Pouria

@pouriade.com

Dev & design @semble.so, blog offpeak.cafe

We redesigned the Semble landing page! 🎉 Now with clearer info about what Semble actually does, and a FAQ if you still have questions :) 🏗️ Also a builders section with inspo from our awesome community projects & everything you need to start hacking on the API What will you save to Semble today?

The Atmosphere needs more drawbridges. - Meet folks where they are, don't make them migrate - Augment their environments in useful ways - Make it easy to make them publish to the Atmosphere.

𝕮@chrisshank.com · 3w ago

Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.

Screenshot of a Zotero library with "Added By", "Collections", and "Connections" columns populated from Semble.

This looks good but the "View publication" button stands out more than the blue primary buttons on the app, which throws me off while I'm scrolling the feed. I think a lighter or muted variant could be more subtle

AT Protocol Developers@atproto.com · 2mo ago

It's official, @bsky.app has integrated @standard.site into the app! This means posts from @pckt.blog, @offprint.app, and @leaflet.pub get a richer treatment in the app. More details about how this works on the atproto blog: atproto.com/blog/standar...

Worked on Soma this week, a fun little experiment for @semble.so. Visualize your cards, see how much you have in common with others, and get a fingerprint of how you collect (volume, velocity, diversity, focus)

the UI is an appendage and organ for the machine, any material changes in the UI are material changes in the machine

Annoucing Semble Connections: A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web 💥

if you're using something for free... IT CAN GO AWAY. the operator might be struggling, or not even interested really. and if you're running free infra, add a payment tier! make co-ops, run community infra together. but learn from the past: magical thinking does not make a healthy atmosphere.

In modern computing, the split isn’t between power users and regular users. Increasingly, you’re either a power user or a disenfranchised user.

Open Collections are here 🌱 A new way to collaboratively curate content in the Atmosphere 🎨  Read on to learn more about how they work 👇

My take on the "explaining atproto" discourse is that all the UX/filesystem/etc metaphors are still very verbose and that you can explain the same idea in a lot less words: It separates data from apps, so any app can use data from any other app. That fits in a tweet, with other sentences around it.

Stoked to launch the first @aetheros.computer app from our docs suite today! PitchDeck is an atproto app that lets you create presentations and share them on the web or in person. It includes a presenter mode with keyboard/swipe support, a synced laser pointer, speaker notes and a built-in timer.

I think we underestimate the power of user interfaces (and thus apps) and how such power is concentrated in the hands of the few who are able to produce such interfaces.

"A really clear, and very simple, early example of how we learned that lesson was when we changed the size of the box that people used to type in just to create the posts on their sites. We made the box a little bit taller, mostly for aesthetic reasons. Within a few weeks, we’d found that posts on sites like Gawker had gotten longer, mostly because the box was bigger. This seems obvious now, years after we saw tweets get longer when Twitter expanded from 140 characters to 280 characters, but at the time this was a terrifying glimpse at how much power a couple of young product managers in a conference room in California would have over the media consumption of the entire world every time they made a seemingly-insignificant decision."