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Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lx…
[[The Shape of What You Meant]] is a blog post about [[Index Network]], a kind of ambient discovery that describes its contrast with performative social media and how things must be public in order to aid in discovery.
blog.index.network/the-shape…
Slow Software for a Burning World as [[Bonfire]] heads to a v1.0 release:
"In a world of 'move fast and break things,' we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship.
Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale." bonfirenetworks.org/posts/sl…
In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it,
and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed. ferd.ca/the-gap-through-whic…
[[Rolling up the ladder behind us]], by Xe Iaso. "Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.":
I had a lot of respect for [[Anthropic]] before they released this feculent bile that is the Model Context Protocol spec and initial implementations to the public. It just feels so half-baked and barely functional. xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling…
[[Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future]] is a response to Sam Altman's "gentle singularity", written by [[Alex Komoroske]], founder of [[Common Tools]]
"between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice." techdirt.com/2025/06/16/why-…
[[Apps Are Avocado Slicers]]:
"…because the avocado slicer is narrowly focused on one task, it’s useless at anything else. If you used a specialized gadget for every single task, you’d end up with a mountain of plastic."
From [[Ink & Switch]] [[Malleable Software Essay]].
[[Devine Lu Linvega
Devine]] wrote notes on [[Malleable Computing XXIIVV
malleable computing]] as a reflection on the [[Malleable Software Essay
Ink & Switch Malleable Software essay]].
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/malleab…
I’ve been uneasy about [[Matrix]] for a long time.
This post goes on to recommend where to look for a replacement: [[Polyproto]], [[Delta Chat]], [[Revolt]]
blog.cyrneko.eu/matrix-is-co…
[[Radicle]], an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app.
desktop.radicle.xyz/