Tynan Purdy
@tynanpurdy.com
Experience designer for the decentralized web
🍻 @atproto.boston
🌐 https://tynanpurdy.com
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🍻 @atproto.boston
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Tynan Purdy
@tynanpurdy.com
· Aug 25
👋🏻 Hey! ATLlien Boston transplant here.
Designer nerd technologist
Bridge your account to the fediverse by following @ap.brid.gy
Designer nerd technologist
Bridge your account to the fediverse by following @ap.brid.gy
Holy frickin awesome
Incredible new article by @maxime.bsky.social
This is a huge work, modules and examples are so cool. Thanks for the time you give to your blog!
blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shades...
This is a huge work, modules and examples are so cool. Thanks for the time you give to your blog!
blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shades...
Shades of Halftone - The Blog of Maxime Heckel
An interactive deep dive into building halftone shaders in GLSL, covering everything from classic dot patterns and CMYK color separation to Moiré interference, gooey effects, and animated displacement...
blog.maximeheckel.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Holy frickin awesome
@iame.li I wonder if a vod *listing* lexicon similar to standard.site would be useful for bridging the inevitably long road to dethroning YT while also including other efforts that are off protocol like PeerTube and the independent media companies like Dropout
Or heck, extend standard site for vod
Or heck, extend standard site for vod
February 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
@iame.li I wonder if a vod *listing* lexicon similar to standard.site would be useful for bridging the inevitably long road to dethroning YT while also including other efforts that are off protocol like PeerTube and the independent media companies like Dropout
Or heck, extend standard site for vod
Or heck, extend standard site for vod
I'm going to "Boston-Area Civic Tech Meetup"!
Boston-Area Civic Tech Meetup
We're joining in with Technologists for the Public Good at the Bow Market. See the details below and please RSVP with their link.
Join fellow civic technologists and public interest technologists for ...
smokesignal.events
February 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I'm going to "Boston-Area Civic Tech Meetup"!
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Next meetup in just under a week! Come join us at Remnant Brewing for a beer and civic tech buddies 🍻🤓🖥️
Boston-Area Civic Tech Meetup
We're joining in with Technologists for the Public Good at the Bow Market. See the details below and please RSVP with their link.
Join fellow civic technologists and public interest technologists for ...
smokesignal.events
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Next meetup in just under a week! Come join us at Remnant Brewing for a beer and civic tech buddies 🍻🤓🖥️
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Seriously. Own your data, own your home on the Internet, protect against platform lock-in, and stop providing economic value to a company that actively promotes Nazi writers and their writing.
substack is down, quick, make a @leaflet.pub blog & never look back!
February 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Seriously. Own your data, own your home on the Internet, protect against platform lock-in, and stop providing economic value to a company that actively promotes Nazi writers and their writing.
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We're at 56% of our goal with about two weeks left to go in the fundraising window.
It's a tough time for journalists out there, and anything you can do to support those of us who've been laid off land a little more softly is deeply appreciated.
It's a tough time for journalists out there, and anything you can do to support those of us who've been laid off land a little more softly is deeply appreciated.
We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...
Donate to Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers, organized by Victoria Song
On Friday, January 16, 2026, the Vox Media Union received news from management about … Victoria Song needs your support for Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers
www.gofundme.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:11 PM
We're at 56% of our goal with about two weeks left to go in the fundraising window.
It's a tough time for journalists out there, and anything you can do to support those of us who've been laid off land a little more softly is deeply appreciated.
It's a tough time for journalists out there, and anything you can do to support those of us who've been laid off land a little more softly is deeply appreciated.
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Boston City Hall was dedicated #onthisday in 1969! The brutalist building was designed by Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles in response to a Boston Redevelopment Authority architectural competition in 1961. Check out this photo of the newly-constructed building from 1967!
February 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Boston City Hall was dedicated #onthisday in 1969! The brutalist building was designed by Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles in response to a Boston Redevelopment Authority architectural competition in 1961. Check out this photo of the newly-constructed building from 1967!
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“Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and over again, to remain in a relationship with each other under specific conditions that will never, ever recur in exactly the same way.”
The reason Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon don't feel like Old Twitter is simple sociology: Community is path-dependent.
You can move the people, but you can't move the history.
www.joanwestenberg.com/communities...
You can move the people, but you can't move the history.
www.joanwestenberg.com/communities...
Communities are not fungible
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured
www.joanwestenberg.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 PM
“Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and over again, to remain in a relationship with each other under specific conditions that will never, ever recur in exactly the same way.”
https://enclose.horse Day 43
🥇 Excellent! 🥇 93%
🥇 Excellent! 🥇 93%
enclose.horse
A puzzle game about enclosing horses.
enclose.horse
February 11, 2026 at 3:50 AM
https://enclose.horse Day 43
🥇 Excellent! 🥇 93%
🥇 Excellent! 🥇 93%
This guy is cooking
February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
This guy is cooking
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atproto.boston is now a live Atmospheric website 😎🌐
Thanks to @flo-bit.dev and @blento.app! Check us out and sign our guestbook
Thanks to @flo-bit.dev and @blento.app! Check us out and sign our guestbook
ATProto Boston
Boston's AT Protocol Community
atproto.boston
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 PM
atproto.boston is now a live Atmospheric website 😎🌐
Thanks to @flo-bit.dev and @blento.app! Check us out and sign our guestbook
Thanks to @flo-bit.dev and @blento.app! Check us out and sign our guestbook
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Unidos somos América.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Unidos somos América.
https://enclose.horse Day 41
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
enclose.horse
A puzzle game about enclosing horses.
enclose.horse
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
https://enclose.horse Day 41
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
The people have more culture and joy than oligarch assholes could ever hope to sell
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The people have more culture and joy than oligarch assholes could ever hope to sell
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Gametime baby! We're thrilled to support @richferro.com in running the Superbowl LX feed on @bsky.app today! But wait, there's more! 🧵
February 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Gametime baby! We're thrilled to support @richferro.com in running the Superbowl LX feed on @bsky.app today! But wait, there's more! 🧵
https://enclose.horse Day 40
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
enclose.horse
A puzzle game about enclosing horses.
enclose.horse
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
https://enclose.horse Day 40
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%
Did anyone make that atmospheric apple shortcuts store? I have a submission
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Did anyone make that atmospheric apple shortcuts store? I have a submission
just got a notif from @skyreader.io that my @leaflet.pub post was shared. this ecosystem is awesome
February 7, 2026 at 10:59 PM
just got a notif from @skyreader.io that my @leaflet.pub post was shared. this ecosystem is awesome
quick I made a thing and I need good links to test it with. preferably things to read
February 7, 2026 at 10:29 PM
quick I made a thing and I need good links to test it with. preferably things to read
Booked my flights to #AtmosphereConf let’s gooooooo ✈️🍁
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Booked my flights to #AtmosphereConf let’s gooooooo ✈️🍁
February 7, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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I'd like to introduce our very special guest star Mister Jason Mantzoukaaaaaaas! Yayyyyyy!
And the next week, Florence Pugh! Yayyyyyyyy!
And the next week, Florence Pugh! Yayyyyyyyy!
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I'd like to introduce our very special guest star Mister Jason Mantzoukaaaaaaas! Yayyyyyy!
And the next week, Florence Pugh! Yayyyyyyyy!
And the next week, Florence Pugh! Yayyyyyyyy!
@taurean.bryant.land @doriantaylor.com concepts lexicon use case: mapping story tropes, adaptations, remakes, and parodies.
February 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM
@taurean.bryant.land @doriantaylor.com concepts lexicon use case: mapping story tropes, adaptations, remakes, and parodies.