Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 03/10/2026I wonder if the audience for microblogging has actually gone to Slack and Discord. They are spaces where like-minded people can share thoughts in text form with threaded replies, and they solve the moderation problem. If so, maybe there’s an opportunity in closed atproto social networks. 230
Reposted by Sam LittlefairMartin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Four dimensions is too many! Let's unfold this 4D cube to three dimensions, then two, and then one. Don't worry, we'll put it back together again. The math is lovely, but it's the rhythm and dance of the lines that fascinates me here. 1378
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026I've also had multiple Canadian friends request a version of the app that produces Canada-friendly palettes, called "Colour Horse." I'm looking into it. 100
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026Two new updates to color.horse: A "contrast" option to push shades toward the endpoints of the ramps. (Available in the colorhorse npm package as well.) Color schemes encoded in the URL! Share a color scheme with a link: color.horse?a=25009c&b=0... 000
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026Yeah it's one area where it would be pretty easy to offer something substantially better than the mainstream standard. 010
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026Thanks! Now I just need to remember to say that *before* I spend ten minutes explaining application infrastructure. 100
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026So far, when I’m explaining atproto to people, the best analogy I’ve found is: “imagine if all of your Spotify likes were also on Tidal.” It would be cool if Bluesky found ways to showcase that. 291
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026Brainstorm: Standard: Blog reader with a “recommend” button Teal: Music player with a “like” button Tangled: Code preview with a “fork” button Community: Calendar event with “rsvp” 3110
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026Raise your hand if you want to see non-Bsky lexicons on Bluesky. @bookhive.buzz @standard.site @lexicon.community 3374
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 02/10/2026Choose some cool non-Bsky lexicons that have momentum and find a way to integrate them in a way that feels native (even if it’s read-only). It’s one thing to say that the atmosphere is interoperable, but it would be whole ‘nother thing to interoperate. 1130
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 01/10/2026I just updated my personal website (littlefair.ca) with a new masonry feed with different layouts for photos, articles, reviews, and bluesky posts. @vowel.cc provides the classes you might need and optional default styles, and then you can provide your own styles.css. 010
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 30/09/2026The internet failed on its core promise.littlefair.caThe Websites We DeserveOur lives run on websites. From banking apps to recipe notes, we have entrusted the web with virtually everything we care about. In exchange for our trust, the creators of the internet made us a promise: if you want to, you can create your own website and put it on the internet. 121
Reposted by Sam LittlefairAndrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 28/09/2026Turn your website’s loading process into music. Forbes sounds surprisingly good. You could loop it and work to it. A great example of a website where someone clearly thought through every detail. We need more of that in the LLM era. blog.alena.rocks/en/artifacts... 093
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 28/09/2026It needs more testing, but in principle that means that you can publish events, recipes, reviews. You can use your blog as the source for your whole atmosphere identity. 000
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 28/09/2026The @vowel.cc v0.7 beta has full native atproto publishing. Define a lexicon for a folder (e.g., `app.bsky.feed.post`) and if the shape of the markdown files in that folder matches the lexicon, Vowel will authenticate you and POST the record to your PDS. It works for any lexicons. 101
Reposted by Sam LittlefairHéliographe @heliographe.studio · 26/09/2026I spent the summer prototyping a device that projects information and imbues computing into the real world, I call it the Lightbulb Computer. Full write up and demos at lightbulbcomputer.com Or on YouTube: youtu.be/0R-9qkjPEqglightbulbcomputer.comThe Lightbulb Computer — Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with ProjectorsA new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb. 2286
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 25/09/2026This is published with the current development version of @vowel.cc. Here's the source code. Vowel extracts metadata (title, breadcrumb, date) and generates the webpage in milliseconds. It publishes to Cloudflare (free hosting) and sends the atproto record to the atmosphere. 000
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 25/09/2026My first blog post on the atmosphere 🪁 littlefair.ca/notes/atprotolittlefair.caAtprotoToday is the day I put my blog on the atmosphere, powered by Vowel. 121
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 25/09/2026Oops, forgot to set my site.standard.publication: littlefair.ca/photography/...littlefair.caRosesa rose bush in bloom Roses in Glasgow in the springtime. 010
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 25/09/2026I have done it. I have put my blog on the atmosphere 😭 I've been working towards an atmosphere integration for @vowel.cc for months, and this is the first Bluesky post of an atmosphere record created with Vowel. I'll share a bit more about it soon.littlefair.caRosesa rose bush in bloom Roses in Glasgow in the springtime. 120
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 25/09/2026Projects like this are why atproto gives me hope for the internet. 010
Reposted by Sam LittlefairAaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You could find your way along the Nova Scotia coast blind, just by timing the blinks. Every lighthouse flashes on its own rhythm, a set interval and colour no neighbour repeats. Sambro Island off Halifax has burned since 1758, the oldest working lighthouse in North America. #lighthouse #NovaScotia 815057
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 22/09/2026As a syntax, that's true. But as a data format, I don't think it matters. It's one of the most flexible, portable, compact file types in the world — and exponentially more so now that it's the lingua franca of LLMs. I think a lot of people are about to start using .md without even realizing it. 100
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 22/09/2026I think a lot of people are working on the markdown approach 😏 110
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 22/09/2026The current design uses the visual language of embedded content. I would love for it to feel more native - akin to another post in the feed. Maybe like and repost buttons on the article, and a follow button on the publication? 000
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 18/09/2026To be fair, that does feel like a random decision, so it’s sort of accurate. 010
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 17/09/2026This gets really awesome when you have complex rule sets, like for repetitive nested layouts with slight variations. 000
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 17/09/2026You can even use it backwards!! Nest the parent selector inside the child selector 🤯 110
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 17/09/2026I'm refactoring the Vowel stylesheets, and my favorite discovery is using the & selector to identify an element inside its own nested rule. Want to style an element *and* children or variants of that element? .parent { &, .child { padding: 5px; /* applies to both parent and child */ } } 141
Reposted by Sam LittlefairDavid Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026After testing 100s of imgs comparing tiny and big changes to the algo: I am now confident to present to you: The new okpalette.color.pizza. Powerful as before, ~40% faster, better at detecting good presets and much better at finding rare colors! Test it with your pics and let me know what you think 711211
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 13/09/2026😅 That’s the plan! I just need to tweak the design a little more so it looks good with different color combos. 010
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 12/09/2026Me too! I might not be the best person to build something like this 😂 000
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 12/09/2026Yeah I wanted a way to generate all of the semantic colors automatically (success, warning, cancel, etc), so color.horse is my attempt to do that by selecting 12 hues from around the color wheel in a graduated distribution. 000
Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 12/09/2026Help me out! I'm trying to make a thumbnail for color.horse. Which one do you like best? (All randomly generated with colorhorse.) 310
