Someone told me recently that I should get some work experience. I have about fifty repositories on GitHub. I also have a poetry anthology running past 180 pieces over six years, and by the same logic, apparently, I'm not a poet either, because nobody's put my name on a spine yet. Both claims are wrong for exactly the same reason, so let's deal with them properly.
How to curate your personal canon
"The things won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it."
Can AT Protocol Fix Monolithic Platforms?
Making a Ghost Blog a Valid standard.site Publication
This blog federates over ActivityPub through Ghost so Mastodon users can follow @index@subaud.io. standard.site is the counterpart for the AT Protocol side: a set of lexicons that describe a blog as records in an atproto repo, the same identity and data layer behind a Bluesky account. Anything
RFCs on the Atmosphere
I was recently working on an RFC for some open source work and didn't have a good place to post it. Google Docs is annoying for anything technical and a git repo is heavy if you don't already have one set up and a process ready to go.
Things we shouldn't say in polite company - Sherif's blog
you know, the stuff that makes sense when you work on ATProto but makes zero sense for everyone else
On Betraying Principles
Why Creative Commons must be about more than reducing friction on reuse This week, I had the experience of being told the work we are doing at Creative Commons right now is betraying the founding principles of the organization. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last.
Bulletin Board: Pilots, Muse, and Slow Technology
Links and updates from New_ Public
Hi, I'm David Perell.
I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage.
Sequential.work — Lexicons for comics on AT Protocol
Shared lexicon schemas for comics on AT Protocol. Webtoons, comic books and comic strips under work.sequential.*
Tumblr to Leaflet
Migrate your Tumblr blog to Leaflet.pub. Your words deserve a home you actually own, built on AT Protocol.
Flushes
The Internet's Bathroom. Post your flushes, see who else is in there, and keep every record in your own AT Protocol repo.
byline.pub is now live in beta
A home for indie authors on the AT Protocol. Publish your work and become easier to discover across the open social web.