In which I spend a week engaged and immersed in music, learn a new instrument and genre, am made full of joy. And suggest that some of you should do this too. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/26/Music-Camp #music
Tim Bray
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Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him. I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices. So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a […]
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In which I write about the costs & benefits of making automata deterministic, with graphs and tables, and assistance from bluesman Willie Dixon: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/06/14/DFA-Costs #automata #software
“War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. So, what to do in a war one […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
I read the 2¼ novels making up the new series “The Captive’s War” by “James S.A. Corey” i.e. Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham. They’re most famous for “The Expanse” and while so far I’m not enjoying this series as much, I think it’s on a good trajectory. More […]
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In which I grab a camera and go for a walk at dusk and try to convince you to do the same: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/04/13/Modern-Cameras #photography
In which I think out loud about Password Managers and take a closer look at 1Password and Bitwarden: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/04/09/Password-Manager-Angst #security
Password Manager Angst
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“Recently I read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic. The language we speak (and text) to each other is at the core of who and what we are, and the Internet is the strongest among the forces that channel and fertilize its growth […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/16/GenAI-and-OSS-opinion #GenAI #opensource
Open Source and GenAI?
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In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising. Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/06/Q-Plus-C-Ch1 #GenAI #claude
Quamina + Claude, Case 1
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“Welcome to the first Long Links of this so-far-pretty-lousy 2026. I can’t imagine that anyone will have time to take in all of these, but there’s a good chance one or two might brighten your day.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/03/Long-Links This time out, featuring lots of […]
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I assume there are how-to-migrate-to-Blacksky docs somewhere? First step: Move PDS, right?
It took a year, but Quamina now has a full regular-expression capability, so I released 2.0.0. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/20/Quamina-2.0 #Golang #automata #opensource
Quamina v2.0.0
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Huh, @icegov.bsky.social is an interesting case. In the Fediverse, most instances probably wouldn’t host that account, but some would. The account would be broadly blocked, and some instances would probably block the hosting instance. Some folks would migrate between servers based on these choices.
“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing
Humanist Plumbing
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˚The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like.” www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
After the Bubble
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Tracy Numbers: “Here’s a story about African rhythms and cancer and combinatorics.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/02/Bell-Combinatorics (Also #caturday)
In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL) […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
I thought the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social suspension was an interestingly nontrivial moderation scenario. I wrote up a little case study/explainer on how it might have been handled on Mastodon. Probably only for people who care about moderation nitty-gritty. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s becoming any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. I’ve been on Mastodon for 3 years and am convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
Time to Migrate
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Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
When I Loved New York
Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?
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Over the weekend I ripped Google search out of my blog because it doesn’t work very well any more and replaced with PageFind, which is really pretty cool. Details: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/01/Blog-Search-Pagefind
Bye, Google Search
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“Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia. Here are early impressions.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia
Grokipedia
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News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/15/Current-Music Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
Check out the “Nadia story”, and an explanation of how we can make it easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real, with existing technology: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
Social Media Provenance Challenge
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Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.