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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 03/10/2026

A milestone! EmDash now has 200 contributors

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 01/10/2026

Ah, the classic "alphabetical by ISO code"

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 29/09/2026

I saw something terrifying when I went back to Twitter to reply to Matt Mullenweg

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 29/09/2026

Who will be the 1000th EmDash Discord member? discord.gg/YY9vBaQRYt

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 29/09/2026

I was however the first to mention Merkle Trees in a Cloudflare blog this week

Decentralized publishing does not mean accepting unverified code. Atproto repositories use signed Merkle Search Trees, so an inclusion proof connects the exact release record to a signed commit from the publisher’s account. EmDash can therefore verify the record independently instead of trusting the catalog’s copy. It then checks the plugin’s checksum, package name, version, requested access, and any required build provenance, and confirms that the downloaded bundle matches the signed record.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 29/09/2026

I'm now going to be doing *two* sessions on EmDash at Cloudflare Connect in SF next month: one talk and one workshop. You can use my discount code "VISION26" if you want to come along: events.www.cloudflare.com/connect2026/...

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 29/09/2026

New EmDash Discord members since yesterday. Open source software, baybee!

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 28/09/2026

Had to come out of Twitter retirement

Matt Mullenweg
@photomatt
AKA no security for plugin repo. A fine option for people who want to raw-dog updates! I can't believe they're still quoting my Slack message out of context about a 126B market cap company doing a slopfork and license-rape of 25 years of GPL contributions. @fsf

Matt Kane 🦋 @mk.gg
@ascorbic
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Hey! I'm writing a post that gives a bit more detail about how we're using plugin sandboxing and atproto to keep it secure without central control. And don't worry about the license. It's not a (slop-)fork, port, or re-implementation. It's just inspired by WordPress.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 28/09/2026

I really hoped Bluesky would get the typography joke, but the joke non-understanders always win 🥹

Is this video AI slop?? It literally spells the name of the project wrong. Did no one check this? Doesn't bode well for the quality of the project itself...
14:35 · 28 Sept 2026

Write your reply

Matt Kane

hyphen -> en dash -> em dash

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 27/09/2026

The Discord docs include hidden links to Westworld gifs, presumably for the benefit of bots. c.tenor.com/BuZl66EegkgA...

$$ gh api repos/discord/discord-api-docs/contents/developers/reference.mdx --jq .content | base64 -d | grep -n -i "cover\|GIF\|animated" | head -30 22:Discord exposes different versions of our API[.](https://c.tenor.com/BuZl66EegkgAAAAC/westworld-dolores.gif)$

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 24/09/2026

For everyone keeping score of all the possible crimes Danny Tommo filmed himself committing, here's the current official tally. Now can they proscribe Patriot Platform?

Hampshire and Isle of Wight constabulary issued a statement saying a 37-year-old man, of no fixed abode, had been arrested on Wednesday night “on suspicion of destroying ships or fixed platforms or endangering their safety under section 11 of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990”.

The police said Thomas was suspected of committing “criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, and conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under section 58 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995”

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 13/09/2026

When those eyes appear in a link's og image, I know it's time to abandon the thread

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 10/09/2026

They're Yud-pilling the parliamentarians!

Tallinn’s lobby group ran the session for MPs and peers at Westminster on Monday and urged them to back measures to curb the most powerful AI models. On every chair was a copy of the book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 07/09/2026

I did the same and what a sight

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 29/08/2026

Do you want to put these slaves out of a job?

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 28/08/2026

It should work! e.g. check.cirrus.earth?target=pds.m...

Recognize input— pds.mk.gg is a handle
Resolve handle to DID— did:web:pds.mk.gg
Fetch DID document— 1 service entries
Extract PDS endpoint— https://pds.mk.gg
PDS resolves handle to DID— did:web:pds.mk.gg
PDS resolveHandle response matches lexicon— response matches lexicon

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 25/08/2026

And Pichai's example of AGI is not only something that any modern LLM could do, few people would even find it worth mentioning.

Pichai believes his company’s future depends on something like this. Imagine if you could tell Google Maps, “I’d like to go to the airport, but I need to stop off on the way to buy a present for my nephew.” A more generally intelligent version of that service — a ubiquitous assistant, of the sort that Scarlett Johansson memorably disembodied three years ago in the Spike Jonze film “Her”— would know all sorts of things that, say, a close friend or an earnest intern might know: your nephew’s age, and how much you ordinarily like to spend on gifts for children, and where to find an open store. But a truly intelligent Maps could also conceivably know all sorts of things a close friend wouldn’t, like what has only recently come into fashion among preschoolers in your nephew’s school — or more important, what its users actually want. If an intelligent machine were able to discern some intricate if murky regularity in data about what we have done in the past, it might be able to extrapolate about our subsequent desires, even if we don’t entirely know them ourselves.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 19/08/2026

Guess when Lovable switched their default stack to TanStack Start

A hockey stick npm chart, shoing download suddenly jump from half a million at the beginnign of March to over 15 million now

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 13/08/2026

This works well for me, especially when enforced by a Kimi review bot

Comments
Comments are evergreen and addressed to a future reader of the code -- not to whoever reviews the PR. Most comments agents write should not exist. A comment earns its place only when:

the code is unclear and genuinely can't be made clearer (first try making it clearer), or
there's a non-obvious reason for something the reader would otherwise get wrong (an ordering constraint, a footgun, an invariant).
Comments are not:

PR descriptions or summaries of the change
messages to the reviewer
justification for a decision ("intentionally", "for safety", "we accept", "unlike X")
narrative about what you tried and rejected
restatements of what the code plainly does
Never reference issues, PRs, or review threads in comments -- they're stale narrative the moment the change merges; that context belongs in the commit message and PR description. Never number comments.

Tool directives are exempt from all of the above:

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 12/08/2026

Umm...what does Trending know? (The election is tomorrow)

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 09/08/2026

They're made with lots of strips of bamboo. Eventually the dishwasher delaminates them and the boards split. They last hundreds of washes though.

I'm holding the board so you can see the edge, where there are 2x7 bamboo strips that are starting to separate

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 08/08/2026

Surprisingly good benchmark. Fable gives you a list of real towns that either have a spooky setting, name, folklore or history. It also gives tips for making an invented name sound spooky, with examples.

Oh nice, good hunting ground. The trick is towns whose names already sound like the first line of the story. Some real ones:

New England rot

Dunmore, Vermont – lake town, fog off the water
Ipswich, Massachusetts – older than the witch trials, salt marshes
Bucksport, Maine – actually has a cursed founder's grave legend already
Jaffrey, New Hampshire – Mt Monadnock looming over everything

Appalachian hollow

Matewan, West Virginia – mine massacre history, real blood in the ground
Saltville, Virginia – prehistoric bone beds and salt works
Brasstown, North Carolina – sounds friendly, isn't, tucked in a valley
War, West Virginia – the name alone

Midwest emptiness

Cairo, Illinois – a genuinely dying town at the meeting of two rivers, half-abandoned already
Pawnee Rock, Kansas – nothing but horizon
Frankenmuth, Michigan – aggressively cheerful Bavarian tourist town, which is its own kind of unsettling

Desert and West

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico – hot springs, weird name origin, weirder energy
Bodie, California – actual preserved ghost town, "arrested decay" is the official policy
Tonopah, Nevada – has a clown motel next to a cemetery, I'm not making that up
Concrete, Washington – grey company town under a dam

If you want to invent one instead, the pattern that works: a resource town outlived its resource (mill, mine, cannery), one syllable of the name should feel wrong – Harlow's Ferry, Cold Ash, Gurney. Bonus dread if the town is named after a person nobody remembers anything about.

What's the flavour – slow folk horror, haunted house, something cosmic? That'd narrow which of these fits.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 30/07/2026

I sometimes wonder if this coffee shop I saw in Shenzhen is still there, and if they ever expanded the theme to other GWR stations. Bristol Temple Meads? Didcot Parkway?

Giant coffee cup, labelled "Redding station"

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 19/07/2026

I have to admit that Netlify does have the best swag for this weather

Me with a Netlify-branded Hawaiian shirt

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 19/07/2026

Also, guess the product

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 09/07/2026

Google AI Overview is terrible, and not at all representative of the capabilities of current models. In any case, I was referring to comprehension of text in its context (so uploaded or searched) not recalled from its training data.

what is the symbolism of the talking horse in great expectationsThere is actually no talking horse in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. You might be mixing up Dickens' Victorian classic with Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels (which features the Houyhnhnms, a race of highly intelligent, talking horses), or perhaps the 1960s television show Mister Ed.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 07/07/2026

Whenever Röyksopp appears on my Spotify I do a double take and think it's @biilmann.blog

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 01/07/2026

This gets most of them

🚫: No DMs
Applied to accounts with 'No DMs' in their bio, but they have DMs open.

@skywatch.blue label

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 18/06/2026

The odds on Reform UK winning the Makerfield by-election seem absurdly generous right now. A tenner would win you £90 on Betfair, which would be enough to drink yourself into oblivion if the worst should happen.

Labour
-£10.00

1.02
£115

1.1
£132

1.12
£2542

1.13
£218

1.14
£556

1.15
£1418

Reform
£111.00

9.6
£34

10
£171

10.5
£4

11
£9

11.5
£109

14
£47

Restore Britain
-£10.00

46
£204

48
£152

50
£208

55
£52

60
£10

65
£30

Green
-£10.00

420
£1

430
£2

1000
£269

Conservative
-£10.00

220
£1

300
£10

1000
£429

Liberal Democrats

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 14/06/2026

Amazing quote in the FT from a Makerfield voter. Supports the far right, but *still* wants Burnham to win. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“I’m going to vote Restore because I want their voice to be heard, but I want Andy Burnham to win,” he said. “I don’t want Labour to win, I want Andy Burnham to win, because I think he’ll get PM and I do think he’ll make a change, and then in two years’ time we can have a general election.”

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 02/06/2026

It's all happening on X, the everything app

The Primeagean is hosting 🚨 PEWDIEPIE - I disagree with DHH - Is AI Profitable

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 25/05/2026

Cirrus monetisation strategy

FedRamp support

If you are a government user and need to deploy your Cirrus PDS to a FedRamp region, contact Matt Kane for custom support.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 25/05/2026

If anything, the headline undersells it. These were patients who started GLP-1s *after* diagnosis, and it cut the risk of progressing to stage 4 by 31-50%! That's incredible

In patients with stage I-III colorectal, liver, breast, or lung cancers, those who started a GLP-1 drug after their cancer diagnosis had a 31% to 50% lower risk of progression to stage IV disease compared with patients who initiated another class of antidiabetic drug, DPP-4 inhibitors, reported Mark David Orland, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 23/05/2026

It's elderflower and antihistamine day!

Lots of elderflowers in a bowl, covered in water. There's lemon zest in there too

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