Chris Messina

Bluesky is fun. Feels like old Twitter. So much overconfidence in ignorant positions! I missed this! 🦃

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

Late stage AGI now requires "agent habitats", which is a relief for the EPA which was nearly DOGE'd into extinction. replit.com/blog/rise-of...

When did Anthropic set Fable 5.1 to be Claude Code's default??

Osaurus is on Windows now. Free. Watch it close out a month of books on a PC: invoices matched, a double payment caught, workbook written. No cloud, no subscription. Native C#, no Electron. Public beta is open. Thanks to the community member who built the port. osaurus.ai/windows

"The Jury has found that Meta has committed 43,899,720 willful violations of the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act (the “Act”)..." That's a lot of will violations... 😬

I had no idea those were the lyrics! 🌭

Ah ha! — So X Money is really about harvesting your transaction data to personalize the ads X shows you... #DeadTwitter

Hosting a deep drive conversation on multi-player AI next week during #SFTechWeek featuring @swyx.io ​and Tanmai Gopal! Wednesday, October 7 at 12–2pm PT in San Francisco RSVP here: partiful.com/e/s7FqDReAeU...

#SFTechWeek is starting early...! I'll be on a panel tonight in SF on GTM in the AI era... 🤖🤖🤖 Come by: luma.com/catalyst-r22p

For an inside look into the mind of the Trump Administration: 1. Go to america.gov 2. type “hello” 3. type “play Minecraft” 4. watch the agent’s reality implode 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!

What in the recaptcha??

1/ It’s time to share more about what we’ve been working on: @commonfabric.com is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. commonfabric.com

NEWS! Anil Dash will be keynote speaker at the next FediForum Oct 6-7! Anil is a technologist, writer and activist advocating for ethical, inclusive tech. He'll talk about lessons learned working on open standards, community and what's to come. More details & registration:

Telling my kids this is what I mean when I talk about “agent swarms”.

Just crossed 100K followers here on Bluesky, surpassing the number I built up on Twitter over 20 years...! 📈

Happy “Smells Like Teen Spirit” day to those who celebrate! 🤘🏻 The single was released 35 years ago today.

If you're on a Mac with 8 or 16 GB of RAM, you should try @osaurus.ai's new local model Raptor 0.5. It was made just for you!

Solid open source harness that can create agents with just a request 👇🏻

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:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. Including apps for tracking alcohol consumption. 🥴 — Zawinski’s Law, 1995 #ReleaseNotes

Your chats shouldn't start from zero. Projects are live in Osaurus. Related chats share one set of instructions, knowledge, and memory. Tell one agent your bench max. Ask a different agent on a different model. It knows. Free and open source: github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus

I'm pretty excited about this: we're launching a ヽ(^O^)ノ paid ⎝(^O^)ヽ virtual residency at New_ Public for folks with big ideas for making the internet a better place. Got a big idea? 💡✅ Care about people and communities? 💖✅ Please apply and share! newpublic.org/eir

Choose your fighter, AI edition: - cheap or free, requires handing over your data for training (Meta) - private and secure, zero data retention (OpenAI)

I'm telling my kids this is Vessel from Sleep Token.

This is so cool. 🦖

I rarely watch or create videos, but ok. I guess my species may die off soon, like the dodo. 🦤

Apple Messages now confirms whether I want to paste from Threads. Do I want to allow this?

Launched a new app today! Firstpass offers you actionable input so you nail every launch. Check it out on Product Hunt!

Claude Code Artifacts, now in Raycast! www.raycast.com/chrismessina... #RaycastExtensions

Lol, these lyrics open.spotify.com/track/0GM8QL...

Honestly, WTF #WhenCaptchasAttack

X Money apparently is rolling out. Taking a page out of PayPal's playbook. This is telling: campaignId=xmoney-early-access-07-24-2026-wave-4 x.com/i/money?from... #NewXMoney

🏆 @osaurus.ai is #2 on Product Hunt — help us tell a new story about AI! One that's free, open source, and local. www.producthunt.com/products/osa...

Watch for @osaurus.ai on Product Hunt tomorrow!

Look what I found in trumpaccount.com/robots.txt

New agentic builder just announced from my friend @jackbogdan.com! 👇🏻 We went deep in the recent episode of Worktrees: worktre.es/p/worktrees-...

Can hardly believe OpenAI just up and replaced the ChatGPT app with Codex. That's a lot of people's cheese to move at once! 🧀

Something I’ve been working on 👇👇👇

If you like writing long threads on Bluesky, wait until you discover "blog posts." Start blogging with @pckt.blog, @leaflet.pub or @offprint.app today and get 25% off your first year, on us.

Initial results for California's race for governor are in, with Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton in the lead, followed by Tom Steyer. Live updates: bit.ly/4eiVHfs

On June 1, 1999, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning launched the peer-to-peer file-sharing platform Napster. #InternetHistory

Very neat little widget on the Bloomberg homepage

Spotify DJ is coming to podcasts. You’ll be able to ask questions about episodes, etc. #NewSpotify

Hmm, that's a lot of email.

I’ve been using the Raycast 2.0 beta for a month or so and it’s good — lots of polish and subtle improvements. Worth noting: “Free during the beta: OpenAI's GPT-5.4 mini, global dictation, and several Pro features. In exchange, tell us what needs improving.” Get it here: raycast.com/new?via=chris