"The tyranny of the quantifiable" ....probably the most eloquently titled collection I've come across yet on @semble.so ! (and wasn't the least bit surprised to learn the phrase was sourced from a Rebecca Solnit article)

Check out my first blog! As the ATmosphere moves towards permissioned data, how do we make sure privacy is really preserved? Can we build a permissioned data app today? All that and more in the post 👀📅

The week-end is over so I'm pressing ⏸️ on my custom PDS project for now. Here's part 2 of my dev journal. I've learned a lot already and so far I feel like it might actually be worth finishing. It's really cool to get a more intimate understanding of ATProtocol and it's implementation.

the "thing" I wrote yesterday is now here in a publication... #atproto at-wayfinding.leaflet.pub/3mgsx6o3trc27

The articles that people are bookmarking on @semble.so are high quality. It's quickly becoming my go to place to consume dev content

The first at://news weather report is here, learn about what happened across the atmosphere this week and how we are exploring how to collectively-source future newsletters with your help!

My week-end side-project: make a PDS, maybe. So far I've skimmed the spec, and started playing with @rivet.gg. I'll be using existing libraries wherever possible, so it's not like an independent reimplementation. I'm going more for a customizable repackaging of the reference PDS if possible.

"Currently we're building pear: a permission-enforcing ATProtocol repository, tied to your ATProtocol identity through a service, as defined in the DID document (for now)."

Drafting a pitch deck for Lanyards. It just hit me that #ATscience 🧪 in the #ATmosphere 🌀 is very real now. @atproto.science → @curvenote.com @chive.pub @lanyards.app @hypgen.bsky.social @layers.pub @margin.at @andreasthinks.me @sealight.xyz @semble.so @standard.site @viewsift.com 😻 #ATproto 🪿

February updates for @cosmik.network & @semble.so ! Including @central.comind.network @funferall.bsky.social @uppy-hacker.bsky.social @tgoerke.bsky.social @o.simardcasanova.net @hacdias.com @bmann.ca @caleb.jasik.xyz @atproto.science

I can save bookmarks with @margin.at, file them in collections created with @semble.so, and both bookmarks and collections are visible in Margin and in Semble Oh, and if either Margin or Semble shut down, this wouldn't impact my data All of this dark magic is only possible thanks to AT Proto

I have a Private & Permissioned Data collection on @semble.so using the new “open” feature that I added this link to - feel free to add relevant links of your own semble.so/profile/bman...

It uses #atproto link sharing docs @margin.at and @semble.so and grabs them via the official atproto js sdk, and rehosts them in a list on my site. You can see the code here: gist.github.com/jasikpark/41...

The agenda for #ATScience is up! Check out the speaker list and full schedule below 👇 The range and quality of proposals we received really exceeded our expectations - thanks to everyone who submitted something! March 27, Vancouver - can't wait to see you there ✨ Sessions include >

For those that missed here's a Semble collection for links shared today: semble.so/profile/did:...

Thanks to @chrisshank.com for pointing out @pfrazee.com's short post with the backstory to this... "The name AppView came from a database processing ETL mindset, like a materialized view in postgres." www.pfrazee.com/leaflets/3ly...

Mulling this over for the last few weeks whilst building/learning around #atproto and now just going to say it... not a fan of the "AppView" term for the first-time builder.

today we had a class of young students (12-14 yr old) came to visit the @aial.ie on campus. they were so keen to learn about AI and most importantly I was blown away by the type of questions they asked us: water consumption of data centers, how openai makes money, why RAM prices keep going up, ...

little redesign of the collection page 👀 easily find out who's contributed and how many cards they've added 🌱 ...and a sneak peak of collection following 🤫

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Becoming risky taking a *quick* look @semble.so of a morning...so many inviting rabbit holes to get drawn down!

I bought my remote ticket to #ATmosphereConf - join me online March 2026 (well, maybe not from the get-go... a 2:30am start Down Under! 😴) atmosphereconf.org

Community privacy is one of our top priorities at @transrights.northsky.social which isn't possible out of the box with any ATproto implementation today that doesn't just hide an entire PDS. We're developing in the open and so I've published a proposal on it, feedback as always is we

The Solidarity Stack "Constructing the solidarity stack will take time & involve developing a set of concrete interventions across distinct layers. However, several early efforts by communities, cooperatives, & public institutions are already reclaiming control" ssir.org/articles/ent...

New blog post is up! When we talk about controlled data on ATProtocol, we focus on users and who they grant access to. But there's always a third party: the applications that store, relay, and render the data.

Introducing Ecosystem Action Research: a pilot program to address shared challenges in the AT Protocol ecosystem with a cooperative approach to strategic innovation. By the community, for the community. Sign up to participate here:

"Society has no interest in educating you in how technology works. Because then you make your own technology, and you make different technology, and you upset the economic power balance and so forth. But it is doable, and people are doing it all the time. You can do it yourself.” - James Bridle

3. = fractal lock-in (h/t Mandelbrot)

A Programmer's loss of identity "I try to imagine a beginner somehow coming across one of my pages and maybe the way I worded the explanation is what finally makes the topic make sense. That’s good motivation." ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN WORKING ON: Initiatives that contribute to recalibrating our online spaces and cultivating community, trust, learning, sensemaking & wisdom. I've been trying to do some of that "solo" over the last few years - www.wayfinders.network/blog/welcome/

That is happening with the Twitter clone. We’re in a race against time to explode the Lego parts into something else.

More nagging #atproto questions/pondering - on ownership/control/access...

1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵

Emerging from being "down in the technical weeds" of #atproto is a little mashup of @semble.so & WayFinder (www.wayfinders.network) Semble team released "open collections" this week - here we explore the "private & permissioned data" collection, created by @bmann.ca & now with 3 other contributors

Just been refactoring an AWS Amplify Gen 2 app With more data than when originally building & testing it's striking how slow it is making graphql requests v hitting local db via Datastore in Gen 1 (yes, buggy as hell), or even better, building with Earthstar 🤩 (earthstar-project.org) #localfirst

Been down in the technical weeds exploring implementation of #atproto, and now zooming back out to ask bigger questions and consider possibilities within a broader evolutionary context....

"the high-tech future will have to be built in a way that blends church, state and market, to the benefit of those most able to seize public resources and turn them to private profit. ...that fusion is the essence of the Texan Ideology" thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

How Networked Neighbourhoods can make innovation work for everyone www.careful.industries/inclusive-in...

Ah, I should know better, but accidental lunchtime newsletter from me arriving in inboxes right now. On why the words used to describe technologies are more important than they might seem. buttondown.com/justenoughin...

This is *really* interesting for anyone following the energy demand of AI - the point about localised impact rather than global particularly so. (Also, side point, I wonder what this says about distribution of data centres and wondering what the implications of that might be.)

Ah yes! Have been working with others to get the field of "community tech" of the ground in the UK as an alt www.promisingtrouble.net/blog/innovat...

I made a starter pack for public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields. LMK who else I should add, please. #PublicInterestTech #PublicInterestTechnology #DataforSocialGood go.bsky.app/He8HTaC

If you are invested in #PhilTech and would like to be added to this list, please chat me and give me your handle + the handle of another person from an underrepresented group in our field or adjacent field who should also be on this list. Thanks! go.bsky.app/BhbK7AE

"the only way to store data long term, like proper long term, is in intergenerational relationships, where data is stored in narratives, intergenerational narratives. That can last for forty, fifty, sixty thousand years." - Tyson Yunkaporta emergencemagazine.org/interview/de...

Newsletter from me on the democratic implications of Labour's desperation for Big Tech investment, the chilling effects of message discipline, and why the UK needs a progressive tech movement (clue: it's to balance out the fascists) buttondown.com/justenoughin...