🦀🔐☠️ Tired of deadlocks? Me too! Here's a post about a library that I've been working on to help wrangle the problem in Rust notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

So... it begins 🐧 ❄️

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!

Amazing talks from @rvirding.bsky.social & @expede.wtf on local-first systems and @whatyouhi.de on agentic Elixir. More coming after the break! 🚀

✨🌅 Thanks to everyone that attended the Automerge Community Call earlier today, during the strange few weeks where Europe & North America have different daylight savings schedules! 🍿 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNro... 📆 Looking forward to seeing everyone next month! luma.com/7cprkq3r

Excited to give a joint talk with @rvirding.bsky.social at @codebeam.bsky.social Vancouver in one week! (CofeBEAM finally made it to my city 🎉⚗️🧙‍♀️✨)

A keynote you won’t want to miss at @codebeam.bsky.social! @rvirding.bsky.social and @expede.wtf explore how Erlang’s ideas — from telecom switches to CRDTs — still shape modern distributed systems. codebeamvancouver.com/talks/redist...

CfP is open! May 1 — CFP closes May 15 — candidates notified June 1 — speakers announced June 15 — schedule announced We want to hear from YOU!

Me: "ugh the world is messed up, I'm going for a walk outside" Outside: "hey so the world is ending, you may as well invest"

Software should be fun, actually

Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups? One of the recent topics in Messaging App Discourse is whether it makes sense to prioritize End-to-End Encryption when searching for an alternative to Discord. Who's Saying "No"? I'm going to quote 0xabad1dea here, because she is awesome and…

@expede.wtf and @patternist.xyz presenting Automerge and Keyhive

In 9 days from now, join the #LocalFirst and #CRDT devroom at #fosdem26 #fosdem in Brussels! @expede.wtf @patternist.xyz @automerge.org @inkandswitch.com

Let's say ✨ purely hypothetically ✨ I was interested in finding cloud hosting outside of the reach of the USA's shifting whims, does anyone have recommendations? I hear good things about Hetzner's Finland data center but haven't looked deeply yet (Maybe @bmann.ca has thoughts?)

I recently wrote some thoughts on wrapping Rust libraries for Wasm plus a couple patterns that I use to make wasm-bindgen feel a bit more manageable. No silver bullets here but maybe some sensible defaults (fight me in the comments 😛) notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-o...

@patternist.xyz and I are talking about @automerge.org and Keyhive at @fosdem.org 2026 in the @localfirst.bsky.social room 🎉 If you're attending FOSDEM, come say hi! openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#4...

✨📝 I’m excited to be on the program committee for PaPoC 2026 (conference for consistency for distributed data)! The call for papers and lightening talks is up here: papoc-workshop.github.io/2026/ and closes 23 Jan 2026. Looking forward to reading everyone’s submissions 👀

⚗️✨ Vancouver, Seattle, (and other Cascadian!) Elixir & Erlang folks: the CfP closes soon! Time to send those talks!! #elixir #erlang #beam #vancouver

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

CodeBEAM is coming to Vancouver 🎉 Here's a link to the CFP

I gave probably the most well received talk I've ever given last week about building "Networks of Consent" and about moving computing towards greater agency and empowerment spui25.nl/programma/we... And the recording is up already! Lovely event!

A first look at #localfirst Feathers + @automerge.org - Collaborative offline-capable real-time apps without a backend feathers.dev/blog/posts/2...

So much good stuff happening at @inkandswitch.com these days! www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/...

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!

Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types spritely.institute/news/composi... Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!

Immigrants make our communities stronger.

We've got two lightning talks confirmed for next weeks London event: Building new tools for Science * Agnes Cameron will tell us about Malleable Knitting Software * Adewale Oshineye will share GeistFabrik, a Python-based divergence engine for Obsidian vaults. ~10 spots left if you want to join

🚀🚀🚀 I'm doin' a signal boost! I just met Vanessa, an early-career dev with great energy looking for work! Interested in games and webdev, and working on a PS1-style game in her spare time. (Contact info is on her website) 👀 queenofsquiggles.codeberg.page

Ink & Switch is hosting another Social in London on Nov. 11th at the Alan Turing Institute. I'll share some early scientific work in Patchwork, & Marcel will give a peek at the Playbook programmable ink system. Also, lightning talks about "surprises in software". RSVP here: luma.com/71g0lhgo

Thanks to everyone that attended the community call today! 🍿 For those that couldn't make it, here's the recording featuring @patternist.xyz, @nikgraf.bsky.social, @daffl.xyz, @spiralganglion.com, and @seaofclouds.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwOw...

Join us this Wednesday for the Automerge Community Call ("Spoooooky Edition" 🎃👻)! Come find out about the latest updates, get some the behind-the-scenes of our shiny new website, and see some demos of what folks are building with Automerge! 📆 Event page: luma.com/acd77awg

I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top? This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.

I love the last section of the ATmosphereConf announcement post: > We Can Just Do Things. > Together.

We have a shiny new website courtesy of @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com 🙌 🚀 Check it out: automerge.org

🎮 Like CRDTs and videogames? @inkandswitch.com is ✨hiring✨ for a project that combines @automerge.org with @godotengine.org to make the next generation of collaboration tools for game development! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-i... (Fully remote 🌍🌎🌏 contract, late Nov to April)

Join us tomorrow for the ✨🎃October UCAN Community Call 🎟️✨ luma.com/a96oxz0w

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111... free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

use a debugger stat!

As we all know, when two women love each other very much they... start adopting more cats! Say hi to Luna 🐈‍⬛✨ She's possibly the cuddliest kitten I've ever met, & purrs loudly + gives headbutts whenever she's picked up 😻 Luna was adopted via VOKRA (www.vokra.ca) who were great the whole way through

It's pretty cool that Ink & Switch is contributing to this big ARIA programme now. We get two big things out of it: funding (obviously) but also a community of fascinating creators and problems to connect with. I'm learning all about the UK power grid this week. www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/d...

Welcome to the capabilities family, @cloudflare.social! Awesome to see capabilities finding adoption in lots of places 🚀✨

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

The rate has increased: now at 6 families asking for info on leaving the USA for Canada so far *this week*. (Probably should start turning the random list of links into a more public resource)

There is no thriving #Haskell community without its members of the LGBT community, and on that there cannot be any compromise.

😲 We have a ✨packed✨ agenda for the September edition of the Automerge Community Call on the 24th! Updates & talks featuring @chee.party, @daffl.me, @spiralganglion.com, @seaofclouds.com, @patternist.xyz, @expede.wtf, and John Mumm! Don't miss out — RSVP here: luma.com/70fuozje

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.