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Software Enginseer | they/them

there's now so many cards in blento.app that even i sometimes forget some of them, so here's a thread with all the atmosphere cards so far (in no particular order):

(i'll do a thread with all the non-atmosphere cards some other day)
This is exactly one of the findings of the study* on tabbed browsing I did ~15 yrs ago — tab usage is bimodal. Funny to see that it (anecdotally at least) still holds up!

∗ "A Study of Tabbed Browsing Among Mozilla Firefox Users" from CHI 2010:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org
new* thoughts on what web browsers can be by @robin.berjon.com

* new to me, the post is 2023 but still fresh
berjon.com/bigger-brows...
HTTP caused a massive shift, challenging AOL’s walled garden & opening the early web.

@flipboard.com CEO Mike McCue explains why open protocols matter, how they’re often resisted at first, & how they reshape the web, similar to the shift social media is facing now.

Full ep w/
@rabble.nz, out now.
Weekend explorations
One of the most impressive things about this ecosystem is that it allows for people to innovate and create tools we all want before even Bluesky creates them.

Drafts on
@blackskyweb.xyz
Encrypted messaging with
@germnetwork.com
And many more!

It’s really beautiful to see
Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team
Drafts will work the same way as you can see on staging.blacksky.community
Very cool seeing new accounts in the atmosphere that have never known a app.bsky record and have another atproto app's records

pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...
shows an account on selfhosted.social with only the records app.blento.card and site.standard.publication
This is so cool — we added notifications when someone links one of your Bluesky posts in Leaflet, and…

@drearicheli.bsky.social linked one of *our* Bluesky posts in this great post with Leaflet feature suggestions:

drearicheli.blog/3mdgnp5dp622y

…so we saw it, and can reply here + on the post!
Leaflet notification showing "@drearicheli.bsky.social embedded your Bluesky post"screenshot of Leaflet's Bluesky post embedded in the linked Leaflet blog post
Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com
Reminder: ATProto is more than a protocol for social media
Reminder: ATProto is more than a protocol for social media
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable.
HMRC / GOV.uk developers are saints.

Good ol' multi-page accessible HTML forms. No front-end bullshit. No "developer experience" blocking my progress. No design dribbbled with a 10px grey-on-grey font.
a few months ago i had the immense privilege to speak about Websites at @webdevconf.com in Bristol — i've taken some time to improve on these ideas and build a permanent online home for the essay, which i intend to grow and improve over time 🤍
The new Web Almanac is out. 🎉

If you don't know the Web Almanac, it's pretty much a summary and analysis of the state of the web based on real data from the HTTP Archive.

As a yearly tradition, I'll go over it and highlight/comment on the things that stand out. Let's go! 🧵
HTTP Archive 💾 @httparchive.org
The 2025 Web Almanac by HTTP Archive has been officially released! 🚀

We would like to thank all of our contributors from around the globe who made this extensive report possible!

Check out the full report here:
almanac.httparchive.org
formats over apps
Hello atmosphere ! Over the last few weeks, a bunch of us have been collaborating on a new set of lexicons for publishing, indexing, and building out social features across long-form reading and writing apps ! 🧵1/7
yea and maybe it should also show something like "hey, this list is blocking this person" so there's more accountability for list creators. too easy to sneak people silently

anyway blocklists are like feeds in that they're super engineer brained primitives that just never got revisited after 0.1
Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me
The implementation of blocklists is bad overall. If you’ve already chosen to follow someone, that should supersede a list-driven block.
@tangled.org is such a great role model for projects in this moment

- actually does the thing: useful, accessible
- innovates/differentiates at *product* level: stacked review
- hybrid at proto layer (git and AT), pulls in bsky profile data
- built in europe by small amitious team

#eurosky
I write a fortnightly newsletter about what I'm up to as I build @thestorygraph.com!

The next issue goes out tomorrow.

Check it out and subscribe:

buttondown.com/nodunayo
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