If you’re like us, it’s not unusual to create a new piece of software in just a couple hours. With AI, we’re going from idea to working tool over and over again every day. Dashboards, workflows, little utilities, that type of thing. But what happens when you have to share it? 🧵

We’re producing software faster than ever. AI has changed the economics of software creation so dramatically that writing code is no longer the hard part.

For ten years I've been chasing the same problem: how can groups of people coordinate without routing everything through a central authority. It's a common failure mode and a wicked problem. At @tonk.xyz, we're working on the most credible answer I've seen; one that is local-first all the way down.

Carry is a CLI tool we built on top of Dialog-DB to make the source of truth problem tractable in practice. A structured, persistent collective memory. The schema forms at query time. Repositories sync whenever they connect. Try it: github.com/tonk-labs/carry

GitHub - tonk-labs/carry: Carry — a local-first knowledge tool by Tonk

Carry — a local-first knowledge tool by Tonk. Contribute to tonk-labs/carry development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Source of truth problems don't need another centralizing system, they need a local-first one. Read my full piece: tonk.xyz/updates/the-... 🧵

The Source of Truth Problem is Getting Worse with Agents — Tonk

Intelligence depends on knowledge, but in practice that knowledge is fragmented across tools, people, and formats, creating conflicting versions of reality. What if we accepted that knowledge lives at...

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with oil prices plummeting amid the middle east conflict, looks like markets are becoming an early artifact of new information asymmetries. exciting times to watch capital and intelligence converge www.ft.com/content/611f...

How oil traders called the Middle East conflict

Open source intelligence and social media posts gave market participants confidence to sell despite turmoil

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At Heroku, we basically destroyed a generation of folks personal projects when we deprecated various free plans. (My own software died too.) Now Glitch is making the hard decision to do the same: blog.glitch.com/post/changes... The lesson is simple: don't build in the cloud if you want it to last.

Important changes are coming to Glitch

We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.

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come say hi! great opportunity to meet other creative people working at the frontier of LLM code gen to retake the role of technology as an aid for daily life

Harry Kingdon@harrykingdon.bsky.social · last yr.

👾 Londoners 👾 I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI. 🗓️ June 11 📍 Hoxton 🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks 🧠 ~25 curated spots

what people aren’t considering that this is probably less hallucinatory than the information satya normally gets

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · last yr.

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

this dialogue perfectly captures the problem with "decentralisation" as our guiding principle. we've reached a point where the word has become nearly meaningless through overuse and inconsistent definition. the goalposts constantly move, making productive conversation impossible. 1/12

stellz@piss.beauty · last yr.

oh you thought it was decentralized? you fool. I've already deployed new goalposts at every point of the star topology

i'm investigating protocol architectures in the interest of advancing our intuition for how design choices encode ethics for networked power, intelligence, belief, and identity. check it if you like tech and society, more to come soon www.jackdouglas.me