iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tonk @tonk.xyz · 12/06/2026

If you’re like us, it’s not unusual to create a new piece of software in just a couple hours. With AI, we’re going from idea to working tool over and over again every day. Dashboards, workflows, little utilities, that type of thing. But what happens when you have to share it? 🧵

AI-made personal tools can't hit the publication threshold unless you go "vibe-code mode" and put on the wraparound sunglasses and lo-fi beats. Tonk makes software easy to share, so it's all rainbows and sparkles for your personal software.

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Tonk @tonk.xyz · 05/06/2026

We’re producing software faster than ever. AI has changed the economics of software creation so dramatically that writing code is no longer the hard part.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 12/05/2026

For ten years I've been chasing the same problem: how can groups of people coordinate without routing everything through a central authority. It's a common failure mode and a wicked problem. At @tonk.xyz, we're working on the most credible answer I've seen; one that is local-first all the way down.

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Tonk @tonk.xyz · 08/05/2026

Carry is a CLI tool we built on top of Dialog-DB to make the source of truth problem tractable in practice. A structured, persistent collective memory. The schema forms at query time. Repositories sync whenever they connect. Try it: github.com/tonk-labs/carry

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GitHub - tonk-labs/carry: Carry — a local-first knowledge tool by Tonk

Carry — a local-first knowledge tool by Tonk. Contribute to tonk-labs/carry development by creating an account on GitHub.

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 26/06/2025

with oil prices plummeting amid the middle east conflict, looks like markets are becoming an early artifact of new information asymmetries. exciting times to watch capital and intelligence converge www.ft.com/content/611f...

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How oil traders called the Middle East conflict

Open source intelligence and social media posts gave market participants confidence to sell despite turmoil

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pvh @pvh.ca · 23/05/2025

At Heroku, we basically destroyed a generation of folks personal projects when we deprecated various free plans. (My own software died too.) Now Glitch is making the hard decision to do the same: blog.glitch.com/post/changes... The lesson is simple: don't build in the cloud if you want it to last.

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Important changes are coming to Glitch

We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 20/05/2025

come say hi! great opportunity to meet other creative people working at the frontier of LLM code gen to retake the role of technology as an aid for daily life

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srrrse @without.boats · 16/05/2025

what people aren’t considering that this is probably less hallucinatory than the information satya normally gets

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

in the meantime, before infighting about who's more decentralised, articulate the specific benefits you're after and go from there. this is far more productive than arguing over presumed and ever-shifting goalposts. 12/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

this shift would help us evaluate technologies based on how they actually empower users rather than whether they match our definition de jour of "decentralised." 11/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

reorientation doesn't mean abandoning the underlying values, but rather spreading them across a more information-rich gradient that helps us be precise about what we're trying to achieve and how architectural choices support those aims. 10/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

decentralisation as our north star never made sense, but now it's becoming obviously counterproductive. while the energy pouring into networked tech is fantastic, we need to align ourselves along a shared, delineated taxonomy, enabling more productive conversations and clearer intuition. 9/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

the centralisation/decentralisation binary is a false dichotomy, obscuring that most successful systems operate on a spectrum, and indeed one often necessitates the other. 8/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

activitypub, for instance, provides some resilience and user choice while compromising on UX for the uninitiated. but a federated system that doesn't prioritise interoperability might be worse than a centralised one with good data portability. 7/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

sometimes decentralised architectures help us towards these goals. often, they introduce new problems: poor UX, higher technical barriers to entry, inefficient resource allocation, etc. 6/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

what we actually want are systems that prioritise: - free flow of information - user agency and control - interoperability/composability - censorship resistance - resilience against points of failure - and plenty more 5/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

this makes decentralisation an end in itself rather than a means. we forget that decentralisation (in all its definitions) is one possible—complimentary—approach to achieving more fundamental values. 4/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

"decentralisation" has been stretched to encompass everything from bitcoin to the fediverse to P2P, all with wildly different architectures. the word is now a stand-in for all that's "good" or "desirable" in future-facing technologies, obfuscating the actual value of the underlying tech/vision. 3/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

this problem is particularly evident between proponents of atproto and activitypub. the network topologies are vastly different, with explicitly separate aims. so why do we continue to argue over custody of an over-defined term in an under-defined field? 2/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 13/05/2025

this dialogue perfectly captures the problem with "decentralisation" as our guiding principle. we've reached a point where the word has become nearly meaningless through overuse and inconsistent definition. the goalposts constantly move, making productive conversation impossible. 1/12

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jack @jackddouglas.com · 27/03/2025

i'm investigating protocol architectures in the interest of advancing our intuition for how design choices encode ethics for networked power, intelligence, belief, and identity. check it if you like tech and society, more to come soon www.jackdouglas.me

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