Daily Journal 📓 November 2026

Thanks @gordon.bsky.social for shipping an “Obsidian Flavoured Markdown” library aka ofm. Makes it so any app can reliably render this dialect of Markdown. via original post by Gordon

There was another big co-op related launch today: Design Machines launched the website for Assembly, "governance software that makes it easy to start, run, and connect democratic organizations" They are also going to build Assembly as a co-op. It's not connected to atproto (yet!). Assembly is meant to be run "federated" with individual installs having added "fixtures" to add customizations and features. "configured around your membership, your roles, the way you make decisions, and even your brand. It runs under your name and on your domain, not ours." Assembly Chat fixture: "Conversations…

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I was reminded by @nabiha.bsky.social that @mozilla.org has a number of open calls right now that would be a great fit for Atmosphere people. The first is the Foundation's Fellowship 2027-2028 cohort. @rude1.blacksky.team is in the current cohort. "…extraordinary individuals working at the edges of human imagination, on technology that's too early, too unexpected, or too ambitious for anyone else to fund. Our Fellows are builders…But they are also defiant about who technology should serve, and rigorous about making it a reality." Apply! The second is the Human Scale AI incubator program…

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io is spending the year at Stanford (more on his about page) talking about journalism and use of technology and being a bit scrappy. Here’s a short video of him saying a few more words.

An update from @graham.systems including this minor aside about leadline that sounds amazingly cool!

“…you collaboratively build user story maps with others, then derive tasks from the exercise.”

The star of the show is @release.software: Graham @graham.systems asks “What does it look like to version, publish, and distribute software on atproto”

And starts answering this with “a set of lexicons, guidelines, and recommendations for distributing software of any kind via the open social web”

Automattic is launching Spacefast, an AI app creation and hosting platform, via @techcrunch.com

I went looking for something recently that wasn’t GitHub Pages & more Glitch-like and couldn’t find much.

One the one side it’s “just” hosting, but feels like app remixing is missing.

Hobbyist friendly encrypted chat by @nocarrier.fail

“Tieroute is an open, federated protocol for end-to-end encrypted chat, …Identity is a signed chain you own, groups are MLS, and every key exchange is post-quantum hybrid”

via @nocarrier.fail original post

In which @[email protected] discovers that Harvest time tracking / invoicing tool got bought by Bending Spoons and went from $13 to $133 per month.

From the replies, self-hosted Invoice Ninja is recommended.

This looks like a pretty great implementation of atmosphere comments for astro by @olly.st

I keep thinking about adding comments, but ultimately that’s what chatting here is for.

Finally got around to implementing proper OG cards for the site. Now I just have to update this note with the new features the site has since September!

Atmosphere Splitter now supports Bluesky rich text links, implemented using Markdown link syntax. Originally by Scott Jenson @jenson.org as a single HTML file with inline JavaScript, I added OAuth support and then…got carried away and kept going. My fork at bmann/Splitter keeps this restriction, but is also deployable as a static site so that it can be installed as a secure mobile PWA. And now, a thread powered by Splitter, starting with the newest (final?) feature. Markdown Links aka Bluesky rich-text facets, where you can add real inline-links. Paste text from notes, Obsidian or Notion and…

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Why yes, I will save snippets of linux knowledge. If you want a full restart of the KDE Plasma Desktop, here’s your script. And also apps will survive this restart.

systemctl --user restart plasma-kwin_wayland.service

⭐️ solo-ist/prose Markdown editor for the agentic era

⭐️ agent-substrate/substrate Agent Substrate: the core system

⭐️ pbakaus/impeccable The design vocabulary for your coding agent. Steer with polish and bolder, review with critique and audit, catch AI slop before it ships.

⭐️ bluesky-social/roast Adversarial cross-model code review.

Thanks Jamie from Golden Ventures for gathering a lot of interesting Vancouver people in one room. I’m stunting my metal card as Daniel from Koho speaks.

⭐️ quickwit-oss/tantivy Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

Did a test install of Thunderbird’s Appointment booking calendar, which is open source and self-hostable. I was able to connect atproto OIDC to it, but the product puts the email address in the booking link and only supports one meeting type.

⭐️ olivierlambert/calrs Fast, self-hostable scheduling platform. Like Cal.com, but written in Rust.

⭐️ skydeval/horizon-ts An atproto client built on Bluesky’s app, with audience-limited kryphocron posts, pronouns, plural systems and backdrops.