It's that week again! The May Automerge community call is TOMORROW ✨ The event page is here: luma.com/wwc9wy97

Bill C-22 is a Canadian government bill around "lawful access" to data, which is a bit of a privacy disaster that has @signal.org saying they would pull out of Canada if implemented as is. I started an open @semble.so collection if you want to add your own links

A new Lab Note by Ink & Switch Researcher John Mumm, "Progressions", about the learnings from composing independent audio tools into Patchwork, part of our malleable software research www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

If anyone is looking for a web engineer, @tokono.ma (ex-Fission & the author of Diffuse elements.diffuse.sh) currently has availability! EU-based but lots of experience working remotely with folks across the pond github.com/icidasset

For anyone that wasn't able to make it to the call last week, the video is up! youtu.be/b2idCRD0Yn0?... See you all in May 📅 luma.com/wwc9wy97

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Trying to think of all the edge cases now. What unexpected paper cuts are in store for me? The thing about passkeys… it is not 1 key = 1 device. A single passkey can be re-used in different browsers, different machines. Thinking about how ahead of its time Fission was, doing password-less.

I've been so heads-down on my own work that I haven't really kept up with who's been doing interesting things recently. Let's fix that: 💡🗣️ Good people of Bluesky: who's doing interesting work/experiments/creative projects that deserve a shout out? cc @bmann.ca @chadfowler.com

Ink & Switch is ten years old this month! We made you a card to celebrate. inkandswitch.com

Happy birthday @inkandswitch.com! Ink & Switch is now 10 years old, and is celebrating with a piece of interactive digital art on www.inkandswitch.com – have a play with it :)

I'd like to announce github.com/MichaelMure/..., a go native @automerge.org implementation. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the rust version (no sync protocol/repos), but has the core CRDT logic and should be reasonably fast. It produces byte identical data, and has the same license.

🎉 We're excited to show what we've been up to on Wednesday at the Automerge Community Call! 📅 luma.com/7cprkq3r Special guest TeamType will show they're using Automerge for collaborative code editing across editors ✨⌨️ teamtype.github.io/teamtype/

An IEEE conference has published a plagiarised version of a paper I wrote with @seph.bsky.social. I already reported it to the conference chairs and the IEEE Ethics Reporting Line 3 months ago, and nothing happened. Original: arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252 Plagiarised: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

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

👏🇭🇺🎉 Good job Hungary!

🤔I wish it was clear why UCANs alone not suffice here. Ability to revoke is important, but it would appear that addressing that would be simpler and more complementary. This isn’t a criticism, it’s desire to seek understanding

Surelock by @expede.wtf is a really fascinating and impressive use of the Rust type system to prevent deadlocks at compile time. I will 100% be using this for future Rust projects. notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock

I know that *technically* the Framework has a "worse" keyboard than my MacBook Pro... but I actually REALLY LIKE IT. Just a biiiit more travel and a satisfying gently bump at the tactile point. (I'm an annoying clicky blue switch person, so I guess this is more in that general direction)

You made it to #twir! this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/04...

🦀🔐☠️ 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...