Jim Pick
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Saanich. Fritter user #3.
#YYJ
Working on
@hex.camp
https://linkat.blue/board/jimpick.com
pinned post!
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
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The Future of Journalism Summit โ Canadian Journalism Foundation
https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/the-future-of-journalism-summit/
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Langley Advance Times
9 days ago
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.
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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...
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The Future of Journalism Summit โ Canadian Journalism Foundation
https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/the-future-of-journalism-summit/
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Wow
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14 days ago
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Schuyler โAbolish ICEโ Erle ๐ฆโโฌ
16 days ago
You're welcome.
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Glean ๐
27 days ago
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
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Glean
A social RSS reader on the AT Protocol.
https://glean.at
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Marcin Wichary
about 1 month ago
Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
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Anisota
about 1 month ago
Moths.
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Jim Ray
about 1 month ago
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...
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In the Atmosphere
A lot of nice people in Vancouver talking about nerd stuff
https://macwright.com/2026/04/05/in-the-atmosphere
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Schuyler โAbolish ICEโ Erle ๐ฆโโฌ
about 2 months ago
= 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
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Floats in ATProto - HackMD
Note: I was part of the IPLD team that created the specs/information that is linked from this FAQ.
https://hackmd.io/@vmx/floats-in-atproto
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flo-bit
about 2 months ago
rough first version of atmosphereconf VODs up on
atmo.rsvp
too, more updates coming soon
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really love what
@stream.place
is doing with that vod jam :)
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Andy Schwab
about 2 months ago
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!
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Definitely enjoyed
#ATmosphereConf
โฆ super inspired by various talks and hallway conversations. I think next year thereโs going to be a lot of talk of going โon protocolโ.
about 2 months ago
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P Coil
about 2 months ago
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".
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Blaine
about 2 months ago
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"
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dietrich
about 2 months ago
๐จ 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?
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Going to be at
#ATmosphereconf
tomorrowโฆ interested in civic tech and local journalism tech
about 2 months ago
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First attempt at taking pictures with a 550ๅ โjunk cameraโ
2 months ago
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Yonz
3 months ago
LoFi/34 is starting at the top of the hour, come join to hear from Martin Kleppmann & builders shipping p2p software. ๐๐ฝ
LoFi.so/
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max
3 months ago
use your pds as a git remote, if you want to
codeberg.org/notplants/pd...
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pds-git-remote
โ use your pds as a git remote if you want to โ
https://codeberg.org/notplants/pds-git-remote
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Juliet Shen
3 months ago
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
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Meet Coop V.0
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
https://roost.tools/blog/meet-coop-v-0/
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James Brown
3 months ago
"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...
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Digital Iris
YouTube video by Ancient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
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Mosh Lee
3 months ago
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.
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Building for Organizers - The People Layer
The most enduring social networks arenโt the prettiest or the most addictive โ itโs the ones that empower organizers.
https://mosh.leaflet.pub/3me5e6vqtkc2u
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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 โฆ turns out I had a typo in a YAML file. :-)
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Bergis Jules ๐ฑ๐จ
3 months ago
Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives
medium.com/community-ar...
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Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives
Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been โput it in the cloud.โ Many of us use cloudโฆ
https://medium.com/community-archives/rethinking-digital-storage-for-community-based-archives-cf8cbc64f617
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Kelsey Hightower
4 months ago
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.
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Martin Kleppmann
4 months ago
Exciting news for the local-first community! 1. Local-first Conf Berlin is back on 12โ14 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...
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Local-First Conf 2026
Join us for the third edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 12-14th July 2026.
https://www.localfirstconf.com/
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Ink & Switch
4 months ago
Weโve got a save the date announcement today for this yearโs Local-First Conf
@localfirstconf.com
- July 11th to 14th in Berlin. Weโre supporting the conference & leaning into some โDay 3โ content with some malleable software and other topics. Add your email to be notified!
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Local-First Conf 2026
Join us for the third edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 12-14th July 2026.
https://www.localfirstconf.com/
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Nick Rempel
4 months ago
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
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Venn - Canadian Business Banking, Accounts, and Corporate Cards
Venn provides 5,000+ Canadian businesses with local CAD + USD accounts that earn 2% interest, global corporate cards with cashback, free transfers, and low FX.
http://venn.ca
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New_ Public
4 months ago
Join Blaine Cook, New_ Publicโs 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
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@dod.ngo
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DWeb Virtual MeetupโThe Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem (January 2026)
Join us at our next virtual meetup and hear our speakers share updates on some latest DWeb releases and community organizing efforts.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-virtual-meetupthe-latest-in-the-dweb-ecosystem-january-2026-tickets-1981054197433
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Erlend Sogge Heggen
4 months ago
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
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Phil Hawksworth
4 months ago
Traditional proverb: A watched DNS record never propagates
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Anuj Ahooja
4 months ago
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 ๐๐ผ More of this, please!
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hailey
4 months ago
at risk of a bunch of people saying โwell actually you should have done it this wayโ, hereโs a lil write up on adding trending topics to bluesky
hailey.at/posts/3mcy5b...
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Topics on Bluesky
Building usable trending topics on Bluesky
https://hailey.at/posts/3mcy5b5gfi222
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IPFS
4 months ago
@vmx.cx
wrote up a quick tour of what happened in IPLD and multiformats this year: ๐งฑ New (much faster!) modular crates for Rust IPLD ๐ฆ Migration guide if you're still using libipld โ Rust multiformats (cid, multihash, multibase) production-ready
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IPLD 2025 Review: From Monoliths to Modules
The year that brought us modular Rust libraries, faster DAG-CBOR, stable multiformats, and a simpler on-ramp with DASL.
https://blog.ipfs.tech/2026-01-ipld-2025-review/
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olizilla
4 months ago
> Registries donโt just host files. They make political decisions about who owns names
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I didnโt vote for the guy but thatโs a good speech.
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4 months ago
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Obviously, if Trump blows up NATO and claims Greenland, Canada is going to look like a missing puzzle piece in the territorial expansion
4 months ago
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Iโd appreciate it if you could just wait a few more months before crashing the global economy
4 months ago
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Julia Evans
4 months ago
A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
jvns.ca/blog/2026/01...
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A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/08/a-data-model-for-git/
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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...
4 months ago
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Kyle Barron
4 months ago
Announcing
deck.gl-raster
: ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ-๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ . No server required. 1.3 ๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ญ๐ 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
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austin
4 months ago
Zohran uses domain verification, based
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Jon Kuperman
4 months ago
Made an AT Protocol health dashboard
atproto-health.pages.dev
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AT Protocol Health Dashboard
Real-time health metrics for the AT Protocol ecosystem
https://atproto-health.pages.dev/
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Cohen is a Ghost
4 months ago
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
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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...
4 months ago
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Nothing changes. Oil and war are forever mixed. Makes me want to go 100% solar.
4 months ago
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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
5 months ago
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Brooklyn Zelenka
5 months ago
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 ๐)
notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-o...
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steph
5 months ago
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:...
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