Jacob Pfeifer

Television! I've been using it since the release last week and I think they are onto something. Think of it as a durable surface for your artifacts. The graphical interface for your text only agents.

This pairs very nicely with the discussion that @ftrain.com and Rich Ziade had with a Catholic priest on the Aboard podcast, discussing the work that led up to the encyclical overcast.fm/+AA-K7drL8WY

I've been working on converting this old boombox into a floppy disc playing cyberdeck. Lots more to do but we're making progress :)

The Atmosphere should be sold as a Community Garden. Plant your Lexicon tomatoes. Have your neighbor plant their own tomatoes using the infrastructure you planted. Grow the garden, communally. Reap benefits of the growth of the garden. Continue giving back.

The Atmosphere is a new open network of apps and services that all work together. It's like truly owning your Google Account. Instead of every app being its own walled garden, Atmosphere apps share a common foundation, so you only need one account to use them all, and they can easily share data.

After thinking about this question all weekend, I think my favorite candidate is the alchemical symbol for air: 🜁 It’s connotes both atmosphere and “transfer”. It’s a standard Unicode character. It references a capital “A.” And it’s very simple, which feels appropriate for a protocol, like 🌐 or 🛜.

“There’s a lot of unnecessary anger at people who don’t look like us, and pray like us, and walk like us, and cheer like us. In Lawrence, we are wide open to embracing something new.” On the love affair between Lawrence and Algeria for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Google: Organize the world's information Atmosphere: Let the world's information self-organize

What do streets think about being able to read long form content / blogs from within blacksky.community (powered by standard.site) @pckt.blog @leaflet.pub @offprint.app in the below rough demo.

i think this maybe deserves a blogpost. atproto is a protocol for publishing and aggregating JSON with links. “accidentally” this happens to be enough for many types for social apps

Really cool idea 🤯 - Install this web font - Just add plain text to the DOM - It renders a chart using font ligatures No JS, no hydration FOUC franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Whoever is doing the copywriting over at @eurosky.social continues to slam dunk. We don’t need a bunch of new perfect nouns for things we already have perfectly good vocab for.

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

Get in here we're building Ecological Computing! ionosphere.tv/talks/rj8Xv62

I stopped short of trying to coin "Ecological Computing" in my talk, but I was *very* tempted. I love that it's happening here! cc @tessa.germnetwork.com

now with added `midi.cc()` (which really does make everything better)

The administration's budget request would cut research funding for the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 50%. It's hard to imagine an external enemy causing more long-term damage to this country. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.thebeliever.net/ghosts/ I don't know if anyone remembers this essay from 2021, but I think about it often.

Desperately, DESPERATELY want to see a packaging system for "i have an application, it uses web ui tech, i want to ship it to desktop, but it DOES NOT WANT a localhost socket" that developers can pick up and run with easily. Getting shellshocked from seeing so many screenshots with localhost:3000 😮‍💨

Everything in the first half of this post was a volunteer project. You can still build this stuff. We all just have to do it.

youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0 What a fascinating artifact of our times.

This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.

Nearly all culture and media is an instrumental proxy whose purpose is to get us to relate to other people. The fate of society rests on everyone realizing that in time.

A while back, Andrej Karpathy said the app store will be replaced by generated, disposable software," and Amjad Masad predicted that the value of all application software will go to zero I think this "ephemeral software hypothesis" is wrong, though, and I want to explain why:

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

This is what I've been thinking about in 2026! My idea is to build a local first (data first?) substrate on top of Cosmic DE. I'm very heavily inspired by Patchwork. I'm excited to share more soon. system76.com/cosmic

Change is in the zeitgeist. The future is uncertain. People are primed to grapple with something new.

Loam Substrate started feeling too big for markdown files so I'm experimenting with Linear as the source of truth for the project. I've only been using it for a few hours but I understand why so people speak so highly of it.

one account wherever you go ☺️ your handle isn’t just for one app anymore ! we took @hello.pckt.cafe for a walk across the atmosphere

Defuddle now has a website! This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format. You can simply add "defuddle.md" before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.

Curiosity is the death of nihilism

$cT7aZ Cool!

Something I've been thinking about since this interview: Yes, art is inherently political -- even if its creator doesn't like or claim or politics. But art is also autobiographical. And those autobiographical veins are worth mining.

This entire piece is spectacular, but this bit is a little grenade