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Probably should've taken the proper time to make a decent résumé before I started filling out job applications. Better late than never I suppose. Also added a services page to my website in case you were wondering what I do. Could use more details, but at least there's a page now.

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Services | tokono.ma

Steven Vandevelde's personal website 😶‍🌫️

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 24/09/2026

It's been a good while since I've written something, but here it is. I wrote a short piece on this malleable version of diffuse.sh that's in alpha. Why did I build this and how, but also, what can you actually do with this thing? How does it relate to Patchwork and Tonk? tokono.ma/essays/diffu...

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A Malleable Diffuse | tokono.ma

Steven Vandevelde's personal website 😶‍🌫️

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A Malleable Diffuse | tokono.ma

Steven Vandevelde's personal website 😶‍🌫️

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Henrique Dias @hacdias.com · 22/09/2026

Worth a try: my job is winding down, so I'm looking for something new from January. Senior software engineer, TypeScript and Go. Digital identity now, building features end to end: libraries, APIs, dashboard. Before: Protocol Labs, on Kubo. Remote preferred, I'm in NL. Boosts appreciated.

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Henrique Dias

Henrique is a software engineer who is passionate about open source, digital identity, web technology, and user agency. In his free time, he enjoys staying active, programming, photography, and a tasty cup of coffee or tea.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 21/09/2026

@bumble.blue It finished! It did one-shot the thing, just took a while. Probably needs a few tweaks, like not syncing the settings with all members. Very cool that you can just have the data shared straight away with anyone. Great work! 👏 cc @cdata.earth @gozala.io Here's the share link:

tonk.network

Small software travels well

Tonk makes your small software live and ready to share right away.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 21/09/2026

I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but these timed tests aren't helping you guys.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 19/09/2026

@chillbobagginz.bsky.social Is this an old gif of yours, or is this your evil twin? (sorry, first time spotting a chillbo, or lookalike, gif in the wild)

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 18/09/2026

If code is meant to be regenerated, how do you deal with styling?

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 16/09/2026

Quite liking this setup ✨ Niri (compositor) + Noctalia (shell) + Vicinae (launcher) MacOS icons + cursor Adwaita Sans is quite good! Not gonna attempt to restyle window decorations anymore, there's always an application where it doesn't work.

Screenshot of desktop, shows customised Noctalia bar + Vicinae launcher.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 14/09/2026

I did end up creating one and after exactly one week my account already got suspended?! Now I have to verify using my gov id to get access back. What the actual fuck 😩 Probably should've set up 2FA or something I guess. Not sure if my account got taken over or if this is just LinkedIn being stupid?

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 11/09/2026

We got our first usable alpha version 🙌 diffuse.sh/4.0.0-alpha.3/ Silently cut the first alpha release not too long ago, but since made some big changes like: - Implemented the DASL MASL spec + `.tile` CAR files - Bi-directional data lenses - Audio engine rework

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 10/09/2026

Just had a timed skill assessment test 💀 I think we can all agree that these are a bad thing, right? I can't function at all when there's a timer before my eyes. How the fuck am I supposed to write functioning React code in 3 minutes?! 15 years of frontend dev experience for this bs?

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 04/09/2026

This job/contract search is such a pain. I might have to actually create a LinkedIn profile 😱

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 01/09/2026

Looks like what I've been building is quite similar to what the foundation of Patchwork-26 is. Lots of "tiny apps" (atomization of software, loosely coupled) + just the web. Local-first and where everything revolves around the content (data-first, can use preferred UI/view). Happy to see this! 🎉

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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · 22/08/2026

THREE CHORDS AND A DOMAIN NAME.

“Indieweb is punk” in a stencil stylized punk form

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

plaster community notes all over every surface imo. community notes for everything.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 30/08/2026

Regarding the personal apps thing, I think it’s cool that we can do this, but it only works to a certain degree. How do we make it easier for non-tech folks & how do we deal with complex subjects? I like what I came up with for diffuse.sh as a 1st exploration, but I do wonder about other solutions

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 31/08/2026

What’s your favourite audio playback or browsing interface? (of all time) Desktop ———— Playback: Winamp 2 Browsing: Albums app (iPad app on MacOS) Phone ——— Playback: Music app iOS Browsing: ??? (honestly don’t know if I ever had a good experience here)

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 26/08/2026

It's alive 🎉 Good stuff @dholms.at! It doesn't have the ability yet to invite others to the space. Are all the pieces for that already in the alpha SDK?

Atmosphere, space edition, facet for Diffuse. Allows for playlists, tracks and other data to be stored in on a space.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 19/08/2026

What a rabbit hole.. I'm getting authorization errors for #atproto logins. Turns out that a particular kind and instance of a IPFS server is configured to require authorization when it receives a request with OpenTelemetry headers, which the default Bluesky PDS includes when it requests client.json

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gozala @gozala.io · 14/08/2026

Anyone knows why did:plc does not support ed25519 keys for rotation. p256 has suspicion of backdoor and k256 is not supported by web crypto

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 14/08/2026

So cool that I can just generate this interface without interfering with the rest of the software.

A generated interface for Diffuse that interacts with the data and components already enabled on your Diffuse dashboard. This one checks the selected playlist for which tracks cannot be found in your audio collection and then renders a list with a preview button which plays a preview for that track from Deezer.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 14/08/2026

Time to dogfood this thing properly. Seems to work ok on desktop, but still no passkey manager with proper PRF support on my old iPhone 💀 (besides iCloud) I do want to experiment with permissioned data as well, but I like the semi-public aspect of this.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 11/08/2026

Got some more availability for some contract work, so I created a @sifa.id profile 👀 sifa.id/p/tokono.ma Anyone got some web or software engineering work? I can do 3 days per week. Still resisting to make a LinkedIn account 😤 Though I now regret not having that professional network.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 30/07/2026

Took a little break, want to get an alpha of @diffuse.sh out soon but still so much to do. I did finally finish that "pick your app version" experiment. I moved everything to @filebase.bsky.social and switched to the new unixfs-v1-2025 CID profile. Works pretty well and loads faster than Netlify 👌

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Chronicle | Diffuse

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...

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Degeneracy is a Symptom

On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 16/05/2026

Regarding my music finding problems, an interesting quote from Rick Beato: “It used to be that a lot of the things that were great, were also popular; and that’s not really the case anymore.”

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 12/05/2026

I think I might be missing CDs (compilation discs, for the young people out there). There was so much great music I got to know through these, and I haven't had any equivalent for a while. When I still bought music from Apple Music there were some compilations on there. But now that's gone as well.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 11/05/2026

After a lot of trial and error, I might finally have a decent syncing setup for my atproto integration. There's 4 kinds of data: facets, playlist items, settings & tracks. Each kind that is likely to have over a 100 items is grouped into bundles. Bundles are split into groups depending on the data.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 09/05/2026

This is something I made possible in Diffuse v4, the playlist item lexicon allows you to match to any data associated with a track (album, year, bpm, etc) Haven’t made any UI for this though. First priority is getting the atproto integration stable, pds rate limits you’re killing me 🫠

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 04/05/2026

If anyone is looking for a web engineer, @tokono.ma (ex-Fission & the author of Diffuse elements.diffuse.sh) currently has availability! EU-based but lots of experience working remotely with folks across the pond github.com/icidasset

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icidasset - Overview

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 24/04/2026

I've been so heads-down on my own work that I haven't really kept up with who's been doing interesting things recently. Let's fix that: 💡🗣️ Good people of Bluesky: who's doing interesting work/experiments/creative projects that deserve a shout out? cc @bmann.ca @chadfowler.com

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 22/04/2026

Maybe my dream of artisanal hardware isn’t impossible after all 🙌

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 21/04/2026

That said, we're getting closer to the goal though. Have LLMs generate working UIs in minutes on top of your user-data and the malleable platform underneath it. Just generated this UI, it just borks the code because regular Claude isn't allowed to fetch code without explicitly linking to it.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 21/04/2026

Claude really doesn't like fetching Javascript does it... I tried having it analyse nested JS code, but it only fetches URLs you explicitly put in the prompt; so it can't resolve any imports. It also removes any scripts from HTML pages. Why is that?! (not talking about Claude Code, just reg chat)

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 20/04/2026

A little retro on elements.diffuse.sh to appreciate what we have so far: (1) A set of custom DOM elements, aka. framework agnostic web components, that allow for web-based music players, audio derived-data (playlists, metadata, etc) browsers, user-data syncing with various services, among others...

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 03/04/2026

@rocksky.app Hi! Would love to implement Rocksky, but hitting some CORS errors. Does the API audioscrobbler.rocksky.app/2.0/ support CORS?

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 02/04/2026

@blaine.bsky.social Thank you sir for another great cheese talk 🙏 Love this framing!

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 02/04/2026

@hilk.eu Thanks for your atmosphereconf presentation, great work 🙏 I did not know you were part of Amatorski! That's so cool, "Come Home" is such a lovely song.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 02/04/2026

I just saw the awesome Web Tiles talk from ATmosphereConf which demos a little audio player and I now wish I could adapt my thing. Still not sure it's actually possible. I worry that it does too much sandboxing to integrate with various api/oauth flows, but maybe I'm thinking of this the wrong way.

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ATmosphereConf 2026

ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

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