Boris Mann

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Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dmlo7t7k2t

@kevinrose @bluesky Haha. I mean, yes, but we’re on Bluesky, Smoke Signal (events), Leaflet (blogs ) and all the other cool social apps we’re building on ATProto

any @bluesky developers out there?

ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web! blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsznpxhik2f

Leaflet posting blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsy2asc5224

Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsrmot7ec2c

[[The Shape of What You Meant]] is a blog post about [[Index Network]], a kind of ambient discovery that describes its contrast with performative social media and how things must be public in order to aid in discovery. blog.index.network/the-shape-of-w…

Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale." bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_sof…

Slow Software for a Burning World as [[Bonfire]] heads to a v1.0 release: "In a world of 'move fast and break things,' we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship.

and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed. ferd.ca/the-gap-throug…

In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it,

[[The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine]]

I had a lot of respect for [[Anthropic]] before they released this feculent bile that is the Model Context Protocol spec and initial implementations to the public. It just feels so half-baked and barely functional. xeiaso.net/blog/2025/roll…

[[Rolling up the ladder behind us]], by Xe Iaso. "Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.":

"between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice." techdirt.com/2025/06/16/why…

[[Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future]] is a response to Sam Altman's "gentle singularity", written by [[Alex Komoroske]], founder of [[Common Tools]]

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[[Apps Are Avocado Slicers]]: "…because the avocado slicer is narrowly focused on one task, it’s useless at anything else. If you used a specialized gadget for every single task, you’d end up with a mountain of plastic." From [[Ink & Switch]] [[Malleable Software Essay]].

[[Devine Lu Linvega Devine]] wrote notes on [[Malleable Computing XXIIVV malleable computing]] as a reflection on the [[Malleable Software Essay Ink & Switch Malleable Software essay]]. wiki.xxiivv.com/site/malleable…

I’ve been uneasy about [[Matrix]] for a long time. This post goes on to recommend where to look for a replacement: [[Polyproto]], [[Delta Chat]], [[Revolt]] blog.cyrneko.eu/matrix-is-cook…

[[Radicle]], an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app. desktop.radicle.xyz