Boris Mann

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Buying another miniPC https://t.co/aJqMuWCfjh

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Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT https://t.co/CCsj0GfTiM

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@kevinrose @bluesky Haha. I mean, yes, but we’re on Bluesky, Smoke Signal (events), Leaflet (blogs ) and all the other cool social apps we’re building on ATProto

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ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web! https://t.co/FiNRIFWPMp

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Leaflet posting https://t.co/wNXTdrBboJ

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Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI https://t.co/sMpZp8POmV

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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.
https://t.co/Yub8Gj3BKe

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Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale." https://t.co/jQX0AlWiu8

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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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and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed. https://t.co/RYprk3JJ7N

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[[The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine]]

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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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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. https://t.co/hb6H6AQfZq

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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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"between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice." https://t.co/y7AuB5nBhW

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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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[[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]].

https://t.co/zloNUenA9G

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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]]
https://t.co/b3l2Dh4MmN