Hey bsky! I’m working on an experimental hypertext tool, using Typescript. Among other things, it supports mermaid diagrams. What else might people want to embed in their hypertexts?

A brand-new, highly-experimental Storyspace variant. (This is an excerpt from my 2016 THOSE TROJAN GIRLS—happy birthday, little story!). Anyone notice what’s unusual here?

Team #Tinderbox: it's Monday, and there’s a new backstage release!

Team #Tinderbox: a brand-new backstage release is out

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release

Team #Tinderbox! There’s a really big backstage release. Enjoy!

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release

Tinderbox 11.6: www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/up... AI Integration — let your AI take hypertextual notes Better search MultiMarkdown (and great styled text) Better maps

Do you say "please" and "thank you" to Claude Code? *Should* you?

Team #Tinderbox: there's ANOTHER new backstage release with (I hope) some cheerful news!

Team #Tinderbox: Claude and Gemini can now look over your shoulder and see the view you're looking at. Plus more updates. All backstage.

I usually get asked a lot of questions about the situation in the US when I’m in Germany. But it hits different when you have coffee with your in-law grandma, a Holocaust survivor, and she says: “What is your plan? This is not 1933 anymore, it feels more like ‘38. Don’t wait too long.”

Why @mark-carney.bsky.social 's speech yesterday was so effective and important. (By me. Main points before paywall; detailed annotation after.) fallows.substack.com/p/a-speech-f...

Third call today from (allegedly) QuickBooks, trying to get information about our usage. I assume this is a scam, but what is the angle?

I have spent years of my life studying People Magazine and if this happened last year I would be floored — the magazine felt much more like an SEO farm than even a celebrity publication — but this is very much in line with *very* recent messaging

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release is out!

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.

The more things change… 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web, by @eastgate.bsky.social – August 16, 2002 #blogs #blogging #writing #OldGold #AListApart #WritingForTheWeb #LivingWeb #eastgate

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Team #Tinderbox: There’s a new backstage release. It’s more rapid than eagles.

Artisanal Intelligence: crafting fine software tools for writers, thinkers, and creators. www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

Team #Tinderbox: Tinderbox 11.5 is out! www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ And there's already a new backstage release as well.

Winter Festival of Artisanal Software! The year of *artisanalk intelligence* www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

If a new CEO of Mozilla took an oath to restore the web to its former greatness, they would find a lot of business models open to them. Instead, they’re trying to be part of the tech industry which places no value on the web being a place for open development. blog.kingcons.io

This is horrifying. Please sign and share. #academicbluesky #classicsbluesky 🏺

People of Virginia: Go ahead with the 10-1 Dem-Rep gerrymander of your commonwealth. It's the only fair thing to do. It's your duty to history. (My home state of Calif pioneered non-partisan re-districting commissions, but that was then.)

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

Team Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.

Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits. Good news for Zotero fans!

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

The AI doesn't like my writing. That's OK, the article is about how I don't like how the AI writes.

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

I miss the FDA

THE OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL! Pre-order your copy so you'll be the first to get it: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release

Book launch, funeral, gala, date night, dinner party, deadline. Life.

Coming in May... Preorders are open! There's a cover & a sell page & everything! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...

One year ago

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Remember “The web is dead, long live the Internet”? We’ve been down this road before. 

TONIGHT in PVD: Join me to celebrate the publication of Guardians & Saints: Stories, just out from Cornerstone Press. Where: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, 60 Valley St., Providence RI When: 6 pm Read more about the book and the launch here: heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Just got Tinderbox (www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) talking with Gemini-CLI. The two seem to get along pretty well :)

While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.

alistapart.com/article/desi...

@jilltxt.bsky.social Happy birthday, I believe.

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

The distilled essence of America in late August 2025.

Yesterday's watercolor practice: winter evening at Black Rock Beach.