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Tickets for Local-First Conf 2026 are now on sale

July 12–14 · Berlin · 300 people · single track

Theme: user empowerment in an age of fluid software.

We're going beyond CRDTs and sync. If you're building for user agency, this is your conference.

Tickets live now → localfirstconf.com

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

A screenshot of Hex packages showing gleam_stdlib v1.0.0. with description "A standard library for the Gleam programming language". Above the screenshot there's a pink star smiling - Gleam's mascot, lucy

It's here! gleam_stdlib v1 released!

Every time I login here I remember why I quit Twitter (yep, not X).

Donate to Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon, organized by Julie Kitchen Hello, I'm Julie Kitchen! My previous fundraising efforts were able to raise enough mo… Julie Kitchen needs your support for Help Julie Find Safety in Oregon

Hi, I'm Julie!
After losing my job I moved from North Carolina to be safe in Oregon because I am trans.

I am raising money to finish the move.

Please share and donate if you can
gofund.me/60b1e917

#helpsky #fundsky #MutualAid #MutualAidrequest

Implementing a Local-First Task Framework Queues, workers, and routers, oh my!

The 2nd lab note in my series about the local-first task framework I've been working on w/ @pvh.ca is out! Topics include distributed coordination, the router takeover protocol, offline resilience... check it out at www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

did too much scripting today so i decided to unwind by making the most unsettling fog of war effect i could conceive

unironically a beautiful and effective way to keep grifters out. if you get filtered by an anime catgirl popping up for 2 seconds because it's too cringe and gay for you was your heart really in the systems programming?

/r/asktransgender continues to be "what if the RCBG accord server members were real?"

Jamming with Sonic Tau on my phone.

sonic-pi.net/tau

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr

1. barely works
2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate)
3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

A retro dialogue box from Metal Gear Solid saying: They're trying to control the narrative, Colonel. But they can't suppress Trans Rights.

#TransRights

"What I did not account for—shamefully, considering how much time I spend writing about technology in my professional life—[was how the algorithm] was perfecting the art of making me feel weird, broke, and ugly."

@samleecole.bsky.social on getting married in 2026.
www.404media.co/wedding-plan...

I wasn't expecting to see a Freitag hand bag at @cityjsconf.bsky.social London today. #CityJS

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

This is really unexpected. Runeway seemed like one of those cozy games that, while beautiful, doesn't seem particularly outstanding - there's already a deluge of cozy TTRPGs. Then the studio told me about the designers have made this game to be explicitly anti-fascist - and I was intrigued

Runeway - A Self Discovery Roleplaying Game A TTRPG about journeys, identity, and chosen family.

Now on Kickstarter from our friends at Mana Project Studio, Runeway! Check out this cozy, slice of life TTRPG about self-discovery, journeys, identity, and chosen family today!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/man...

#studio2friends #Kickstarter #Crowdfunding #ttrpg

I've been using Blender for 20 years, and it's SO much more user friendly than it used to be. You kids have no idea. I remember when the "auto" button was a picture of a car, 9 1650821, 12359373383726284,3 37462829393, 297739113830214947393938484930, 48338437338, 4758393

A post by the Bluesky account on Twitter, dated November 20, 2025. It reads: "every time a software tool adds an AI feature nobody asked for, a human logs off". The post has 3.5k likes, and 89 replies.

Sora

Please join me for a rousing round of: lol, get fucked
aftermath.site/sora-shutdown-...

🌷🌼🍃🌸 springmix ⛅💐🌱🌼

The creators of gloriously unearthly anti-capitalist deckbuilder All Will Rise have announced that they're joining the No Games For Genocide boycott against Microsoft's business links with the Israeli military. https://bit.ly/4unTxBz

Just saw this, hope you're well and I wish you the best of luck 💜

sometimes you can't tell the difference between people suggesting transition and people suggesting you switch to linux

(probably because it's often the same people)

Yep, finding spaces in London is a nightmare...

London! I think I saw a meetup happening once?