Watch "Waiting for the Future to Load" - starts around 7:45min in #ATmosphereConf vod.atverkackt.de?v=at%3A%2F%2...

A long-used interface becomes a mirror that remembers the versions of you you’ve forgotten.

And then you have to ask, why Krispy Kreme felt the need to add AI to selling doughnuts?

Woah! @woody.fm asks @case.bsky.social for a list of sci-fi books and she delivers!

@case.bsky.social What’s on your shortlist of science fiction books from history that you think had interesting foresight? Any that feel especially applicable to our current time?

finally getting to watch @case.bsky.social's talk on the vod frog

Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) brittanyellich.com/atproto

A few people asked about more talks and info after my talk at #ATmosphereConf Here is one I gave about neuroaesthetics and what the minds needs at reMarkable headquarters in Oslo, Norway! remarkable.com/using-remark...

If any of you are interested in standards or governance, you might love joining @metagov.bsky.social! It’s an amazing community that helps incubate Calm Tech Institute and Calm Tech Certified™ since 2024! metagov.org is a laboratory for digital governance.

How Design is Governance

@case.bsky.social giving one of the best talks at #Atmosphereconf! I highly recommend watching this one if you missed it, what a great talk about the future.

@case.bsky.social dropping one of the best talks here at #atmosphereconf

"The future is outdated... They're either trying to make something that they remember from their childhood, or they're trying to make a lot of money." - @case.bsky.social #ATmosphereconf

Dear lord this talk is good. It's been drawing me in, step by step, since it kicked off. So fucking meta, the wizard of Oz material was everything. Also the Norbert Weiner stuff. And the automotive stuff. Well played @case.bsky.social. thank you #atmosphereconf 2026 "Design is governance".

After my talk @schuyler.info said, "The time frame from "brand new" to "doesn't work" is shrinking" (this image is from a Krispy Kreme drive through in Portland) www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c... #ATmosphereConf

Love the irony that my talk is not loading... #ATmosphereconf

Is there a directory page of all of the projects building with at:// ?

I'm speaking tomorrow! #ATmosphereconf Waiting for the Future to Load Sunday, March 29, 2026 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT Great Hall South: What will it take to get out of the 2010s? atmosphereconf.org/event/ODqQQJA

"It’s no longer the code we’re obsessing over, it’s the overgrown auto-complete we’ve developed to make the easiest part of being an engineer easier." blog.jakesaunders.dev/is-anybody-e...

Sony Deere

MiniDisc

SONY STACK

Chaos to Hors d'oeuvre Hors d'oeuvre to Chaos

When someone forwards text they themselves have not considered, they are asking you to do work they chose not to do. The asymmetric effort makes it rude. stopsloppypasta.ai

Running your texts through the genericizer causes a disruption of the synchronization process between conversational partners. The social handshake component. The unseen fabric that allows us to communicate effectively and honestly. It robs me of getting to know you. sebi.io/posts/2026-0...

Not all new ideas are good ideas.

What happened to cozy homes? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI6f...

"consumers (are seeking) out better sound quality and technology from a simpler time". Article from BBC: www.bbc.com/future/artic... and paper: acousticstoday.org/he-perceptio...

Big news from Calm Tech Institute! Announcing Calm Tech Certified™ for Kids: Our Newest Cohort! We're proud to announce seven products designed specifically with kids in mind. Each was evaluated against our 81-point framework for attention-aware design. www.calmtech.institute/post/calm-te...

I'm speaking at atmosphereconf.org/profile/case... !

"After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes" *AFTER*? What else will the public have to beta test as we finally understand that it's humans *alongside* machines, just like every tool in history. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/a...

Bring back orange backlights! www.calmtech.institute/post/the-pro...

The color of a glacier.

2000 Sony WM-EX615

1985 Nissan 300ZX

The allure of a counterfeit nostalgia.

Event in Japan! www.axismag.jp/posts/2026/0...

Ken Nordine Narrates RCA Victor's "Sounds in Space" Living Stereo Demo Record (1958) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iDo...

Interested in Calm Tech? Come to a special edition @metagov.bsky.social seminar on the Neuroscience of Calm on 11 Feb! Free and open. Just sign up below:

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... A new method is presented for performing rapid and accurate numerical estimation.

It's not what the future *looks* like, but what the future *feels* like.

One of my favorite little domains is expiring. Rural.io. There's nothing on it now, but for many years I had fun using it as a private blog. If someone wants to buy it off of me, send me a message. .io domains renewals are a little pricier than others and I've been using pikapods now.

Dear Google Hangouts: Please Fix How Notetaker Bots Join Our Calls! Have you ever been on a work call which looks like this? You’re there to see one individual, but multiple chatbot notetakers have also joined! When a notetaker bot is joined to the Meeting, it’s the same size as a whole person!

Buildings isolate people more efficiently than villains. Digital buildings follow suit.

At first, the design feels clean and effortless. But the simplicity is doing more work than it lets on: much of the thinking has quietly been handed to the "user". There's no such thing as automation in a store. When we use self-checkout, we're performing that labor. And poorly, too.

In the beginning was the CD: material, bounded, complete. From completeness came ownership. From ownership came care. Now we have removed the boundary. The infinite patch, and the endless service.

The Thirty-Day Baptism Every so often you see it: this practice of "thirty days of code", or "30 days of design", in which a single person determines to build something - anything really - every day for 30 days.

In woodworking, there is a separate skill called finishing. Sanding, staining, sealing. Multiple coats. Waiting for each to cure. Buffing. These are techniques you must learn and practice. The finishing reveals flaws in the underlying work. You cannot hide poor joinery under polyurethane.