"You should consider that the essential art of civilization is maintenance."
- Pete Seeger
- Pete Seeger
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Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
books.worksinprogress.co
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"You should consider that the essential art of civilization is maintenance."
- Pete Seeger
- Pete Seeger
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Embrace pronoia, which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Embrace pronoia, which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
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Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our community, and (2) we want to discuss our ideas publicly. Some...
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We have a mini launch today with two new blocking features on Bridgy Fed:
1. For ATProto and ActivityPub, you can now use the "block" DM command to block multiple users at once 🙅🏼♂️🙅🏼🙅🏼♀️
2. For ActivityPub, you can now subscribe to ATProto Block Lists over the bridge 📃🚫
More in our latest blog post:
1. For ATProto and ActivityPub, you can now use the "block" DM command to block multiple users at once 🙅🏼♂️🙅🏼🙅🏼♀️
2. For ActivityPub, you can now subscribe to ATProto Block Lists over the bridge 📃🚫
More in our latest blog post:
Launch: New Blocking Features on Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed has always had a simple way to block users over the bridge, whether the other user is bridged or not.
If the user is bridged, you can use your native platform’s blocking features. If the u...
blog.anew.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our community, and (2) we want to discuss our ideas publicly. Some...
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TIL: "free driver"
opposite of free rider
opposite of free rider
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
TIL: "free driver"
opposite of free rider
opposite of free rider
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AT Friends 2 is up! Had @snarfed.org explain Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy), learned a lot about the various open social protocols
AT friends #2: @snarfed.org of Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy)
informal chats with people building excellent stuff on (or in this case around) AT Proto
latenthomer.leaflet.pub
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
AT Friends 2 is up! Had @snarfed.org explain Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy), learned a lot about the various open social protocols
Lately I've been thinking about orphaned code. Code that's still running, live, with no remaining developers or users.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Lately I've been thinking about orphaned code. Code that's still running, live, with no remaining developers or users.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
The history of coffee is basically one long quest to make it taste as good as it smells.
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The history of coffee is basically one long quest to make it taste as good as it smells.
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
standards bodies: "bureaucracy for good"
October 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
standards bodies: "bureaucracy for good"
A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
October 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
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Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use "the internet" to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another.
January 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use "the internet" to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I don't understand the value of consumer VPNs. Can someone explain it to me?
We do pretty much everything over SSL these days. Definitely everything that matters. That provides confidentiality, so intermediaries can't see the data, and server authentication, so they can't impersonate the server.
We do pretty much everything over SSL these days. Definitely everything that matters. That provides confidentiality, so intermediaries can't see the data, and server authentication, so they can't impersonate the server.
September 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I don't understand the value of consumer VPNs. Can someone explain it to me?
We do pretty much everything over SSL these days. Definitely everything that matters. That provides confidentiality, so intermediaries can't see the data, and server authentication, so they can't impersonate the server.
We do pretty much everything over SSL these days. Definitely everything that matters. That provides confidentiality, so intermediaries can't see the data, and server authentication, so they can't impersonate the server.
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Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
September 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
In 100 years, when people look back on health care today, I suspect they'll think our dependence on symptoms was a bit...barbaric.
"So if something went wrong, they didn't notice until it got bad enough to hurt? Really?! But that's so late! How crude. Thank God we don't have to live like that now."
"So if something went wrong, they didn't notice until it got bad enough to hurt? Really?! But that's so late! How crude. Thank God we don't have to live like that now."
September 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In 100 years, when people look back on health care today, I suspect they'll think our dependence on symptoms was a bit...barbaric.
"So if something went wrong, they didn't notice until it got bad enough to hurt? Really?! But that's so late! How crude. Thank God we don't have to live like that now."
"So if something went wrong, they didn't notice until it got bad enough to hurt? Really?! But that's so late! How crude. Thank God we don't have to live like that now."
We lost our cat, Stitch, a couple weeks ago. I miss her so much. I wrote a few words about her.
Stitch
We lost our cat Stitch a couple weeks ago. She was 13 years old. She had a fast-growing form of bone cancer, osteosarcoma. We noticed a lump on her side a month or two ago, and by the time we got t…
snarfed.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
We lost our cat, Stitch, a couple weeks ago. I miss her so much. I wrote a few words about her.
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I've been paying for Bridgy Fed myself, out of pocket, since the beginning. I'm happy to, and I'll continue to, but it's not cheap. We have big ideas and plans for the future, and funding is our main blocker. Please help if you can!
Today, we're launching $1 & $2 tiers on our Patreon so more of our community can support us!
As a part of that, we also wanted to share where our funding is currently coming from and what community funding can help lead to for the future of Bridgy Fed & Bounce.
Check it out in the post below 👇🏼
As a part of that, we also wanted to share where our funding is currently coming from and what community funding can help lead to for the future of Bridgy Fed & Bounce.
Check it out in the post below 👇🏼
New $1-2 Patreon Tiers! And Funding Update
Hey everyone 👋🏼
Following the successful launch of the Bounce Beta last week, we felt this would be a good opportunity to review how A New Social is progressing eight months in. I wanted to provide s...
blog.anew.social
September 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I've been paying for Bridgy Fed myself, out of pocket, since the beginning. I'm happy to, and I'll continue to, but it's not cheap. We have big ideas and plans for the future, and funding is our main blocker. Please help if you can!