sōm
@hyl.st
another weekend warrior trying to change the world
shaping reality, one myth at a time
be free, curious and kind
shaping reality, one myth at a time
be free, curious and kind
Pinned
#introduction 🧵 👋 Going pseudonymous on the internet again. Feels important to me to shed identities, like chapters to my life.
The problem with app passwords isn't security, it's UX
App passwords and OAuth with the scope transition:generic are the same level of permissions 👀.
The new OAuth scopes does fix this and make OAuth the obviously better solution, but it’s still interesting to think on
The new OAuth scopes does fix this and make OAuth the obviously better solution, but it’s still interesting to think on
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The problem with app passwords isn't security, it's UX
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Time for a mid-month #ProtocolsForPublishers newsletter! Packed to the brim with information at the cross-section of open protocols and web publishing.
This edition features AI getting news wrong but more people using it, community building, and witches!
protocolsforpublishers.com/platforms-po...
This edition features AI getting news wrong but more people using it, community building, and witches!
protocolsforpublishers.com/platforms-po...
Platforms, Power, Paywalls, and Podcasts
This edition of the newsletter is a bit of a catch-up on links since we have been busy with outreach to potential speakers, participants, and sponsors for the second in-person Protocols for Publishers...
protocolsforpublishers.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Time for a mid-month #ProtocolsForPublishers newsletter! Packed to the brim with information at the cross-section of open protocols and web publishing.
This edition features AI getting news wrong but more people using it, community building, and witches!
protocolsforpublishers.com/platforms-po...
This edition features AI getting news wrong but more people using it, community building, and witches!
protocolsforpublishers.com/platforms-po...
Browser extension, published! (pending review)
Landing page, deployed!
Logo commissioned!
Can't believe I'm about to launch an app ^^
I hope people like it, there's still *so* much that needs to be done.
I feel in need of more motivation, hence launch lmao
Landing page, deployed!
Logo commissioned!
Can't believe I'm about to launch an app ^^
I hope people like it, there's still *so* much that needs to be done.
I feel in need of more motivation, hence launch lmao
seams.so - Wisdom is made Together
Seams.so
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Browser extension, published! (pending review)
Landing page, deployed!
Logo commissioned!
Can't believe I'm about to launch an app ^^
I hope people like it, there's still *so* much that needs to be done.
I feel in need of more motivation, hence launch lmao
Landing page, deployed!
Logo commissioned!
Can't believe I'm about to launch an app ^^
I hope people like it, there's still *so* much that needs to be done.
I feel in need of more motivation, hence launch lmao
Really wish I could've been there
Do you have a half-baked idea for tinkering with your personal knowledge management system #pkm? Maybe it's an idea for an #Obsidian plugin, local #RAG over your notes, or a much overdue Notion database rehaul? Stop by at the #ToolsForThought hack day on Sunday, November 16th.
luma.com/h2mjbhjf
luma.com/h2mjbhjf
tools-for-thought Vancouver hack day · Luma
Hello everyone!
It's been a while since our last tft meetup, so we thought we'd start up again with a project-focused hack day!
Do you have a half-baked idea…
luma.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Really wish I could've been there
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there should be a role in society where my main responsibilities are to read cs & math papers and just kinda think about stuff
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
there should be a role in society where my main responsibilities are to read cs & math papers and just kinda think about stuff
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Weaver
alpha.weaver.sh
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Very indicative of just how far @:// has to go from an understanding point of view.
Zach is a smart person! They're pretty technical! They still didnt know they were actively posing a question answered by their very post! We already live in this world and you're using the very protocol you describe!
Zach is a smart person! They're pretty technical! They still didnt know they were actively posing a question answered by their very post! We already live in this world and you're using the very protocol you describe!
Do you think there's a world, that didn't happen, in which social media was built into an internet protocol?
So, meaning... individuals release comments, blogs, video, music, etc from a single source. And then social media acts as the feed, not the host. Similar to how RSS worked, and email works.
So, meaning... individuals release comments, blogs, video, music, etc from a single source. And then social media acts as the feed, not the host. Similar to how RSS worked, and email works.
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Very indicative of just how far @:// has to go from an understanding point of view.
Zach is a smart person! They're pretty technical! They still didnt know they were actively posing a question answered by their very post! We already live in this world and you're using the very protocol you describe!
Zach is a smart person! They're pretty technical! They still didnt know they were actively posing a question answered by their very post! We already live in this world and you're using the very protocol you describe!
Thinking of opening up seams.so (not ready yet) to "early access alpha"
It's hypothes.is on the atmosphere. anybody wanna try it out and give me feedback?
I got a simple backend built and am almost ready to launch beta, see what people do with it, what they want from it.
It's hypothes.is on the atmosphere. anybody wanna try it out and give me feedback?
I got a simple backend built and am almost ready to launch beta, see what people do with it, what they want from it.
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Thinking of opening up seams.so (not ready yet) to "early access alpha"
It's hypothes.is on the atmosphere. anybody wanna try it out and give me feedback?
I got a simple backend built and am almost ready to launch beta, see what people do with it, what they want from it.
It's hypothes.is on the atmosphere. anybody wanna try it out and give me feedback?
I got a simple backend built and am almost ready to launch beta, see what people do with it, what they want from it.
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I guess the year of the Linux desktop is actually real this time
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I guess the year of the Linux desktop is actually real this time
This is so fucking sick!!!
Endgame in sight
I wanna do basically this, but unfortunately I'm compelled to recreate some of the pieces so... Good luck to me? lol
Endgame in sight
I wanna do basically this, but unfortunately I'm compelled to recreate some of the pieces so... Good luck to me? lol
We can just do things. Thanks to the work of @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev @sri.xyz @juli.ee @leaflet.pub @awarm.space @schlage.town @cozylittle.house and @danabra.mov for the tools and inspiration to actually get this to work. I am merely a vessel for copypasta coding.
Using AT Protocol as a Headless CMS for your websites
wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is so fucking sick!!!
Endgame in sight
I wanna do basically this, but unfortunately I'm compelled to recreate some of the pieces so... Good luck to me? lol
Endgame in sight
I wanna do basically this, but unfortunately I'm compelled to recreate some of the pieces so... Good luck to me? lol
Team fuck malls ✊
I get so disoriented and overstimulated there too.
I get so disoriented and overstimulated there too.
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Team fuck malls ✊
I get so disoriented and overstimulated there too.
I get so disoriented and overstimulated there too.
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Ha, this is pretty much how I work and I didn't realise it was a cultural thing, but that's why you see me popping up everywhere:
(From: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/n... )
(From: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/n... )
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ha, this is pretty much how I work and I didn't realise it was a cultural thing, but that's why you see me popping up everywhere:
(From: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/n... )
(From: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/n... )
Unfortunately @slices.network isn't quite ready for prime time so I'm gonna have to build my own backend to launch seams. This pushes back the launch date.
Maybe pull a @cosmik.network semble and only index things that come from the app for now, and worry about backfill/live index later...
Maybe pull a @cosmik.network semble and only index things that come from the app for now, and worry about backfill/live index later...
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Unfortunately @slices.network isn't quite ready for prime time so I'm gonna have to build my own backend to launch seams. This pushes back the launch date.
Maybe pull a @cosmik.network semble and only index things that come from the app for now, and worry about backfill/live index later...
Maybe pull a @cosmik.network semble and only index things that come from the app for now, and worry about backfill/live index later...
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Proposal: Using `sib` in the same way as `bro` or `sis`.
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Proposal: Using `sib` in the same way as `bro` or `sis`.
subconscious on atproto!! this idea keeps coming up too.
I'm getting there, still gotta level up a bit more before I'm ready to develop it.
I think there's a few other attempts on going too
I'm getting there, still gotta level up a bit more before I'm ready to develop it.
I think there's a few other attempts on going too
semble.so is a good start but I think what we really need is a full-on atproto-based memex social network.
Semble — A social knowledge network for researchers
Follow your peers' research trails. Surface and discover new connections. Built on ATProto so you own your data.
semble.so
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
subconscious on atproto!! this idea keeps coming up too.
I'm getting there, still gotta level up a bit more before I'm ready to develop it.
I think there's a few other attempts on going too
I'm getting there, still gotta level up a bit more before I'm ready to develop it.
I think there's a few other attempts on going too
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threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
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we need more composable atproto features like this to use it on our websites no matter the framework! i'll definitely be *stealing* this for my apps :D
threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
we need more composable atproto features like this to use it on our websites no matter the framework! i'll definitely be *stealing* this for my apps :D
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Building for communities, not profits! 💪
Pumped about the launch of Bonfire, a new microblogging platform that is fully interoperable and modular so people can pick and choose the features that work best for their community.
bonfirenetworks.org
Pumped about the launch of Bonfire, a new microblogging platform that is fully interoperable and modular so people can pick and choose the features that work best for their community.
bonfirenetworks.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Building for communities, not profits! 💪
Pumped about the launch of Bonfire, a new microblogging platform that is fully interoperable and modular so people can pick and choose the features that work best for their community.
bonfirenetworks.org
Pumped about the launch of Bonfire, a new microblogging platform that is fully interoperable and modular so people can pick and choose the features that work best for their community.
bonfirenetworks.org
You may wish to actually check then: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
You may wish to actually check then: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Sorry, not convinced this is true. Nutritional value of food has been in free fall lately.
Beauty has been eradicated from public infrastructure.
Water though? Water is a sacred commodity that we have in such abundance people mistake it for being free. Praise water.
Beauty has been eradicated from public infrastructure.
Water though? Water is a sacred commodity that we have in such abundance people mistake it for being free. Praise water.
even within your own lifetime it is difficult to recall how much better everything you eat, drink, and touch is than it used to be
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sorry, not convinced this is true. Nutritional value of food has been in free fall lately.
Beauty has been eradicated from public infrastructure.
Water though? Water is a sacred commodity that we have in such abundance people mistake it for being free. Praise water.
Beauty has been eradicated from public infrastructure.
Water though? Water is a sacred commodity that we have in such abundance people mistake it for being free. Praise water.
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A good government builds and funds great infrastructure to allow private businesses to thrive. This was the entire point of Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech. The private sector forgets and/or denies this at their peril.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A good government builds and funds great infrastructure to allow private businesses to thrive. This was the entire point of Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech. The private sector forgets and/or denies this at their peril.