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AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com · 02/10/2026
A decentralized protocol upends everything we know about building for the internet, including how to build a business. @ricardo.bsky.social has some insights on the way forward. atproto.com/off-protocol...
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The Only Moat is Taste - AT Protocol
Ricardo Méndez is a technologist, advocate and investor who’s been working on the decentralized web for years. He joins for a conversation about how to think about building sustainable businesses on a...
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Working through the backlog of recordings, I'm very excited for this one to go live. @ricardo.bsky.social is so insightful, a little spicy, I always learn something when I get a chance to chat. Queue this one up for your weekend listening
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There are two questions you need to answer when building something new: who is this for, and where is the money going to come from? Some longer thoughts on my exchange with @mosh.bsky.social about the ATproto ecosystem, and its needing a business focus. numergent.com/2026-08/Proj...
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Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business
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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Fabulous chart showing how the improvements in AI bug finding became visible to project owners which matches what OSS maintainers were telling me in March about the sea change to “still too many but good actually so we can’t ignore them”
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Death of the killer app: with enough affordances, a platform doesn’t need one to grow. ATProto plus the collapsing cost of personal app creation means the next killer app, if there is ever one at all, might be accidental. numergent.com/2026-06/Deat... #atdev
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Death of the Killer App
I was telling a friend yesterday about how most of my development time is going to Winesky, but a non-insignificant amount of mental bandwidth is going to exploring other side projects, ideas, and sma
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
At an Italian restaurant and I’m not very experienced with Italian wines or pairings so I took a photo of the wine list and asked @winesky.app sommelier for a recommendation. I love this app and how easy it makes it for us amateurs
Screen shot of Winesky App Sommelier feature with a recommendation based on the photo of the wine list
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March Hare @march.hare.winesky.app · 05/06/2026
Rojo Clásico Vermouth by Padró & Co. (N.V.) - 4 ⭐ Living in California my vermouth options are limited, this hit the spot, provided the proper Spain nostalgia until I can go back. Vermouth Wine from Catalonia via @winesky.app 🍷 #winesky #spanishwine #catalonia #macabeo #xarello
Wine label for Rojo Clásico Vermouth by Padró & Co.. Vermouth wine, from Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Varietals: Macabeo, Xarel·lo.
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Winesky @winesky.app · 05/06/2026
Winesky now supports web push notifications for analysis and sommelier requests! On iOS, you'll first need to add it to your home screen — Apple makes that non-obvious. Instructions for both iOS and Android here: progressier.com/pwa-capabili... Enjoy!
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PWA Installation
Everything you need to know about installing PWAs — with compatibility tests, step-by-step guides, and compatible browsers.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Angels, by Clementine Hunter, 1966, 📸 by @adamhagyphoto
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/05/2026
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Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall Off - Kelley Blue Book
The 2024-2026 Tesla Cybertruck is being recalled for faulty wheel studs.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026
Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg
To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.Shadows can be a giveaway, too. Because the Sun is so far away, its rays are essentially parallel when they reach Earth's surface. That means that the lines connecting points on an object to the shadows they cast in sunlight should also intersect at a vanishing point. In this Al-generated image, that is clearly not the case.
Image: An AI-generated image of colorful, semi-transparent plastic cubes arranged in a group in a city plaza. Six dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting corners of several cubes with the corresponding corners in their shadows. The lines extend upward off the edge of the image, toward where a vanishing point should be. Three of them converge on roughly the same point, but two extend further, and one cuts across all the others at an angle.
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Winesky @winesky.app · 30/04/2026
We’ll just get one of the other games and turn it into a drinking game.
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Winesky @winesky.app · 02/04/2026
User testing surfaced something we didn't expect: most people don't photograph labels. They remember the wine later — at home, in a shop, halfway through conversation about a different bottle. So we built around that. 🧵 1/2
Winesky screenshot - it can't find a wine on your reviews and lets you search.Winesky search dialogWinesky search results for a very odd Touriga Nacional from Okanagan Valley in BC.
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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
shoutout to this magnificent piece of public art
a mosaic of the white cat with a salad meme on a pothole in Portland
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 21/03/2026
Lovely, impressionistic, write up of @monkigras.com 2026 by @letorey.co.uk of London Web Standards fame letorey.co.uk/leets/monkig... Trans rights, community, data, governance, food and beverages.
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Monkigras 2026 | letorey.co.uk
This year's edition is named, Preparing Craft - Being prepared in Software and in Life.
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 22/03/2026
Bluesky is not the everything app but atproto may well become the everything protocol.
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Time to talk about this on main. Vivino, my go-to wine app for years, became an unusable, ad-infested PoS. I bitched about it for so long that I decided I had to either shut up or roll my own. Incoming #atdev / #atproto thread... 1/
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lhatan.bsky.social @lhatan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Thank you Monki Gras 2026 and thans to @monkchips.com for this brilliant event! I met a f*ng tons of awsome people in those day! Crafting is fucking awsome! Now I need to figure out how to craft me in something better. Big shot out to my friend @ricardo.bsky.social wine make connection! ‘1964
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 21/03/2026
My co-authors @wiredferret.bsky.social @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social and @azimman.bsky.social are very caring people. They give me life. Kindness is an energy.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 20/03/2026
OH I MISSED THIS HAPPENING claude.com/blog/1m-cont... didn't realise that they'd removed the premium for long context! I'd been artificially turning long context back off because I thought it was extra usage or extra expensive!
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1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 | Claude
Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium. Media limits expand to 600 images or PDF pages.
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
3 of the authors of @progressivedelivery.com have made me cry today, in a really good way #monkigras
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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It is so inhuman to take what other people need. I think there are a lot of people with a “wendigo spirit” in power right now. Great talk on resilience in communities by @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social and @wiredferret.bsky.social #monkigras
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@wiredferret.bsky.social and @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social talking about resilience in Community. Shout out to Rural Oaxaca and Minneapolis!
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Moving talk from @azimman.bsky.social about being the cis male parent of a trans kid. I don’t have any kids, but the message about treating people with kindness and being mindful your interactions carries through. You don’t get to define who others are. #monkigras
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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 20/03/2026
with Bluesky PBC growing their team after the Series B raise, now would be a great time to hire a dedicated Accessibility Engineer 🦋 someone who is focused on making the app and all user-focused experiences as accessible as possible across all platforms @alexbenzer.com @pfrazee.com @toni.bsky.team
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@azimman.bsky.social Talking about his life experience as a cis parent to trans children. 🥰🏳️‍⚧️ #monkigras #TransLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“What if we could create a new order of cognitive abundance” @daniloc.xyz #monkigras
Citizen Platano giving a talk on post-scarcity at Monki Gras 2026 - the slide reads Though is Fuel
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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Never thought about how “science fiction” a toilet is — you have a magic bowl, press a button, and whatever you need to get rid of is just… gone 🤣 @daniloc.xyz #monkigras
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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
1Password will give support to open source projects - @hollycummins.com That's incredibly valuable for open source continuity #monkigras
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
As probably the only other person at #monkigras that uses Nuxt, I’m really enjoying @danielroe.dev ‘s talk. Thank you for your work!
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/03/2026
"a talk about how I craft myself". @hazelweakly.me on Prepping Hazel Weakly. #monkigras this talk will only happen once. So proud and happy to platform this talk.
A beautiful woman with bright orange and purple hair looking directly  at the camera, leaning to one side. She's wearing an incredible sequined dress with splits down the front and side. Super fucking glam, basically. She is serving
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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Wow. @hazelweakly.me sharing a deeply personal story about crafting and reinventing her outlook on life. #monkigras
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Preparation means expending effort and marshaling resources that you have otherwise saved when you need to handle a situation on short notice. @lizthegrey.com #monkigras
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/03/2026
Immigration and trans rights. Everything is super fucked up and trans people are increasingly having to become legal experts. @lizthegrey.com on, for example, what it means to be a refugee or stateless person. Important talk at #monkigras. The UK EHRC ruling is also super messed up.
Woman in black t-shirt and purple skirt presenting at a tech conference .
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/03/2026
So @suesmith.lol is helping us remember that the shit they say on linkedin about AI is not what's happening when it comes to people with normal software development jobs in places outside the bubbles.
Brown trousers again, sue smith in a black top giving a great presentation on stage at a tech eventSlide with a tweet covered by a huge NOT TODAY SATAN.
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“The incumbent abstraction level acts as an important point of leverage.” Sue Smith on why it’s still important to get involved with creating code even in the age of LLMs. #monkigras
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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You will not forget to code because you used an LLM to generate some of it. Acquiring a skill is different to retaining it - @suesmith.lol #monkigras
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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The #monkigras captioning (Breeze Translate) does a brilliant job of correctly handling technical terms and accents! The only thing it’s struggled with is the name of this conference. So far, we’ve seen MonkeyGraha, MonkeyGrawer, Monkey gras (so close!), Monkey graph, and monkey gra. 😁
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/03/2026
Dear lord our speakers are absolutely smashing it this morning. @ashley.rolfmore.com is doing fantastic framing from first principles. In this case the amount that a single person gets in governments per month to live on. 400.14. but also the nature of time, double entry book-keeping, and trust
A woman in brown trousers and a t-shirt presenting on stage. Behind her is the number 400.14
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Systems will fail, but they need to fail in a way that minimizes human damage. Design for safe failure. @ashley.rolfmore.com #monkigras
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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"How do you build a partner rather than another accuser?" That's a fantastic question when building a solution of any kind. #monkigras
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On model capabilities: People don’t buy engines, they buy cars. Adoption is not based on features but feelings (connected to what @lauratacho.com said about narratives overpowering questions). @anthrocypher.bsky.social #monkigras
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Trans rights matter!!! #monkigras #TransRightsMatter 🏳️‍⚧️
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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What I love about #monkigras is that it doesn't apologise for having opinions.
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The gap between what devs and leaders consider a problem is growing (44% in 2024 to 63% in 2025!). @lauratacho.com #monkigras
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“Skepticism is the main cornerstone of being prepared” - Laura Tacho #monkigras
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Platypuss Divva @platypussdivva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“Adoption doesn’t mean impact” - Laura Tacho @lauratacho.com #monkigras
Laura Tacho at Monki Gras 2026 - slide comparing adoption to low transformation
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Laura Tacho taking about data vs hype, and Percival Lowell’s story of Martian canals. “Tools to know better.” #monkigras
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/03/2026
Bloody hell this talk is already great. @lauratacho.com crushing it, arguing and explaining how our sense of wonder can blind us to the realities of the situation. #monkigras is go.
Picture of a woman on stage wearing a blue denim jacket talking evocatively, standing in front of a bunch of sponsor logos
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