/...

How is ROOST thinking about AI-assisted and agentic engineering in safety-critical open source? A new blog from our team shares observations and the principles guiding our approach, anchored in our mission of online safety for all 🐓 roost.tools/blog/navigat...

I don't think tech at large understands how hard it is to be an open source maintainer right now. So many great folks are on the brink of burnout. Funding is drying out. We live in a security minefield. Companies think humans are disposable. If you're a maintainer, we care. You deserve the world.

Germ DM 3.0.3 is live! We’ve been working on something crucial: making sure all of you can log in! 📲🏃🪂 If you had trouble logging in before, now is a great time to try again. Remember, you can also delete any Germ DM links from your bios.

we need a federation of forges blog.tangled.org/federation/

I really love this blogpost from @zicklag.dev ! It's amazing how he reached, on his own, many of the same insights we had about Quint. People who think specs can be just markdown files don't understand how valuable the thinking we do while writing code is. zicklag.leaflet.pub/3mk527ng7hs2...

also added a few convenience things (a per-collection listRecords endpoint with filtering, etc that combines both public & private records (if authed) and a way to create and manage invites) and been working on groups (those might make migration easier too?) mostly based on @zicklag.dev's blog:

ive decided to just do a thread about the why's and how's of permissioned data in contrail instead of a blog post, cause i'm lazy, so here it goes: 1/9

EmDash now supports Atmosphere login as a first-class identity provider. More details here: docs.emdashcms.com/guides/atmos...

I wrote a thing! Transparency Logs are a cool new piece of technology that I'm very hype about. They're a way to make digital systems more trustworthy and transparency. This is an introduction to them.

I love this essay very much!!!!

Introducing weareonhire! Professional networking platform weareonhire.com

Atmosphere Account is now an Atmosphere App. What started as an account provider page is becoming an App Store-style registry for the Atmosphere: project profiles, discovery, screenshots, reviews, updates, and protocol-native records. Check out the explore page: atmosphereaccount.com/explore

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