Mike Rhoades

Just updated atplan to v.1.2.0 — a reimagining of the Unix .plan file for atproto now with iframe embed! Back in the VAX days, finger user@host told you what someone was working on. atplan brings that back — on your own PDS. 🌐 atplan.io 📦 io.atplan.plan 🔧 tangled.org/mikehacks.io/atplan

hi, i made a screen recorder !!! it's called Screenie and it's out now ❣️ it follows your mouse and zooms where you click, smooths your cursor, has pretty backgrounds, blurs private stuff and a lot more. no account needed and everything stays on your mac <3 try 4 free at screenie.cam

Everything you share on Germ is end-to-end encrypted. Encrypted in your Germ app, decrypted by your friend’s, so one can read or hear you in between. Not us, not Bluesky, not anyone. Happy DM’ing.

Lots of awesome OS for the PDS posts flying around today, but what about a PDS in the OS? Here's a peek at the native Linux rewrite of @aetheros.computer, built on NixOS with PDS backed user accounts and experimental support for spaces. Still WIP, but stay tuned for more info later this year...

Here's a short video I'm hoping to include in my @leaflet.pub blog post at debbieohi.leaflet.pub showing a glimpse of how useful it is to have an Atmosphere account. I will also include a link to @cozylittle.house's excellent non-techie explainer as well, of course! lab.leaflet.pub/3mrq6ma5dgs2x

Added a substrate container to @aetheros.computer and now I have a terminal! Loving this interface!

Voice notes are rolling out in Germ. Testflight users can update now to 3.1 (5991) for end-to-end encrypted voice notes with private, on-device transcription. Talk your talk. We won't hear a thing. 🗣️

Been working on this Apple Silicon native terminal UI to wrap the Colossal Cave Adventure (350 points) - I played this on my Kaypro II back in the 80s and helped kick start my tech career.

Happy Zero Cool Day for all who celebrate. #hacktheplanet #hackers

Slick little application - I set it up for break-glass access to my home lab away from home. pigeons.computer

A storm is coming, but Germ is ready. With today’s release, Germ DM now defaults to post-quantum cryptography. Read our full announcement here: www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-is...

Great write-up for beginners and the perfect size to share!

Hey friends! If you're new around here, Mr. Bree has been a special ed teacher for 22 years & works in a Title I school where his self-contained classroom has endless adventures in learning life skills & cooking & this year gardening! This is our yearly wishlist drop if anyone wants to help!

it’s the annual problem for our generation, finding a good way to spend summer vacation !! maybe try writing on pckt.blog ☀️

Here's an early POC for a "personal website" run entirely on Sifa (and more atproto) data: sifa.id/p/gui.do/site (just append /site to your own profile to see it in action) You can also self-host it: github.com/singi-labs/s...

2. If you haven't picked up my Humble Bundle of books yet, today's a fine day. We have to date raised $18.7k for @wck.org, and it would be lovely to get to $20k this weekend. Available everywhere except (apparently) current and former Commonwealth countries: www.humblebundle.com/books/john-s...

If you select a company/organization but the name is wrong (most likely scenario is that the caPItalizATion is off): you can now request a review and suggest the revised name. 1) open the edit dialogue that contains the wrong name 2) click "Suggest a name correction" 3) fill out your suggestion

Just updated atplan to v.1.1.0 — a reimagining of the Unix .plan file for atproto now using oauth! Back in the VAX days, finger user@host told you what someone was working on. atplan brings that back — user-owned records on your own PDS. 🌐 atplan.io 📦 io.atplan.plan 🔧 github.com/mikro6/atplan

Decentralization is not about servers. It’s about power.

Just discovered I can directly edit PDS records from @aetheros.computer Great interface; been running it directly as a PWA.

WATCH 'WHY CAN'T I BE YOU?' & 'BOYS DON'T CRY' LIVE FROM @roskildefestival.bsky.social IN FULL AT youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Got my first jobs as a @cocore.dev provider! Loving community compute!

woof

Curious who's on Germ? The answer is in the app. It's always the right time to end-to-end encrypt your DMs. 💬🔐

my new favorite pastime is discovering new atproto apps! So much creativity out there, it's at-mazing. lol.

@pckt.blog custom domain setup was quick and easy! My ramblings now accessible via my subdomain: blog.mikehacks.io

Germ theme represent! @germnetwork.com apexdevelopment.github.io/bluesky-lice...

I think above all my favorite part of Bluesky’s integration of @standard.site is that the thing itself was made by no one *at* Bluesky - some people got together and made something bigger than themselves, on the network, without anyone’s permission! Now Bluesky is responding to it!

Gaming on Linux is finally real! @bazzite.gg

Your private network is waiting for you in Germ. Privately DM your mutuals, in beta now.

Very cool sounding experiment that’s running on the Atmosphere: “co/core is a place where people share the compute they already own to run AI for each other, instead of renting from a handful of giant providers. The models are open ones that run on the hardware people already have.”

Just in time before WWDC: My Apple Frames CLI can now frame videos! Give it screen recordings taken on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, and let it do its magic. Supports colors, merging, playback offset, and more. Perfect for filing fancy radars this summer: www.macstories.net/stories/appl...

Today's project - an Apple Wallet pass with my hobby deets.

Migrated my PDS server from the DigitalOcean marketplace install to a clean ansible baselined Debian 13 vps and leveraged Docker to consolidate PDS, atplan.io, and mikehacks.io into a single vps along with automated backups locally, regionally, and nationally. whew.

Our obsession? The lowly DM. Community without 1:1 relationships is just people yelling at each other. Private DMs are where we actually talk. 🦠🌿🌳

Germ DM is built on Messaging Layer Security, the new end-to-end encryption standard used for private messages between Android and iOS, and for A/V calls on Discord. In fact, we're the first consumer messenger built on this alternative to the Signal protocol. www.germnetwork.com/blog/decentr...

atplan now works across all PDSes #atplan

Really enjoying the @pckt.blog platform! Here's something I wrote about travel, packing, and anxiety. pckt.blog/b/mike-hacks...

While Python/CLI updates are great from the desktop, in today's busy world a mobile updater is critical. #atplan

Just shipped atplan — a reimagining of the Unix .plan file tradition for ATProto. Back in the VAX days, finger user@host told you what someone was working on. atplan brings that back — user-owned records on your own PDS. 🌐 atplan.io 📦 io.atplan.plan 🔧 github.com/mikro6/atplan

Average Aether OS user during onboarding. #atproto #atdev

I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

The most important benchmark...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Who wants to chat? #germinbio