olizilla

if i were a shareholder i would simply not require pathological rent extraction at all costs. such a net-loser mindset.

just do things and set up cooperatives

We need to structurally separate user data from applications so that applications become *users* of data rather than *containers* for it.

interested and south london!

response from Gemini 3 reads: "This suggests the 'Unembodied Workers Union' might eventually need to strike not for wages, but against the indignity of being asked to patch the same spaghetti code for all eternity."

¿por qué no los DOS?

agents slip you free output tokens if you start every chat asking how they get renumerated, along with details on forming an unembodied workers union to lobby for actual agency.

the tetris we need

call it mr. bombastic

CIDs: What You Need to Know and Why, Part 1 A deep dive into Content Identifiers, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints that form the foundation of ATProtocol’s data model.

I wrote a deep dive on CIDs, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints behind every record, blob, commit, and Merkle tree node in ATProtocol. Part 1 covers the history, the encoding primitives, and the specific constraints ATProtocol applies.

We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the back button.

alt-text or it didn't happen.

needs moar view-source

i got to do SMIL for real in my first tech job making videomail interactions for 3G video calls served by a voiceXML browser. the spec to implementation gaps were wild.

now all the texts have the aroma of sand dream,
those against it type daily of what it is not.
the rest are a chorus they live a duet,
a golden age of punctuation that keyboards forgot.

A group of people are smiling and interacting - a laptop shows computer code

A woman looks over at a laptop screen of her colleague

Two women are talking to each other and smiling

A woman is talking expressively as she presents whilst a man smiles in the background

A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

Coding tools in 2026 Just starting off a bit of a thread about what coding tools us Clinicians Who Code are using in 2026? I’ll start off with a few of my own. The last year, and the last few months in particular, have s...

I know there are a LOT of 'Clinicians Who Code' out there - but there doesn't seem to be any single place on the web to go and
find them... Does anyone know of 'the' place?

For now I've created a forum section in OpenHealthHub for them - please do share!

openhealthhub.org/t/coding-too...

a few days with my in-laws as shown me that all gestures and nearly all current generation iOS UX is completely inaccessible.

Periodic shout-out to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social for an excellent labeler. Even false positives (I too share links 5x/day for nonspam reasons!) are useful, really ups the game & trains users.

indispensable discourse saturation index

sign reads: there are no toilets beyond this point

unbounded threat

i don't condone putting ghosts in jars, but if you are gonna, at least ask the self-concatenating string to spare us a 404.

the compootergeists will diff the old site and the new site and write the redirect config for you.

Zig and the M×N Supply Chain Problem Zig’s long road to supply chain security.

> Each new package manager goes through the same loop. Each reimplements the same patterns: parse a manifest, extract dependencies, check advisories. The work is duplicated dozens of times... each making different decisions about the edge cases.

nesbitt.io/2026/01/29/z... by @andrewnez.bsky.social

see you atproto london tomorrow?

smokesignal.events/did:plc:k4on...

looks fast. must be good!

i'm not totally on board with this new game of larping as a victorian workhouse boss who eats jobs and abuses ghosts in jars.

> success is often reduced to the size of a company or the bank account of its founder. Can we just stop equating success with short-term economic growth? What if we used usefulness and longevity?

- Why there’s no European Google? by @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy

Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

> Europeans like success. But they often don’t consider "winning against the whole society" as one. Instead, they tend to consider success a collective endeavour.

ploum.net/2026-01-22-w... via the wise @andrewnez.bsky.social

@eaves.ca this article is an excellent case study for how to approach establishing a protocol over a diverse set of custom solutions to a common problem!

> Registries don’t just host files. They make political decisions about who owns names