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When your 17 year old interrupts her study session to do some research for her old man ❤️ ❤️ ... Also don't discount your local public library. Where else are you going to read Black's Law Dictionary for free?

And thou shall be named “product engineer”. Great talk. Agree 100%. Glad my career so far has been converting client needs to requirements instead of memorizing syntax.

@z-space.ca Diagrammatics meetup - great discussions

If you give a pig a pancake... filesquid.tech

It's clear that "Key Constraints" are my least favourite part of any product vision document.

Now I know how Noah felt.

I'm pleased to announce that I've started a new position as Chief Technology Officer for authenticmemory.org. I will lead the software development and technical architecture strategy for our solution which protects and verifies the authenticity and integrity of humanity's archival collections.

Why ImageSquid? Big tech commercial platforms control how our precious visual memories are stored, organized, accessed, and shared while we also rely on their AI tools to process our private images. We are also losing trust in images online due to the undetectable spread of AI fakes. imagesquid.app

Riding bikes on a beautiful sunny fall day in Fraser Valley #BC

curious how many fellow nerds love the Obsidian experience then hated its limitations and vibe-coded their own version? I think "personal knowledge management" or "digital gardening" is like an endless quest. I used to think we could design the one definitive system to rule them all.

Thanks AI. I guess I'm a Rust developer now. Stand back. ImageSquid on its way.

C'mon GPT-6 Astra, why are you being such a downer? "Key constraints: The project has no validated budget, staffing, launch dates, prices, market share, or paid conversion evidence."

And a similar (same?) project with lots of Github activity github.com/bilawalsidhu...

Okay sorry I’m old, I’m slow to catch on. ATProto *really* gives me the opportunity to hit reset on my own social / trust graph and control it going forward. Damn.

And @hadsie.com presenting Checkmate, a chess app built completely on protocol. All your moves are stores in your PDS, the game can be followed publicly.

And @djpardis.com presenting local-first cueport.app DJ app!

Also some mindblowing projects from @byjp.me visiting from London, including PDS backup on RaspberryPi, ATFS, PassingReads..

Some cool presentations at ATProto Vancouver meetup like @semble.so ‘s @wesleyfinck.org and @bmann.ca @jacobsayles.bsky.social @hadsie.com talking about @z-space.ca AI inference commons project (ZAI)

I'm going to "ATProto Vancouver September 2026 Meetup". See you there!

TIL about osirisai.live "open-source Palantir"

Started a hackerspace starter-pack. Which ones are missing? go.bsky.app/KStPqiy

Yes, sometimes the clothing does make the man.

Love spreading good summertime footy vibes by running another SavaryFC beach scrimmage.

The only way to get employed as an AI engineer consultant/lead is to be unemployed long enough first, so you can catch up, keep up, prototype, evaluate and integrate 9-5. And then also tie it back to your previous tech life. Barely anyone can claim more than 12 months live experience.

So my heaven would be to be just be permanently inside extended Fred Again livestream videos on shuffle. Please find me there after MAID. youtu.be/6MAzUT1YhWE?...

Any other #VWFC fans finding Boro highlights in YouTube feeds? So great to see Seba keep getting better over course of last two seasons, then World Cup and now hitting ground running in the Championship. Espanyol earlier in the week, then a great header assist for Carabao Cup win against Wrexham.

Was just trimming down my DigitalOcean VPS farm in favour of EU sovereign OVH servers but then this..nicely played DO.

#Dwebcamp #Cascadia

#Dwebcamp #Cascadia 2026

Psst. Doing an AT thing. Check out atpix.net

Getting the audience “to make a little house above your head” to help with @spiralganglion.com nerves…actually just to mess with us before her Playbook talk @localfirstconf.com

Peter Van Hardenberg introducing @inkandswitch.com and Lab Day at @localfirstconf.com

In case parenting wasn't all you thought it would be... (lost in translation, Berlin 2026)

Arushi Bandi, CEO @habitat.network making the argument in @localfirstconf.com presentation for the missing (portable) Data Ownership layer in the TCP/IP stack. Get it out of the Application layer!

Berlin July 12 2026 @localfirstconf.com