since it's not a guarantee i ever manage to find the will to bring it to fruition i will detail my idea: tiny microblogging platform, but instead of "feeds", you create "circles", they can be public or whitelisted, it's not private, more like advanced thread gating

"I'll just make one more web component..." Then the next thing you know it's 2 am. #devlog

Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

Free stickers still available ! :) Happy Valentine’s Day <3

one year ago. i think it (and constellation) has aged fairly well :)

In the future, I imagine the world will have graph of cryptographic links between people, and PRs will be accepted or denied based on the number of verifications the contributor has -- the number of people within your social graph who assert that this identity is a real human, for example.

Introducing Anti Slop 🚫 A GitHub action that detects and automatically closes low-quality and AI slop PRs. As one of the maintainers of Coolify (50K+ stars) we deal with slop PRs daily so I decided to fix it. Early testing showed this action could have closed 98% of slop PRs.

check this shit out, network analysis mode WIP importing my "people i have met in real life" list, calculating each of their followers / following, with nodes getting bigger as they are linked more often.

#devlog PDS-as-a-service WIP is still in progress. Wanted to drop a big update today though. There's an ascii house. #atproto

I lived in Vancouver for more than 13 years so I am going to do an unnecessarily detailed and opinionated thread of Atmosphere conference recommendations very soon to get everyone excited about travel

who would be interested if we organize something like this?

I made an app called FancyGist! It uses GitHub Gists as the backend, and it's a nice UI for writing and sharing markdown gists. Replace gist.github.com for any markdown gist you have! fancygist.com

in atproto office hours folks asked about two-week session lifetimes for oauth public clients, such as SPAs. i spoke about a surgical little proposal to have our cake and eat it too: SPAs untouched but with client authentication! for those interested, here it is: github.com/bluesky-soci...

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyinst.bsky.social We have the skills and underlying tech, but we need resources to fund it. Feel free to reach out.

honestly there is something extremely cyberpunk about the idea of being able to message an LLM agent running off solar power over an encrypted local radio mesh network even when the rest of the power grid is down, together with the cell towers and the fiber backbones

Lot of talk around E2EE, figured I’d drop a little gem few know about: evolu.dev, a local-first db sync engine with full end to end encryption. It’s kinda insane what it enables, and when RLS is added? 😮‍💨 I used it last year to build a privacy first RSS reader: stevedylan.dev/posts/introd...

I am bringing back VERY DIRECT MESSAGES from 6pm EST to 3am. How's it work? Visit the page. Write a message. Hit send. It'll print at my desk on my receipt printer. Plz RT for fun & be nice. CC @henryzoo.com @cara.city and other receipt printer dorks

The last office hours went so well, we're doin' it again! I'll be joining @pfrazee.com and @dholms.at tomorrow at 3:30pm Eastern / 12:30pm Pacific, on @stream.place of course (That's Saturday, 8:30am GILT for those of you tuning in from Kiribati)

Many thanks to the Bluesky team for working with us on this experimental integration. Any atproto app can build this! Here's our developer guidance on the underlying atproto record and how to render a Germ DM button in your application! mark-germ.leaflet.pub/3mem22lhe222t

gushing over the maintainability and simplicity of @jim-nielsen.com’s menu as a whole dang separate-standalone-HTML-page: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of... (via @dbushell.com)

The secret’s out! And keeping your secrets just got easier. Drop into Germ DM for AT Protocol—now live in the App Store and launching straight from Bluesky.

I posted a breakdown of my 2025 income as an independent open source maintainer. 💰 tl;dr: it grew 12% from last year, again mostly from a few bigger projects. www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/2025-fi...

Y'all have my attention. What's the consensus on this?

www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ind... #random

Nightshift It uses your leftover Claude / Codex budget to surprise you with useful PRs, while you sleep. Love them or leave them. github.com/marcus/night...

here ya go: my avatar becomes more and more unhinged the more my body is stressed, as detected by my WHOOP band!

Another small sneakpeak into "krauwd". Read-only for now. What it should become: - Opinionated old-school "Facebook/Myspace" style client for Bluesky + other apps - See what people watch, rate, post and listen to on other apps - In the future: customize the design of your own profile to your liking

Newly Available: CustomStateSet ✅ What is it? 🤔 It’s a new API that lets developers define and manage custom states on HTML elements, enabling fine-grained styling and behavior control using the :state() CSS pseudo-class. Start experimenting now 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

All peer-to-peer systems have to compromise one way or another on this: they can decide that direct P2P is essential and simply fail, they can provide centralized fallback alternatives, or they can try to find/convince/incentivize another peer to route traffic on your behalf.

What if AT Proto OAuth/Identity + MLS + Labyrinth plus a multi-server client with FOSS, self-hostable brokers? Might be cooking something...

I don't know who needs to see this. This is the first time OAuth has kind of made sense to me, which is an accomplishment for the author. www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustr... #devlog #oauth

tools.rmv.fyi Very cool #random #devlog

soatok.blog/2026/02/11/o... This quote > it’s pretty clear that most of the wealth-hoarding predator class don’t give a shit about protecting kids #reading-list

today’s my birthday! if you’d like to celebrate me, i would appreciate you looking at my work and perhaps sharing it with someone you know who may be charmed by my work

because every gallery deserves a lightbox <3

hey we're really working on permissioned data! read the first in a series of posts i'll be doing about our design decisions along the way. this one is about our decision to not do an e2ee system

If you're in the Seattle area, @getdweb.net is having an event next Tuesday (2/17) at INTDEV. Would love to hang with some local atproto builders, so come by!

… and the hamburger should be hamburging now

> context-switching between six problems is brutally expensive for the human brain

That TFW when you've spent x amount of time adjusting the check mark CSS in the checkbox. #devlog

ok. It's time to set it free into the world, move on with my life. rsss.space github.com/nichoth/rsss @erlend.sh got me started on RSS + AT login. Has changed since then. I dropped the rust app. The original plan was to make a proper local-first app, so you can read things offline… #devlog

Repost in the robot failure genre #robot

Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles! It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea! webtil.es

siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f... #reading-list

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Living in the inflection point brittanyellich.com/living-in-th... #reading-list via @brittanyellich.com

Soft launching my Keybase on atproto alpha: @keytrace.dev Basically the identity verification system from keybase/keyoxide but storing the identity claims on your registry and signing them based on keys in mine. It is not focused on PGP, but on making it possible for social apps to handle identity

I'm looking forward to finally showing off what @benricem.bsky.social and I have been working on for, like, 1.5 years. Butterflies and elephants, together at last. 👀 ❤️

“Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand. We’ll laugh and explain to our grandkids how silly it was that we typed out JavaScript syntax with our fingers. But secretly we’ll miss it.” — @nolanlawson.com nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/w...