After helping recover/restore 3 accounts this week, it's so crazy to me you can just back up your social identity and restore it no matter what. That's just so cool and really sets atproto apart from anything else.

If you're in the #ATProtocol space and contribute to applications and SDKs, have a hobby project, self-host services, or experiment and tinker in the ATmosphere, consider submitting a proposal to share your experience. forms.atprotocol.community/r/wAVDkk

Join us for Step Into Vision Office Hours every Friday at 2:00 PM (Eastern US) Learn more and find out how to join stepinto.vision/about-office...

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Louder for the people in the back 📣 Managing infra, hosting accounts, supporting user issues, dealing with incidents and outages, software updates, security updates, dna cost, server cost, etc. is the unpaid, undervalued, and underacknowledged labor of this community

Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, EFF discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Another guest lab from Michael Temper, showing how entities move in World, Local and Object Space. #visionOS #SwiftUI #RealityKit stepinto.vision/labs/lab-095...

Just posted the meetup page today & our December 4 Unreal NYC event is half full ! Run, don't walk, to sign up here: www.meetup.com/unrealengine... Hosted @svanyc.bsky.social Food & swag @epicgames.alt.store.ap.brid.gy Andrew Delgado, Journey Yu-Jun Yeh, Agile Lens Ajinkya Hukerikar, Zero Density

Do you want to hang out with the best visionOS community? We have two weekly meetings for you! @coderox.bsky.social and @elkraneo.bsky.social hosts the Wednesday meeting. @vrhermit.com hosts the Friday meeting. Find these and other events on our calendar stepinto.vision/events/

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026: Steam Controller Steam Machine Steam Frame.  Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

Algorithm show Valve my Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn for Steam Frame port! 🙏 Algorithm show Valve my Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn for Steam Frame port! 🙏 Algorithm show Valve my Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn for Steam Frame port! 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Lab 094 is a guest post provided by @michaeltemper.bsky.social Using a Draw Component and System to visualize the position of a given entity's pivot point in space. stepinto.vision/labs/lab-094...

Bonfire Social is a kind of social network construction kit that federated via ActivityPub and plans bridging via @anew.social They’re doing a crowdfund bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfir...

I made it my goal to publish something useful for visionOS developers every single day of 2025. I've been sticking to that goal for ten months now! #visionOS #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision

The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual science advocacy training on how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democracy. Thursday, November 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET.

I've used this a ton over the last few months. It's about time I get around to publishing some examples on Gesture Component

Today we have a quick article with a few details about using Gesture Component in visionOS 26. We'll build on these concepts soon. stepinto.vision/example-code...

📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android

The Step Into Newsletter for this week out! Catch up with the latest code examples, explore immersive web environments, find great resources, and learn all about the new M5 powered Apple Vision Pro. stepinto.vision/articles/ste...

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It's Friday and your four favorite newsletters just dropped Snapp Mobile ios-newsletter.snappmobile.io/index.html diff visionOS it-guy-technologies.kit.com/posts/issue-... Create with Swift www.createwithswift.com/weekly-newsl... Step Into Vision stepinto.vision/articles/ste...

Apple's visionOS-focused cozy-WWDC, "Create immersive media experiences for visionOS", will be streamed live on YouTube next week. www.youtube.com/@AppleDevelo...

Reminder: anyone who signed up for the Shared Visions Project. You were sent an email to join the Discord server on Oct 1. If you didn't get it, please let me know. We're holding our first community meeting tomorrow, all the event info is in the Discord. stepinto.vision/articles/sta...

Want to hangout with the best of the visionOS community? We have two weekly meetings you should know about. Join us Wednesdays and Fridays for Step Into Vision Office Hours. stepinto.vision/about-office...

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

The Danish Presidency is pushing a dangerous proposal in the EU that would allow the government to scan all our private communications. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Read our new article: Deep Dive into Manipulation on visionOS. These features provide a standardized next step for creating a native input system for Apple Vision Pro apps. #visionOS #RealityKit #SwiftUI #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision/articles/dee...

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Do me a favor and go boost this on the forum. I'd really like to learn (and share) more about the new Unified Coordinate Conversion features in visionOS 26 developer.apple.com/forums/threa...

TikTok’s US operations are changing hands and will be retraining the algo on US-only data. No word yet on whether a new app is needed. Meanwhile, @skylight.social — the TikTok of the atmosphere — is seeing massive growth this week. 🔗 skylight.social

Big news for AR creators. Vision3D is now free. Build, paint, and publish immersive AR worlds on Vision Pro, iPad, and iPhone.

Today's a great day to sign up for my ATProtocol OAuth Masterclass in 2 weeks. There are 3 sessions (Oct 4th, 6th, and 8th) with 15/30 seats left. Proceeds go towards my open source development and publicly available infrastructure. ti.to/ngerakines/a...

Taps on glass: 😒 youtu.be/iaeBnYLNXgQ?...

We've curated a list of twenty-six features and APIs that every Apple Vision Pro developer should know. See what visionOS 26 can offer your apps. #visionOS #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #SwiftUI #RealityKit stepinto.vision/articles/twe...

Step Into Vision Office Hours is the absolute best place to hang out with visionOS developers. We recently updated our schedule to include a second meeting. Join us every Wednesday & Friday! #visionOS #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision/about-office...

🔐 ATProtocol OAuth Masterclass - Fall 2025 3-hour deep dive into everything I wish I knew after 400 days building with ATProtocol OAuth. From DIDs to DPoP, PKCE to production. Recording included. This is my "Hard-won lessons from the trenches" talk. ti.to/ngerakines/a...

More than 500 researchers have signed an open letter against the dangerous EU proposal on chat control. The proposal remains ineffective, undoes decades of results in E2E encryption, and threatens the privacy of half a billion citizens. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

We're creating an immersive documentary about the Apple Vision Pro community. We are currently gathering volunteers and collaborators who want to help on this project. Check out the trailer and learn how to get involved. #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing youtu.be/OgR18AbxPRI

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here: github.com/swicg/genera... #activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

Tim was kind enough to have me back on Vision Pros to talk visionOS 26. The episode is out now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

In-headset view of my new Apple Vision Pro Vibescape immersive environment, The Void: remastered! True displacement maps receive light and cast shadows on every little element. So much detail! Really sells the sense of immersion. (Boosted shadows for social video.) Follow for more!

I'm gratified that 30 people have signed up for the Shared Visions Project. We're working on a space for the community to plan, discuss, and collaborate. More coming soon stepinto.vision/articles/sha...

We're gathering a community of volunteers and collaborators to create an immersive documentary about the Apple Vision Pro community. Check out the trailer and learn how to get involved. #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing stepinto.vision/articles/sha...

Step Into Newsletter - August 29, 2025 Expanding the scope of Step Into Visions and a huge announcement. As always, lots of goodies from the community. #AppleVisionPro #visionOS #SpatialComputing stepinto.vision/articles/ste...

What is Step Into Vision Office Hours? A regular meeting where visionOS developers and designers can hang out. A place where we can support each other, talk about projects we're working on, and explore ideas. Join is every Friday. stepinto.vision/about-office...

We're always interested to see platforms going beyond profit as their north star and innovating new governance structures. A cooperative giving agency and ownership back to users might avoid the toxicity and chaos of chasing engagement and growth at all costs. communities.social

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Tomorrow marks one year since the launch of Step Into Vision! If the work we've done so far has been useful or interesting to you, please consider supporting this ongoing project. We have so much more to bring to the Apple Vision Pro. ko-fi.com/stepinto/goa...

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