Aether OS is computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol

“Good protocol design requires balancing the tensions of ideology and practicality.” – @pfrazee.com Fantastic read on federation, p2p, and software people actually want to use: www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

How we package and ship Tiles: www.tiles.run/blog/ship-it...

Diffuse has turned into this malleable cooperative software environment and I wonder if this should be its own thing. Not crazy complicated I guess, it’s basically a “software loader” that loads html/js/css and injects it into itself. That code is a set of “features” (logic) and an “interface”.

"using network architecture to solve issues of power distribution simply shifts bottlenecks rather than eliminating them. A decentralised protocol does not automatically produce decentralised governance, it also moves power to different, less visible places." connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere. I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings: 1. one account 2. that works with a bunch of apps, and 3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.

It’s too bad that ChatGPT Pulse is so expensive. It’s a wonderful product. Here’s an example of one of the stories it brought me this morning. It knows I’m traveling and that I had looked around Gràcia, so it researches places I might want to know about. No one else is doing anything like this.

Kind of opposite ends of the design space. Want public data to be difficult to lock in, difficult to censor, difficult to control? Spread it around as broadly as possible. Want data to be private? Touch as few computers as possible, for as little time as possible, ideally point to point.

(1/n) A question to ask when building or evaluating software: Is this a feature, a product, or a business? Mistaking one for another leads to heartache for both you and your users (I speak from experience).

I couldn’t discuss this during #AtmosphereConf, but I’m thrilled to announce today that @eurosky.social is acquiring @bsky.app#AtmosphereConf This acquisition is made possible by a 1.5 billion euro grant from the European Union as part of the New Frontier program. 🦋🇪🇺

I wrote about my #AtmosphereConf experience. I hope it's as cathartic to read as it was for me to write. Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience. All I wish is that we had more time.

A quiet, sincere thank you to our contributors, sponsors, and the broader userandagents.com community for supporting us throughout our alpha-stage journey. ☮︎

Tiles version 0.4.6 Alpha 10 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds peer-to-peer device sync, built with @iroh.computer's QUIC networking stack, and encryption at rest for local chats.

At atmosphere conf!

Tiles version 0.4.5 Alpha 9 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds peer-to-peer device linking for both offline and online networks, built with @iroh.computer, along with bug fixes for the auto-update system.

Tiles version 0.4.5 Alpha 9 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds peer-to-peer device linking for both offline and online networks, built with @iroh.computer, along with bug fixes for the auto-update system.

looking forward to this if anyone can put the fun in funding it's @bmann.ca

Awesome news: @igalia.com, the open source consulting firm, is partnering with @eurosky.social! Partnership goal: "accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the social web, enabling developers, organizations, and communities to build new social applications"

v0.97 is out & it's a biggie: custom transports, preset API, embeddable relay server, address filtering, and a switch to our own QUIC implementation! www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-0-...

Tiles version 0.4.4 Alpha 8 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds support for a fully offline, portable installer alongside the network installer, with the default gpt-oss-20b model bundled, and daemon process implementation for handling background tasks reliably.

Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...

Claude's new generative UI feature uses streaming HTML over the wire. Server sends chunks of markup, morphdom patches. michaellivs.com/blog/reverse...

i haven't wanted a new tattoo for a longgggg time but the group eating the big fish...

CfP is open! May 1 — CFP closes May 15 — candidates notified June 1 — speakers announced June 15 — schedule announced We want to hear from YOU!

Following up @rude1.blacksky.team's post with @ngerakines.me point: $5 isn't a lot. 3000 people isn't a lot. We Can Just Support Things.

Tiles version 0.4.3 Alpha 7 has been released. tiles.run/download Turn-based chats with SQLite persistence. Release artifacts now include a .pkg bundle for easier installs. Support for non-Harmony models such as qwen 3.5-4b. Bug fix for venvstack generating multiple tar archives.

So many Atproto apps now ❤️ But data layer interop means you don't *have* to "go" anywhere. Concept demo of inverting things: - local index of lexidex - local cache of all your 'cons and records - generic 'con-to-form engine Now I can post, rsvp, bookmark all from the comfort of home.

How do we get to more than just three web engines owned by three US companies? It's a gargantuan question, with no easy or right answer. I've put together a draft report, thinking about it through a very specific approach - please enjoy: Servo Readiness Report webtransitions.org/servo-readin...

Thank you to Google @opensource.google for joining #AtmosphereConf as a major sponsor! We appreciate your support!

Tiles version 0.4.2 Alpha 6 has been released. New onboarding flow for account and data setup, an OTA updater, and Harmony renderer support for gpt-oss-20b, enabling configurable reasoning effort and improved response quality. Release notes: www.tiles.run/changelog#0....

this week's atmosphere and fediverse news, with now three approaches to private data, and a whole bunch of atproto project updates and news connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

Wrote a mini-essay, "Digital Topology & Economic Power", on how the file went from a site of user agency to one of enclosure — through proprietary formats, data internalization, then the cloud. Each step bundling real gains with a quiet transfer of power. www.orionreed.com/posts/app-fi...

This is our third time out with Local-First Conf! In past years we've thoroughly explored some core topics like sync engines and CRDTs. In 2026, we're broadening into areas like identity, e2ee, malleable software, and open-weight models.

for the record I don’t like Bangalore

preach

user agency is anti-capitalist. when not explicitly anti-capitalist, user agency is capitalism-retardant.

In 2014 I gave a talk called Tiny (keep things small enough to understand) In 2026, small means something different. Small means safe to delete. New in the Phoenix Architecture series: The Regenerative Grain.

I live in a science fiction novel.

Tiles runs local AI. That means the Python runtime must be deterministic and portable across machines. With Alpha 4, we now bundle layered venvstacks with pinned dependencies to guarantee reproducible execution. How it works: www.tiles.run/blog/move-al...

I think AGI is an AI deployment question (decentralized vs centralized) instead of a purely algorithmic one.

Added support for making claims of a @tangled.org account, thanks to a PR by @jauntywk.bsky.social keytrace.dev/@orta.io

All peer-to-peer systems have to compromise one way or another on this: they can decide that direct P2P is essential and simply fail, they can provide centralized fallback alternatives, or they can try to find/convince/incentivize another peer to route traffic on your behalf.

feels like the first chapter of accelerando

was it loaded via http+dns+ssl? then it's server-first. (which is not bad. but it's not the local-first i want.)

this is pretty good

Coding agents crossed a line this year: they’re useful enough that people are going to use them at work, whether the tooling is ready or not. So... here's some tooling! tailscale.com/blog/apertur...

Great write up by @natemoo.re - on rebuilding the “missing middle” of open source. “…investing in art, diversity, and creativity. It means addressing the internet’s original sin by building protocol-first commerce” “…taking a cue from the atproto ecosystem and building protocols before products.”

We're getting ready to launch - making sure we've got testing, observability and backups all in good order. It's taking a smidgen longer than we hoped but first invites will arrive on the first week of February and roll out throughout the month. Thank you for your patience 🙏

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register