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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 06/08/2025

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I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it. Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

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A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 25/07/2025

Welcome to Bluesky @automerge.org I'm glad you're consistent and not conflicted.

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Automerge @automerge.org · 24/07/2025

Want to hear about the latest in Automerge? Come join the Community Call Kickoff on August 20 (and sign up for the calendar while you're at it!) lu.ma/zv6tpuu4

Automerge Community Call · Luma

☀️ Automerge Community Call Kickoff! 🌿🍉 Celebrate the season and kick off something new with our new Automerge Community Call! We’re gathering for a relaxed,…

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 15/07/2025

One more week to submit to LIVE, one of my favourite conferences! Let's see your "new user interfaces that improve the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming" liveprog.org

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pvh @pvh.ca · 15/07/2025

Automerge 3 is here: the heart transplant is complete! Huge improvements in memory usage and (in most cases) correspondingly big performance improvements too. Backwards compatible on disk and the network so there's no reason not to upgrade today: automerge.org/blog/automer...

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Automerge 3.0 | Automerge CRDT

Automerge is a local-first data sync engine that makes it easy to build collaborative apps. Today we're excited to announce version 3.0 of Automerge!

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 10/06/2025

We had @geoffreylitt.com join us in Toronto back in 2023. Today he’s releasing the Malleable Software essay with the @inkandswitch.com team.

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 10/06/2025

New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜 Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.

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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

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John Chang @jrcpl.us · 19/05/2025

As a kid, I learned to program in HyperCard, a fantastic thing from Apple in the 1990s which empowered normal people to make homemade software. Last fall @pontus.granstrom.me started exploring and reinterpreting these ideas for 2025. Excited to share our writeup: pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

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Scrappy

make little apps for you and your friends

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Pontus Granström @pontus.granstrom.me · 19/05/2025

New thing! @jrcpl.us and I have been exploring home-made software. We made a prototype of a tool for making scrappy little apps for you and your friends. pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

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Scrappy

make little apps for you and your friends

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If you’re in NYC and curious about checking out Folk Computer we’re having another open house event Saturday, May 31! lu.ma/ydi03zax

🏵️ Folk Computer May Open House · Luma

From 1:30pm to 2:30pm, we'll be giving tours of the current state of Folk, our physical computing system. At 2:30pm, we'll give a short talk about our last…

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Boris @bmann.ca · 22/04/2025

Check out the first of @grjte.sh posts about combining #localfirst software - using @inkandswitch.com’s Automerge + Tiny Essay Editor - with ATProto for Lexicon data typing and public distribution. I’m excited to read all the write ups about the Groundmist project!

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dietrich @burrito.space · 22/04/2025

if you'll be in Berlin for @localfirstconf.com and are sticking around after... the Userandagents.com community is hosting a casual space for #localfirst people to hang / hack / chat for the Thurs/Fri after the conference! registration and more info: lu.ma/v457jxp2

USER * AGENTS * BERLIN · Luma

The User & Agents community invites you to come hang out and make things together for TWO WHOLE DAYS following Local-First Conf 2025 in Berlin! We'll be coming…

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pvh @pvh.ca · 05/04/2025

Our new research track is called Universal Version Control and it's about exploring how to bring the power of version control to every person, on every kind of document and every kind of collaboration. www.inkandswitch.com/universal-ve...

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Universal Version Control

Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 02/04/2025

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE LONDON ALGORAVE You can buy a ticket here for an early bird price before it goes up tomorrow lu.ma/ig4y8mii - Ticket revenue goes towards venue and artists - Event is listed in two places for maximum reach and inclusion! please only buy in one place :) - The night will be good

Algorave at Corsica Studios · Luma

It's time for another Algorave Algorave Algorave Algorave Algo— Room One features the usual combination of awesome live coded visuals and audio. While Room…

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Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Excited to share this blogpost with y'all! expertofobsolescence.substack.com/p/the-hard-t...

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The Hard Things About Sync

Lessons learned working on sync engine at Figma

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folkjs @folkjs.org · 31/03/2025

Notes from the Lab - March 2025 Custom HTML attributes, space transforms, peer-to-peer WebRTC + DOM sync, and much more! github.com/folk-systems...

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pvh @pvh.ca · 28/03/2025

This is the logo for a new Ink & Switch research track. What are your guesses for the name of this research area?

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 14/03/2025

The first Sync SF is happening on Monday, March 17th lu.ma/sync-sf Kyle Mathews - Electric, Gatsby Sam Bhagwat - Mastra, Gatsby J Chris Anderson - Fireproof, Couchbase Natalie Vais - Google Firestore, Spark Capital Jack McCloy - Snowflake Yonatan Feleke - Vella, lofi.software

Interesting in building products on a local-first / sync engine architecture? Come along to the first Sync SF, a meetup to learn and talk about better ways of…

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Orion Reed @orionreed.com · 11/03/2025

What if hypertext were zoomable? Then you could zoom forever, in circles... I made this the other day and came up with a data structure that allows the coordinate origin to move through the graph, to keep memory fixed and avoid floating point precision limits. folk.systems/canvas/space...

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Boris @bmann.ca · 12/03/2025

There are folks in the @causalislands.com orbit that have been talking about this for several years. Here’s a presentation by @geoffreylitt.com who is exploring malleable software youtu.be/bJ3i4K3hefI

Dynamic documents as personal software - Geoffrey Litt

YouTube video by Fission

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pvh @pvh.ca · 27/02/2025

I've got until @localfirstconf.com in May to really figure out how to explain this thing. It's a Smalltalk. It's a substrate. It's a janky research prototype that throws minified react errors and takes thirty seconds to load until the new Automerge upgrades land (which should help a lot!)

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 16/01/2025

Local-First Conf is back! Tickets are now officially on sale: localfirstconf.com Join us on May 27th - 28th for two days of insights, learning, fun, and chat. We hope to see you there

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Øredev @oredev.org · 24/02/2025

Are you ready? 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ The Call for Papers for #Oredev2025 opens in just a few days! More info on how to prepare on our website! 👉 oredev.org/callforpaper

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... . IA, not AI. Liquid media. Fossils of ideas. Qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. System 3. Poor winter child. Digital collateral. Open Attested Runtime Fabric. Insatiable social vortexes. Intellectual mosquitoes.

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Author : Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try...

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Rupert Manfredi @ruperts.world · 19/02/2025

New talk video, from @causalislands.com Berlin, where I speak about user agency, a new client for the web, and the web applets protocol www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK_n...

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Introducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 18/02/2025

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📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

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Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.

Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 17/02/2025

If you're in San Francisco this coming weekend, there's a #localfirst hack day which is full up, but they do have room for people who just want to come to end of day demos.

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 15/02/2025

Introducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi @ruperts.world Web Applets are a new open standard for allowing language models to use rich, graphical software, built upon the web. They are small, local-first, interoperable bits of software that can be used and read by both a human and a machine.

Introducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi

Rupert Manfredi @ruperts.world · 12/02/2025

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big fan of interconnected.org so it was cool to see a web applets shout-out yesterday! this is was a good write-up on the importance of open standards as we build out this new ecosystem for information & apps interconnected.org/home/2025/02...

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 14/02/2025

Oh, and @mrogalski.eu is of course on here now, sorry about missing that! Thanks for presenting, and now we have this great video to share.

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 13/02/2025

Snappy Animations - numerical tricks for low-latency visual feedback, Marek Rogalski A bunch of tricks that will bring your animations to the next level. We’ll focus on the use of animations in user interfaces - where it’s critical to squeeze every millisecond out of the input latency.

Snappy Animations - numerical tricks for low-latency visual feedback, Marek Rogalski

paul-rony.bsky.social @paul-rony.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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Coming soon to Kosmik 🪄

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 13/02/2025

Death of the Tadi Web, Lu Wilson @todepond.com The tadi web was a ridiculous plan to map out and combine every single 'better computing' movement into one practice.

Death of the TadiWeb, Lu Wilson

Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 12/02/2025

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1/ here's a visual model for how AI support makes me better at UI prototyping with the surprising conclusion that AI may *improve* code quality in some specific cases! lets walk thru it step by step...

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Razberry @raz.lol · 12/02/2025

a lil snippet of my @dweb.bsky.social demo from yesterday ft. schema interop: bi-directional realtime sync between two local-first apps ✨ full talk coming soon :)

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 12/02/2025

Clip: @genmon.fyi's multi cursor website as an example of how to compute as a group. @paul-rony.bsky.social "Any layer on the computer should be a playground for all of the users. Should be doable with what we have today"

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Causal Islands Conference @causalislands.com · 11/02/2025

From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us, Paul Rony @paul-rony.bsky.social Computers were designed and invented for groups (The Alto at the PARC were linked by an ethernet local network, the NLS was an on-line collaborative system, etc).

From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us, Paul Rony