Scott Hadfield

Atmosphere co-op needs to drop so we can all stop talking about bluesky

It’s pretty great when an 18 year old blog (and blogging platform!) can get integrated with modern standards. Congrats @opensource.google for connecting Blogger to @standard.site

The last couple of months have been filled with conversations that have me more excited about the future of the internet than I've been in 20 years.

The funniest thing about “who is funding you” question is that believe it or not, we are also all trying to find an answer to that question so we can get paid.

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

🥾 Hike: 11.9 km (+1208m) — November peak to Seed Peak via pinecone #treeline #atproto

Me too, @z-space.ca espresso machine

This looks amazing. And, again, reconfirms the thing I keep telling people: the Atmosphere isn't about rebuilding Twitter. It's about rebuilding a better web overall.

Tomorrow! @byjp.me is in town so we're hosting a meetup at @z-space.ca in Vancouver, with some themes around self hosting @wesleyfinck.org about social experiences on atproto @hadsie.com @jacob.cascadia.social are going to talk community scale AI @djpardis.com demoing local first music

Fantastic episode of cbc ideas on wildfires. strongly recommend if you're interested in how current forest management leads to more and bigger fires, and how indigenous land stewardship can help reduce future fires. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Scott @hadsie.com volunteered for #AtmosphereConf and now he's atproto pilled and making integrations for @freeq.at

Canadians are not prepared for the manipulation aimed at us using crises like BC wildfires Not only is AI slop fooling people for clicks, bad actors like foreign governments (including Russian) often exploit these emergencies to encourage anger and mistrust More: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

hot take: I would rather read your imperfect English in your own voice than perfect LLM English that makes all writing narratively the same

The only way to get employed as an AI engineer consultant/lead is to be unemployed long enough first, so you can catch up, keep up, prototype, evaluate and integrate 9-5. And then also tie it back to your previous tech life. Barely anyone can claim more than 12 months live experience.

Lots of people have been asking about the atproto alternative to Buzz, the Jack Dorsey-supported Nostr chat for agents & humans to chat in. The answer is freeq, which is atproto + IRCv3 extensions, including CRDTs with Automerge, QUIC, iroh. Follow @freeq.at.

Since wildfires seem to be making news again, I may as well do a bit of self promotion for a service I run: If you're hiking in the backcountry, add the phone number to my treksafer.com service before you go. Text it to get a list of wildfires nearby. 100% free, and the code is fully open source.

Beautiful day for a hike! strava.app.link/umPqsLEy83b

Two new inference nodes up in the Z-Space AI Cluster. Welcome to the party Orca and Salmon! Photography by @bmann.ca.

When you're up against network effects, there comes a time when it isn't worth staying and trying to get others to move. It's better to leave. And focus on building, on new network effects.

It's surreal that the entry point to the Internet for most people is now completely disconnected from reality. Even if it's only wrong 10% of the time, you can't know which 10%.

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

"We've replaced HR with AI" Somewhere, in the distance, a pride of lawyers lifts their heads off the ground. Prey is headed in their direction. Tonight will be good hunting.

we back on leaflet 🍃

Canadians, tell your MPs to vote NO on bill C22. There's a one-click option to do so in the thread!

We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert

bit of a personal question

hello fellow homies: moq.dev/blog/webrtc-...

wrote up some of my thoughts on the potential of AT Proto / ATmosphere apps after building a chess app fully on protocol. feeling bullish on niche/long-tail apps that couldn't have existed before this :)

We need everyone to wake up to how fragile our shared commons are. We can't wait until we drown in security incidents and more projects close down, using them as excuses. If you're in a position to help (every company is), check who you depend on and need support (everyone), and fund them.

Nice article. The Atmosphere however is playing a “yes and” game. Absolutely social for groups and communities! But the structure here means we are aiming for _all_ apps, not just the social ones. Especially when permissioned data becomes available.

To keep Treksafer maintainable, Scott Hadfield has a CLAUDE.md and dependency audit skill committed to the project, and a scheduled Claude Code task with a GitHub token that runs at 9am each day. http://tag1.co/593001 #ClaudeCode #Treksafer #AIinPractice

Here is a Drupal module that implements standard.site and will backfill posts from your Drupal CMS to the atmosphere. Big thanks to Automatic and @pfefferle.org for the ref impl github.com/affinitybrid... @protocolsforpublishers.com @drupal.bsky.social @standard.site @atmosphereconf.org

How I'm using AI to manage some of my side projects (treksafer.com in this case): www.tag1.com/blog/keeping...

Perfect day for some spring ski touring. Now I just need a way to get my Strava into the Atmosphere.

Thinking that everything you see is AI-generated is as bad as thinking nothing is AI-generated It's harder than ever to know what to believe, but you're lost if you believe nothing

honestly, I think software developers have a hard time reconciling the reality that they are among relatively few professionals for whom AI is empowering rather than disempowering. it's kind of deservedly alienating, which doesn't change the reality of it— see bsky.app/profile/alex...

Was a great project to try out developing on the protocol!