Dave was such a marvelous teacher and friend. I first met him when we were on the board I was the internet society together. But he was also an inspiration and a help in so many other ways. He will be missed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/t...

I don't get commercials that have fake podcasters (or even real ones). Does that make it seem more credible?

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Legalized internet gambling and kleptocracy is a bad combination

Fortune Cookie 🥠

I'm not sure local development will be sustainable for a certain class of apps unless a developer has a 10,000 dollar laptop

One would think this is the time for XML to make its comeback

@skyreader.app now has experimental support for @standard.site feeds! Follow users and see all their posts across @leaflet.pub, @pckt.blog, @offprint.app and any other app that publishes standard.site documents.

The Six Million Dollar Man would clearly be at least Six Billion these days and I wonder if that would be enough.

Agentic coding comes to Apple’s Xcode with agents from Anthropic and OpenAI

ATProto is now in IETF standardization process. BOF stage passed at IETF 124 Dublin. Working group formation is next. datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

Helicopter flying low by my house and spooking deer

🔎 GreenGale is introducing a new semantic + keyword search algorithm that indexes itself, WhiteWind, and Standard Site documents and publications. Try it out: greengale.app

atproto folks with a special knowledge and interest in calendaring / events! I've got questions! 💜 discourse.atprotocol.community/t/recurring-...

I got asked for my opinions on Moltbook, and how it impacts what I am building at Naftiko. I do love using these moments to help me better understand what I am building, and where it fits into the many layers of hustle going on. apievangelist.com/2026/02/02/t...

Bluesky teases 2026 roadmap: a better Discover feed, real-time features and more

TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social Sounds like more than a shot across the bow unless they come up with some credible charge pretty quickly. If not, it's a clear end of an era.

@blento.app ✅

Introducing our remote & hybrid co-leads, @erlend.sh and @psingletary.com . We've got three video streams from @stream.place , and @roomy.space for extended talk discussions and activity coordination.

A reminder — there are *millions* of social sites on the internet, like Storygraph for your reading and Ravelry for your knitting, etc. It’s only the biggest, run by the extremist fascists, that do these terrible things. Don’t define the internet by a handful of apps run by 5 sociopaths.

(This is the list, not sure why that didn’t come through.) The thing to keep in mind — Big Tech doesn’t define the internet. There is *still* a healthy, thriving independent internet of creators, just like there are stores beyond Walmart and restaurants beyond McDonald’s. Find them, support them.

Adding to Anil's reminder, as atproto becomes more robust, there's increasingly less reason for any "alt" social media site to build its own technical infrastructure from scratch. Social interaction deserves to be built into the fabric of the web.

ATProto is more like S3 or even MySQL than it is like Mastodon, ActivityPub or RSS. It's just a place for me and my app users to store their data. They can host it themselves or not. They can then put it on the web, or not. It's up to them #atproto

Just a reminder that Trump tweeted "Liberate Michigan!" in response to fully armed protests at the Michigan capitol www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

I don’t blame Mastodon users for leaving Bluesky. After all I left Mastodon to come here. (It’s a joke but I also think it epitomizes the philosophical differences of free speech)

Check out -> firehose.network it's 🔥 #atproto

Snowbound

Media company accuses Google AI of rewriting headlines with spammy clickbait. (crowd erupts in laughter)

I can’t work under these conditions

Tapped the maple today

If I were a college Professor I'd offer two exam options. One with AI, one without. One wrong answer for the AI version of the test results in a grade of F.

Kit Rock found some friends

@andrewrsorkin.bsky.social Kernan thinks your interview questions are biased after the interview he gave to Bessent? Who is this guy kidding?

One might think Gemini 3 Pro gets paid by the hour

Let me break this down in a practical, non-hand-wavy way.

Looks like a good looking day out there

I wish Tolkien had been around to see LLMs

If one more AI tells me my idea = chef's kiss I'm gonna lose it

News in the ActivityPub world about the W3C Social Web Working Group socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/n...

Migrate from Tumblr to Leaflet

I’m working on a track system. Getting close. Maybe within a week. I’m doing it for myself and I like it so far

FFS these two publication search tools just opened up a tons of cool new things to find and read!

Following up from this weekend, @iame.li action intent links have a small update to support links and auth gating.

The value of a trusted software engineer is up. The importance of certain qualities needed have changed in some ways.

“Red Sky invites you into a decentralized galaxy powered by Bluesky’s AT Protocol. Here, every verified user can own a procedurally generated planet, forming a vast, immersive social universe. Explore star systems, build bases, and communicate via broadcasting messages.”

AutoRAG for the win... ATproto docs MCP server: github.com/immber/mcp-a... Ask the ATproto Docs chatbot here: atproto-docs.coastweb.dev