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Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lx…
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[[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.
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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.
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Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale." bonfirenetworks.org/posts/sl…
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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,
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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…
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[[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.":
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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…
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[[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]]
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"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-…
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[[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]].
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[[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]].
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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…
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[[Radicle]], an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app.
desktop.radicle.xyz/
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