Chazona Baum

Hello from #AGNTCon! I'm presenting about what we learned building the @honeycomb.io MCP server. If you'd like to follow along, follow this thread! Otherwise, feel free to mute it. Let's get it started!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you package/distribute/maintain root stores or chain verifiers, act immediately. If you know how to remove trust in a root, consider doing it now. Otherwise, prepare to update systems as patches/mitigations come. Go users, update to Go 1.27.3 or Go 1.26.10.

Good news (I hope): CSS-Tricks will indeed be back later this month!

excited to announce that we've been accepted into the @interledger.org 2026 Open Payments Accelerator Cohort we're building native payment infrastructure for @atproto.com to enable peer-to-peer payments for mutual aid and community support

"Belonging, having something to do that matters, feeling useful, being understood and having people who are interested in you are not simply rewards for becoming well. They are often part of how we become well."

🙋‍♂️ so, what are the git forges you are using - or want to be using? asking for … reasons. (would appreciate sharing for reach)

I have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB 1280×800 resolution with a touch screen detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest vid wesbos.com/hacking-smar...

New video up, because I kinda had to vent my spleen a little bit. People gotta stop going to the token casino all the time, it's just not good

I've been thinking a bit about under what conditions humans need to understand the systems they're building. Chatted with GPT-6.1 Sol high, and I thought we reached a good argument for the human-AI collaboration to get better results. www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/...

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

I'm obsessed with this distinction being made in this talk because it's a huge pet peeve of mine that we call loads of things "imposter syndrome" that aren't in tech! Drawing attention to external social pressures and getting sabotaged by pushback #monktoberfest

Made a Printer Friend which quickly transcribes speech onto little slips of paper. Very nice for card sorts, quickly capturing open loops, discursive notes in books, etc. The speed of thermal printers and their auto-cutters is so satisfying! And dedicated mechanical key! Mm!

Dead serious I think Atmosphere in a Box might be one of the best DevEX things I've ever created. Dropped it in to remove a railway dependency on one product already. Released 0.7.0 last night adding dynamic network allocation, wildcard domains, jwks secret generation, and stronger CI examples.

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

What still frazzles me is that the animation wasn't done with diffusion models like the AI-generated images and video we're now all used to seeing. This was made by a language model.

Managing in the age of AI "will only work if you talk to humans more than you talk to Claude" @skamille.themanagerswrath.com skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

If you're interested in Jev and want an open version of it, here is one solution for you

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

I am a sucker for good books, and so especially O'Reilly books. Here's one that is WIP, but in return, it is free, thanks to @antithesis.com It's for CTOs / eng leaders who want to get AI to deliver *business value* which is... tricky. Get it here: pages.antithesis.com/oreilly-scal...

Come help me build a new kind of internet that puts communities at the center. #ATHiring blackskyweb.xyz/about/jobs/f...

This essay by a Romanian shows why US/Canadians should read about how people from different cultures observe us and our practices. "Never in my life have I seen people so completely unsupported, even with such a large network of friends." the6thspence.substack.com/p/north-amer...

the intro to Batman: The Animated Series is one of the single best bits of storytelling ever done in any medium, an absolute masterpiece of character and atmospheric development achieved in a single minute with no dialogue

Holy God this is _perfect_.

Made a sketch artist game where you have to draw the character based on witness testimony neal.fun/unusual-susp...

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NEW: We are piloting a three month virtual residency, for two entrepreneurs with bold ideas for making the internet more human and healthy. This is a paid opportunity to spend time exploring and building, and go from early hunch to conviction and clarity. Apply here by Sept 9: newpublic.org/eir

Great piece about the improvement of SLM (Small Language Models) over time: klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/if-this-is... SLMs are as good if not better than LLMs in 81.2% of the cases Source: Saad-Falson et al. (2026)

Code + Coffee is back at Café Stella! ☕ Join Chazona and me Saturday, Aug. 22, 9:30–11:30 AM in Ghent, Norfolk. No talks or agenda. Bring a laptop, a project, a question, or just yourself and hang out with the Hampton Roads tech community.

I'm with @bram.us on this one. Switching color mode shouldn’t feel like a guessing game. 3-state toggles (Light / Dark / System) win every time over 2-state toggles with hidden logic in my book. Clear UX always beats unpredictable behavior!

Outstanding look behind the scenes of AI addiction among software engineers. A must watch.

If you want to add @aturi.to’s “Atmosphere Waypoints” package to your atproto app (it lets your users pick their preferred clients!), send your agent to aturi.to/docs for instructions or click the copy markdown button at the top of the page to paste instructions!

Standard Reader shows comments, but you can't post them. Now, it’s easier than ever to join the conversation: - Comment on the original publishing platform - Reply to the article’s Bluesky announcement, use your fave client - If no announcement, quote-post the article and tag the author

wow, this article is incredibly detailed, and every bullet has a high signal-to-noise ratio alexstamos.com/p/moving-for...

If you're a regular or heavy AI user (no shade meant, your company may also enforce this to some degree) - please provide some useful data:

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today we had the GOAT @danabra.mov on @syntax.fm to school us on ATPROTO Please forgive the title, trying to get more people interested in it 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77G...

I am delighted to announce that after 5 years of work, 15 early releases, 50,000 words written, and 100,000 more deleted, *Logic for Programmers* is now complete and available in print! Blog post announcement: www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ Website: logicforprogrammers.com

What an amazing string fof blogs published recently to explain the ATMospheric moment. The @leaflet.pub kicked one of the best simple sentences of what the the ATMosphere is right now. standard-reader.app/a/did:plc:bt...

Want to learn how to get the most out of Standard Reader? We've written a guide to the app! This is intended for everyday user's and requires no tech knowledge ❤️

🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇

Pretty cool how the @oxide.computer homepage responds to different screen sizes by showing/hiding the number of racks

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