Steven Vandevelde
@tokono.ma
Creator of elements.diffuse.sh | Distributed + malleable tech & user agency advocate | Web engineer | github.com/icidasset | https://tangled.org/tokono.ma | tokono.ma | 🇧🇪
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Natalie Portman's Iconic Line
Alt: Natalie Portman from the movie Léon saying: “He’s not really my father. He’s my lover.”
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JeffG@jeffg.ca · 6d agofilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Took a little break, want to get an alpha of @diffuse.sh out soon but still so much to do. I did finally finish that "pick your app version" experiment. I moved everything to @filebase.bsky.social and switched to the new unixfs-v1-2025 CID profile. Works pretty well and loads faster than Netlify 👌
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This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...
Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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Regarding my music finding problems, an interesting quote from Rick Beato: “It used to be that a lot of the things that were great, were also popular; and that’s not really the case anymore.”
I think I might be missing CDs (compilation discs, for the young people out there). There was so much great music I got to know through these, and I haven't had any equivalent for a while. When I still bought music from Apple Music there were some compilations on there. But now that's gone as well.
I’m also going to refer to money as “survival tokens” from now on.
You Are Living In An Economic Fairy Tale
YouTube video by Barry's Economics
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After a lot of trial and error, I might finally have a decent syncing setup for my atproto integration. There's 4 kinds of data: facets, playlist items, settings & tracks. Each kind that is likely to have over a 100 items is grouped into bundles. Bundles are split into groups depending on the data.
This is something I made possible in Diffuse v4, the playlist item lexicon allows you to match to any data associated with a track (album, year, bpm, etc) Haven’t made any UI for this though. First priority is getting the atproto integration stable, pds rate limits you’re killing me 🫠
dame@dame.is · 3mo agoi wish music streaming apps like Apple Music would let you curate collections of albums instead of only playlist of songs… i’m more of an album listener and would like to pair/group albums together
If anyone is looking for a web engineer, @tokono.ma (ex-Fission & the author of Diffuse elements.diffuse.sh) currently has availability! EU-based but lots of experience working remotely with folks across the pond github.com/icidasset
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Creator of diffuse.sh | Distributed tech & user agency advocate | Web engineer | Open source | Previously @fission.codes, metalab.co, mrhenry.be | tokono.ma - icidasset
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Steven Vandevelde@tokono.ma · 5mo agoLooking for some contract work to pay the bills, anyone got something? Can do cryptography, crdts, protocol work, frontend and backend coding, or some light design. Bonus points if it’s anything that improves user agency, but since I won’t be able to pay rent very soon I’m not going to be picky.
A history of Apple's HyperCard ("it was the web before the web"), where it came from, and what happened to it. [kottke.org]
HyperCard Changed Everything
This video traces the history of Apple’s HyperCard from Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex to the Mother of All Demos to the Xerox PARC Alto to Bill Atkinson, the inventor of HyperCard, who said: HyperCard
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I've been so heads-down on my own work that I haven't really kept up with who's been doing interesting things recently. Let's fix that: 💡🗣️ Good people of Bluesky: who's doing interesting work/experiments/creative projects that deserve a shout out? cc @bmann.ca @chadfowler.com
That said, we're getting closer to the goal though. Have LLMs generate working UIs in minutes on top of your user-data and the malleable platform underneath it. Just generated this UI, it just borks the code because regular Claude isn't allowed to fetch code without explicitly linking to it.
Steven Vandevelde@tokono.ma · 4mo agoClaude really doesn't like fetching Javascript does it... I tried having it analyse nested JS code, but it only fetches URLs you explicitly put in the prompt; so it can't resolve any imports. It also removes any scripts from HTML pages. Why is that?! (not talking about Claude Code, just reg chat)
Claude really doesn't like fetching Javascript does it... I tried having it analyse nested JS code, but it only fetches URLs you explicitly put in the prompt; so it can't resolve any imports. It also removes any scripts from HTML pages. Why is that?! (not talking about Claude Code, just reg chat)
A little retro on elements.diffuse.sh to appreciate what we have so far: (1) A set of custom DOM elements, aka. framework agnostic web components, that allow for web-based music players, audio derived-data (playlists, metadata, etc) browsers, user-data syncing with various services, among others...
A little retro on elements.diffuse.sh to appreciate what we have so far: (1) A set of custom DOM elements, aka. framework agnostic web components, that allow for web-based music players, audio derived-data (playlists, metadata, etc) browsers, user-data syncing with various services, among others...
@rocksky.app Hi! Would love to implement Rocksky, but hitting some CORS errors. Does the API audioscrobbler.rocksky.app/2.0/ support CORS?
@blaine.bsky.social Thank you sir for another great cheese talk 🙏 Love this framing!
@hilk.eu Thanks for your atmosphereconf presentation, great work 🙏 I did not know you were part of Amatorski! That's so cool, "Come Home" is such a lovely song.
I just saw the awesome Web Tiles talk from ATmosphereConf which demos a little audio player and I now wish I could adapt my thing. Still not sure it's actually possible. I worry that it does too much sandboxing to integrate with various api/oauth flows, but maybe I'm thinking of this the wrong way.
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Steven Vandevelde@tokono.ma · 4mo agoDiffuse has turned into this malleable cooperative software environment and I wonder if this should be its own thing. Not crazy complicated I guess, it’s basically a “software loader” that loads html/js/css and injects it into itself. That code is a set of “features” (logic) and an “interface”.
Diffuse has turned into this malleable cooperative software environment and I wonder if this should be its own thing. Not crazy complicated I guess, it’s basically a “software loader” that loads html/js/css and injects it into itself. That code is a set of “features” (logic) and an “interface”.
We're at 48933 redirect rules on Netlify, this content-addressed versioning system might actually hold up.
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Aspire your software to be a flexible toolkit instead of a monolithic know-it-all.
Looking for some contract work to pay the bills, anyone got something? Can do cryptography, crdts, protocol work, frontend and backend coding, or some light design. Bonus points if it’s anything that improves user agency, but since I won’t be able to pay rent very soon I’m not going to be picky.
“We gained so much info but lost all our wisdom” 💥
why no one thinks anymore: how to become a person
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I might have found a "user-data storage + web software" setup that I actually like and potentially isn't confusing to non-tech people. I think the problem comes from trying to cram every feature into a single web app. What if instead you compose your software, picking the features you like? 🧵1/4
Looking for some contract work to pay the bills, anyone got something? Can do cryptography, crdts, protocol work, frontend and backend coding, or some light design. Bonus points if it’s anything that improves user agency, but since I won’t be able to pay rent very soon I’m not going to be picky.
