Tomorrow: @josevalim.bsky.social on set-theoretic types at 9:10 on Track 1 (extended Q&A, bring questions), music and Erlang at 12:10, and @expede.wtf closing the conference at 16:45. Doors at 9:00.
Every woman that I know in tech has similar stories. I do, my partner does, my friends, and so on. Anecdotally, that it's so pervasive is often cited as a main reason for leaving the industry
A month after my switch from 1Password to Bitwarden, I wrote a little bit about my experience. The short version: it's fairly effortless and apart from some UX nits, it just works.
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On vacation, so taking time to migrate off of several Omarchy-aligned products. Still shocked at the cash support for Omarchy β it's aesthetic is low-tier-to-mid at best, despite that being maybe its main selling point? AFAICT the ONLY reason to support is if you want to signal alignment with DHH π€·ββοΈ
β¨π£ Excited to be keynoting @codebeam.bsky.social in October! π³π±
I'll be taking about local-first software, user agency, and the BEAM ecosystem
My building's power has been out for the past 3 hours. Luckily @katiewilde.com is about to go to a horse event and had the camping battery fully charged! This is how we get by out in the the desolate wilderness of Vancouver's West End π
Zoom has failed me for the final time. I've been having success with Proton Meet but also starting to give them political side eye. Discord has E2EE video calls now which is pretty great but let's say that I wanted another option: what are y'all using?
π I've now been out of the closet for β¨20 yearsβ¨
(Caveat: it's not really possible to pin down an exact date and you could argue that I was out long before, but the day that I decided to actually live life fully authentically was 20 years ago on Labour Day)
Huh, I wasn't expecting Bring It On (2000 cheerleading film) to have aged as well as it has! Not "perfect" but feels way more progressive than other films from that era (which mostly have a lot of regressive dialogue and themes 2026 standards)
I must either be good job of hiding my personal info & ad algorithms are making random guesses, or I'm doing a really bad job & they know something about me that I don't.
Last month every site thought I wanted a Ford F-150.
This month it thinks I'm in the market for a dirndl (maybe Octoberfest? π»)
Okay well apparently I'm on the switching services treadmill as I discover who's still supporting bad actors π«
Nerds of Bluesky: if I want to get off of Proton but still have E2EE email from a non-USA company, what are my options?
ποΈ The August 2026 edition of This Month in Automerge is out! Check out what's new in the core libraries the last days of summer, and a few projects from the community that caught our eye π automerge.org/blog/2026-au...
Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com
We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.
Finally switched my wm to Niri (in part due to looking at which parts of the ecosystem were so far staying away from DHH's crusade to reshape the community).
Niri is REALLY good, especially for what is AFAICT a passion project! Deserves attention and grassroots sponsorship.
github.com/niri-wm/niri
Before someone suggests it: I have tried Niri with Noctalia and DankShell, but didn't get enough out of them and they kind of fought my Nix-forward setup, so I'm just rolling my own waybar and whatnot
OF COURSE ThePrimeagen is involved in this shit of course. crybaby white male victim of woke 2 number one is on the line-up for DHH's crusade of fucking course.
"mask off" is good though, makes it easier to warn about.
re: omarchy trying to create parallel infra to subvert the linux community and kick trans/female/black people out
i know some people think that sounds crazy but DHH literally is doing a podcast tour saying that is exactly what he's doing lol
Even as a fan of @verilybitchie.bsky.social 's work, I was pleasantly surprised at how well presented the material is in this video essay
π₯ Also that it starts with bi media rep and ends with [SPOILER] how we should tear down our oppressive societal frame & build solidarity using shared values βπ€
I also can't believe we still need to have this conversation. I've been hearing variants of this as long as I've been out. This isn't rocket science β we need to build webs of solidarity if we're going to get out of the mess we're in.
can we stop with the brooklyn comparisons
theyβve happened my entire adult life
itβs such desperate energy
vancouver is plenty good but will never be new york
iβm so tired
π’ We're starting to put together our list for the August edition of This Month in Automerge ποΈβ¨
If you're working on something interesting with Automerge β or know of others that are β please point us at them in this thread β¬οΈπ§΅β¬οΈ
π π The next set of community calls are posted to the Luma. Excited to see everyone there (and we'll also have This Month in Automerge in between)
Register here: luma.com/automerge
Oh hey, that's me!
β¨ I'm excited to keynote @codebeam.bsky.social in Haarlem in October this year π³π±π I'll be talking about local-first software, a paradigm that hands power back to users β in an era of otherwise ever increasing control and disempowerment
Brooklyn Zelenka will speak about building for a disconnected world in her keynote "Let It Disconnect: A Local-First Future" at Code BEAM Europe 2026. Assume network failure. Design for user agency.
Talk: codebeameurope.com/keynotes/let...
π 21-22 Oct | Haarlem, NL
codebeameurope.com#register
haven't felt this energized in a while π
We're building a proof-of-concept E2EE library & demo on AT Protocol, using BeeKEM for DCGKA.
There's a long road between a PoC and a foundation we can all depend on, but every journey has a first stepπΎ
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With #AT-SMS we are committed to building group messaging support on top of the most promising decentralized continuous group key agreement (DCGKA). No candidates yet, tho.
I think a few more implementations are needed to make the IETF discussions fruitful.
bsky.app/profile/bosc...
The Local-First Conf 2026 talks are up! I always get hallway tracked real hard at this event so I'm really excited to catch all the talks I missed... www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Toooooootally normal. Certainly no such thing as climate change, this much fire every year is completely natural, right? π€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈ
we've set a date in September choosing a spot that is metro accessible and central w/ relationship with hosts. Love to see people there! If you had not reached out to me, go ahead and join directly via Lumo!
#localfirst#localfirstdc@bmann.ca@inkandswitch.com@adamwiggins.com@pvh.ca
Excited to have a β¨ guest post β¨ from @djwyen.bsky.social in our @inkandswitch.com Keyhive lab notes!
The local-first setting is new to a lot of cryptographers; here Derek shares some of his insights working on the BeeKEM paper, cross-fork security (CFS), and fundamental protocol design tradeoffs π
ππβ¨ Excited to share a preprint about BeeKEM, a decentralized / local-first variant of MLS's TreeKEM (group E2EE) that we designed at @inkandswitch.com. Huge thanks to our coauthors for the writeup and empirical analysis β even we were pleasantly surprised by the performance results π
π We're trying something new: here's the first ever This Month in Automerge ποΈβ¨ Check out what's been happening in the core libraries, and a few projects in the ecosystem!
automerge.org/blog/2026-ju...
My talk at @localfirstconf.com is up, in which I argue that local-first has a role to play in improving the resilience of democratic societies in an era of geopolitical tensions. I'm pretty happy with how this talk turned out www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...