A small ask from the local-first community. I’m speaking at @localfirstconf.com in Berlin about @tiles.run, but this year the conference isn't able to cover speaker travel. I'm trying to raise $700 through Github Sponsors to cover my flight. Any amount helps. github.com/sponsors/til...

I read this and it was like seeing color for the first time.

There is a twisted irony for companies right now. In Satya's latest article "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable," he warned about a future where "a few models eat everything they see." That phrase captures the bet companies are making right now whether they realise it or not.

Like policy makers, working retroactively.

The industrial revolution organized companies around the production line. The computer revolution organized them around the database. What will be the organizing principle of the AI revolution?

Your next phone will be something closer to a companion than a tool. It will know your rhythms and hold your memories. But before it can talk to your neighbor's companion, it needs a shared platform, matching accounts, and a server that is still running. That is bad and here's why ->

You've tried to solve the data fragmentation by adding yet another database. It's like creating another group chat to replace the five group chats you already have. Now you have six group chats.

What if we could create a web like thing that was gated to your social network like friends of friends 🤔 We still need to protect open access, public space, but as a way to incubate and socialize early work without incurring heavy cost I think it’s interesting.

Cooking on our next product release at @tonk.xyz and I wanted to share more about how it's going, because it's getting exciting :)

For ten years I've been chasing the same problem: how can groups of people coordinate without routing everything through a central authority. It's a common failure mode and a wicked problem. At @tonk.xyz, we're working on the most credible answer I've seen; one that is local-first all the way down.

can't believe they ran this ad

If I were in SF this would be the one to attend.

Source of truth problems don't need another centralizing system, they need a local-first one. Read my full piece: tonk.xyz/updates/the-... 🧵

I love to be in a folder with my friend @chee.party

LLM wikis compound knowledge. The next question is: how do you think with it? How do you enhance the possibility of human thought through representation? tonk.xyz/updates/repr...

There is plenty of historical precedent available to those who care. Not only does it help us to chart a way forward, but it helps us to avoid the naïveté of the last 30+ years (eg. technological determinism).

See you all there tonight!

Are you afraid of LLMs teaching people how to build bioweapons? Have you tried just... not teaching LLMs about bioweapons? @eleutherai.bsky.social‬ and the UK AISI joined forces to see what would happen, pretraining three 6.9B models for 500B tokens and producing 15 total models to study

🙈 Brace! Brace! Brace!

If you are interested in how local first might mature, definitely check out the episode. Had a blast with @grjte.sh @arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social on this one.

If you configure the Supabase MCP with read-write support it's easy to open yourself up to lethal trifecta attacks where an attacker can e.g. write a message in a support ticket with instructions that cause an MCP client to retrieve and leak data from other tables simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/s...

👾 Londoners 👾 I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI. 🗓️ June 11 📍 Hoxton 🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks 🧠 ~25 curated spots

Ok, feeling the momentum now. Catch @goblinoats.bsky.social in the U&A Discord at 5pm GMT / 10am PST to walk you through the @tonklabs.bsky.social stack and a chance to do some Q&A discord.com/invite/mtEwu...

> be me > yawny stretch in bed after good shleep > rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today > check phone > open tonk community chat > "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep" > bliss

Key management is the hardest part of cryptography, so I wrote up a small survey on approaches: goblinoats.com/notes/on-keys

www.robinsloan.com/lab/five-yea... 👀 just leave this here.

I've put together a list of rituals old and new (+links) along with some notes. goblinoats.com/notes/on-rit...

I made a precursor to the Voight-Kampff test from Bladerunner. goblinoats.com/notes/e1