Harry Kingdon
@harrykingdon.bsky.social
You're not hardcore unless you live hardcore. Serving the next generation of creative technologists at tonk.xyz
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📍Mission District
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
📍Mission District
bookmark this post - the BBC will create their own social media platform - potentially over AT Proto - and it will be credibly neutal, accountable, democratic and awesome
July 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
bookmark this post - the BBC will create their own social media platform - potentially over AT Proto - and it will be credibly neutal, accountable, democratic and awesome
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From The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
July 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
From The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
Listening to this episode all I could think was - my *gosh* they sound amazing - I would SO love to work alongside them @goblinoats.com @grjte.sh
Blessed moment
Blessed moment
The ZK Podcast released an episode on local-first software this week!
@arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social chat w @grjte.sh & @goblinoats.com about the foundations of local-first architecture, CRDTs and how ZK can be incorporated into these models.
zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/367/
@arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social chat w @grjte.sh & @goblinoats.com about the foundations of local-first architecture, CRDTs and how ZK can be incorporated into these models.
zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/367/
Local-First with grjte and Goblin Oats - ZK PODCAST
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt speak with Goblin Oats from Tonk and grjte from Bain Capital Crypto […]
zeroknowledge.fm
July 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Listening to this episode all I could think was - my *gosh* they sound amazing - I would SO love to work alongside them @goblinoats.com @grjte.sh
Blessed moment
Blessed moment
I'll be representing @tonklabs.bsky.social's work supporting creative technologists at this roundtable in Shoreditch, London, next week. Come through! And thanks for hosting Restless Egg
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'll be representing @tonklabs.bsky.social's work supporting creative technologists at this roundtable in Shoreditch, London, next week. Come through! And thanks for hosting Restless Egg
Vibe Coders LDN was 🔥
20 lightning demos over healthy poké in Hoxton – games, LinkedIn hacks, workflow agents, “second brains” & more – all vibe-coded by founders, devs, dropouts, VCs.
One legend built a game from scratch _during_ the show.
20 lightning demos over healthy poké in Hoxton – games, LinkedIn hacks, workflow agents, “second brains” & more – all vibe-coded by founders, devs, dropouts, VCs.
One legend built a game from scratch _during_ the show.
June 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Vibe Coders LDN was 🔥
20 lightning demos over healthy poké in Hoxton – games, LinkedIn hacks, workflow agents, “second brains” & more – all vibe-coded by founders, devs, dropouts, VCs.
One legend built a game from scratch _during_ the show.
20 lightning demos over healthy poké in Hoxton – games, LinkedIn hacks, workflow agents, “second brains” & more – all vibe-coded by founders, devs, dropouts, VCs.
One legend built a game from scratch _during_ the show.
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now I use ChatGPT whenever I need to get an em-dash to copy-paste
June 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
now I use ChatGPT whenever I need to get an em-dash to copy-paste
We’ve quietly built Tonk, an alpha-stage CLI tool that makes it simple to build custom dashboards, apps, and AI agents using your own data—minus the backend headaches.
Quick intro 🧵👇
Quick intro 🧵👇
June 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We’ve quietly built Tonk, an alpha-stage CLI tool that makes it simple to build custom dashboards, apps, and AI agents using your own data—minus the backend headaches.
Quick intro 🧵👇
Quick intro 🧵👇
"How can users tweak the existing tools they’ve installed, rather than just making new siloed applications? How can AI-generated tools compose with one another to build up larger workflows over shared data?"
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...
www.inkandswitch.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"How can users tweak the existing tools they’ve installed, rather than just making new siloed applications? How can AI-generated tools compose with one another to build up larger workflows over shared data?"
Ok, so vibe coding is officially going from viral to mainstream. So many people have sent me this FT article today.
I sit down every day with vibe coders - in startups, enterprise or just tinkering in their garage - here's what I notice:
I sit down every day with vibe coders - in startups, enterprise or just tinkering in their garage - here's what I notice:
June 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Ok, so vibe coding is officially going from viral to mainstream. So many people have sent me this FT article today.
I sit down every day with vibe coders - in startups, enterprise or just tinkering in their garage - here's what I notice:
I sit down every day with vibe coders - in startups, enterprise or just tinkering in their garage - here's what I notice:
Excited longterm for the finegrained composability and interoperability that comes from multiplayer operating systems
Walled gardens and enshittification is so 2010s
This room is unbelievably cracked
Local First Conf Berlin 2025
Walled gardens and enshittification is so 2010s
This room is unbelievably cracked
Local First Conf Berlin 2025
May 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Excited longterm for the finegrained composability and interoperability that comes from multiplayer operating systems
Walled gardens and enshittification is so 2010s
This room is unbelievably cracked
Local First Conf Berlin 2025
Walled gardens and enshittification is so 2010s
This room is unbelievably cracked
Local First Conf Berlin 2025
reflection:
an underrated, nonskeuomorphic use-case for AI is what I think of as "world-familiarisation" or "world navigation"
"world" in the sense of a social world - the fashion world, the art world, the tech world, the politics world
an underrated, nonskeuomorphic use-case for AI is what I think of as "world-familiarisation" or "world navigation"
"world" in the sense of a social world - the fashion world, the art world, the tech world, the politics world
May 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
reflection:
an underrated, nonskeuomorphic use-case for AI is what I think of as "world-familiarisation" or "world navigation"
"world" in the sense of a social world - the fashion world, the art world, the tech world, the politics world
an underrated, nonskeuomorphic use-case for AI is what I think of as "world-familiarisation" or "world navigation"
"world" in the sense of a social world - the fashion world, the art world, the tech world, the politics world
👾 Londoners 👾
I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London
For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI.
🗓️ June 11
📍 Hoxton
🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks
🧠 ~25 curated spots
I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London
For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI.
🗓️ June 11
📍 Hoxton
🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks
🧠 ~25 curated spots
May 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
👾 Londoners 👾
I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London
For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI.
🗓️ June 11
📍 Hoxton
🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks
🧠 ~25 curated spots
I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London
For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI.
🗓️ June 11
📍 Hoxton
🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks
🧠 ~25 curated spots
The @tonklabs.bsky.social thesis.
The platform era (2010-2024)
> Platforms provided amazing services, but private network effects centralised and siloed data, creating centralisation overhead: lock-in, cost, inconvenience.
The platform era (2010-2024)
> Platforms provided amazing services, but private network effects centralised and siloed data, creating centralisation overhead: lock-in, cost, inconvenience.
May 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The @tonklabs.bsky.social thesis.
The platform era (2010-2024)
> Platforms provided amazing services, but private network effects centralised and siloed data, creating centralisation overhead: lock-in, cost, inconvenience.
The platform era (2010-2024)
> Platforms provided amazing services, but private network effects centralised and siloed data, creating centralisation overhead: lock-in, cost, inconvenience.
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I saw Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT box when I visited CERN and what blows my mind is the faded torn sticker saying "This machine is a server DO NOT POWER IT DOWN". There was some point in time that was the only web server on Earth.
"Do NOT turn this computer off the World Wide Web is on it"
"Do NOT turn this computer off the World Wide Web is on it"
#OnThisDay in 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web software to the public.
Proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web was originally created to allow scientists and institutes working on CERN data to share information accurately and quickly from across the globe.
#WorldWideWeb
Proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web was originally created to allow scientists and institutes working on CERN data to share information accurately and quickly from across the globe.
#WorldWideWeb
May 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I saw Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT box when I visited CERN and what blows my mind is the faded torn sticker saying "This machine is a server DO NOT POWER IT DOWN". There was some point in time that was the only web server on Earth.
"Do NOT turn this computer off the World Wide Web is on it"
"Do NOT turn this computer off the World Wide Web is on it"
From user generated content to user generated apps
April 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
From user generated content to user generated apps
PSA: I've done an investigative deep dive and decided my top ranking of innovation scenes in London - i.e. the places in this city where you'll find the most talented & hardworking people working at the most dynamic frontiers:
🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖
🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
PSA: I've done an investigative deep dive and decided my top ranking of innovation scenes in London - i.e. the places in this city where you'll find the most talented & hardworking people working at the most dynamic frontiers:
🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖
🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖 🇬🇧 🌳 🫖
Trying out the new S*bstack shortform reel generator:
April 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Trying out the new S*bstack shortform reel generator:
New @tonklabs.bsky.social Product Demo: myWorld
The Tonk stack helps developers use AI to build multiplayer apps fast and plug them into your data while keeping maximum control, privacy and flexibilty over your information.
The Tonk stack helps developers use AI to build multiplayer apps fast and plug them into your data while keeping maximum control, privacy and flexibilty over your information.
April 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
New @tonklabs.bsky.social Product Demo: myWorld
The Tonk stack helps developers use AI to build multiplayer apps fast and plug them into your data while keeping maximum control, privacy and flexibilty over your information.
The Tonk stack helps developers use AI to build multiplayer apps fast and plug them into your data while keeping maximum control, privacy and flexibilty over your information.
Ok, feeling the momentum now. Catch @goblinoats.bsky.social in the U&A Discord at 5pm GMT / 10am PST to walk you through the @tonklabs.bsky.social stack and a chance to do some Q&A
discord.com/invite/mtEwu...
discord.com/invite/mtEwu...
Join the User & Agents Discord Server!
Check out the User & Agents community on Discord - hang out with 113 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
discord.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Ok, feeling the momentum now. Catch @goblinoats.bsky.social in the U&A Discord at 5pm GMT / 10am PST to walk you through the @tonklabs.bsky.social stack and a chance to do some Q&A
discord.com/invite/mtEwu...
discord.com/invite/mtEwu...
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ART IN THE MACHINE: a series.
Technology without soul is just utility. From day one, we've infused our work with creative spirit—drawing from fine art and fashion to build tech that resonates beyond function. This week, we'll share our influences before unveiling new directions!
Technology without soul is just utility. From day one, we've infused our work with creative spirit—drawing from fine art and fashion to build tech that resonates beyond function. This week, we'll share our influences before unveiling new directions!
March 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ART IN THE MACHINE: a series.
Technology without soul is just utility. From day one, we've infused our work with creative spirit—drawing from fine art and fashion to build tech that resonates beyond function. This week, we'll share our influences before unveiling new directions!
Technology without soul is just utility. From day one, we've infused our work with creative spirit—drawing from fine art and fashion to build tech that resonates beyond function. This week, we'll share our influences before unveiling new directions!
I love this from @timbl.bsky.social www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Vision of a new World - Design Issues
www.w3.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I love this from @timbl.bsky.social www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
> be me
> yawny stretch in bed after good shleep
> rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today
> check phone
> open tonk community chat
> "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep"
> bliss
> yawny stretch in bed after good shleep
> rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today
> check phone
> open tonk community chat
> "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep"
> bliss
March 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
> be me
> yawny stretch in bed after good shleep
> rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today
> check phone
> open tonk community chat
> "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep"
> bliss
> yawny stretch in bed after good shleep
> rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today
> check phone
> open tonk community chat
> "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep"
> bliss
The team at @tonklabs.bsky.social is developing an interoperable, private network of datastores, to service the fragmentation of state resulting from the proliferation of billions of cheap, niche, personal apps and workflows built with AI.
March 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The team at @tonklabs.bsky.social is developing an interoperable, private network of datastores, to service the fragmentation of state resulting from the proliferation of billions of cheap, niche, personal apps and workflows built with AI.
MCP is great & all but we're just scratching the surface when it comes to questions of where data will live and how it will move around when there are billions of little AIs helping you
Our first bet is that traditional databases are just way too cumbersome and icky as a way to handle shared data
Our first bet is that traditional databases are just way too cumbersome and icky as a way to handle shared data
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
MCP is great & all but we're just scratching the surface when it comes to questions of where data will live and how it will move around when there are billions of little AIs helping you
Our first bet is that traditional databases are just way too cumbersome and icky as a way to handle shared data
Our first bet is that traditional databases are just way too cumbersome and icky as a way to handle shared data