Talking in a room with no name.
If the space is called "Bluesky", the implicit assumption is that the Bluesky company is the centre of gravity. The authority, the arbiter, the thing that could disappear and take everything with it. That framing runs directly counter to the democracy and decentralisation that…
Some thoughts on extending lexicons
Good write up with an example of mu’s editing extension of how to extend lexicons.
How to easily add Standard.site support to your website
An implementation of Standard Site, and an offer to work with others on making it great
It seems that integrating existing websites with the Atmosphere is a problem worth solving once, and worth solving well. If you’re working on this as well, I would be more than happy to co…
Two questions from the Jagged Frontier
The 'jagged frontier' is about surprising capability gaps; I would argue that the real jagged frontier here is the unexpected change in potential outcomes
The jaggedness of AI - the difference in capabilities at the edge of the frontier across different types of work - is wel…
It's not enough to have better ideals.
Ben @werd.io reflecting on Public Spaces Conf
it’s never enough to build something that is ideologically better. We need to build tools that are practically better for people today, based on people’s actual needs.
He also goes into fallacies around investor funding and OSS w…
Google Search Changed: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of AI Search
My friend Monique from @boxcarmarketing.com starts her blog post with “On May 20 Google announced its hostile takeover of the web.”
She goes on to provide an overview of where we are at with search today, with this final quote of what web publishing means today:
For marketer…
Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up
The ultimate in self-hosting email, from the IP on up. Yes this is inspiring me to see if we can get some IP addresses for Z-Space.
Standardizing Bookmarks in the Atmosphere
Wesley @wesleyfinck.org on bookmark interop
With bookmarking, it's more challenging because bookmark authoring is likely to originate in multiple apps because it's a common low-effort action.
My take is that as Wesley says - “a URL” is the base data type. And more broadly th…
a mini proposal for a shared bookmark lexicon
Change Agent
@gibaskchua.bsky.social says that journalism / media needs to actually have a theory of change of how the sector is evolving. Her vision:
“That the vast majority of people will turn to agentic systems that offer them relevant, personalized information, when they need it; and…
The journey of a thousand miles begins…with having some idea of where you ought to go.
Toward a durable writing stack
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is o…
Sill's new view
Great write up by @tylerjfisher.com of @sill.social about Sill's new appview for his specific use case focusing on links and the metadata around them.
Some major improvements come to Sill today
Shareouts from ATScience 2026 in Vancouver
@atproto.science writes up AtmosphereConf shareouts
Since when do science conferences have such wild energy?
back online
@permadeath.com is getting back into blogging, committing to atproto native & choosing Leaflet to start with.
This comment on Ghost resonated:
[Ghost] swings a bit too far in the "overly-managed" direction, where I wind up waiting on the maintainers to add new features beca…
standard.site, leaflet.pub, and why we write in 2026
Skyreader update - Linkblogs, standard.site, and discussions
I’ve just been excitedly using the new Skyreader discover feature to properly add the many people I want to be following and THEN reading the updates post to find that I’m being used as an example 😄
I’ve been bugging @semble.so to enable link blogging there, too!
Great work…
Making Skyreader more social. Everyone gets a linkblog! Find your people.