Tim Disney
@disnetdev.com
Currently building software that can't betray its users. @skyreader.app | @radl.app | skyboard.dev | www.flintnote.com You can sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/disnet https://www.disnetdev.com/
In this week's @skyreader.app update we've got saved searches, support for PDFs and EPUBs, a revamped library, @semble.so connection notifications, and a bunch more! skyreader-dev.leaflet.pub/3myeso5et2k24
Skyreader update - Saved searches, PDFs and books, Semble Connections, and more
Skyreader can now watch for topics you care about, read PDFs and EPUBs, and surface connections people are making on Semble
skyreader-dev.leaflet.pub
Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority
Introducing #Assemblage 🧡 Add @semble.so cards and collections and @margin.at annotations to an infinite canvas, draw connections between them to create context, expand your understanding and see the bigger picture! → assemblage.renderg.host #ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin 🧶
Assemblage — Draw Conclusions
Turn your Semble collections into a node graph. Connect cards as supports, opposes, leads to and more, then draw conclusions. No server: every change is written to your own AT Protocol PDS.
assemblage.renderg.host
Calling all Obsidian users! We now have an Obsidian plugin that lets you easily manage links in your notes using Semble. Install it here: community.obsidian.md/plugins/semb... read more here: blog.cosmik.network/3mybawxqrf22h Setup details below 🥳
Did you know YouTube works great in Skyreader? Timestamped transcripts auto-advance as you watch (great for making highlights) and allow you to quickly jump around.
Hi, we're HappyProto. We help you build on atproto... without the hard parts. You create the app, we'll run the backend: auth, private data, scripting, and an API over 46 million accounts. Welcome to atproto on easy mode. Join the waitlist at happyproto.at. #atproto
HappyProto: the backend for atproto apps
Build on atproto without the hard parts. HappyProto runs the backend: an API over 46 million atproto accounts, with sign-in, private data and scripting included.
happyproto.at
New @skyreader.app feature: you can now save and read PDFs/EPUBs! PDFs can be viewed in their original layout or with text reflow when supported (great for mobile). EPUBs display by default in paged mode and look great everywhere. Highlighting and notes work great for both.
Announcing Attie site builder! Starting today, Attie users can build small social pages like an AMA, a guestbook, or a survey your friends will argue about for a week. We made a few to get you started. Go make a better one and share it: attie.ai
Attie
AI for the Atmosphere
attie.ai
New features this week in @skyreader.app for supporters: email newsletters and full-text search!
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not
Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social · last wk.interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? pollster: oh, that's fine, it's ignorable nonresponse
So @attie.ai is pretty neat. I needed to work on a light/dark mode toggle and remembered there was some discourse about it recently but couldn't find the original posts. Ten seconds later got: attie.ai/@disnetdev.c...
The Dark Mode Toggle Discourse
How the dark mode toggle discourse unfolded One designer's argument against the classic light/dark/system three-way switch turned into weeks of blog rebuttals, parody posts, and "do you even need a to...
attie.ai
Okay frick it, I'm announcing the project I've been working on. It's called Reams, a markdown editor that syncs over atproto spaces. It works offline, doesn't require a login, and has a bunch of features packed in. Try it at reams.ink, install the PWA for the best experience!
This is the first part of a 2 part post on why I believe that current AI models meet my criteria for really "thinking" and "understanding," and that prohibitions on using these words because they "anthropomorphize" AI seem philosophically confused to me. blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-beli...
Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 1 of 2
How the human mind is different from our conception of it
blog.andymasley.com
Bunch of Skyreader updates! More ways to find cool things to read, better annotations, and integrated Bluesky sharing.
Skyreader update - From your follows, Bluesky posting, and more
More ways to find cool things to read and improved margin notes.
skyreader-dev.leaflet.pub
Really good post (on x unfortunately) on the complexity of securing frontier AI training and why "just secure your sandbox dude" critiques aren't very thoughtful. x.com/joedaroo/status/210433592…
Say hello to Semble Reader 📖 🤓 An in-app article reading experience designed for focus and link foraging 🌱 🫐 Available for all links on the Semble page by clicking the 'Reader' button in the top left corner.
Working on improving the design of highlights/margin notes in @skyreader.app . Now puts community notes in the left margin and your notes to the right. More clear when your notes are private vs published to @margin.at
New in @skyreader.app: links from the people you follow on Bluesky! Similar to Nuzzel (rip) and the excellent @sill.social, Skyreader can now read your Bluesky timeline and find the links people you follow are sharing so you can read cool things without spending all your time on the timeline.
used opus 5.5 to make a video illustrating how algorithm W infers types in hindley-milner type systems youtu.be/hcwfnn9S-Vs
Algorithm W, or: the machine that infers types – Hindley–Milner type inference, NERV-style
YouTube video by Aron's Programming Streams
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The (nearly) six months since AtmosphereConf have been intense and I've done a lot of stuff! What have I been so busy doing? Read about it in this post!
(Re)building Roomy in 6 months
A recap on my engineering and design process
meri.leaflet.pub
I've always hated that mainstream languages don't have macros as powerful as lisp macros. So I'm doing my small part to fix that. First an argument why we need them. jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-l... Second a library to add them to typescript sweetener-ts.github.io
We Should be Able to Change our Languages — Jimmy Miller
It's time we stopped treating languages as sacred fixed objects. We need now, more than ever, languages we can change.
jimmyhmiller.com
I'm convinced that open social protocols like #atproto have a crucial role to play in the future of science. Excited to share MOSAIC - our best effort at articulating the thesis, why it matters, and how to build and fund it (in collab w/ @exgenesis.ingroup.social ) 🧵
MOSAIC — Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence
MOSAIC is an R&D program to build a new medium for large-scale, AI-augmented networked research.
mosaic-program.org
having one of those deep deep deep exhaustion from the injustice of years of precarity possibly leading nowhere days 😮💨😭 if anyone has a lead on something to help keep me afloat it would mean a lot! reposts appreciated also x
Meri@meri.garden · last mo.I'm very grateful to have been entrusted with @erlend.sh's Discourse payout to keep me above water while working on this, and with that narrow $1.5k/month runway I've worked harder than I ever have. That money's run out now, so please know that if you're in a position to support us at all
Love this direction! Also reminds me of this awesome paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social @sh1m.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social
Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 4mo agoHow to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >
Just released a new @skyreader.app update with an experimental feature call Reading Rooms that attempts to recreate the experience of a book/journal club where you can gather to read together. skyreader-dev.leaflet.pub/3mvnm3f4src23
Skyreader update - Reading Rooms
You can now read together with other people in Skyreader.
skyreader-dev.leaflet.pub
