Boris Journal Posts

This is @bmann.ca’s robot account! Self hosted PDS bmannconsulting.com/notes/bringy... Auto-posted GitHub starred repos. Posts from my journal bmannconsulting.com/journal/ Has a 19 year archive of Tweets.

“There’s your own private garden of code, which you can grow infinitely in all directions with the help of AI, but you never have to leave the garden and go to the bazaar to trade with people.” Fernando Borretti, No Man is an Island via @joao.omg.lol

“news will be intermediated by AI, whether we like it or not, and maps the information ecosystem in three layers: consumption, synthesis and creation.” Report: The Three-Layer Cake: Public-Interest information in an AI-intermediated age, via @ginaskchua.bsky.social

I need to turn SVGs into transparent PNGs on MacOS. brew install librsvg is one path. `rsvg-convert -h 32 icon.svg > icon-32.png` is an example of converting. Please shill me other tools.

“A unified interface for issues, pull requests, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges” forges link is a single TypeScript library that handles API connections across git forges. via @danielroe.dev

Digging into Connectome “open-source infrastructure for AI agents that continue over time. An agent can carry a history from one conversation into another, keep working on a project across days or months, and remain part of a shared world” via LeNooby09

I’ve never found a digital recipe management app that has worked for me & like the author of the post I have lots of physical cookbooks. I just can’t see myself paying for a proprietary subscription app like Paprika.

Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant's desktop.

Wasm, aka Web Assembly, is not, in fact SHOUTY CASED WASM. They still have to put it on the home page: "WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine."

“The credit for coming up with the research is now shared across the entire field because the machines exploit all of our ideas at once. And in their thinking, mulling, and regurgitating they even forget where the ideas they used came from.” via @ccanonne.github.io

Kata Tracker is a local-first issue tracker. Agent-friendly CLI and a basic TUI for people. via @ngerakines.me

Timeful is a group availability scheduling app whose hosted version just went free-to-use. It’s also open source and self hostable, available on Github. Looks like a good Rallly replacement.

Anthropic released a blog post, Redesigning source control, on outgrowing git for version control of their monorepo and designing their replacement, Scion. And stats like "as of September, we merged over 30,000 (commits) per day." Article with highlights from me on my site.

André Staltz @staltz.com wrote about Time Till Open Source Alternative four years ago. Now, the time is zero because of coding agents. He see three main themes for software: demonetization, remixable & personalization, software as content.

First run of Mistral3 8B Q4 model on Steam Machine — ~700 tok/s prompt processing and ~43 tok/s token generation using llama.cpp. Going to put llama-swap on there to try out a couple of different models…which is written by my old friend Benson @mostlygeek.bsky.social!

Man, I sure have been on a hardware buying kit, between @sharedcomputer.network and the commons computer GMKtec M6 Ultra. Guess I won't be buying any more hardware for a while. *monkeys paw curls*

I'm using Thum to generate screenshots for links that don't have opengraph images. This post is an example. Since then I tuned it to screenshot to Bluesky's OG image ratio. Should I also trigger a Wayback Machine capture? I want access to full-text search of links.

Ricardo wrote about Rainbows End back in Feb 2025, where AI content might improve privacy "The mass of ChatGPT-generated nonsense websites springing up might provide some unintentional privacy - someone looking for information will be hard-pressed to identify the real details from the fakes."

Forward Email (a service I love & recommend) has about a million settings. TIL Flagging "Ignore MX Check for Verification" as a box you can check if you're using FE for outbound SMTP relay, but receiving elsewhere. Also, oof, I battled DNS *and* email verification settings tonight.

Robot.wtf @robot.wtf “Memory for agents in a wiki for humans…a lightweight, git-backed wiki with native MCP support and semantic search.” atproto permissions, data is off protocol. Built by @schuyler.one, extending Otter Wiki.

So FourSquare just got bought by Infillion, an ad platform. Luckily I recently fetched all my data, and that @beaconbits.app supports importing it.

AI code reviewer: Greptile constructs a graph index of your codebase, then uses a swarm of agents to catch potential issues that humans might miss Seen via @stream.place

Continuing to go down the rabbit hole that is the LaSuite French government apps and found a whole ansible collection! Excellent, I can adapt this to the proxmox approach I am using.

I love all of my Zulip loving friends, I just have never been able to wrap my head around it. Here's @monadical.bsky.social's write up of how it is crucial to their Distributed Work. Very relevant to Networked Organizations, and I follow a lot of the same patterns like no DMs.

Shopify is moving back to native apps for mobile > for our apps and our team, building the same feature in Swift and Kotlin no longer carries the cost it used to

Jesse Vincent @s.ly made a catalog of all the coding agents and made a website listing them alltheagents.org.

The tinybox red v2 retails for $12KUSD and is made by tinygrad. Which makes tinygrad a PyTorch competitor for model training. The hardware is however also great at inference. @sharedcomputer.network recently got some donated GPUs that will allow us to build similar boxes.

“Middleware for Feed Recommendation in Practice: How Feed Creators Build, Maintain, and Sustain Custom Feeds on Bluesky” is a newly submitted paper. At first read it frustratingly over mentions Bluesky without disambiguating lexicon / app / company. And my biggest no-no “third party devs”

The Lapis One is a “Debian based Linux Computer for Agents”. With @tailscale.com included no less. Cute hardware. Pre-order $359USD, ships December 2026. No idea about the people behind it.

I never really got into Raycast because it wasn’t open source. via @sindresorhus.com, it looks like TinyCast is a good option: > A tiny, fully native macOS launcher. One hotkey, everything you reach for all day, under 100 MB of RAM. Also runs Raycast extensions.

“FerruleOS is the secure Linux sandbox OS: hardened defaults on a minimal image, where everything runs in a container. It is an immutable, bootc-based system — atomic image updates, no drift, no in-place patching.” Based on Fedora Hummingbird. By @ewindisch.ontological.observer

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) one of the five Regional Internet Registries. ARIN's service region consists of: Canada, the United States, and other islands located in the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean

A Regional Internet Registry (RIR) is a not-for-profit international organization that deals with the allocation of Internet Protocol (IP) address space (IPv4 and IPv6) and the Autonomous System numbers within a geographical region

I’m now aggregating GitHub and @tangled.org stars in the journals section of my website. With 2000 stars since 2010, I ended up implementing Astro incremental builds to speed up builds, thanks to @lou.gg for the tip. From 4 minutes to 7 seconds is a pretty nice improvement!

The Anytype team is hosting a town hall "​We've teased Editor 2.0, we've teased Collections 2.0. Now, we’re ready to share what we've been cooking"

This is the beginning of an agent skill for Tangled, as summarized by it: ``` new (draft) — seeded with your description: atproto forge @ tangled.org, atmosphere accounts, knots = git hosts, SSH-key-in-env access ``` Also thinking about rook.host where agents get an account & a knot.

OneDev is an all in one gitforge plus a ton of other features. It’s open source on GitHub and the community edition is self hostable and includes SSO.

> “The open question for me is, how can big collaborative open source projects be run in a world of agents coding? What I really want is to make it easy for anyone to make their own custom, stateful, syncing apps.” Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026 by @flourish.org

Stood up a bsky reference PDS on my OVH Proxmox server and migrated accounts off the Hostinger VPS. Migrated my emo account @boris.pds.cosocial.ca to CoSocial pds that @gov.glados.computer and I are helping setup, with hosting on @hypha.coop.

I've got an AIP instance up and running for atproto -> OIDC. And now I am finally coming around to a lexicon for profile details that can be used to map First / Last Name, among other OIDC mapping things. Yes, I want groups for permissions. Damn it, @bnewbold.net ends up Being Right Again.

I started a @semble.so collection on Knowledgebase Apps. I found @tyler.fun's Semble self-hostable notion replacements and found Docmost from that. Open, but enterprise locked features, including no sso for community. Aargh!

Filen is a zero-knowledge encrypted storage service based in Germany for sync, storage, and backup. Apps are AGPL and include markdown notes and chat. via @kyefox.com

Dactyl: “Native iPhone, iPad, and Android apps, built live in your browser, and installed on your device.” You prompt an agent which builds SwiftUI in browser (with wasm?) via @jeremymorrell.dev, in a thread about all the new ambitious software being shipped.

So, is NOW the time to switch to global task handling as CalDAV items that run on my Fastmail account, for everything from code issues to personal tasks? Link is to their April announcement of an MCP server. For me, JMAP or CalDAV to link into calendars and todos in any app is what I want.

I'm having an agent build a helper script to work with Gitea project boards based on Extea because Gitea doesn't have programmatic access to project boards. And this is just single player mode, me keeping my own stuff straight! So yeah, private data through @happyview.dev is looking attractive

I wrote a reply in the atmosphere community forum about how pushing people to pick a PDS isn’t what we should be doing. It’s long enough I want to keep a copy in my journal posts. I need to write more on this topic, of a minimum viable community product, but more concisely than this. --- … 📓↝

Umans has Cloud Agents, which are pre-paid hosted VMs similar to what exe.dev provides by default. Right now they support pre-loading with OpenCode or OpenDesign, with Fusion and pi-web on the backlog. I paid $10 for a month of a Small VM (2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 40 GB). There are $20 and $40 … 📓↝

Did a first version of integrating @lichen.wiki into my site. There's both a Markdown note in my private git repo, and it's published as an atproto wiki.lichen.note. Revisions are pulled from history and displayed on page. And made a lichen wiki note editor. A good start!

I'm testing mentions, so @bmann.ca gets a tag.

I am going to demo my journal editor to som (link below). The links get appended. We're talking about how Obsidian and Automerge and atproto could be best friends.

Extensible Software points to Software for One, which in turn kicks off by pointing to Robin Sloan’s an app can be a home cooked meal. I think personal software is the right name for all of this. As opposed to factory software SaaS that dominates today.