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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 26/09/2026

Going to be giving a tour of dxos.org/composer at @atproto.to! Might even have invite codes for folks to get access to Composer, you’ll have to come to find out 😉

dxos.org

Composer by DXOS

Introducing programmable documents. Blend the power of popular file formats (docs, sheets, sketch & tables) inside of a collaborative local-first workspace.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 17/09/2026

I wonder how far you’d be able to get with making mobile apps with Tauri so the bulk of the app is just the web view still. Testing would still be a challenge without an Apple device but maybe some motivated users might be able to help test it out as a proof of concept before you spend the money

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 17/09/2026

Apple is…something. I both love them and hate them. They make some great products but the walled garden can be a nightmare 🤬 It would not surprise me at all to hear that they’ve set it up to basically force you to create an app for the App Store to have easy access to Apple Health data 😫

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 17/09/2026

discovered kimbia.app this morning, great work @jyc.dev! finally, ditching strava feels within reach, just need to find a way to directly send activities from apple watch/health into kimbia

kimbia.app

Your training journal. Yours, forever.

Running, trail, cycling, hiking: one journal. Published physiological models, certified coaches. Private by default; your feats, shown to the whole world.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 04/09/2026

Yeah, I’ve also have my family setup on 1Password in addition to having it at work. Not thrilled with the situation, but switching isn’t necessarily easy as people want to make it seem. Can be easy to forget that software is used socially.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 20/08/2026

This exists now! Gotta love when nerds do nerd-shit: bsky.app/profile/anil...

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 20/08/2026

I’ve been wanting this for ages, well done! 👏

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 11/08/2026

Being able to delete local patches after an upgrade is such a good feeling. Thanks for this Mateusz and co, great work!

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 07/08/2026

How do you see collaboration playing into that story of individualized software?

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 10/07/2026

Thanks everyone for boosting, found a couple people to transfer tickets to!

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 07/07/2026

Unfortunately not going to make it to @localfirstconf.com this year, but have a couple tickets now that aren’t going to be used. If you’d like to go but couldn’t afford tickets give me a shout!

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · 27/06/2026

A small ask from the local-first community. I’m speaking at @localfirstconf.com in Berlin about @tiles.run, but this year the conference isn't able to cover speaker travel. I'm trying to raise $700 through Github Sponsors to cover my flight. Any amount helps. github.com/sponsors/til...

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Sponsor @tilesprivacy on GitHub Sponsors

We believe that privacy adoption at scale must work backwards from preserving utility. We aim to deliver “just works” experiences through best-in-class privacy-focused engineering while offering un...

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 20/06/2026

What prevents the factory from being able to build and optimize itself?

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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 14/05/2026

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes. This should be our final alarm bell:.We can have privacy or we can have C22, not both! #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill

Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government

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Subvert @subvert.fm · 12/05/2026

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 30/04/2026

Didn’t get a chance to say so before I had to head about but, not a boring demo! Keep up the great work 😄

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 23/04/2026

Even though I don't particularly love Python I enjoyed the history in the Python one. The Vite one was good, the Node one as well, also the the React one...they're all good really, just watch them all lol

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 23/04/2026

Love these cult repo documentaries, so many fun stories

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 18/04/2026

Feeling vibes of the Dandelion Networks from @r-emrys.bsky.social’s fantastic novel, A Half-Built Garden 🌱

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 18/03/2026

I like it, though there may be some bias involved... docs.dxos.org/echo/introdu...

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 09/03/2026

I'm based nowhere near LA, but funnily enough I'm going to be in LA around this time. Will add this to my calendar and see if I'm able to make it work. Would be fun to meet some atproto folks irl!

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 09/03/2026

Why do people on the internet like to assume the worst of others?

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 21/02/2026

Of course there’s always still risk of factions becoming isolationist, but the more apps, connections and interop there is the more painful that becomes because they lose access to the greater ecosystem.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 21/02/2026

I guess what I’m saying is that you’re missing some of the incentives here. The more interop there is, it’s more incentive to keep the network open because the openness provides value.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 21/02/2026

This is why it’s so important and exciting that there’s so much activity in the atproto developer community right now. May a thousand flowers bloom! 🌺 🌼 🌷

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 21/02/2026

I agree with Erlend that your threat modelling is off here. As interop increases, the value of connectivity increases and it makes severing from the network more painful. Even a selfish actor would see that there’s more value in keeping it open if locking it down would kill >50% of the functionality

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 18/02/2026

Familiar with UCAN, that makes sense 👍 so would the flow look something like: 1. app loads tile manifest 2. app prompts user to grant permission to resources 3. if granted, app issues credential to the tile 4. tile uses the credential to authenticate the wish connection to data source

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 18/02/2026

Wondering if this scenario fits with wishes or if its outside the scope: 1. wish for access to local db with permissions of A 2. host opens rpc connection with tile 3. tile has gated reactive data access to the subset of the db

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 13/02/2026

Sorry about that, I’ve flagged it to Rich. If you’re looking to be in touch the best thing to do is dm richburdon on Discord.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 10/02/2026

For us, the AT integration has been a priorities question for a while. That’s probably still the case…but I will try to find some time to poke around web tiles

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 10/02/2026

@dxos.org is all in on web tech and it’s felt clear to me for a while the AT would be a great fit for a plugin registry as well so it feel like it would align quite well.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 10/02/2026

I'm very interested in this personally but also think that @dxos.org has interest in something like this for Composer in the long run. As I've had time, I've been poking around the edges of what it would look like to have interoperable code between Composer & other apps like Patchwork.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 04/02/2026

I have a feeling the rise of Claude Code and personal software changes the dynamics here. Sure, maybe its less likely that a company will come in and build on top of some one else's format because they want to control their own schema, but if I can do that cheaply just for myself, I probably would.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 01/02/2026

It’s baffling to me that there’s no straightforward way to do this at the org level. Anyways, I published the code here in case it helps anyone else in a similar situation: github.com/wittjosiah/n...

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GitHub - wittjosiah/npm-trusted-publisher: Tools to automate npm trusted publisher configuration for GitHub Actions OIDC

Tools to automate npm trusted publisher configuration for GitHub Actions OIDC - wittjosiah/npm-trusted-publisher

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 01/02/2026

The crazy thing is this whole thing with Claude Code definitely took me less time than doing all the packages manually because I tried doing that and gave up after extrapolating how long it would take to get through all the packages.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 01/02/2026

At first I tried getting it to write playwright script to do it but it pretty quickly got blocked as a bot. Then I got it to generate a chrome extension to fill out every for me and auto-navigate through a list of packages. That worked, presumably because of more human in the loop.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 01/02/2026

NPM publishing is such a pain. I understand the reason behind their move with granular tokens but it was managed so poorly. This week finally got around to migrating all the DXOS packages to trusted publishing and was only able to do it because of Claude Code.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/11/2025

thanks, this is awesome! I'm glad to see that this sort of thing works

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/11/2025

Even if that is true, I could see this being worthwhile. It becomes more of a UI protocol than a framework and there could interop between components built with various frameworks...maybe something like blockprotocol.org

blockprotocol.org

Block Protocol

An open standard for data-driven blocks

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/11/2025

Also in that video though, @ryansolid.bsky.social said that you have to set very explicit expectations on how they communicate for it to work. I'm curious if you would agree with that and if it aligns with what you're describing as "framework-like behavior without the framework"?

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/11/2025

I was watching this youtu.be/LrUpYblQIV4?... and in the chat it was noted that they are composable but there weren't any examples. Though I think @jakelazaroff.com below linked one!

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React is killing the web

YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/11/2025

Interesting, has anyone written about this anywhere? I'm curious about how that ends up working in practice. Are all the web components written with the same framework but just put together as web components? If they were cross-framework would that cause problems with state management, perf, etc.?

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/11/2025

I’ve been very curious about what happens if you tried to build an application by stitching together web components instead of staying within React/Solid/Svelte/etc., but haven’t had a chance play with it yet. Is this something you’ve tried at all? Would love to hear more if so.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 21/09/2025

I see the Bluesky team finally found a way to bring in some revenue.

Car driving down the street, on the back it says “BLUESKY GLASS WORKS”. The license plate is “GLAS MAN”.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/09/2025

That plus adding all of the current security concerns with these technologies on top of the city’s horrendous record of data security…recipe for disaster.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 12/09/2025

I’m bullish on there being good uses of these AI tools to improve services in the long run, but the idea of using AI to improve the efficiency of the city’s terrible service is hilarious. They should try improving the service before focusing on efficiency.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 04/08/2025

The only way I can see this happening is if someone comes up with a more convenient slang. I would say people don’t call it “the mountain” for correctness, it’s because “the escarpment” is a mouthful. Though at this point I fear it may be too late.

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Josiah @josiahwitt.com · 28/07/2025

If it becomes a consistent problem you could try enabling “only followers can reply” on your posts to curtail the drive by comments

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 18/07/2025

Regarding the experiment, I genuinely believe the current way we’re building software is outdated. We can do so much better, we can have more user agency and enable it for less technical folks. Easily build any UI sitting on top of pieces of data & logic. Create, adapt, remix; diffuse.

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