What a day! Did we mention that today was the day we removed invites from Eurosky accounts? Anyone can create an account straight away.

@pfrazee.com is the CTO at @bsky.app and one of the codesigners of the AT Protocol. He's going to talk about the Atmosphere's ideals about open computing, and how the team views tackling scale as core to the mission.

While Distracted by AI: The Quiet Rise of Local-First Software

I put together a deep dive on a new category of software I'm excited about called Local-first. Check it out!

Terminal Graph — A spatial development environment for macOS Your entire workflow, one infinite canvas. Terminals, browsers, editors, and notes with dataflow connections. Sign up for the beta.

terminalgraph.com

Aether OS is computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol Impractical, but fun.

Aether OS is computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol

Practical Decentralization The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

“Good protocol design requires balancing the tensions of ideology and practicality.” – @pfrazee.com

Fantastic read on federation, p2p, and software people actually want to use: www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

Ship it up | Tiles Blog How we package and ship Tiles

How we package and ship Tiles: www.tiles.run/blog/ship-it...

Build your own software, pick the features and interfaces that you like. Toggle to add or remove.

Build your own software, pick the features and interfaces that you like. Dashboard to edit your features and interfaces, code too.

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”.

Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance On the complexities of protocol governance.

"using network architecture to solve issues of power distribution simply shifts bottlenecks rather than eliminating them. A decentralised protocol does not automatically produce decentralised governance, it also moves power to different, less visible places."

connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Eurosky - Building a thriving open social web for Europe Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere.

I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings:

1. one account
2. that works with a bunch of apps, and
3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.

It’s too bad that ChatGPT Pulse is so expensive. It’s a wonderful product. Here’s an example of one of the stories it brought me this morning. It knows I’m traveling and that I had looked around Gràcia, so it researches places I might want to know about. No one else is doing anything like this.

Kind of opposite ends of the design space. Want public data to be difficult to lock in, difficult to censor, difficult to control? Spread it around as broadly as possible. Want data to be private? Touch as few computers as possible, for as little time as possible, ideally point to point.

(1/n) A question to ask when building or evaluating software: Is this a feature, a product, or a business?

Mistaking one for another leads to heartache for both you and your users (I speak from experience).

I couldn’t discuss this during #AtmosphereConf, but I’m thrilled to announce today that @eurosky.social is acquiring @bsky.app. This acquisition is made possible by a 1.5 billion euro grant from the European Union as part of the New Frontier program. 🦋🇪🇺

The Joy of AtmosphereConf · augment A blog by Anuj Ahooja

I wrote about my #AtmosphereConf experience. I hope it's as cathartic to read as it was for me to write.

Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience. All I wish is that we had more time.

A quiet, sincere thank you to our contributors, sponsors, and the broader userandagents.com community for supporting us throughout our alpha-stage journey. ☮︎

Download Tiles Download Tiles, a private and secure AI assistant for everyday use

Tiles version 0.4.6 Alpha 10 has been released.

tiles.run/download

Adds peer-to-peer device sync, built with @iroh.computer's QUIC networking stack, and encryption at rest for local chats.

atmosphere conf sign

At atmosphere conf!

Download Tiles Download Tiles, a private and secure AI assistant for everyday use

Tiles version 0.4.5 Alpha 9 has been released.

tiles.run/download

Adds peer-to-peer device linking for both offline and online networks, built with @iroh.computer, along with bug fixes for the auto-update system.

Download Tiles Download Tiles, a private and secure AI assistant for everyday use

Tiles version 0.4.5 Alpha 9 has been released.

tiles.run/download

Adds peer-to-peer device linking for both offline and online networks, built with @iroh.computer, along with bug fixes for the auto-update system.

looking forward to this

if anyone can put the fun in funding it's @bmann.ca

Vouch for her, she’s amazing!

Proprietary technologia 🤪

Awesome news: @igalia.com, the open source consulting firm, is partnering with @eurosky.social!

Partnership goal: "accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the social web, enabling developers, organizations, and communities to build new social applications"

iroh 0.97.0 - Custom Transports & noq Release of iroh v0.97.0

v0.97 is out & it's a biggie:

custom transports, preset API, embeddable relay server, address filtering, and a switch to our own QUIC implementation!

www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-0-...

Download Tiles Download Tiles, a private and secure AI assistant for everyday use

Tiles version 0.4.4 Alpha 8 has been released.

tiles.run/download

Adds support for a fully offline, portable installer alongside the network installer, with the default gpt-oss-20b model bundled, and daemon process implementation for handling background tasks reliably.

Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...

Is that you @felicitas.pojtinger.com 👀

Reverse-engineering Claude's generative UI - then building it for the terminal Extracting Anthropic's design system from a conversation export and rebuilding generative UI for the terminal.

Claude's new generative UI feature uses streaming HTML over the wire. Server sends chunks of markup, morphdom patches. michaellivs.com/blog/reverse...

i haven't wanted a new tattoo for a longgggg time

but the group eating the big fish...