If This Then AT:// (IFTTA) is now open source under the MIT license! Build powerful automation workflows triggered by any event in the ATProtocol ecosystem. Lexicon-agnostic and ready for the decentralized social web. GitHub: github.com/graze-social/iftta

Thanks Cunningham’s Law! bsky.app/profile/gord...

Global electricity consumption is 186,383 TWh = 186,383,000 gigawatt-hours. ~40% is already clean energy, so 111,829,800 GwH to go. In the first half of 2025, the world installed 380 GW, averaging over 2 GW per day. 153,191 years to install remaining capacity at this rate. More and faster please!

"We can limit the magnitude of the crisis driving discontinuity. Once unleashed, though, discontinuity is not a problem we can solve. It is the context in which we solve problems." I still wish more people understood this.

this is a great and important effort! even with PLC moving out of Bluesky PBC it is important to have more replicas, especially with regional diversity and the ability to "step in" and accept ops if needed. strong endorse work in this direction.

also this

As a promising avenue for unifying physics and biology, assembly theory (AT) has been subject of controversy, being both praised and refuted at the same time. What is its current status? Has it really quantified selection and evolution?/1 #complexitycat🐈‍⬛ amahury.github.io/posts/demyst...

this book rocks

Yes there's two: 1. WebAuthn PRF extension lets you locally generate random bytes, and is now widely supported github.com/w3c/webauthn... 2. Total hack, but if no PRF, you can bounce a WebAuthn request off a browser service worker which fakes being a remote server

context + tools = agent’s umwelt

Woohoo! Moving did:plc to an independent org and then decentralizing it fixes the strongest technical criticism of atproto. Would love to see did:plc quickly be decentralized to the degree that DNS root servers are. Mirrors w/library support for using the mirrors, even if readonly. Then make a v2!

New interface paradigms need new input paradigms.

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

I find this to be one useful way to think about the aesthetic effect a generator is trying to achieve. Are we trying to emphasize the experience of the individual generated artifact, the contrast between similar generated artifacts, or the gestalt experience of interacting with all of the artifacts?

little guys, too cheap to meter

The Holy Grail for web apps is when my Passkey can unlock local private data.

The core tenant of user agency is a credible path of exit. skyfall.dev/posts/slack

I am forced to concede that two-way data binding is nice sometimes actually

it’s because of this effect small improvements in error rates cause drastic downstream behavior on long horizon tasks bsky.app/profile/timk...

Perez doesn't miss.

Three things I'm thinking about at the moment: 1. Perez's Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technol...

coordination failure is the default

i heard u like transcludes

if by “address book” they mean PLC (i assume), it’s sort of true but misses important nuance. we’re not actually able to mess around with the PLC content because the records there are recursively signed. so the degree of control is limited by design. the plan is to move it out as independent entity

Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"

and read substacks… subprime attention bubble

What if, an AppView that's really lazy, and only watches for events from people you follow or that are otherwise relevant to you, and that also could run in your browser.

When you knuckle down to learn a craft—woodworking, programming, music, whatever—it quickly becomes apparent how high the bar of human performance actually is. Almost everywhere you look, people are doing extraordinary things. That's wonderful!

Vibe coding is like whipping up quick props with a 3D printer. It's not quite ready for massive applications, but it's a slick hack for patching small coding hiccups—like using duct tape to fix a leaky pipe. The results might look janky, but it gets the job done.

Post-collapse computing will be reborn out of the ashes of disposable vapes

I want to make software that feels like Music for 18 Musicians www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlg...

oh gosh could you imagine, Steve Reich's Music for 18 Claudes

I personally see collapse as an inevitability for every individual institution. Nothing lasts forever. The smart way to build systems is to enable reforms so that they can adjust to reality without destroying what works in the process. This is pretty baked into the philosophy of Bluesky

if only there were a decentralized, immutable, and versioned way to fix this!

There’s plenty of room at the bottom.

remember when inevitable model collapse was a thing? it’s kind of crazy. they wrote a paper about collapse being possible, and then vague tweeted it into “inevitable”, where it’s really not hard to imagine synthetic data being helpful

I think I might spin out the signals store and signals reducer from Spellcaster into a stand-alone library that you can use with @lit.dev and other libraries that use ECMA signals polyfill.

in NL i regularly see websites, both private and govt, which don't require an account to use (let alone require an app). cookies + local storage... that's it! always fantastic UX b/c there's no barrier to start using - no signup junk, no 2fa dance. wonder why... a regulation? a specific school??

"A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates" -- Neil Postman

you can fork it.

“Trust-minimized scaling can be described as the following strategy: Solve every problem, at every scale, with the minimal mutual trust required among participants for success.” contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/beyond-sza...

I think the web is in fact dying as a platform and could use some active revitalization efforts, but they need to focus on the core problems including: - Link rot and lack of mirroring (#1 issue because it means user churn cascades) - Websites are too inconvenient to set up and maintain

Thanks to @yoshikiohshima.bsky.social I found the Alan Kay story that this reminded me of. From "The Early History of Smalltalk": worrydream.com/EarlyHistory...

Posted some of my own notes on Shlok Khemani's (excellent and comprehensive) notes on how Claude and ChatGPT's memory implementations differ from each other simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/...

Well I'll be damned. I might have to switch phones after all even if all the new ones are oversized. Unfortunate this looks opt-in for third-party apps. I wonder how much adoption there will be. Hopefully WhatsApp and Signal will adopt it right away?

I went to the El Farol bar and it was not too crowded.

a horrifying realization — less structure is more scalable pretraining was easy to scale bc there’s no labels, the most you can “design” is filtering for quality RL is in an unknown state where it feels promising but it’s not yet apparent how to do it fully without structure

Jakob von Uexküll was born OTD in 1864. Each animal inhabits its own individual "umwelt," comprising only those aspects of the world that are relevant to its survival and flourishing. 🌱🐋🦫🦋 #HistSTM #evolbio #philsci #psychsky 🧪

Shadow DOM encapsulation is nice, and honestly much simpler than having a framework rewrite your CSS query selectors. I am enjoying living in the future.