Boris
@bmann.ca
Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration. What if we made things a little bit better?
HappyView v2.12 is live! Highlights: - Permissioned data updated for @dholms.at diary 7 - Link repos to your HV instance - SQLite disk space optimization - A big ol' pile of bug fixes I know I said v2.11 would be the last release in the v2 era, but ya know... I lied. Enjoy. 😎 #atproto
HappyView v2.12
Linked repos, SQLite disk reclamation, and catching up on Permissioned Data.
happyview.dev
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/essentialrandom.bsky.social Day 3 of Reading the ATproto permissioned data spec (dramatic)
@essentialrandom.bsky.social is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
Day 3 of Reading the ATproto permissioned data spec (dramatic)
stream.place
I have been getting my communities onto Grist as an AirTable alternative for a couple of years now.
See @getgrist.com - it has hosted SaaS but is open source and self hostable, and the French government and other EU countries have adopted it. It also has an inspiring set of principles www.getgrist.com/about/
Welcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:
Flushes
The Internet's Bathroom. Post your flushes, see who else is in there, and keep every record in your own AT Protocol repo.
flushes.app
My talk from last month's @atproto.nyc, on Atmospheric Stacks! How the Atmosphere can compete with incumbents like Substack — not by recreating 'em app for app, but by replacing 'em collectively, as an ecosystem. With @leaflet.pub & @standard.site as case study + expanded with a few *addenda* :)
On Atmospheric Stacks…
Or, how we can supplant Substack and take back the stack, together as an ecosystem!
scraps.schlage.town
Our July update is out! Semble MCP and Subscriptions shipped, Zotero libraries start roaming on Semble, and lots of exciting community contributions (we love being able to say this every month and really mean it 😇)
Cosmik Updates: July 2026
Cosmik at DWeb Camp Berlin, Semble MCP and Subscriptions shipped, Zotero libraries start roaming on Semble, and a new blog series on the sensemaking patterns we're seeing on Semble. Plus an interactive map of the Sembleverse by @davidgasquez.com, and lots more community contributions
blog.cosmik.network
We published our very first Benefit Report. It’s a look at what we’ve built, the impact we’re starting to see, and what we’re still figuring out. Plenty of that last part. Have a read, and let us know if you have questions!
Oh yeah. We just published our first Benefit Report.
Grab the Gander Social Benefit Report 2025-2026
gandersocial.ca
Excited to have a ✨ guest post ✨ from @djwyen.bsky.social in our @inkandswitch.com Keyhive lab notes! The local-first setting is new to a lot of cryptographers; here Derek shares some of his insights working on the BeeKEM paper, cross-fork security (CFS), and fundamental protocol design tradeoffs 🐝
06 · E2EE in the Local-First Setting
Examining design considerations for developing cryptography for the local-first setting.
inkandswitch.com
Scheming on "scenes" for leaflet: - works with any standard.site.publication - pubs can only belong to 1 scene - scene page lists pubs, new posts, maaaybe leaderboards - start w/ limited set of scenes, have a bootstrap process for new ones - you can mark a post a "reply" to a post in your scene
we've set a date in September choosing a spot that is metro accessible and central w/ relationship with hosts. Love to see people there! If you had not reached out to me, go ahead and join directly via Lumo! #localfirst #localfirstdc @bmann.ca @inkandswitch.com @adamwiggins.com @pvh.ca
@shupp.dev and I are hosting the first Local-First DC meetup on 9/2. Join us and meet other local-first enthusiasts in the DC area! luma.com/vfq3th6c
When I say “like Airtable” I mean it as a compliment.
Airtable as a product was a truly visionary exercise. it remains, to me, one of the great works of computing. a truly powerful feature set you could learn in five minutes but Airtable as a COMPANY didn't seem to know where to take any of it.
7 months ago I read about gas town and today I read the new thing. what worries me now is either he’s gotten less insane or I’ve gotten more insane.
Thanks. Yes, that's what I was trying to say, but took too long to get there. Our politics community is strong, and I'd love for us to expand into new communities. Science and sports have already taken off. Birding, gardening, K-pop, we're open to all (except nazis and jerks).
Cloudflare launching wallets for agents with x402 support. They’re doing the handles landgrab at cloudflare.pay - but looks like it uses subdomains, so could compose with atproto.
Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
Cloudflare Wallets will provide AI agents with native payments and verifiable identity on the web. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously purchase APIs and content within clear safety guardrails.
blog.cloudflare.com
Bending Spoons is buying Airtable - which is very bad because BS is known for buying companies & squeezing them for profit. Gordon screams & wants a local first version. Grist is an OSS alternative supported by European governments.
Bending Spoons buys Airtable for $1.2bn after IPO listing
Italy’s Bending Spoons has agreed to buy US automation company Airtable in its first acquisition deal after going public last month.
siliconrepublic.com
Any BB users going on a flight soon and wanna help us test something? 👀
✅ Plane ticket ✅ atproto.nyc community day ticket ✅ Hotel bought See y’all in Brooklyn the weekend of the 20th 🫡
My talk on bare-metal Kubernetes clusters on RISC-V at #KubeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City this year got accepted! So excited to show what I've been hacking on :)
Couldn't agree more. That's why we made that happen a few months ago!
Long-Form Comes To Bridgy Fed
Up until now, Bridgy Fed has only supported the bridging of microblogging content. Even when we bridged articles from the web or from Article types in ActivityPub, ATProtocol-based microblogs would on...
blog.anew.social
I wrote this yesterday about how I want to hook RSS up to standard.site. I'd love to see my posts on their feed reader, and vice versa. scripting.com/2026/08/02.h...
This was fun to drop into, thanks for hosting @iame.li Take away so far: need to give @reckless.bsky.social a better thing to point at to explain the Atmosphere as it exists off Bluesky (both app and people). @kissane.myatproto.social’s A Cloud Atlas should help bsky.app/profile/kiss...
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/iame.li Watching @toni.bsky.team's interview at 11am!
@radl.app now integrates with @userinput.app! Connect your Userinput board to your Radial project and all your feedback will show up ready to import as goals with one click.
new blog post: blog.vbuckenham.com/announcing-t...
Announcing: Tools for Creativity at the School For Poetic Computation
I'm running a class for the School of Poetic Computation! It's about making creative tools. Nick Murray is going to be my assistant teacher. Applications are open til Monday 10th August! Let me expl...
blog.vbuckenham.com
CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all
Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.
theverge.com
Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where. www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email
Fastmail offers EU data region
Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.
fastmail.com
tired of the bickering at the polar extremes
Technorealists, the silent majority?
you might find yourself standing in the unremarkable center
notes.erlend.sh