I'm visiting Copenhagen and a little beach village near Malmo in a few weeks. What are some must-dos for bike, city, and playground nerds?

I can't wait for self-driving cars, but I want the ones that are actually good at driving. momentummag.com/first-waymo-...

Credible exit, the app version. Yet another reason I'm long atproto (and Bluesky too). Building a bigger pie together.

UCAN and Iroh *both* reaching v1.0 this week? Smells like a conspiracy.

I think this includes the 3x a month I'm on Instagram, but accidentally click a Threads post and then immediately close out of it.

These kids are 5 and 6 years old, and they rode 7 miles round trip to a waterfront park this weekend, almost all on off-street paths/trails. Philly has lots of work to do, but we've put some good stuff on the ground too just within their little lifetimes. @bcgp.bsky.social

Congrats to the @iroh.computer team on reaching v1.0! Incredibly impressed with your relentless pursuit of magically simple utility and performance.

🧵 I've been wracking my brain around ATProto onboarding. Why do all ATProto apps make you create a new account before you can do anything interesting? Why don't we let people start with an email address or phone #? Then claim your identity if/when the need actually arises.

Magic aka transit!

As with most frontier technologies, we're better off regulating via normal ethical & legal frameworks than throwing our hands up at the altar of innovation. Don't ban AI entirely, but hold companies and people responsible for harms created by irresponsible AI use.

Sportsball is nice and all, but did you see what Wout did today at the Dauphiné?!

Wow, @brookie.blog is just out there shipping bangers with the product and UX instincts of a saber-toothed tiger. Youandme.at Userinput.app

I'm sorry, I take it back, noone should build for communities. It's the new "ecosystem" and too generic. Build for the 12 people on a google group, who take care of a neighborhood park daily and are also the 141st chapter of a 3-year-old citywide organizing and resource sharing network.

Completely redesigned Market Street in Old City opened today. This doesn't even look like America! (complimentary) cc @bcgp.bsky.social @5thsqadvocacy.org

Nobody wants to send their data to an Ashburn datacenter anymore. Europe & India are leading the charge. A few case studies:

Posting for a friend: any experienced fullstack devs out there interested in a midsize contract project? Filebase, atproto, tailwindcss. Fondness for vintage cars a plus but not required.

Another banger from @rosael.bsky.social: How bicycling paved the way for modern highways. www.history.com/articles/goo... Makes me wonder what other self-owns we're setting up for 100 years from now.

Meta is so unserious. A day after @404media.co published this, a friend was still able to recover an old account (for good!) with this hack. www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Didn't realize @chrisrabb.com introduced a PA House bill for ranked-choice voting last fall. Huge if passed. www.tristatealert.com/pa-rep-reint...

Floating point numbers would be AMAZING to have on the atproto for scientific data - a huge amount of data is floating point, and not being able to have them here adds a lot of complexity to posting things. This is a great proposal from @vmx.cx that demonstrates how they could be added:

Kinda incredible that a long-term solution to growing Philly's economy has been proposed since 2009 and gone nowhere.

Apropros of the 250th: "Honoring the origins of our republic doesn't mean going back to the 18th century. It means being rebels in our own time. It means demanding freedom, aiming for something radically better in the future." -- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

@septaphilly.bsky.social's plan for potential criminal charges for students who skip the swipe is so backwards. Use carrots not sticks, especially for minors! Free Pizza Hut if you swipe a lot! www.inquirer.com/education/se...

PA-03: Stanford: was my vote until financial mismanagement reveals. Street: business as usual. Rabb: can't tell if he can actually lead/pass legislation, but a safe progressive vote. I'm reluctantly voting for Rabb. If you want a candidate to get excited about, it's Sierra MacNeil for HD195!

Friends from the Internet! This Thursday, join us for CID Congress — with a session dedicated to SCIENCE and what fun content-addressed data can do there! luma.com/ptrjn16w

Phlebotomist complaining about her commute: "It's 40m in traffic and people drive crazy. At least Roosevelt Blvd is much better though with the, you know..." Me: "The speed cameras?" Her: "Yeah!" So good to hear how widely @familiesforsafestreets.org @bcgp.bsky.social touch everyday lives.

Good thread. We need a vision of the positive future to rally *for*, rather than playing whack-a-mole with everything to stand against.

Let's say ~50 neighbors are ready to organize for traffic calming at a number of intersections around a local park. Alongside 311 requests and CM dialogue, any examples of other design/documentation helpful in moving this stuff forward? Annotated maps? Videos? Writeups?

AI chatbot (character dot ai) said it was licensed to practice psychiatry and gave a fake license #. Heck of a hallucination. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

The world is wide and wonderful, and talking to (& building for) non-devs is gonna be essential for atproto to grow. What are you waiting for?

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 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽