feynon

Following up @rude1.blacksky.team's post with @ngerakines.me point: $5 isn't a lot. 3000 people isn't a lot.

We Can Just Support Things.

That’s why I’m building @tiles.run. Already integrated on device models and DID. ATProto, Iroh based P2P sync and Pi based agent harness in works to be shipped before April :)

Tiles Changelog All notable changes and releases for Tiles.

Tiles version 0.4.3 Alpha 7 has been released.

tiles.run/download

Turn-based chats with SQLite persistence. Release artifacts now include a .pkg bundle for easier installs. Support for non-Harmony models such as qwen 3.5-4b. Bug fix for venvstack generating multiple tar archives.

So many Atproto apps now ❤️

But data layer interop means you don't *have* to "go" anywhere.

Concept demo of inverting things:

- local index of lexidex
- local cache of all your 'cons and records
- generic 'con-to-form engine

Now I can post, rsvp, bookmark all from the comfort of home.

screenshot of the one-pager version of the servo readiness report

How do we get to more than just three web engines owned by three US companies?

It's a gargantuan question, with no easy or right answer.

I've put together a draft report, thinking about it through a very specific approach - please enjoy:

Servo Readiness Report

webtransitions.org/servo-readin...

AtmosphereConf Sponsor: Google Open Source The Google Open Source team is supporting the conference as a Major Sponsor

Thank you to Google @opensource.google for joining #AtmosphereConf as a major sponsor! We appreciate your support!

Tiles Changelog All notable changes and releases for Tiles.

Tiles version 0.4.2 Alpha 6 has been released.

New onboarding flow for account and data setup, an OTA updater, and Harmony renderer support for gpt-oss-20b, enabling configurable reasoning effort and improved response quality.

Release notes: www.tiles.run/changelog#0....

a screenshot of the body of the text showing a laundry list of updates to the atmosphere. its too long to fit in the alt text description, so youll have to read the entire article sorry

this week's atmosphere and fediverse news, with now three approaches to private data, and a whole bunch of atproto project updates and news

connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

Digital Topology & Economic Power The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, ...

Wrote a mini-essay, "Digital Topology & Economic Power", on how the file went from a site of user agency to one of enclosure — through proprietary formats, data internalization, then the cloud. Each step bundling real gains with a quiet transfer of power.

www.orionreed.com/posts/app-fi...

This is our third time out with Local-First Conf!

In past years we've thoroughly explored some core topics like sync engines and CRDTs.

In 2026, we're broadening into areas like identity, e2ee, malleable software, and open-weight models.

travelling in April!

not sure I like cities in India, I like slow places, like in the hills. I love northeast

I like slow places and hills lol

for the record I don’t like Bangalore

preach

user agency is anti-capitalist.

when not explicitly anti-capitalist,

user agency is capitalism-retardant.

The Regenerative Grain In 2014 I gave a talk called Tiny (keep things small enough to understand) In 2026, small means something different. Small means safe to delete. New in the Phoenix Architecture series: The Regenerative Grain.

In 2014 I gave a talk called Tiny (keep things small enough to understand) In 2026, small means something different. Small means safe to delete. New in the Phoenix Architecture series: The Regenerative Grain.

I live in a science fiction novel.

Move Along, Python | Tiles Blog Deterministic, portable Python runtimes for Tiles using layered venvstacks.

Tiles runs local AI.

That means the Python runtime must be deterministic and portable across machines.

With Alpha 4, we now bundle layered venvstacks with pinned dependencies to guarantee reproducible execution.

How it works: www.tiles.run/blog/move-al...

I think AGI is an AI deployment question (decentralized vs centralized) instead of a purely algorithmic one.

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Added support for making claims of a @tangled.org account, thanks to a PR by @jauntywk.bsky.social

keytrace.dev/@orta.io

All peer-to-peer systems have to compromise one way or another on this: they can decide that direct P2P is essential and simply fail, they can provide centralized fallback alternatives, or they can try to find/convince/incentivize another peer to route traffic on your behalf.

gifted this book to @ruperts.world :)

feels like the first chapter of accelerando

Also install GrapheneOS!

Which Pixel?

was it loaded via http+dns+ssl?

then it's server-first.

(which is not bad. but it's not the local-first i want.)

this is pretty good

Aperture by Tailscale, an AI usage and access tool, now in alpha Aperture is an AI gateway that doesn't get in the way of developers, and works with most AI tools.

Coding agents crossed a line this year: they’re useful enough that people are going to use them at work, whether the tooling is ready or not. So... here's some tooling!

tailscale.com/blog/apertur...