Happy to share I'll be speaking about atproto at @smashingconf.com Freiburg's Jam Session this year! Last years SmashingConf was amazing, and I expect this year will be just as awesome :) There's still tickets, too! smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

SmashingConf 2026, September 7–10 — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Freiburg in Germany, September 7–10.

The 13th SmashingConf Freiburg — in our lovely hometown in Germany — will be taking place in the Historic Merchants’ Hall on September 7–10. With one track, two days, 12 speakers and 300 attendees, ex...

smashingconf.com

www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-m... Beat your friends at Mario Kart with this one simple ~trick~ Pareto frontier method.

Mario meets Pareto

Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you ...

mayerowitz.io

I'm working on my website and need some icons! Do I know anybody (or someone who knows somebody) who can create cute cartoon-artsy / "kawaii style" icons? (think a laptop, book, etc) and has availability? Would love some recommendations 😊

Two weeks ago I wrote about my development workflow for Chatto, and feedback has been fantastic. I'm particularly happy that it even made some of my AI hating friends go "okay, that's actually quite cool". We need to write more about our actual work, and in less of a preachy AI-salesperson voice.

Chatto is Robots

Chatto is built with agentic engineering. Here's my workflow.

hmans.dev

I said it there but want to share: For most projects and people, atproto is an implementation detail, not a feature. If we as a community want widespread adoption of our tech, we need to move away from the jargon and offer something for non-technical folks.

JB Hutch@jbhutch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Testing an idea that I've had for a while, but I think is even better suited for atproto Internet, meet plts.at

So, I built a small app that tracks all Hacker News submissions over time, and allows you to set up custom triggers and basically curate your own daily summary. After using it for a few weeks, I am not sure what to make of it. Would this be interesting to anyone else? Happy to invite you to it :)

TIL the German weather service is on Bluesky. Awesome!

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)@dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social · 4w ago

Einen wunderschönen Sonntagmorgen aus Offenbach, während es in der Mitte, dem Westen und Südwesten trocken ist, gibt es im Rest des Landes heute immer wieder Schauer und einzelne Gewitter. Auch heute Morgen ist das schon der Fall. /V

i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)

small login form details, just because I think it's cute :)

had the same happen when I moved PDS. This experience can be much better!

dan@danabra.mov · last mo.

@alexbenzer.com @samuel.fm pls fix this — this is how bluesky greeted me on an old computer that doesn't know i moved hosting. it is super confusing it's trying to get me to sign into my old PDS and i suspect this would again break the app just detect that i moved hosting and don't show it

i love quirky stuff like this! well done

Hendrik Mans@hmans.dev · last mo.

I like my chat apps weird

I appreciate the distinction!

Wonderful article on (the end of?) reading, writing, social media, AI, learning, thinking, the state of politics and more. "Writing is the way people figure out what they think, and how to convey those thoughts to someone who doesn’t already share them." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

theatlantic.com

Writing this on @mu.social after migrating my data to @eurosky.social PDS. I realize this is a nerdy gimmick, but the fact that it is possible at all is cool as hell. Love to see the atproto environment gain more options.

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Alright! It is done! Finally made a GitHub app for AgentScan so you can just install it, select your repositories, and more easily keep automation lovers out of your projects. Give it a spin and drop me some feedback on GitHub

AgentScan - GitHub Automation Detector

An open experiment in detecting automation patterns on GitHub

agentscan.tools

Had to check in for a flight today and the site kept saying "Unexpected Error" when I tried to enter my data. Got a React error in the console saying "maximum update depth exceeded". I was able to check in by typing more slowly. I guess only web developers are allowed to check in online 😅

A thing I want to point out about this is that I think it's a great use case for LLMs. It's a small-ish thing, one off, just for myself. Previously I would have thought about it but never done it. Now it only takes a few minutes. As bad as AI is in many cases, there are genuinely good use cases.

Nik Gadermann@nik.digital · last mo.

Seeing this month's "who is hiring" post on HN, I had a fun idea to visualize the data points over the years as I expected them to be a nice visualization of the current market in tech. Earlier this year was the first month ever in which less people posted jobs than wanted to be hired 🫠

Seeing this month's "who is hiring" post on HN, I had a fun idea to visualize the data points over the years as I expected them to be a nice visualization of the current market in tech. Earlier this year was the first month ever in which less people posted jobs than wanted to be hired 🫠

Great, Chat Control is back! 🙄 I'm so fucking sick of the EU trying time and time again to pass this bullshit legislation instead of focusing on important stuff, but here we are. If you are in the EU, I once again urge you to contact your MPs. www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-th...

“Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu

Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented "double-attack" on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings. Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digita...

patrick-breyer.de

I've made a Kubernetes that runs in the browser, and today we're open sourcing it. The hope here is to make super interactive and visual web content about Kubernetes much easier to write, and we have a whole bunch planned this year. Repo: github.com/ngrok/webern... Demo: webernetes-demo.ngrok.app

Working on creating a demo visualisation of my Kubernetes cluster that runs in the browser. Just got network visualisation working. Each image is its own actual bit of running code using a fetch-like API to talk to other pods, and the network emits events when this happens.

Browsers on video game consoles have long been a majorly underdocumented topic. That changes today with my latest article, which I can confidently say is the most comprehensive game console browser coverage on the entire web. I'd love for you to give it a read: vale.rocks/posts/game-c...

Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles

A comprehensive history of web browsers on video game consoles. From the CD-i to modern systems, exploring the evolution of the web on consoles in detail. Covering bespoke iterations, releases by PlanetWeb and NetFront, contemporary engines across Sega, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox platforms, and other details.

vale.rocks

Heureka! They fixed the absolute dumpster fire macOS Tahoe design

hey, why’d nobody tell me about the road trip

I set up Uptime Kuma on my NAS to monitor some sites but instead of detecting their downtime I now have a very detailed log of my ISP outages

The existence of seafood implies the existence of landfood

I wrote about the Victorian history, physical sensor mechanisms, and networked logic of traffic lights! This is the fifth installment in the "How The Heck" series, following QR codes, GPS, Shazam, and solar panels. Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-traffic-lights-work