Just going to point out that here at the Langley Advance Times (total newsroom staff: four people), we don't use ChatGPT to write any of our stories. Subscribe to your local papers, bookmark their pages, sign up for their newsletters.

Going to check out the "Future of Journalism" summit at UBC next week ... I should have some interesting local news-y stuff deployed by then cjf-fjc.ca/event/the-fu...

Wow

You're welcome.

New day, new product on the Atmosphere. Launching glean.at a Social RSS Reader on @atproto.com. What does it mean? - Your RSS reader becomes connected to your social graph. - See what people like you read, like or annotate - Discover feeds or articles you wouldn't have known before

Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!

Moths.

What a fantastic conference writeup from @macwright.com, one of the many of you I'm kicking myself for not having a chance to meet macwright.com/2026/04/05/i...

= Floats in AT Protocol = a modest proposal by @vmx.cx hackmd.io/@vmx/floats-... please share if you <3 #atprotocol and also numeric data types #datamodels #atproto #whynofloats #float64 #ieee754 #atgeo

rough first version of atmosphereconf VODs up on atmo.rsvp too, more updates coming soon atmo.rsvp/p/atmosphere... really love what @stream.place is doing with that vod jam :)

A little step: working on an AppView and small Lexicon to make contribution information modular and transparent - so it is easier to signal if you're looking for support, and how to provide it; will have the repo public soon, and hope to get the alpha public later this week - feedback welcome!

Definitely enjoyed #ATmosphereConf … super inspired by various talks and hallway conversations. I think next year there’s going to be a lot of talk of going “on protocol”.

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".

The only thing I'm disappointed about #atmosphereconf is that @bmann.ca didn't take my suggestion to call the afterparty "A World With Caesars"

🚨 the ecosystem is delicate #atmosphereconf there's a LOT of enthusiasm + talent, but: - no magical investor monies - grant options are THIN - many first time founders - many don't want investment - few other options - scary macro env it's a collective challenge we can just pay for things?

Going to be at #ATmosphereconf tomorrow… interested in civic tech and local journalism tech

First attempt at taking pictures with a 550円 “junk camera”

LoFi/34 is starting at the top of the hour, come join to hear from Martin Kleppmann & builders shipping p2p software. 👉🏽 LoFi.so/

use your pds as a git remote, if you want to codeberg.org/notplants/pd...

Today, @roost.tools is releasing Coop v0, an open-source review tool for online safety. Run it on your own infrastructure with free child safety detection tools, including HMA for hash matching against known CSAM and the Content Safety API for novel CSAM detection. github.com/roostorg/coop

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

Been mulling over @bnewbold.net's recent post on community spaces and atproto's next frontiers. I wrote about why building for organizers (not just users) might be the key to making it all work.

Finally figured out how to get blackbox exporter monitoring working with prometheus operator and Probe resources. It immediately flagged that I had an expired SSL cert … turns out I had a typo in a YAML file. :-)

This is awesome

Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives medium.com/community-ar...

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

Exciting news for the local-first community! 1. Local-first Conf Berlin is back on 12–14 July: www.localfirstconf.com 2. The nice folks at @cultrepo.bsky.social have made a documentary about the movement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...

We’ve got a save the date announcement today for this year’s Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com - July 11th to 14th in Berlin. We’re supporting the conference & leaning into some “Day 3” content with some malleable software and other topics. Add your email to be notified!

Collecting Canadian software alternatives: cDox (cdox.ca) - Document writing and sharing, Canadian-hosted Float (floatfinancial.com) - Corporate cards, expense management Venn (venn.ca) - Multi-currency accounts, low FX rates

Join Blaine Cook, New_ Public’s Principal Software Engineer for Roundabout, at a @getdweb.net virtual meetup this Wednesday from 1-2pm EST Blaine will present on Roundabout, our new local community app! Folks from @awana.digital and @dod.ngo will also present.

Honestly loving the sound of this. > as a transitional approach, didplcbft can act as more of a mirror of an authoritative PLC implementation, namely, plc-directory wdyt @warpfork.bsky.social @bumblefudge.com @mythik.co.uk @bnewbold.net @retr0.id 👀

Traditional proverb: A watched DNS record never propagates

This is *huge* A while back, I was concerned about ATProto platforms using different lexicons diverging and fragmenting the space, but the long-formers (@leaflet.pub @pckt.blog @offprint.app) are setting an incredible example of how to build together 👏🏼 More of this, please!

at risk of a bunch of people saying “well actually you should have done it this way”, here’s a lil write up on adding trending topics to bluesky hailey.at/posts/3mcy5b...

@vmx.cx wrote up a quick tour of what happened in IPLD and multiformats this year: 🧱 New (much faster!) modular crates for Rust IPLD 🐦 Migration guide if you're still using libipld ✅ Rust multiformats (cid, multihash, multibase) production-ready blog.ipfs.tech/2026-01-ipld...

> Registries don’t just host files. They make political decisions about who owns names

I didn’t vote for the guy but that’s a good speech.

Obviously, if Trump blows up NATO and claims Greenland, Canada is going to look like a missing puzzle piece in the territorial expansion

I’d appreciate it if you could just wait a few more months before crashing the global economy

A data model for Git (and other docs updates) jvns.ca/blog/2026/01...

It looks like the dependencies I need to do some geo stuff in a Pyodide notebook used to work, but they removed the packages due to build issues... pyodide.org/en/stable/pr...

Announcing deck.gl-raster: 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐎𝐆 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. No server required. 1.3 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐭𝐞 COG, streamed directly into the browser: developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... - GPU-accelerated raster reprojection - GPU image processing for colormaps, nodata values - Efficient use of COG overviews

Zohran uses domain verification, based

Made an AT Protocol health dashboard atproto-health.pages.dev

I subscribe to this labeler, which automatically shows you information about an account if hits certain thresholds. for instance, Ann actually topped herself yesterday! it must've been tricky doing that while also doing the revolutionary stuff she wants other people to do bsky.app/profile/stec...

Another mini-milestone ... now I can publish Jupyter Lite Python notebooks (using Pyodide/WASM) onto hex.camp locations ... here's a demo that extracts the OpenStreetMap data for the cities that make up Metro Vancouver 6kg6rweynwea.vanhex.ca/lab/index.ht...

Nothing changes. Oil and war are forever mixed. Makes me want to go 100% solar.

Happy New Year! I'm trying to figure out how to get data out of OpenStreetMap and into hex.camp ... here's a query to show all the cities in Metro Vancouver. overpass-turbo.eu/s/2i5n

I recently wrote some thoughts on wrapping Rust libraries for Wasm plus a couple patterns that I use to make wasm-bindgen feel a bit more manageable. No silver bullets here but maybe some sensible defaults (fight me in the comments 😛) notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-o...

Modern computers are fast. I've just finished a first pass of the geo crate's new Voronoi module: it can read and process 2.69+ million valid UK postal address code centroids to generate a Voronoi diagram, and write the resulting geometries to disk in under 10s. tangled.org/strings/did:...