Mosh Lee

Love to see this! Sarah is one of those humans who is an absolute catalyst for good. Hop to @sarahmackattack.bsky.social's profile to learn more about her work, and support if you can.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

Thank you so much to the incomparable @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for working with us on this! If you love magical, creative science communication, including nature murals in Philly, eel facts advent calendars, Skype a Scientist, and so many other worthwhile projects, please support Sarah's work!

@ericportis.com is an evil genius

bicyclecoalition.orgWe Can Make Philadelphia's Streets Safer Without Building A Surveillance Network - Bicycle Coalition of Greater PhiladelphiaFlock cameras are not speed cameras. They are a fundamentally different kind of technology and we need government to treat them that way. I support making Philadelphia’s streets safer. That is why I s...

We don't have to choose between safe streets and civil liberties. ASEs capture specific traffic violations, and data is only available with a warrant. They're a proven tool for bike/walk safety. ALPRs like Flock create a continuous surveillance network. bicyclecoalition.org/we-can-make-...

luma.comCID Congress · LumaCID Congress is a series of working sessions towards making CIDs & content addressing easier to use: more deterministic, better compatibility, leaner…

the coordinated techno-chirping of a dozen garmin varias at the coffee stop 🎶

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IPFS

@ipfs.tech

Join us for two great talks (and other fun discussions) at this week's CID Congress: 🔍 @norman.life on FISL, a new way to find CIDs in the wild 📦 @bad-example.com on STAR-lite, a stricter, leaner take on CAR 🗓️ Thu Oct 15, 12pm ET luma.com/8w8swmx2

We moved @dasl.ing to @tangled.org to dogfood the content-addressed lyfe in a big way. Some personal observations: For personal workflows, it works nicely, very much as expected. For collaboration across people and strangers, there's still a way to go. More in thread...

The biggest pain point has been review workflows. You can't easily attach comments to specific lines of code, or thread conversations. It's also missing some basic social ergonomics, like autocomplete for @ tagging or ranking autocomplete suggestions by collaborators or social proximity.

midterms.graze.socialElection Night 2026Vetted coverage of the 2026 midterms, by state.

Review & approval steps are a bit muddy. PRs should have reviewers not assignees, and reviewers should be able to do verbs like Approve, Dismiss, etc. I hear there's a big rewrite coming up, looking forward to seeing what's next!

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Graze Social

@graze.social

🗳 midterms.graze.social is @graze.social's most ambitious project to date. And as of today, it's live. Let's take a look at what the next 27 days will look like 🧵

Here are some flowers for the @aster.id crew, who managed to announce their launch exactly when asters hit peak purple in north america. (They're smart like that.)

ipfsfoundation.orgJust Enough Governance: Introducing Steward Governance for DASLWhen we started working on DASL, it was little more than an experiment. We talked to as many people as we could who had been interested in content addressing but couldn't make it work for their needs....

DASL governance gets a very DASL-esque update. It's written in plain language, it's short, and doesn't YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It).

DASL@dasl.ing

As mentioned before, we've been adding governance. We wrote up what so you can just kick back, chill, and read up on it. ipfsfoundation.org/just-enough-...

derekeder.comDerek Eder for Oak Park Village TrusteeToday I am officially launching my campaign for Oak Park Village Trustee. Last year, I was appointed to the Board as a climate champion, civic technologist, and progressive. Since then, I have champio...

Chicagoland friends and beyond: Derek has been Doing The Work for over a decade. Can't wait for him to win this campaign and bring his experience, collaboration, and values to this office.

Derek Eder@derekeder.com

Today I am officially launching my campaign for Oak Park Village Trustee! My priorities will be climate action, making data-driven decisions, collaboration with other local govs, and progressive values. Read more: derekeder.com/blog/derek-f...

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

Really nice to see this! When we say "user-owned," most of the time individual users don't actually want to run their own infrastructure. But a group of researchers banding together to run infra BY and FOR users like themselves — maybe that's what user agency meant all along 🫶

Aster ID@aster.id

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

wwww.septa.orgAccelerate: SEPTA Announces Best-in-Class Vision for the Authority & Region – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Speaking of yes energy, SEPTA's Accelerate plan is quite good! Ambitious but practical vision of what we could have with more than starvation funding, like 15-minute regional rail and more frequent buses. wwww.septa.org/news/acceler...

hindustantimes.comNYC artist replaces missing subway tile with chia sprouts art: Here’s how 'mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team responded'Korean-American artist Eujue turned a missing NYC subway tile into an art intervention, catching mayor Zohran Mamdani's eye — here's what actually happened.

At this point I'm pretty sure Mamdani is an bot programmed to "CHOOSE THE MOST CREATIVE, HUMAN, AND EXPANSIVE RESPONSE TO EVERY MOMENT" Artist fills in missing subway tiles with art. City likes it, then asks artists to fill in missing signage tiles citywide. www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...

3 Sept

I have an Ikea elf in my house. If an unopened Ikea package is lying around, the elf finds it and builds it when he wakes up at 6:30. Why did I wait so long to have kids?

thephiladelphiacitizen.orgIt's Not Arts Funding. It's a Monumental Failure of ImaginationTayyib Smith contends that not only is our arts funding weak — we produce Black cultural brilliance, export it, and then fail to value it

2 Sept

Great piece from Tayyib Smith on arts funding (applies to dinosaur museums too) thephiladelphiacitizen.org/philadelphia...

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Ronen Tamari

@ronentk.me

1 Sept

Just today I was thinking of my fav fish meme (as one does 😅) and I realized that "organize" has roots in the word "organ", eg organize literally means "To furnish [a body] with organs", "to endow with capacity for the functions of life" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organize

sōm ⁂@hyl.st

@ronentk.me mentioned how atproto stacks are starting to resemble organisms. Each product plays a role and the whole stack gets more effective because of it. Network effects! But from products rather than users

aicoding.leaflet.pubSaaS Isn’t Dead. Sameness Is.

28 Aug

A corollary here is that you need a top-notch internal team to reap the (potentially massive) benefits. Government, in particular, loves to abdicate the highest-level tech planning and system design. That needs to change.

28 Aug

"Team" can be tiny, fractional, rented, etc. They just need to be loyal to and deeply embedded in your org first.

25 Aug

Just learned that Dolly Parton has died. What a gem of a storyteller, songwriter, and humanitarian.

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Hazel Weakly

@hazelweakly.me

24 Dec 2025

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

22 Aug

Darth Vader supports Flock cameras. Masterful performance at a San Diego City Council hearing. www.instagram.com/reel/DcTxV-W...

These days I'm most excited about ATProto as an open layer for social and discovery. There's massive potential in what this fabric can turbocharge, beyond social media for its own sake.

(Remember that viral post about reposting with all the flags of your grandparents? I wanted to join the fun, but didn't. Because reasons.)

Second, I think projects that use an atmo/social lens to solve domain-specific problems are particularly interesting. Peanut butter & jelly is classic for a reason, y'know?

These days I'm most excited about ATProto as an open layer for social and discovery. There's massive potential in what this fabric can turbocharge, beyond social media for its own sake.

numergent.comProject vs. Product, Startup vs. Business

Two related things: first, social media is slowly shrinking. People are shifting their time to forums and groups, pushed by overwhelm and surveillance. Good stuff is still happening on big-world social, but the Atmosphere's big event-driven booms are no longer a given.

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T.W. Simpson

@simpson.tw

12 Aug

There’s some conversation in the Atmosphere right now about how we turn @atproto.com projects into sustainable businesses. One of the biggest opportunities is sitting right in front of us: give publishers back the audience development business they spent the last 20 years outsourcing to platforms.

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Ricardo J. Méndez

@ricardo.bsky.social

11 Aug

There are two questions you need to answer when building something new: who is this for, and where is the money going to come from? Some longer thoughts on my exchange with @mosh.bsky.social about the ATproto ecosystem, and its needing a business focus. numergent.com/2026-08/Proj...

8 Aug

The last 10k of today's Tour de France Femmes stage 7 is extremely worth watching. WOW.

4 Aug

I listed a cargo bike for sale at the beginning of the summer, thinking the timing would be right for people interested in warm weather adventures. Crickets, then 8 inbounds the past 2 weeks. Turns out everyone is shopping for new school commutes. Bikes are infrastructure.

mosh.leaflet.pubLeveraging Volunteer LoveFrom public parks to open source software, donated labor needs a professional boost to really thrive.

3 Aug

Philly volunteers at double the national rate. I wrote about this phenomenon, programs that multiply that impact, and where volunteering falls short. (Started as a Leaflet draft, accepted as a guest commentary in the Citizen, and reposted back on Leaflet 🫶🏽) mosh.leaflet.pub/3ms5pw73kbk2t

1 Aug

This is wildly irresponsible. Even if there are legit uses (modeling flooding or wildfire devastation, maybe), they could drastically cut down on misinformation abuse by rendering in a lower-res illustration style. Also, watermark the hell out of it and host an image checker service.

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Mosh Lee@mosh.bsky.social

3c. This is a bigger problem, maybe related to propagation. I poasted from Blacksky app, but it doesn't show in my profile there even 5 minutes after. It does show up in the Bluesky app within a few seconds.

31 July

First impressions after 24 hours with the @blackskyweb.xyz Android app: 1. Visual design is pretty straightforward, but they've found ways to show a bit more content and less chrome. It's nice! 2. Loading and switching views is noticeably snappier. 3. A few bugs, likely related to federation.

Overall, a few wrinkles to iron out but a very credible alt to Bluesky's app. Kudos for working through the app stores (PWA is fine but doesn't shortcut, dock, etc as well). Nothing really differentiates it today. I know the team's got big plans, looking forward to seeing what this enables soon.

3a. Display names from .bsky.social handles aren't showing

31 July

3b. Some feeds don't load (even though they load fine). The 2 I notice, Quiet Posters and Latest from Mutuals, are both run by @why.bsky.world 👋🏽 so maybe some misconfiguration there?

30 July

Grow a bigger pie, don't fight over the slices.

dame@dame.is

in a community like ours, i think it’s tacky to say “stop using [Atmosphere app] and use [other Atmosphere app] instead” when i released @aturi.to i didn’t tell people to stop using @pds.ls or @atproto.at with @anisota.net, you won’t find me saying “ditch bluesky, mu, blacksky, etc”