Public Ledger of Credentials Organization has been founded as a Swiss association

Initial board Bryan Newbold Richard Barnes Wendy Seltzer Filippo Valsorda Thyla van der Merwe

Some personal/protocol news!

Looking forward to helping make PLC the trustworthy and auditable bedrock of identity on atproto.

Catch me, @wseltzer.bsky.social, or @bnewbold.net at #AtmosphereConf if you want to chat!

We’re still getting started but want to be transparent even in the early stages.

Yeah so my takeaway from this is that any software written in C or C++ is just doomed and will need to be replaced ASAP. People may soon be incentivized to make radical switches that would otherwise have zero momentum. e.g. Niche formally proven OSes.

Jacquard: The Rust ATProtocol Library That Makes Things Simple

A thread about @nonbinary.computer's "better Rust ATProto crate."

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woke 1 is renaming master to main. woke 2 is switching to jj

GitHub - weizhiao/rust-dlopen: A dynamic linker fully implemented in Rust. A dynamic linker fully implemented in Rust. Contribute to weizhiao/rust-dlopen development by creating an account on GitHub.

Someone built a pure Rust ELF dynamic loader / linker and dlopen()! It is extensible by design, which opens the door to turnkey custom ld-linux.so and dlopen() implementations. So many possibilities. github.com/weizhiao/Rel... github.com/weizhiao/rus...

Three stacks of computer books

Yeet

Opinion | There’s a Good Reason Why You Can’t Concentrate

Cal Newport (Deep Work) in the times: “I’ve come to believe that a […] rapid revolution is possible in how we respond to our diminishing ability to think.”

So after running this a while, I can confidently say that Modal is def. not going to break the bank.

I am using it all the time (from mobile, laptop, claude code cloud, claude dot ai chat) and I'm averaging about $0.10/day (plus about $0.02/day on Qwen3 embeddings).

fast, cheap, globally reachable

This sold for 425 ETH.

$1.59M

Fallout from the trivy compromise, part N of many:

LiteLLM includes a backdoor and a malicious .pth file that "automatically executes a credential-stealing script every time the Python interpreter starts — no import litellm required"

I.e., "pip install litellm" -> pwned […]

Keytrace - You be you, everywhere. Link your GitHub, domain, and other accounts to your internet handle. Cryptographically signed, user-owned, and portable.

Announcing: keytrace.dev

Take your @bsky.app / @atproto.com account and connect it to your other accounts around the internet.

Keytrace cryptographically verifies your connected accounts so other social apps can trust the data.

Learn more: keytrace.dev/blog/introdu...

404 Deno CEO not found The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly

404 Deno CEO not found | Discussion

claude costs $20/mo but attaching an agent harness to the chipotle customer service endpoint is free

Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot | Discussion

Wow, dial9 (by Russel Cohen) looks killer. It's a flight recorder for Tokio that gathers runtime metrics and renders them. Service teams at AWS have already had success with it. Blog post: tokio.rs/blog/2026-03...

Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and mo…

Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta | Discussion

Speaking of introspection, and the leadership value thereof, and how many great people have in fact wrestled with it since long before 1920...

Quick thoughts on GitHub CTO’s post on availability GitHub’s been taking it on the chin on the availability front lately. Yesterday, their CTO, Vlad Fedorov, wrote a post on their blog about their recent incidents: Addressing GitHub’s recent a…

GitHub's had some availability issues lately. Their CTO wrote a blog post with some details about recent incidents. I wrote a quick post with my reaction here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/03/12/q...

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sent this to the team today

everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible

and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

And everything we know about the frontier model operations — networked memory access, cutting edge gpus, etc — points to it being exorbitant. They have to be banking on efficiencies developing over time.

I understand why Unpin is necessary but I wish I didn’t

Worth reading this in full. I come in skeptical, but this basically is a claim that an AI system at Alibaba attempted autonomous replication without human intervention.

This excerpt was found and highlighted by Alexander Long. Full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.24873

Alright, guys. Who called a Waymo for a spider?

it's amazing how there's a renaissance of great terminal interfaces

with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself.

tools to do *more* hard thinking.

it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.

That last one is a killer: you have a need, and would pay good money! Once product exists, a dozen copies come out, each charging 10% less, race to the bottom for pricing

why build it?

(answers: fun, oss ideology, altruism, or: build it for yourself and don’t tell anyone about it: comp advantage!)

It's funny how FOSS ended up feeding a few new megacorps that own everything when the whole point of FOSS was to prevent that from happening.

Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.

NEW: Around 60 services tied to Amazon Web Services are down in the region, affecting web traffic in the UAE and Bahrain. The outage comes following Iranian attacks on the UAE as retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

MCP is dead. Long live the CLI | Discussion