It's really heartening to read about all the Pulitzer winners today. "Democracy dies in darkness" is the phrase that springs to mind. I just learned that it came from legendary federal judge and civil rights icon Damon Keith, in a 2002 opinion on warrantless wiretapping.

Cathedral of the umbrella magnolia

In Philly tonight, great energy; lots of folks out & about. A little Uber Eats delivery robot was trying to cross a busy intersection w people everywhere. everyone started laughing & talking & connecting w each other over this clunky and confused robot. It was people v tech and people were winning😂

Caught in the rain, but got an incredible rainbow for my troubles.

Fascinating article on Norwegian vs. Ethiopian styles of elite running training. "In Ethiopia, it is the ability to run in a way that protects your own and others’ energy that is seen as the primary skill of an endurance athlete." aeon.co/essays/what-...

@norman.life is *cooking*

Idk let's ask the crowd! When I look at a Github profile, I'm drawn to: - top repos - what langs you work in, and do you contribute to big-scale things or mostly personal projects. - check for social links/click on websites (which sifa already does) - activity graph What about you?

A big part of Github's stickiness is the social proof + resume of your activity history. Is there an easy omni-identity that combines your GitHub, Gitlab, @tangled.org, and @radicle.dev activity into a single view? Might lower the risk of starting new repos on emerging platforms.

Start with the house you want to build, not the hammer nor the nail.

Philly: @bcgp.bsky.social is advocating for 3 statewide bills to make streets safer for all. Want to help? Register for the April 30 call/training and June 9th Harrisburg day! give.bicyclecoalition.org/event/parkin...

Hello hello. I would like a way for people to create atmosphere accounts with an email or phone number please, Privy-style.

This could be super useful for journalists and local civics nerds — in one place, neighborhood-level shapefiles and 2020 demographic data for 206 US cities that have "city-defined neighborhoods" paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Told my kids about some new neuroscience stuff and they immediately started slicing the brains off their toys.

Working toward a pathway to floats in atproto. Microblogging doesn't need floats, but science (especially geospatial) will.

Last year, the IPFS Foundation introduced a new protocol suite (DASL!) and grants program, both lean and modular. I wrote up what we funded in Year 1, what shipped, and what we learned. ipfsfoundation.org/ipfs-data-ut...

I'm in Mamdani's New York today and it is *so much* quieter than I remember living in. Ironically it's everyone else who made it happen. First proposed by the Bloomberg admin, shaped by MTA's Allison L.C. de Cerreño, built by Janno Lieber, finally shipped by Kathy Hochul. Cities are a team sport!

Huh. You can just watch @mosh.bsky.social outline an MBA-level framework (the good parts) custom tailored to building atproto apps. Even on a Monday that’s WILD. atmosphereconf.org/event/BzrpDQK

That you can have this much public fun surrounded by the most boring-ass municipal offices is a testament to both good design + good culture!

Bluesky posts are loading, but replies (and autocomplete) are not. Did they solve Reply Guys for the whole internet? If so 👏👏👏

Bluesky appview is back up, but post replies aren't (@ autocomplete too) If this is their solution to Reply Guys then 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@github.com I'm seeing an issue when signed out where trying to load pages gives a 401, even if the repo is public. Just me, or is this a wider problem?

I have been radicalized by math.

Ok internet. Should I, a regular person, try to get tickets to the FIFA World Cup this summer? And how would I even do this?

Arepasposting

Are you ready to dazzle, bedazzle, and be dazzled? Because this coming Thursday is DASLing Group day! We're getting: • New video primitives MUXL & S2PA from @iame.li • The Radworks local-first app launcher from @norman.life • And more! Don't miss out! luma.com/yv4v1lba

Innovation doesn't always happen in greenfield environments. Nice work from @iroh.computer connecting legacy payment terminal hardware in new, robust ways. www.iroh.computer/blog/paycode

Are you (yes *you*!) using IPFS gateways on a regular basis? If so, please be in touch. We have a next-generation alternative that's better in many ways and we'd like people to test it hard.

Seems like a good night to plug this fun, epic, and hopeful novel set in the 1980s space shuttle program. Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

Anyone else nervous about this post-splashdown comms loss?

The best of humanity.

Like Bluetooth. Be like Bluetooth.

Came for the love, stayed for the budget meeting and contract reviews. How's your morning going?

Waiting at Herman's. Listen to the fantastical-sounding drinks ahead of me: Brown butter banana bread latte Bergamot honey green tea Brown butter banana bread latte (again)

Excellent talk about the successes & failures of migrating an academic community to Bluesky, with some recos at the end.

Hey @zooko2.bsky.social (and other BLAKE3 connoisseurs) I think we hit a bit of a wall in trying to add BLAKE3 to github.com/WICG/webcryp.... Main issue is no RFC, only internet-draft. Is there ongoing work to move this to RFC? Can we/ipfs help somehow?

Interesting paper from CMU, recapped by Mark Headd: the initial "sugar rush" of AI-enabled dev velocity creates tech debt, slowing feature development back to baseline after 2 months. (Mitigations include clear agent instruction files & agent-assisted review.) allthingsopen.org/articles/ope...

TIL Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch is an Eagles and Phillies fan??

Today I passed the nearly-complete Washington Ave connector. Grade-separated bike & walking path. Benches, planters, blossoming trees. Also saw a vid of the new bike/ped swing bridge swinging! It's almost like Philly CAN have nice things. We just need to do this systematically and 25x faster.

what's your ai strategy? what's your quantum computing strategy? what's your ww3 strategy? what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy? what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy? what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?

Bringing in new audiences is the *only* way to grow this pie. We should all be spending >half our time engaging with & building for people who haven't heard of atproto yet.

Two gems jammin' about squids, science, optimism, and community 🦑

"The density of the bonds is what makes the joy so intense, and the density of the bonds is what makes the friction cut so deep." connectedplaces.online/reflections-... You nailed it @laurenshof.online.

On the scale of 1 to epic

Entering the matrix...

Pearson has a true gift for framing the case for safer streets in ways that are very hard to argue with.

My love letter to the atproto community, a talk called "Feature / Product / Business" at @atmosphereconf.org. Slides: ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei... Recording: atmosphereconf-vods.wisp.place/videos/featu...

Have any #Atmosphere builders used Claude to help with your business plan or funding model? How did it go?

Back home from Vancouver, and it feels like #ATmosphereConf barely started. Got to high-five a lot of internet friends and meet wonderful new ones. Wish I had more time! Next year I'm hosting a lo-fi lounge for people to hang in small groups.

Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!

Good morning, Day 2! @robin.berjon.com will be sharing Matadisco, a system for publishing metadata for open data at 4:40. Come find him or @mosh.bsky.social to talk open data discovery, DASL.ing, or webtil.es! #atmosphereconf