Daily Journal 📓

I have made an atproto powered journal editor on my website. I can login with my @bmann.ca or @bmannconsulting.com accounts, and then have a very simple editor for making Bluesky-length microblog posts, with an optional link field.

It supports rich text that I input using Markdown. Realistically, this is only ever used for links. If I make a post that is over 300 characters, then it publishes it as a @standard.site article using @markpub.at. This is also how unthread.at is setup when I looked into it.

It also uses the out-of-band tags field. By default, everything is tagged as “bmcjournal”, and integrated back into my site. So I can also use whatever tools I want as long as I use that tag. Deck.blue and Ouranos are two examples.

Fig builds Microcosm. You can sponsor on Github

Fig is awesome! @bad-example.com

Editable Website is a SvelteKit template for building CMS-free editable websites. Uses Svedit. Being built by @michaelaufreiter.com

Oh ya! I am moderating a panel at DWeb Camp Berlin with Christine Lemmer-Webber and Daniel Holmgren called Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub.

Rolling up the ladder behind us, by Xe Iaso. “Who will take over for us if we don’t train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.”:

I had a lot of respect for Anthropic before they released this feculent bile that is the Model Context Protocol spec and initial implementations to the public. It just feels so half-baked and barely functional.

The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.

Slow Software for a Burning World as Bonfire heads to a v1.0 release:

“In a world of ‘move fast and break things,’ we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.”

The Shape of What You Meant is a blog post about Index Network, a kind of ambient discovery that describes its contrast with performative social media and how things must be public in order to aid in discovery.

Devine wrote notes on malleable computing as a reflection on the Ink & Switch Malleable Software essay.

Apps Are Avocado Slicers:

“…because the avocado slicer is narrowly focused on one task, it’s useless at anything else. If you used a specialized gadget for every single task, you’d end up with a mountain of plastic.”

From Ink & Switch Malleable Software Essay.

Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future is a response to Sam Altman’s “gentle singularity”, written by Alex Komoroske, founder of Common Tools

“between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice.”

I’ve been uneasy about Matrix for a long time.

This post goes on to recommend where to look for a replacement: Polyproto, Delta Chat, Revolt

Radicle, an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app.

Tonk released an explainer about their new release - “a CLI that helps you vibe code your second brain”, “designed to simplify the process of building custom dashboards, tools, and AI agents using your own data.”

Explicitly mentions remixing your Obsidian content.

As part of walking the startup showcase at Web Summit Vancouver, I saw Forestwalk Labs demo’ing Timberline, their agentic Mac app - building task management in an agent-first way.

Justin Searls explains why to be excited about what Apple announced about LLMs at WWDC. One is that developers can do “free, unlimited invocation of Apple’s on-device language models”, so zero cost LLM features by using a user’s own device. The rest is about native support in Swift for working with LLMs.

Resilio Sync was introduced to me by Jonny at Z-Space for user friendly file sync across many platforms. It used to be called BitTorrent Sync (and now I’m down a wikipedia rabbit hole - oh god,comparison of file sync software)

RSS Dashboard is an Obsidian plugin that pulls in posts from RSS feeds, YouTube, podcasts, and other feed based media, created by Aditya Amatya.