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.

Hope everyone had a great summer! The next of our regularly scheduled UCAN community calls is ✨NEXT WEEK✨ Come join and hear about what the community has cooking 🍳 🎟️ luma.com/5w2nmut6

If you are in Vancouver, Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos of "Every Frame A Painting" is having a FREE event called "Where Is Jokes? A Guide to Visual Comedy" at the Beaumont Studios on September 24! Doors open at 6:30 pm, lecture is 7-8 pm, then it's drinks and mingling filmable.ca/events/2025/...

✨🎙️I had a great time chatting with @julianwood.com about local-first back at @gotocon.com Chicago In addition to recording that podcast, the talk that I gave at that conference can also be found here notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Brooke's-Tal...

☁️ Beyond the cloud = local-first software. On today’s #GOTOpodcast, @expede.wtf & @julianwood.com dive into apps that run on your device, sync seamlessly, stay private & empower devs. 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

I've been using the iPadOS 26 Beta, and I hate to say it but the built-in Preview app has fully Sherlocked GoodNotes (for my use case). I feel like a vile turncoat, but also I don't need yet another subscription service just to access my own notes/PDFs... and iPad Preview is honestly pretty decent 🤷🏼‍♀️

Starting in ~45 minutes! DWeb Virtual Meetup—The State of the DWeb: P2P, Local-First, & Where to go from here What are the benefits and challenges of local-first, permission-less, trustworthy p2p networks? Feat. @expede.wtf & Andreas Dzialocha of p2panda RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude One of the first rules you learn about technical writing is, "Know your audience." But often, this sort of advice is given without sufficient weight or practical examples. Instead, you're ushered quickly onto the actual tactile aspects of…

Reposting because we're quickly reaching the point where everybody should be using a VPN for everything

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

I cannot count the number of times the past couple of years I've been checked into flight/hotel/conference and seen my last name spelled as Zelenksky (instead of Zelenka, obvs)

✨🤝 Thanks to everyone that joined us this week for the Automerge Community Call! If you weren't able to make it, here's the recording, including talks by @patternist.xyz and @matheus23.com 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhV4... 📆 Call calendar: lu.ma/automerge 🍂 Next call is September 24!

“The S in MCP stands for security.” — a reminder from @bmann.ca #ProtocolsForPublishers

My second writeup exploring @inkandswitch.com's Keyhive project, this time including a demo of using Keyhive to create groups and delegations in the browser 😊

🎤✨ Excited to give an introduction to local-first software at the (virtual) DWeb Meetup next week! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

The ✨very first✨ of the monthly Automerge Community Call series is happening THIS WEDNESDAY at 9am PT! Talks 🎤😲 ∙ @patternist.xyz: Insights about Automerge 3 internals ∙ @matheus23.com: P2P Automerge Repo with @iroh.computer Come hang out, learn, and ask questions! 👉 Sign up at lu.ma/zv6tpuu4

As someone who's always used lots of em dashes, the latest discourse around "you can tell if something is written by AI if it uses em dashes" is causing me to change how I write so that I pass the Turing Test 😅

The Ink & Switch team is coming through London and we're having a social to share some recent news and research from the lab, and catch up with people in London interested in local first, malleable software, and other similar areas of making better computing. Aug 16th, 6pm in London

Improving Geographical Resilience For Distributed Open Source Teams with FREON In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelevant. Where…

You just reminded me of the Witchcraft library by @expede.wtf witchcrafters.github.io

I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Anyone have suggestions for worthwhile reads on innovation policy and funding? Not concrete programmes, but rather how the state [should] think about it to be more effective? (For context: I'm coming from FOSS grassroots & market background, so gov't behaviour often seems... let's say "strange")

In case anyone missed it, the shiny new Automerge 3 cuts memory usage by over 10x(!), among other quality of life improvements Check out the blog post here: automerge.org/blog/automer... ✨📃👀

Welcome to Bluesky, @automerge.org 🎉

Want to hear about the latest in Automerge? Come join the Community Call Kickoff on August 20 (and sign up for the calendar while you're at it!) lu.ma/zv6tpuu4

Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role! www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer... (Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)

"beelay-iroh-chat" is a proof-of-concept chat app exploring beelay & keyhive from @inkandswitch.com with iroh and tauri: github.com/Zyell/beelay... This is folks from www.symplasma.org working on this.

Because you needed a video of a group of cute otters chasing a butterfly... 😊

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

@expede.wtf got a new piercing thus becoming unrecognisably different to her topologist peers.

It's hot out 🥵 which means it's perfect tepache brewing weather! 🍻🍍🍹 (That yeast is sooo happy)

Thanks to everyone that came to the community call today 🎉🦜✨ Especially big thanks to Chris Waring and @hugomrdias.bsky.social for showing an initial preview of the revamped UCAN website 👏👏👏 ucan-staging.pages.dev

Tomorrow! UCAN is an authentication system that uses web tokens for granting access to resources, rather than relying on a central authority. Lots of overlap with IPFS projects (including @storacha.network) across web2-2.5-3, and we're excited to see the community calls resume.

Automerge 3 is here: the heart transplant is complete! Huge improvements in memory usage and (in most cases) correspondingly big performance improvements too. Backwards compatible on disk and the network so there's no reason not to upgrade today: automerge.org/blog/automer...

I’m ridiculously excited to share that I’ve joined @newpublic.org, working with @clockwerks.bsky.social on their small-but-mighty Local Lab team to build a new product to support local communities come together online in healthy ways.

1/ Had a great time on the ZK podcast chatting about local-first and emerging use cases for programmable cryptography (ZK, HE, MPC) with @goblinoats.com @arro.bsky.social @nicomnbl.bsky.social . I'm excited for more exploration here & I'd love to hear ideas from both local-first & prog crypto worlds

If you configure the Supabase MCP with read-write support it's easy to open yourself up to lethal trifecta attacks where an attacker can e.g. write a message in a support ticket with instructions that cause an MCP client to retrieve and leak data from other tables simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/s...

They had to get through Eds 1 through 25518

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

It didn't work for me even a few weeks ago on a fresh Chrome download — tried now and it works 🎉 Finally: Ed25519 support in all major browsers (Chrome was the holdout) Thanks to @burrito.space , @igalia.com , @protocollabs.bsky.social & many others for ushering this multi-year process through 👏

don’t get distracted! | patreon.com/lubchansky

We got a complimentary uh... health potion? ❤️❤️🩶🧪 (Turns out it's port wine and doesn't recover HP)