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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 15/09/2026

Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 17/09/2026

✨📣 Excited to be keynoting @codebeam.bsky.social in October! 🇳🇱 I'll be taking about local-first software, user agency, and the BEAM ecosystem

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 09/09/2026

guess i can add @digitalocean.com to the list of businesses to which i'll no longer be giving money

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 08/09/2026

My building's power has been out for the past 3 hours. Luckily @katiewilde.com is about to go to a horse event and had the camping battery fully charged! This is how we get by out in the the desolate wilderness of Vancouver's West End 😂

A camping battery displaying 87% power plugged into a laptop with emacs running

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 08/09/2026

Zoom has failed me for the final time. I've been having success with Proton Meet but also starting to give them political side eye. Discord has E2EE video calls now which is pretty great but let's say that I wanted another option: what are y'all using?

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 07/09/2026

🌈 I've now been out of the closet for ✨20 years✨ (Caveat: it's not really possible to pin down an exact date and you could argue that I was out long before, but the day that I decided to actually live life fully authentically was 20 years ago on Labour Day)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 06/09/2026

Huh, I wasn't expecting Bring It On (2000 cheerleading film) to have aged as well as it has! Not "perfect" but feels way more progressive than other films from that era (which mostly have a lot of regressive dialogue and themes 2026 standards)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 03/09/2026

I must either be good job of hiding my personal info & ad algorithms are making random guesses, or I'm doing a really bad job & they know something about me that I don't. Last month every site thought I wanted a Ford F-150. This month it thinks I'm in the market for a dirndl (maybe Octoberfest? 🍻)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 02/09/2026

Okay well apparently I'm on the switching services treadmill as I discover who's still supporting bad actors 😫 Nerds of Bluesky: if I want to get off of Proton but still have E2EE email from a non-USA company, what are my options?

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Automerge @automerge.org · 02/09/2026

🗞️ The August 2026 edition of This Month in Automerge is out! Check out what's new in the core libraries the last days of summer, and a few projects from the community that caught our eye 👀 automerge.org/blog/2026-au...

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This Month in Automerge: August '26

Automerge 3.4.1, sturdier sync servers, a new access control guide, and news from around the ecosystem.

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Introducing Patchwork-26

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 30/08/2026

Finally switched my wm to Niri (in part due to looking at which parts of the ecosystem were so far staying away from DHH's crusade to reshape the community). Niri is REALLY good, especially for what is AFAICT a passion project! Deserves attention and grassroots sponsorship. github.com/niri-wm/niri

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GitHub - niri-wm/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to niri-wm/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 26/08/2026

I guess we've made it to disk 3

A bright red sun in the sky and reflection on the ocean as seen from Vancouver

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 24/08/2026

OF COURSE ThePrimeagen is involved in this shit of course. crybaby white male victim of woke 2 number one is on the line-up for DHH's crusade of fucking course. "mask off" is good though, makes it easier to warn about.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 23/08/2026

Even as a fan of @verilybitchie.bsky.social 's work, I was pleasantly surprised at how well presented the material is in this video essay 🔥 Also that it starts with bi media rep and ends with [SPOILER] how we should tear down our oppressive societal frame & build solidarity using shared values ✊🤝

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 22/08/2026

Last I checked, *I* was the Brooklyn of Vancouver

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Automerge @automerge.org · 19/08/2026

📢 We're starting to put together our list for the August edition of This Month in Automerge 🗞️✨ If you're working on something interesting with Automerge — or know of others that are — please point us at them in this thread ⬇️🧵⬇️

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chee rabbits @chee.party · 17/08/2026

alright i’m in Vancouver

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Mike Zornek, looking for work. @mikezornek.com · 15/08/2026

🔗 Real-Time Version Control for Godot Backstitch enables fast collaboration for dev teams, game jams, and classrooms. backstitch.dev

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Backstitch

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Automerge @automerge.org · 12/08/2026

📅👀 The next set of community calls are posted to the Luma. Excited to see everyone there (and we'll also have This Month in Automerge in between) Register here: luma.com/automerge

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 12/08/2026

Oh hey, that's me! ✨ I'm excited to keynote @codebeam.bsky.social in Haarlem in October this year 🇳🇱🎉 I'll be talking about local-first software, a paradigm that hands power back to users — in an era of otherwise ever increasing control and disempowerment

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yaso @yaso.is · 12/08/2026

Genius rant

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chrisb @boscolo.co · 05/08/2026

haven't felt this energized in a while 🔋 We're building a proof-of-concept E2EE library & demo on AT Protocol, using BeeKEM for DCGKA. There's a long road between a PoC and a foundation we can all depend on, but every journey has a first step🐾 bsky.app/profile/bosc... bsky.app/profile/expe...

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pvh @pvh.ca · 31/07/2026

The Local-First Conf 2026 talks are up! I always get hallway tracked real hard at this event so I'm really excited to catch all the talks I missed... www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Local-First Conf 2026 - YouTube

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 05/08/2026

Toooooootally normal. Certainly no such thing as climate change, this much fire every year is completely natural, right? 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

A red sun on a horizon blotted out by smoke reflecting red on the ocean

Smoke halfway up north Vancouver as seen from near Stanley Park

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Erikk Shupp @shupp.dev · 04/08/2026

we've set a date in September choosing a spot that is metro accessible and central w/ relationship with hosts. Love to see people there! If you had not reached out to me, go ahead and join directly via Lumo! #localfirst #localfirstdc @bmann.ca @inkandswitch.com @adamwiggins.com @pvh.ca

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 04/08/2026

Excited to have a ✨ guest post ✨ from @djwyen.bsky.social in our @inkandswitch.com Keyhive lab notes! The local-first setting is new to a lot of cryptographers; here Derek shares some of his insights working on the BeeKEM paper, cross-fork security (CFS), and fundamental protocol design tradeoffs 🐝

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06 · E2EE in the Local-First Setting

Examining design considerations for developing cryptography for the local-first setting.

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Automerge @automerge.org · 31/07/2026

🆕 We're trying something new: here's the first ever This Month in Automerge 🗞️✨ Check out what's been happening in the core libraries, and a few projects in the ecosystem! automerge.org/blog/2026-ju...

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This Month in Automerge: July '26

Hexane v1 lands in Automerge, Subduction sync server hardening, a BeeKEM paper preprint, and more.

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 31/07/2026

My talk at @localfirstconf.com is up, in which I argue that local-first has a role to play in improving the resilience of democratic societies in an era of geopolitical tensions. I'm pretty happy with how this talk turned out www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...

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Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 27/07/2026

In a surprise twist, I've been really getting into early-1980s city pop lately 🎹🎷🎵 Just prepping myself for middle age I guess? 😅

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 26/07/2026

Glad that it's cooled down here in Vancouver, but did enjoy beating the heat by getting ice cream with @bmann.ca at Plain Jane a few days ago 🍦😋🧊

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Me smiling at my ice cream very excited to not be melting in the heat any more. The background is Plain Jane ice cream which is mostly white with dark blue and blush pink accents. I'm wearing a black cami and blue shorts

Boris smiling holding a purple ice cream in a cone. He's wearing a grey hat and red floral patterned shirt

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 26/07/2026

So long Codeberg 👋⛰️ Hello Tangled 🧶 It's bittersweet: I liked a lot about Codeberg, esp community governance. Sadly in this case that means a deal breaker for me. I wish them all the best & good on them for articulating clear values! The new home for my repos will be tangled.org/did:plc:oypg...

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expede.wtf on Tangled

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ePrint Updates @eprint.ing.bot · 16/07/2026

BeeKEM: Decentralized, Secure and Efficient Group Key Agreement (Derek Yen, Andrés Fábrega, Liangrun Da, Martin Kleppmann, John Mumm, Sunoo Park, Brooklyn Zelenka) ia.cr/2026/1434

Abstract. Group key agreement protocols are essential for modern secure messaging. Most existing group key agreement protocols assume a centralized model with a semi-trusted service that mediates the communication. This is efficient, but problematic for some important applications, since a central service can be a choke point for surveillance and censorship. There is a nascent literature on decentralized group key agreement that avoids such reliance, but existing proposals either do not scale, with update costs linear or quadratic in the group size, or lack proofs of security. Centralized protocols can offer much lower (logarithmic) cost.

We present BeeKEM, the first decentralized group key agreement protocol with logarithmic update cost in the common case (degrading to linear in the worst case) and proofs of security. We provide an open-source implementation and demonstrate that it is competitive with OpenMLS. BeeKEM opens the door for a range of communication and collaboration applications offering not only end-to-end encryption, but also metadata privacy and censorship resistance.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 23/07/2026

💎🦀 Rust bijou64 update! A few projects needed signed ints and more lengths, so we've consolidated the various Rust crates into crates.io/crates/bijoux (with an `X`) This is now the one stop shop for all of your fast and canonical varint needs in i32, i64, i128, u32, u64, and u128 flavours 🍦✨

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crates.io: Rust Package Registry

crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 22/07/2026

📃🐝✨ Excited to share a preprint about BeeKEM, a decentralized / local-first variant of MLS's TreeKEM (group E2EE) that we designed at @inkandswitch.com. Huge thanks to our coauthors for the writeup and empirical analysis — even we were pleasantly surprised by the performance results 📊

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 22/07/2026

Get in losers, we're watching Mean Girls outside ...with Katie from (South) Africa no less @katiewilde.com

Me and Katie watching Mean Girls in Stanley Park

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 07/07/2026

Are you coming to the @inkandswitch.com LAB DAY at @localfirstconf.com? I've caught wind that the renowned witch-hat hacker ZERO VOID will make an appearance.

two white glowing pixelated eyes
waves of snowy luma curves in the back
a prompt reads "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
the answer: ZERO VOID [OK]

the eyes are upside down
the luma snow is ice blue
streaks of RGB pixel noise crack out from behind
a half-faded lock icon above the word
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the luma snow is crispy white
a little chromatic blur of TENFOLD peeks out
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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 25/06/2026

Finally tried out migrating to a new PDS and it was a VERY smooth process! Now skeeting from Northsky @transrights.northsky.social 👋🌈🍁✨

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chee rabbits @chee.party · 19/06/2026

www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/art... this is the best thing i have ever read

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Artificial

An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.

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UCAN @ucan.xyz · 16/06/2026

🤩 IT'S HAPPENING: the "RC" label is getting peeled off UCAN v1.0 at ✨the end of this week✨ If you want something changed here at the 11th hour, speak now or forever hold your peace (or, well, until the 2.0 far in the future)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 15/06/2026

🥳 Congrats to the @iroh.computer team on making it to v1.0 🎉 I'm very excited about this project: reliable direct connections is a surprisingly hard problem that many have taken a run at, and this is the first project with something that feels productionizable. Incredible team doing incredible work

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Iroh @iroh.computer · 15/06/2026

We just released the first stable version of iroh, v1.0! Read about it: www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 We're super proud of where we landed with iroh's 1.0. Since version 0.35 it feels like we've entirely replaced the "engine underneath". Are you a fellow key-dialer? Come tell us how you use iroh!

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Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs

Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 08/06/2026

We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details

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