Lots of people have been asking about the atproto alternative to Buzz, the Jack Dorsey-supported Nostr chat for agents & humans to chat in. The answer is freeq, which is atproto + IRCv3 extensions, including CRDTs with Automerge, QUIC, iroh. Follow @freeq.at.

Since wildfires seem to be making news again, I may as well do a bit of self promotion for a service I run: If you're hiking in the backcountry, add the phone number to my treksafer.com service before you go. Text it to get a list of wildfires nearby. 100% free, and the code is fully open source.

TrekSafer

Get real-time wildfire and avalanche updates sent directly to your satellite messenger while you're in the backcountry.

treksafer.com

Success! My AI agent (running a small local model) is able to add my beans to my @arabica.social atproto records.

Beautiful day for a hike! strava.app.link/umPqsLEy83b

Two new inference nodes up in the Z-Space AI Cluster. Welcome to the party Orca and Salmon! Photography by @bmann.ca.

When you're up against network effects, there comes a time when it isn't worth staying and trying to get others to move. It's better to leave. And focus on building, on new network effects.

It's surreal that the entry point to the Internet for most people is now completely disconnected from reality. Even if it's only wrong 10% of the time, you can't know which 10%.

mitch said@mitchsaid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My kid is doing research on a local landmark, so we googled some information about it and got the Gemini AI response. For every answer it gave, I questioned it, it then said was wrong and confidently gave another wrong answer. This continued for 6 wrong answers in a row, summarized here.

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

"We've replaced HR with AI" Somewhere, in the distance, a pride of lawyers lifts their heads off the ground. Prey is headed in their direction. Tonight will be good hunting.

we back on leaflet 🍃

Habitat: a data home for organizations

an update from us!

habitat.leaflet.pub

Canadians, tell your MPs to vote NO on bill C22. There's a one-click option to do so in the thread!

OpenMedia@openmedia.org · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes. This should be our final alarm bell:.We can have privacy or we can have C22, not both! #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert

bit of a personal question

hello fellow homies: moq.dev/blog/webrtc-...

OpenAI's WebRTC Problem - Media over QUIC

Media over QUIC: There are ways to do voice AI without being traumatized by WebRTC.

moq.dev

wrote up some of my thoughts on the potential of AT Proto / ATmosphere apps after building a chess app fully on protocol. feeling bullish on niche/long-tail apps that couldn't have existed before this :)

What my chess app taught me about the future of multi-user software

I was skeptical that AT Proto was anything more than Bluesky-with-extra-steps, learnt how much potential the protocol has after building a multiplayer chess app, entirely client side and "on protocol". The real value is that apps become different views into the same data.

notes.hadsie.com

We need everyone to wake up to how fragile our shared commons are. We can't wait until we drown in security incidents and more projects close down, using them as excuses. If you're in a position to help (every company is), check who you depend on and need support (everyone), and fund them.

Nice article. The Atmosphere however is playing a “yes and” game. Absolutely social for groups and communities! But the structure here means we are aiming for _all_ apps, not just the social ones. Especially when permissioned data becomes available.

Been playing around with and finalizing this chess experiment over the past few weeks, ended up being a great way to dig into atproto development. If you give it a go and let me know if you have any issues, i'll be continuing to extend it with more features

Chess on the ATmosphere@checkmate.blue · 4mo ago

#checkmate is live. Multiplayer chess built 100% on the ATmosphere. No central database, all moves pulled in realtime from the firehose. Play at https://checkmate.blue #ATProto #chess

To keep Treksafer maintainable, Scott Hadfield has a CLAUDE.md and dependency audit skill committed to the project, and a scheduled Claude Code task with a GitHub token that runs at 9am each day. http://tag1.co/593001 #ClaudeCode #Treksafer #AIinPractice

Keeping Open Source Projects Alive and Current With Claude Code Scheduled Tasks

Learn how Scott Hadfield, Senior Engineer & Project Lead runs a free open source safety tool indefinitely on $5/month, with a daily Claude Code task handling all routine maintenance automatically.

tag1.co

Here is a Drupal module that implements standard.site and will backfill posts from your Drupal CMS to the atmosphere. Big thanks to Automatic and @pfefferle.org for the ref impl github.com/affinitybrid... @protocolsforpublishers.com @drupal.bsky.social @standard.site @atmosphereconf.org

How I'm using AI to manage some of my side projects (treksafer.com in this case): www.tag1.com/blog/keeping...

Perfect day for some spring ski touring. Now I just need a way to get my Strava into the Atmosphere.

Thinking that everything you see is AI-generated is as bad as thinking nothing is AI-generated It's harder than ever to know what to believe, but you're lost if you believe nothing

honestly, I think software developers have a hard time reconciling the reality that they are among relatively few professionals for whom AI is empowering rather than disempowering. it's kind of deservedly alienating, which doesn't change the reality of it— see bsky.app/profile/alex...

Alex@alex.bsky.team · 6mo ago

I am fairly allergic to “thought leadership” but at the risk of that: it feels like we’re getting to getting to the point with AI where it’s increasingly clear that it’s just software. which is to say (1/n)…

As #ATmosphereConf draws to a close, this is a good time for me to let folks know that I'm looking for paid work! I have a strong background in project management in tech, and apparently am decent at event planning too now! If you need help with a project, let me know! (reshares appreciated) 💚💜

Was a great project to try out developing on the protocol!

Alex@alex.bsky.team · 4mo ago

My workshop participant from Friday @hadsie.com already designed and built checkmate.blue based on his work in the workshop 🥰🥰🥰 — made my weekend!