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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

bookmark this post - the BBC will create their own social media platform - potentially over AT Proto - and it will be credibly neutal, accountable, democratic and awesome

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Rupert Manfredi @ruperts.world · 08/07/2025

From The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data. App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Listening to this episode all I could think was - my *gosh* they sound amazing - I would SO love to work alongside them @goblinoats.com @grjte.sh Blessed moment

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'll be representing @tonklabs.bsky.social's work supporting creative technologists at this roundtable in Shoreditch, London, next week. Come through! And thanks for hosting Restless Egg

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Vibe Coders LDN was 🔥 20 lightning demos over healthy poké in Hoxton – games, LinkedIn hacks, workflow agents, “second brains” & more – all vibe-coded by founders, devs, dropouts, VCs. One legend built a game from scratch _during_ the show.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/06/2025

now I use ChatGPT whenever I need to get an em-dash to copy-paste

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We’ve quietly built Tonk, an alpha-stage CLI tool that makes it simple to build custom dashboards, apps, and AI agents using your own data—minus the backend headaches. Quick intro 🧵👇

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"How can users tweak the existing tools they’ve installed, rather than just making new siloed applications? How can AI-generated tools compose with one another to build up larger workflows over shared data?"

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ok, so vibe coding is officially going from viral to mainstream. So many people have sent me this FT article today. I sit down every day with vibe coders - in startups, enterprise or just tinkering in their garage - here's what I notice:

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Excited longterm for the finegrained composability and interoperability that comes from multiplayer operating systems Walled gardens and enshittification is so 2010s This room is unbelievably cracked Local First Conf Berlin 2025

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

reflection: an underrated, nonskeuomorphic use-case for AI is what I think of as "world-familiarisation" or "world navigation" "world" in the sense of a social world - the fashion world, the art world, the tech world, the politics world

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

👾 Londoners 👾 I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI. 🗓️ June 11 📍 Hoxton 🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks 🧠 ~25 curated spots

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The @tonklabs.bsky.social thesis. The platform era (2010-2024) > Platforms provided amazing services, but private network effects centralised and siloed data, creating centralisation overhead: lock-in, cost, inconvenience.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 05/05/2025

I saw Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT box when I visited CERN and what blows my mind is the faded torn sticker saying "This machine is a server DO NOT POWER IT DOWN". There was some point in time that was the only web server on Earth. "Do NOT turn this computer off the World Wide Web is on it"

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

From user generated content to user generated apps

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

PSA: I've done an investigative deep dive and decided my top ranking of innovation scenes in London - i.e. the places in this city where you'll find the most talented & hardworking people working at the most dynamic frontiers: 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trying out the new S*bstack shortform reel generator:

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New @tonklabs.bsky.social Product Demo: myWorld The Tonk stack helps developers use AI to build multiplayer apps fast and plug them into your data while keeping maximum control, privacy and flexibilty over your information.

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cursive.team @cursive.team · 18/03/2025

ART IN THE MACHINE: a series. Technology without soul is just utility. From day one, we've infused our work with creative spirit—drawing from fine art and fashion to build tech that resonates beyond function. This week, we'll share our influences before unveiling new directions!

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

> be me > yawny stretch in bed after good shleep > rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today > check phone > open tonk community chat > "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep" > bliss

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The team at @tonklabs.bsky.social is developing an interoperable, private network of datastores, to service the fragmentation of state resulting from the proliferation of billions of cheap, niche, personal apps and workflows built with AI.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

MCP is great & all but we're just scratching the surface when it comes to questions of where data will live and how it will move around when there are billions of little AIs helping you Our first bet is that traditional databases are just way too cumbersome and icky as a way to handle shared data

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Spent today churning through all of @tonklabs.bsky.social's websites, social media etc to be more comprehensible We spent 2 years in a niche technical crowd & it was awesome but it's time to move on I will miss our demoscene aesethetic - saving it here for posterity web.archive.org/web/20250312...

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Onboarding into Flashes gave me the same feeling of permissionless composability that got me so excited about blockchain and web3 But without the worse aspects of crypto Woohoo!

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I consistently find that speaking about technology with people outside the tech world is an amazing way to get really clearsighted really fast

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hello world! Twitter was making me real sad. Excited to have this new space with you all. ❤️

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