My current LLM-assisted coding stack: OpenCode, Opus or GLM-5.x, Hetzner VPS Loving that agent harnesses are making inference mostly a commodity!

“in a world full of slop, it takes competence and judgement to discern treasures from disposable waste” kennethnym.com/blog/the-art...

my view on llm text: great for compression horrible for expansion, e.g. i use it to convert 5000 char data into 300 char data but not vice versa, at least prose. code is another story

I’ve been building my own software factory over the past year. It again changed the way how I do software engineering fundamentally - similar delta compared to coding by hand vs using agents. I’m thinking of writing a blog post about it. What are your biggest questions?

Conf schedule is now live: app-2026.localfirstconf.com/schedule

Fascinating podcast episode on the evolution of terminals with Ghostty, tmux, and Claude Code: fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/310/

I created Sparkle a lifetime ago, when I was seventeen. Then I moved onto other things, and kind maintainers dutifully kept that original intrusive modal UI going for two decades. (!!)

Also - it's hard for us to compute the number of "this connection holepunches, but this doesn't", because the network conditions can change during the course of a connection due to moving between networks (Wifi -> cellular, etc.). That's why we mostly measure the ration of direct vs. relayed traffic

@iroh.computer Congrats on 1.0. I'm tinkering around with the getting started docs, thinking about Iroh as a replacement for Tailscale in some personal apps I've built.

new post: how I develop recently using local models. the tooling is now good enough to do agentic workflows and everyone should give them a try! vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/r...

Using AI has brought back my love of homelabbing. It's so nice to ask for a plan for add new services or hunting down issues. I use Warp + markdown memory, but this is a next level setup I want to try: rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-... Are y'all using AI to manage your lab? What are you using it for?

We just released the first stable version of iroh, v1.0! Read about it: www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 We're super proud of where we landed with iroh's 1.0. Since version 0.35 it feels like we've entirely replaced the "engine underneath". Are you a fellow key-dialer? Come tell us how you use iroh!

Fascinated by this lightweight replacement for Caddy or Nginx: su3.io/posts/introd... • Serves a static website straight from a .tar file • Config and dynamic programs done by userspace eBPF modules (sandbox tech from the Linux kernel) • Redeploy with SIGHUP

Whatsapp is critical communication infrastructure in Europe. Made by a US company but with more customers in the EU. Regulation thus gets weird! davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-has... Like payment infrastructure (Visa/Mastercard/Apple Pay), EU could benefit from more digital sovereignty.

okay who's building standard.reader? I want to replace rss and wallabag - follow my subscriptions, rss or standardsite - save a to-read list (also for any article type, readability.js-ified) - annotate via margin records - save / connect with semble - share with skyreader - works offline

Full speaker list is live. Really happy with the breadth of topics this year! Local models, game development, homelab setups, open social protocols... plus the classics like malleable software, sync, and tools for thought. This community keeps me optimistic about user empowerment in computing ❤️

"Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" ❤️

I wrote a custom Bluesky feed! It's a classifier trained my past likes. As a bonus, I got to learn more about recommender systems ("RecSys"). adamwiggins.com/posts/a-blu...

Newsletter subscribers got Dispatch 017 last Thursday: A Peek at Patchwork Progress The next few months will be a blur in the run-up to @localfirstconf.com and the Lab Day we’re hosting as part of it. All our teams are busy prepping the work they’d like to show, polishing features, planning demos.

“Absolutely all AI prose is filler, an expanding foam insulation made of words. LLMs will get better at many, many things. They do not seem to be getting better at this.” samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let...

here's what we're thinking: 1) you have 5 minutes to edit a post 2) you can only edit each posts once 3) images and videos can’t be edited 4) a prominent "edited" badge appears on the post 5) version history is visible to everyone 6) your account has to be at least a week old

I've reviewed talks, this thread is gold for speakers. Only thing I'd add is: don't leave things out! The proposal has to explain any secret sauce. Tell us the best parts so we can get excited for you. A conf is a collaboration. Reviewers want you to succeed.

Phew! Having reviewed 163 CFP submissions for @localfirstconf.com over the last week, I have some thoughts Here's some tips for an effective talk proposal!

The Atmosphere is descending on Berlin this July for two big events: @getdweb.net #DWebCamp July 8th - 12th and @localfirstconf.com July 12th - 14th. Roll call: who is joining in this summer?

tanstack.com/blog/npm-sup... Just published our postmortem

One cool thing we're doing at @jazz.tools is reimagining migrations. Instead of migrating your data, you tell clients how to read it, inspired by @inkandswitch.com's Cambria paper. Last week I built this interactive diagram to show how it works. Check it out in our docs: jazz.tools/docs/schemas...

I think @antirez ds4.c is important! I wrote down my thoughts on why I built pi-ds4 and why we need to focus our local model efforts stronger than we do currently. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/8/loc...

Nice in-depth article on local-first in practice www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/05/arch...

163 CFP submissions for @localfirstconf.com this year That's for 18 available speaking slots, so will be roughly a 10% acceptance rate 😰 CFP committee is putting in extra hours to give each and every one a thorough review

Fascinating discussion on end-user programming and LLM-assisted coding

The Call For Papers closes tomorrow, May 1, at 23:59 Berlin time. Submit your talk now! We aim to get responses to everyone latest by May 15, and announce the full lineup publicly toward the end of May.

Inspired by @hankgreen.bsky.social's fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/a...

Very promising idea! I like Slack for team chat, but identity there is a confusing mess (really belongs to the company, not me). Discord is better identity-wise but the product itself has has looking for alternatives. Most importantly, really showcases the power of ATproto identity.

Success stories: ssh, HTTPS, password managers, e2ee messaging apps. But we need more of such! Asymmetric key cryptography remains an under-exploited technology IMO.

"In the English language, 'equity' often carries multiple things at once. [...] • A legal-fairness dimension: historically tied to equity in law • A financial-accounting dimension: residual value after debt • A cultural dimension: ownership as a path to wealth and agency" Great post:

Ink & Switch is ten years old this month! We made you a card to celebrate. inkandswitch.com

It's astonishing how much time in my day I spend typing in two-factor codes, picking the right Google account, and otherwise trying to convince the computer that I am who I say I am. I believe we can do better. Would love to see talk submissions from anyone working on improving digital identity.

As part of @inkandswitch.com, I'm helping to organize Lab Day, the third day of this year's @localfirstconf.com I'm in Berlin next week, gauging interest in a "meet people interested in / attending Local First Conf" Location TBD Thurs 30th 6:30pm smokesignal.events/did:plc:2cxg...

Announcing Progress Conference 2026 Speakers this year include the Director of DARPA, co-CEO of Waymo, and two Nobel Laureates. Back at the beautiful Lighthaven campus in Berkeley, Oct 8–11 It's going to be great! Apply for an invitation: rootsofprogress.org/conference

" Using these new technologies to make the world more local-first, especially maybe parts that have been resistant to that. Breaking down data silos is one of the biggest ones that's been such a long running topic at Ink & Switch with projects like Cambria." @adamwiggins.com

Passkeys are absolutely the best thing to happen to login flows in decades. But I agree with @danabra.mov — the UI copy in Google, 1Password, etc makes the mental model challenging to grasp But this pretty much nails it:

"The story of computing is one of taking these computing things that are originally are heavy and slow and require a room size computer and making them smaller and cheaper and faster. And that just opens up all kinds of new use cases." @adamwiggins.com

As someone who is contributing to both local-first and atproto I am delighted to see these communities moving closer together. We have a lot of principles and values in common

ATproto 🤝 local-first

With two weeks left in the Local-First Conf CFP window, you might be wondering who judges the submissions. Pleased to announce this year’s committee: @adamwiggins.com, @geoffreylitt.com, @schickling.dev, and @bumble.blue This group has serious credentials. Details in the thread 👇

" The data is something that has a longer lifespan. It can move with you from product to product. " @adamwiggins.com

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

The role local-first can play in the software industry: encourage us all to think longer-term.

" Where do I back it up? Can I delete it, can I duplicate it, et cetera. There's a version of that for nations. And I think that's a little bit what Europe is grappling with right now." @adamwiggins.com

" One funny aspect of GDPR, like maybe one intended or unintended consequence, is that GDPR has had a massive impact on data compatibility." @schickling.dev