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Ambient Co-presence
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

Gradients of intimacy and creating shelter: An interview with Erin Kissane
How might we use nature as an inspiration for creating online communities?
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build insi…

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

You don’t have to enjoy everything - some things aren’t for you | Respec
If that new game announcement has left you feeling cold, so what?
toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...

Live, Laugh, Localhost · Sam Henri Gold
How switching to Localhost saved me tens of millions of dollars
Federating friendly spaces - Roomy
hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods
Gravita — The force that brings communities together
Build your community's home on the open social web.

your long-form atmosphere · pub search
what you publish, who reads it, your semantic neighborhoods, and what you recommend
The Condition of Giving
Why I'm building a gifting community on a network you actually own, and what that has to do with a couch, a geohash, and the open web.
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Indie Thinkers
A curated collection of quotes from the brightest minds on the internet.

Vibe Coding: The Final Form of Hyper-Individualism
A few days ago, I had to deal with the first "vibe coded" PR to my software. In this article, I reflect on this encounter, and analyze the social …

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