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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 22/07/2026

Really enjoying reading through the code for [bombadil](github.com/antithesishq...). It has that lovely quality where I find each file is comprehensible on it's own, without having to have the definitions of every type in the codebase loaded into my brain.

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GitHub - antithesishq/bombadil: Property-based testing for web and terminal UIs

Property-based testing for web and terminal UIs. Contribute to antithesishq/bombadil development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 05/06/2026

URLS like this: `zed://ssh/[<user>@]<host>[:<port>]/<path>` will open Zed in remote development mode. I use this a lot. Any development I do these days is done in a project specific VM. I have a little CLI tool which clones a repo, spins up a VM, and gives me a zed remote URL to open zed in the VM.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 29/05/2026

The phrase "tool call" is completely semantically satiated for me. It's just become a series of hooting sounds. Whenever I say it I feel like I'm an owl.

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Automerge @automerge.org · 16/10/2025

We have a shiny new website courtesy of @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com 🙌 🚀 Check it out: automerge.org

A screenshot of the Automerge landing page. It says "Version control for your data. Automerge is a local-first sync engine for multiplayer apps that works offline, prevents conflicts, and runs fast."

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Automerge @automerge.org · 15/09/2025

😲 We have a ✨packed✨ agenda for the September edition of the Automerge Community Call on the 24th! Updates & talks featuring @chee.party, @daffl.me, @spiralganglion.com, @seaofclouds.com, @patternist.xyz, @expede.wtf, and John Mumm! Don't miss out — RSVP here: luma.com/70fuozje

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Sept '25 Automerge Community Call · Luma

🍂 September Automerge Call ✨ Get ready to kick off the fall with the Sept '25 Automerge Community Call! Whether you’re a seasoned contributor, a curious…

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Automerge @automerge.org · 24/07/2025

Want to hear about the latest in Automerge? Come join the Community Call Kickoff on August 20 (and sign up for the calendar while you're at it!) lu.ma/zv6tpuu4

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Automerge Community Call · Luma

☀️ Automerge Community Call Kickoff! 🌿🍉 Celebrate the season and kick off something new with our new Automerge Community Call! We’re gathering for a relaxed,…

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pvh @pvh.ca · 15/07/2025

Automerge 3 is here: the heart transplant is complete! Huge improvements in memory usage and (in most cases) correspondingly big performance improvements too. Backwards compatible on disk and the network so there's no reason not to upgrade today: automerge.org/blog/automer...

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Automerge 3.0 | Automerge CRDT

Automerge is a local-first data sync engine that makes it easy to build collaborative apps. Today we're excited to announce version 3.0 of Automerge!

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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 09/06/2025

Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it? To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.

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The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 16/05/2025

Local first development is funny sometimes. I just noticed that a sync server I run for a small project was storing it's data `/tmp` - which gets deleted every day. No one noticed for three months because everyone has the data locally so the only symptom was slightly degraded sync in the mornings.

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 26/04/2025

We’re excited to announce that @patternist.xyz member of the @inkandswitch.com team, will be speaking about Beelay, a new generic sync system.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 18/12/2024

Under the hood this is using automerge to sync state between two Godot editors.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 27/11/2024

I sat down at my desk this morning so full of ideas about what I was going to do today. I have now spent the whole morning fighting with GitHub Actions.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 22/11/2024

Just discovered that `gnuplot` has a `kittycairo` backend which can output an image directly to a terminal which supports the kitty graphics protocol. This makes writing little one off scripts which produce a nice graph much easier.

A screenshot of a JavaScript function which calls `gnuplot` with the `kittycairo` backend so that it outputs the plot directly to the terminal

A picture of a plot rendered in the terminal.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 20/11/2024

I've changed my homepage (and handle) from memoryandthought.me to patternist.xyz. Mostly because I was bored of the old one.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 08/11/2024

My Framework 13 arrived today. I'm extremely excited to never buy another laptop again. I might try a different distro to my standard Arch Linux this time around. Maybe Fedora Silveblue.

A Framework 13 laptop with the keyboard and bezel removed, exposing the internal components.

The same laptop with the keyboard and bezel fitted so it looks just like any other 13 inch laptop.

A set of stickers including one which says "You should be able to fix your stuff"

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 31/10/2024

Have you ever felt like spending six hours watching 17 amazing talks about live programming? If so... check out the video from LIVE 2024 last week! Everything from intuitive visual representations of program behavior to text editor integrations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GOe...

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[SPLASH'24] Pacific A - LIVE (Oct 21th)

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 28/10/2024

🗝️🐝✨ I'm excited to share a status update on the local-first access control project Beehive tomorrow at the Local First Meetup 🚀 More details here: twitter.com/devYonz/stat...

An event poster for the LoFi meetup #20 on Oct 29, 2024 at 8am PST. It features Brooklyn Zelenka (Beehive E2EE & Mutation Control for Automerge) , Niko Bonnieure (Local-First Web of Data: NextGraph), and Yonathan Fleke (Vella.ai: Ai Powered emai) and a link to the Discord at https://lofi.so

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Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 25/10/2024

I've been working on a #Automerge based #Go library for a few days: github.com/astromechza/... which demonstrates synchronising Automerge documents over newline delimited JSON and HTTP1.1/HTTP2 rather than websockets. Going to use this to build some tools with understandable building blocks.

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GitHub - astromechza/automerge-ndjson-sync

Contribute to astromechza/automerge-ndjson-sync development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 20/10/2024

Well, this sucks, looks like BitWarden is attempting to rug pull its open license. It's a shame, it was the only open source password manager with a decent nulti-device story. I hope someone with more time than me forks it. github.com/bitwarden/cl...

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Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 05/09/2024

🎉 I'm super excited to share the first post giving a high level overview of the local-first access control project that we're working on at Ink & Switch! 🐝✨ www.inkandswitch.com/beehive/note...

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Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control

Local-first access control

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Nik Graf @nikgraf.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

Want to build real-time collaborative applications?👩‍💻🔄🧑‍💻 Checkout Automerge Jumpstart! A boilerplate including user authentication & authorization Tech: Automerge, tRPC, Prisma and deployment on @flydotio and @vercel Bonus: includes explanation videos on the website ➡️ www.automerge-jumpstart.com

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Automerge Jumpstart

An Automerge boilerplate

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 15/06/2024

trying to work out if i want to make a whole new website - 😭 - or just add a digital garden to what I've got. I really enjoy bear blog but want space for things that aren't fully thought out yet lol any indie web folks or digital gardening enthusiasts have any suggestions?

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 10/05/2024

I'm working on a video and blog post about who isn't online! I think I have the digital exclusion side pretty covered but I'm still curious: Have you ever decided to curb or stop your internet usage? Have you bought devices or software to change how or how much you use the internet? 1/2

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 08/11/2023

Here's something we (the Automerge contributors) have been working on for a while. It's a library which implements all the boring parts of building a local first application on automerge: networking, storage etc. automerge.org/blog/2023/11...

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 03/11/2023

Do I know anyone who used geocities when it was running? Or who uses neocities now? Or both?

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 20/05/2023

One of my favourite etymology facts is that 'glamour' and 'grammer' are cognate because studying how to read and write was once considered to be like studying magic.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 12/05/2023

Ugh, guess I tagged the wrong pfrazee. @pfrazee.com here's a quick question re. extending the record types stored on a PDS.

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 11/05/2023

@pfrazee.bsky.social @dholms.xyz As I understand it the PDS currently accepts a hardcoded list of lexicons when creating records. Is that the plan going forward or is the idea that the PDS would support arbitrary records (this is my hope)?

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 07/05/2023

Idly thinking that I would like something like Reddit, but built on ATP. I think the forum model is a great way to have detailed discussions and I also like the unified UI and identity across many different subjects that the subreddit model provides (in contrast to traditional forums).

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Alex Good @patternist.xyz · 05/05/2023

I just released the first version of a java library for automerge. github.com/automerge/automerge-java… lots to do to make this easy to use. I want a nice integration with Jetpack Compose and a networking layer compatible with automerge-repo. But this is a start.

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