https://electrek.co/2026/06/08/the-real-reason-why-e-bike-throttles-have-gotten-worse/

https://github.com/christi4nity/snag

, https://alt-tab.app

https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/

https://www.macstories.net/stories/introducing-shortcuts-playground/

https://youtu.be/t2a-sUdaNJ8?si=3ESkEcCDJ3le4osB

https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2026/05/why-portland-kids-who-spent-last-summer-freely-swimming-at-city-pools-wont-be-able-to-do-it-again-this-year.html

Alison: “I heard the typing upstairs last night.”

Me: “sorry.”

Al: “No, it’s cute.”

https://tryklack.com

I ended up just vibecoding one for myself, feeling grateful that I’ve got a good system prompt for Claude, because it produced something I could just drop Markdown links into, not some big dashboard thing without me having to do anything besides remind it I’m a big Monokai Ristretto fan.

Relatedly, the past month or so I’ve come to realize that my AI reading is taking a distinctive shape. I’m less drawn to polemic on either side, and way more interested in the human stories people are telling, like one from a guy who noticed that “agentic engineering” has a distinct rhythm that doesn’t work with his go-to coding music of decades; or someone who says “orchestrating agents” just makes him feel tired and alienated.

I’ve also got a lot of room for commentary about the workplace stuff. I’m super over being handed dense, overwritten AI output and asked to weigh in, or told “this is just me and Gemini, see what you can do with it.” The power dynamics inherent in this are frankly appalling. There’s a class that gets to milk twaddle from a clanker, and a class that has to pick through it, on the lookout for nuggets like “our security posture is enhanced by our next-gen zero trust VPN solution.”

These all feel more like social and personal things than technical things. I’m very interested and concerned about how people are feeling, I guess, and less about what we’re all thinking.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi

• 2 oz mezcal
• 0.25 oz Drambuie
• Chocolate bitters

Prepare like an Old Fashioned: stir over ice, strain into rocks glass over a large cube

https://werd.io/to-maintain-their-independence-publishers-are-fleeing-substack/

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oqW3V5H3e2M&si=VxG-Ve6hP6sPyqF3

lol. I know what I meant when I typed it, and it wasn’t like it sounds.

https://tinycrawl.puddingtime.net

https://v2.tauri.app

https://tinycrawl.puddingtime.net

https://tinycrawl.puddingtime.net

https://rootshell.com

https://tinycrawl.puddingtime.net/

https://randsinrepose.com/guides/usb/usb-guide.html

That’s how I feel when I mention AI projects & I’d like to be received in that spirit.

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/04/29/syndicating-vibes

https://www.diabolicalliespod.com

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2026/04/29/county-commissioner-and-city-councilor-call-on-home-forward-board-to-resign/

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.

Word.

Well, this has been fun.

1. Start typing. If I exceed 300 characters, I get a color treatment in the editor that tells me so, and a “summary/Bluesky” field opens up.

2. If I keep typing in the editor, I see a character count against hachyderm.io’s 2263 character limit.

3. Click publish and the post is stashed in my atproto PDS then fanned out to Mastodon and Bluesky. The post is also turned into a git commit for my Hugo blog in an unpublished “notes” record.

4. Add a title and click publish, and the post is still stored in my PDS, but also turned into a Hugo git commit that kicks off the Cloudflare Pages build for the blog pipeline.

5. Add a photo, it becomes an attachment for Mastodon or Bluesky. If I’m making a blog post, clicking a little clipboard icon lets me add Markdown markup for the SmugMug-hosted version of the image that I can paste into the blog post.

If I’m making a longish Mastodon post, the Bluesky post stops at 300 characters and includes a link to its longer Mastodon cousin, effectively making my Mastodon account a place for < 500-word posts. If I’m making a Hugo post, Bluesky and Mastodon point to that. All of it is stashed in my PDS and all of it is stashed in Git: One sort of speculative value atproto store, one “Markdown-n-YAML is forever” git store.

Because I’m doing all the image hosting via Smugmug, and all the image links are to Smugmug artifacts, not self-hosted images, posts are more portable.

Enjoy using it? Cool. I can work from this web editor or from a local text editor.

Quit using it? Fine. It all lives as Markdown in git: I still have the same blog, I still have the same accounts, and I forget about this little experiment in exotic publication pipelines.

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke-2/

Right. Another one of those things involving three levels of government that has no political aspect.

https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2026/04/kotek-signs-bill-for-moda-center-project-puts-pressure-on-city-council-not-a-time-to-play-politics.html

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-year-of-magical-thinking/

1. Drop images and write captions. Auto-uploaded to my SmugMug sharing album.
2. Start typing a post targeted for Bluesky and Mastodon.
3. If the post goes longer than 300 characters …

… get an option to keep typing.

The 300-char version goes to Bluesky only, the longer version (with my hachyderm.io’s much larger 2,263-character limit) appears on Mastodon, and the Bluesky post gets a link to that version.

So if I’m careful to have a pithy lead for Bluesky, I can have longer-form posts on Mastodon – 400 to 450 words.

There’s an “actual longform” element that’s next, but I’m asking myself how to manage that. I don’t want to write longform posts in a webform, and I already have some local infra for ingesting Markdown from a worker, so I’m busy sketching how I want the CMS to work with all this, whether I need to change CMSes, etc.

At the end of the day, the longer form things need to be some kind of Markdown somewhere in version control. Just not sure how to manage it yet.

I always liked micro.blog’s “tip over into a longform post” mechanic, but the implementation never quite worked for me because micro.blog is solving for different use cases and a diversity of platforms I don’t have to, and that make it feel a little mysterious sometimes.

It is one-way only: Your code is pushed to GitHub, but AI Studio won’t pull any changes back down. So if your bright idea was to seek security review from a human or push your code through a review toolchain, you’ll be copying and pasting any changes back in.

If you make a change to your code (PR, file editor, whatever), AI Studio just makes a commit reverting your changes, adding a commit message calling them “extraneous,” “unneeded,” or (in the case of a security notification I added) “frivolous.”

In other words, it doesn’t actually know how to use GitHub, but takes a stab at gaslighting you into thinking your commits were all pointless and dumb anyhow.

5: How many times in the past ~45 days someone has asked me if they can stick Salesforce tokens in their vibecoded AI Studio app.

n: How many times someone decided to just go do that without asking.

https://gi.puddingtime.net

Me, too. I think I get why skills have momentum, and among whom they have it, but MCPs provide a kind of ubiquity across UI’s that skills can’t touch.

https://david.coffee/i-still-prefer-mcp-over-skills/

“… just because you have binarized your thinking does not mean everyone else has.”

“anyway if the mental image you are conjuring for your interlocuters positions them as always knowing less than you by default, that might be something to look into in yourself!”

Sage.

I remember being very excited about the discourse. I probably drove Al to mild distraction recounting all the debates about content warnings and the intersecting (and conflicting, and orthogonal) needs of all the people finding their way onto Mastodon.

I had been on Mastodon for most of the year prior, but in a very unengaged way on a photography instance where I kept messing up and cross-posting stuff that didn’t quite belong. So I paid my $5 and moved to omg.lol’s instance. Then I followed a ton of people (for me).

For a couple of months “normal” Mastodon use was scrolling through my entire Home feed, then skimming the Federated feed. I eventually figured out the Federated feed was where I really did not want to be, and I ended up thinking about it the same way I think about Twitter today: Something I might happen into briefly, nowhere I wanted to stay. I didn’t spend a ton of time in the Local feed.

Something kind of cool happened, though, as I stopped looking at the Federated feed and would find my way into Local more often if I had a few minutes to poke around: I started recognizing more people as their posts went by, and found the folks in Local were more likely to engage, too. I don’t know how many active users there are on omg.lol’s instance, but few enough that I recognize a lot of names and have gotten to know peoples’ assorted interests and tics, but also enough that there are still plenty of “oh, I don’t recognize this person” moments.

Over time I’ve found that I like to start a Mastodon session with Local then move on to Home for a skim. As I’ve thought about why, I guess it’s just that blend of familiarity that comes from being a smallish pond, with a little entropic salt for serendipity.

I think there are tradeoffs because you’re sort of out on the rim of the Fediverse and that affects what comes over the transom of your Local. I split the difference with a list of people I know outside my Local whom I trust to stick stuff in my timeline either by checking that list or by adding notifications for their posts.

It all adds up to making Mastodon something I enjoy, but can set aside for a few days at a time. There’s the comfort of the familiar in a small town where you may recognize most people even if you don’t know them all. And the fun of serendipity and chance for randomness of a small city you still feel like you could walk from end to end in an hour or so.

If anyone asked me about a starting instance (and nobody does, because my friend circles involve people who already have an opinion about Mastodon and people who are passionately disinterested in any social media) I’d encourage them to look for sub-2000-member ones that appear to have legs on them.

Comparing to micro.blog

I think a smallish instance has also worked better for me than micro.blog, which has added enough friction to interaction and discovery that I get stuck. I like being able to simply favorite a post without having to say anything in particular. I like being able to Boost a post without any particular comment. I like the emphasis on pinned introductory posts. I like hashtags as a discovery tool (both incoming and outgoing).

I do appreciate the spirit of micro.blog’s design decisions and what they’re trying to avoid recreating, but my own experience of those decisions has been to feel a little claustrophobic and a little compelled to participate at a level that is more than I want.

And I do feel a little suspicious of the reasoning sometimes. I don’t know how much was driven by data and study and how much, like Mastodon’s most notorious reaction-driven design decision – anti-quoting – is narrow caution and wrong lessons learned.

Anyhow, it is nice to be spoiled for choice. micro.blog works really well for some people and I appreciate the recent attempts to build a bridge to the Fediverse while staying true to their view of the world, even if it is not mine. I’ll take that over anything coming out of the big corporate plays.