makeworld

what kind of movie are you in the mood for? 7.99? or maybe something more like a 4.99?

Flâneur mindset

the story goes like this

How is Wikipedia still up

laughing at the number 4 when i scrolled past some posts about php

I found this cool playground/explorer for viewing and filtering images in the frequency domain www.djmannion.net/img_freq_web/

TIL @leaflet.pub has canvas publishing! Thanks @awarm.space :) Taken at @atproto.to

Some of the folks for tonight's @atproto.to event seem to have created their first ever ATProto account to RSVP to the event. They followed the sign up flow and used @selfhosted.social. Pretty interesting!

Now my fab colleagues @makeworld.space and @literaryarsonist.press are up talking about media provenance, with the help of a possibly fake Prada bag(!) @hypha.coop #pfp

We have ~six demos now?! 😳 Come see them all on Wednesday!

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

What if I bring an AeroPress to the interview

@librarianofbabl.bsky.social add

What is the point of creating a bot that projects anger into the world

Much to think about vis-à-vis EA, veganism, etc.

his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.

I've published a new blog post! It's a review of The Disaster Show, a Toronto comedy event. Hope you like it! www.makeworld.space/2026/09/the_...

i 🤍 imposing structures

Made a little proof of concept with @typesafeai.bsky.social 's Jev. "Jevibe Check" auto-labels posts by tone as you scroll (just in your browser). you can add your own classifiers, and use the labels to blur/collapse the posts if you want to. Jev is extremely fast and super cheap!

By Laura Makabresku

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yes! ive figured it out ! the reason im barely writing is because my static site generator sucks. if only i could redo it from scratch, better, nicer, with less friction, id surely write more

I don't have particularly strong beliefs about where the line between conscious and non-conscious beings lies, but I distrust any take too confident about where it does

Agents having strong Schelling points (called "mode collapse" here) seems like a unique risk, an adversary that can coordinate without communication

Posts that make me run "sudo apt update"

Our next meetup is October 7th! Come talk about atproto with us and watch some demos!

by Jensen & Skovdin

Work on Nectar is progressing very well thanks to @literaryarsonist.press's hard work!

A New Color (1/5🧵)

AI discourse has made this dream more distant

Borges once described an astrolabe of such brilliantly ingenious design that any astronomer sent to use it would instead be consumed with obsession over examining the astrolabe's construction, so it was useless for examining the world, and the sultan ordered it thrown into the sea.

IPFS is the reason I have a software career today. R.I.P.

Switched from XFCE on X to GNOME on Wayland. The latter isn't perfectly designed, but at least now I have nice HiDPI scaling and no screen tearing.

This remains the SMBC comic I think about the most. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/best-l...

mirroring existing catalog records (books, films, venues, etc) in to atproto records is tempting, but (IMHO) an anti-pattern. instead of copying that data in and referencing with an AT-URI, you should reference them by existing identifiers (ISBN, OSM identifier, etc). appviews sync the catalog.

Drawing all 16,777,216 possible 12 bit RGB colours in one 2D image, each exactly once. Pixels are mapped from the 256³ colour cube, following a three dimensional Hilbert curve, to a two dimensional Hilbert curve filling the square. so nearby colours stay close.

Today we’re launching Bluesky Protocol Services, a new brand and website for the infrastructure Bluesky operates. And Jetstream v2, the best way for developers to use atproto at scale, now with network replay. atproto.com/blog/introdu...

Has "a bicycle for the mind" done the same?

Was impressed with Health811 today. The AI symptom assessment was actually useful. health811.ontario.ca

got AudioMuse-AI setup on my navidrome server so now it can suggest musically similar songs from my library! so it wont go from c418 -> kobaryo also it has this visual map of my library which is really neat

"stainless steal saucepan"

More like reaping night amirite

Whenever I tell people I'm a software developer nowadays they immediately ask me what I think about AI, and (more recently) datacentres. No escape from online discourse, even at sewing night.

norviding my claude

I've had to mute some accounts because watching people bond with their AI bots as persons feels pretty uncomfortable in a way I find hard to explain. I think it's the same as the uncanny valley?