folks at #dwebcamp, do you know that I been maintaining a fork of Patchwork #SecureScuttlebutt client called Poncho Wonky? I brought it up to date with dependencies and added a lot of features, some of which I described in: https://andregarzia.com/2026/01/three-months-of-poncho-wonky.html

@pfrazee.com and @dholms.at of @bsky.app are coming to DWeb Camp with “Start From Scale: Building an Open Network for the Real World” Check out their other talks and the full schedule here

If you use #AI to build something, then you are not building anything. You are not the builder. It is akin to going to McDonalds, asking for a meal and calling yourself a chef. You done nothing but contribute to a horrible socio economic project and shit on creators.

If all this money that is being spent on #AI #LLM tokens was used to support #FOSS, you'd all be living in the future with awesome software instead of #slop.

Lyndsey is a fabulous short fiction writer, with a massive back list of published short fiction to her name -- this workshop will be well worth it just to have her experience guiding you.

An Attempt was Made. Poured some The Shape of Monsters inspired dice yesterday, inked them this morning. I think the red needs to be redder, less crimson, and the blue needs a hint of purple...hmmm.

#LLM models ignored all the decades of open source licensing, they just did massive license break because they know #FOSS initiatives don’t have the pockets to sue them.

"why are they doing this?" To kill open source ventures like Linux distros because the cost of adhering to this law is too much to expect these projects to pay and maintain, forcing everyone to use windows and train their AI/farm metadata They'll say it's for protecting kids or something tho

fantastic article about #AI and #LLM https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess#AI#LLMReally recommend reading it.

This is my favourite page in the documentation for the RSS reader I made: https://blogcat.org/#/why It still brings me a ton of joy. A little rebellion against browser vendors, AI, and industry practices.

Noticed yesterday as my website was being flooded with accesses from HN that I couldn't use a `tmux` session over ssh using Ghostty. https://abacusnoir.com/2025/03/07/getting-ghostty-to-work-with-tmux-in-ssh/ Helped me fix it. Thank u

Posted a long rant about #Apple and how they lost me after being a user for 26 years: https://andregarzia.com/2026/03/apple-just-lost-me.html

My #iPhone updated to the latest version. With it came #ageverification. Apple does this by having Wallet verify you. It failed. Then it tried to manually verify credit card. All my cards were not accepted. I tried five cards. Now I am locked out of many features. I am 45 years old. Fuck this shit.

Each day for a month, @vallescurarule.bsky.social & I posted a snippet from the 30 subgenres & major tropes in SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES VOL 3. You can find the full ToC for this final stand-alone writing guide of the trilogy on @lunapress.bsky.social's site: www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...

"I'm doing my part!"

Here's everything that's new in Firefox 149 🔥 ☑️ Split View: Two tabs side by side, just like it should be ☑️ Built-in VPN Beta: Hide your IP address while browsing ☑️ Tab Notes: Leave yourself notes to remember why you opened that tab (available in Labs) blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/f...

can we have an `agents.md` that just says "no".

This blog post "Choose the Fediverse – The lost outpost": https://andypiper.co.uk/2026/01/09/choose-the-fediverse/ Really struck a cord with me and made me smile this morning. Choose decentralization technologies. Build for humans.

Contar pra vocês de uma conquista muito foda que rolou no trampo. Em 2023 eu fui contratado como head of accessibility na Yape, o maior app de pagamentos do Peru, para iniciar o trabalho de tornar o bagulho acessível a leitor de tela.

Today, after months, I sat for the first time at my desk. As a remote worker, I'm usually working from coffee shops, sofas, my bed, my kitchen table, but never from my actual desk. It feels strange to be here and good at the same time. Might buy a monitor for it soon. x

Also, imma be that person and ask if you've listened to A Million Points of Light and can rate and review it, I will love you forever, from afar, not creepily. Please, my internet blessings upon you etc

argh, those new colours for MacBook Neo's are uninspired as fuck. Apple played way too safe with the selection. You can have boring corporate-person-in-training silver, indigo, and pink, or baby-puke worst yellow. They could have gone with some vivid colours (including a vibrant yellow).

oh gods, I think I'm gonna learn Rust...

RSS doesn't necessarily means firehose. You find that you wanna use a feed reader but having a constant stream of posts causes you anxiety? I wrote about alternatives that might suit you: https://andregarzia.com/2025/04/rss-doesnt-necessarily-means-firehose.html #RSS #Blogging

get weirder 🫵

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

8pm Eastern, here comes Crimson C'Tuesday! Art and retro games, come join me! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery

Age verification? Look at my driver’s license:

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

I’m sorry, I just need to share that today I learned about Sylvain Niffer, who does men’s corsetry and oh my GOD these are beautiful What’s stopping you, etc etc

This took me fucking ages

Wrote a little piece about getting back into #SecureScuttlebutt #development. Today marks three months since I decided to fork and improve #Patchwork: https://andregarzia.com/2026/01/three-months-of-poncho-wonky.html#SecureScuttlebutt#development#Patchwork#SSB still my favourite #decentralization technology :3

Hey @bsky.app , what a new low to have a verified #ICE account. That is despicable. While the world is horrified at those gestapo wannabe’s, you’re here being part of the problem. Shame on your decision makers lack of backbone.

This was a really good blog post on the reasons to write a blog and how the challenges of making one parallel the knowledge crafting and distribution during the enlightenment. "The Case for Blogging in the Ruins": https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

Full decriminalisation scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow

I wanted to port my feed reader #WebExtension to #Chrome, currently I been shipping it for #Firefox only. Google's implementation of Manifest v3 and its requirements are bonkers. The whole switch to strange service workers instead of background scripts is very odd.

The amount of AI bullshit in ClickUp is making me want to use another product. Not only they splashed two modals today advertising thew new agentic whatever, but they also added three AI action buttons to the interface and there's no clear way to disable all that stuff.

Absolutely brilliant post about how #macOS Tahoe is a #design car crash in terms of their icon usage: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/#macOS#designYesterday, I was reading #NewtonOS Human Interface Guidelines and I almost cried.

O vencedor do Prêmio da Paz da FIFA bombardeira um país e a vencedora do Nobel da Paz comemora

It’s all about oil, again….

I can't tell you how TIRED I am of copying and pasting the same text into five different silos. When will this ridiculous system that claims to be the web, get its shit together and start acting like the web (ie interop). attn @pfrazee -- why don't you become a leader here.

Full decriminalisation scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow

Oh #Mozilla please, just focus on #Firefox as a web browser centered around people. Stop with this AI bullshit. Wrote about it here: https://andregarzia.com/2025/04/the-mozilla-i-want-focus-on-people-and-not-ai.html#Mozilla#FirefoxAnd with the new CEO it feels like my writing is quite topical.

#Jolla is doing a pre-order for a new #phone. This is your chance to get a made for #SailfishOS phone. https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder#Jolla#phone#SailfishOSn the current #mobile landscape dominated by #android and #ios, this is a welcome attempt to bring something new into the world.

#Bun is joining #Anthropic, time to uninstall it. No ground should be given to AI companies. If they encroach on your workflow, we'll never get rid of them.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Absolutely

PAX Unplugged has begun! Stop by the Gila RPGs booth, #3958, and grab some awesome indie TTRPGs!