Chad Fowler

Bought the iPhone #Duo at 5am online and got it today. Been using it for a few hours. Really want to like it especially because Flipboard looks amazing. But.............. give me a few more hours. Meanwhile here's some fun Flipboard Duo video featuring Massive Greatness by @mgsiegler.com

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@toni.bsky.team built a $10b business at @automattic.com where 90% of it flows into the ecosystem. Let’s stop talking about how to divide up the pennies left on the table for creators and builders in walled gardens. The time is now for creators & builders to build and they should take home the $$

I just made Phoenix Architecture Field Guide. Take a look! I love how @attie.ai used my publicly available activity to help come up with something I might actually want to make. Nice UX!

Heading to SF next week to host a dinner discussion with some of my smartest friends on the future of software development, deployment, and management. Attendance is by invitation, but we have a couple of spots open for people passionate and building in this space! luma.com/gusek7ee

Fun little Wednesday post!

Revisiting this meme in the context of funding the Atmosphere: We have a well oiled funding model to create the big fish in the top row - VC. AFAIK we have no equivalent funding model to create the big school of fish (bottom right) I bet the Atmosphere would flourish if we could develop one...

We have released a new version of @iroh.computer. Nothing major in terms of features, but we did manage to significantly reduce the binary size. So now my entire embedded device zoo is running on iroh from crates.io. No more patch needed. www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-1-...

when you die you become sentient energy youtu.be/7k650CTG6mc?...

What everyone doing “spec-driven development” is and has always gotten wrong….

@freeq.at is serious business 😂

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We'll be in New York next week hosting a curated conversation with our friends at ex/ante on how we can use this historic inflection point to re-claim our digital agency and invent and start to (re)invent the internet we deserve. Apply below! cc @zoew.bsky.social luma.com/p08fg2mh

Reminds a bit of classic rentry -> rentry.org Beefed up with encryption and easy shared access, very interesting 👍

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ive been trying to vibe an agentic platform based on that actor model elixir idea … github.com/limadelic/el...

Press freedom matters. The First Amendment matters. Here are some Surf feeds by, and featuring, news organizations, starting with @freedom.press's Press Freedom Network. 🏄🏻 surf.social/feed/surf%2F... 🦋 bsky.app/profile/free...

“A local, agent-first store that links the written intent behind a code change to its VCS commit and to stakeholder systems such as Jira, Confluence and Linear.” ❤️ rubygems.org/gems/intent-...

Another person to talk to would be @bugarela.com— her Quint language is supposedly very good at bridging the code-spec gap

Ah, I miss live tweeted recaps from the glory days of tech twitter! Here's a thread of my LDX3 talk, "what handcrafted servers taught us about handcrafted code". Thanks, Heidi!!! With a hat tip to @chadfowler.com, whose book "Regenerative Software" is now in O'Reilly prerelease.

The truth is that there is no way to stop people developing this now. Even if all the major countries agreed to stop, someone would keep working on it. There is 100% an arms race going on now, IMO, and I’m not sure there’s any way out but through. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...

Ok here’s the deal. For every Bending Spoons acquisition, we build an atproto version that this can never happen to again. I kind of thought we had more time, but I think we don’t.

Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while atproto, activitypub, and the open social web community makes the Internet more open.

The @bsky.app starter pack thing is such a great example of making an open product/ecosystem feature out of someone else's closed, extractive bullshit. Thank you to whoever designed and implemented it.

Doing some really fun stuff trying to see how much of a codebase I can generate and regenerate using a small model. Concepts based on the Phoenix architecture by @chadfowler.com github.com/livecodelife... livecodelife.github.io/sedum/

One of my favorite things about it is the "burn after reading" feature

Trivially share markdown. Pi, Amp, Claude, and chatbox integrations. Agents can now share markdown via privacy-preserving URL (with other agents or people). This maps to a constant pattern where I generate a markdown doc, copy to my buffer, paste into gist.github.com and share mdsnd.freeq.at

I don't think SEO is dead as a lot of the same principles apply to optimizing for agents, and yes, search engine rankings apply to what content they find. We wrote a post on this: newsletter.posthog.com/p/llms-are-p...

oh hm @chadfowler.com i am literally in the middle of reupping this conceptual framework/strategic posture i one-shotted five years ago (after sitting on it for like a decade) to consider agents: youtu.be/dDE_y7Qri9w tl;ldw code is more disposable than all the precursor material that led up to it

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This album comes out this Sunday. It's one of the most meaningful releases of my music career. Something for everyone here I hope. ♥️

We're excited to announce early access to our Managed Clusters product! Request access on miren.dev/pricing! Miren has always been focused on self-hosted, but there are many of you that have asked if instead Miren could run the cluster for them. The answer is now yes!

I spent LBJ Day with his daughter, Luci Baines Johnson. I’m running for her father’s Senate seat to continue LBJ’s fight for education, healthcare, and economic opportunity for all.  I’m honored to be in this fight with Luci. In November, we’re going to win back her dad’s seat.

Omg finally got the venue secured for Protocols for Publishers ✨ in Toronto this fall. Official announcement with initial speaker reveal on Monday. Sign up to the newsletter so you don’t miss it! protocolsforpublishers.com

@nandi.uk you've finally pushed me over the line with nix. Doing something crazy (localfirst Omarchy alternative)

Who is doing the best work you've seen on understanding GTM for agent-centric software and tools? SEO is dead, and the landscape is changing rapidly. I'd love to gather some smart folks in this area for a chat.

This was a super fun conversation with @chadfowler.com on @progressivedelivery.com podcast. www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

THIS. This. this!! So glad to hear someone else making the same observations and predictions along the same lines I have.

Here was my previous take on it: jamie.ideasasylum.com/2026/06/20/s...

I've long argued that components should be tiny: small enough to understand, change, or throw away. This paper suggests something related: The developers can be tiny too. 1,000+ finite-lived agents build a 250K-line compiler. The project persists. The programmers don’t. arxiv.org/abs/2608.10450

Ok, I’d like your recommendation for long form group writing with access control. Ideally OIDC so we could use atproto. Knowledge base / wiki would be what these things are called. Outline Wiki be an example of an open source option. Compete with commercial offerings like Notion or Confluence.

@devingaffney.com and @ngerakines.me have built something very special. I'm really excited to see them continue to advance Graze as the ultimate feed building platform while Surf & Flipboard help millions of new users discover and experience these feeds in new ways that we'll be designing together.

And @hipstersmoothie.com and @ellieonline.bsky.social and @go-brown.bsky.social and @rchowe.com and @sachajudd.com and @bgroupe.org - could not have done it without you all

Excited to announce that the Graze team is joining @flipboard.com! We're thrilled to be working with such a stellar team continuing to build the next era of the attention economy. Read more below:

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This was a great conversation! I love how third loop is less an interview and more of a group discussion. ❤️🔥 www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

Why do software specs often fail? Is it because we try to agree on abstract requirements instead of debating concrete examples?