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Spending a lot more time on Bluesky from now on. Handle is @maggieappleton.com
Might still x-post occasionally, but most of the people I enjoy interacting with have moved over, which is all I needed. Come join us!
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Maggie Appleton
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Maggie Appleton
@Mappletons
Design engineer at @GithubNext. Making hacky AI prototypes. Writes about design, code, & anthropology. I'm mostly on Bluesky these days 🦋 @maggieappleton.com
London, England Katılım Nisan 2013
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YAAAASSSSS personal software is happening
Rasmus Andersson@rsms
Today we at Playbit are sharing our first iteration of the Playbit runtime, our vision for building playful personal-scale software. playbit.app Personal-scale software means programs by you, for you and for the people in your life. An app for your friends isn't very useful if only some of them can run it, so usually these projects have only one option: the web, an abstraction which many apps don't fit well into. We wanted a better solution, so that's what we're building. A runtime designed for highly dynamic graphical apps that are collaborative, with a really good set of developer tools. The Playbit runtime is a bit like an OS, but lives inside a host environment and gives guest code a small system layer to interface with. In practice it’s a minimal ABI-stable syscall interface with well-defined semantics. While we only support macOS in this initial release, our vision is for a powerful multimedia and collaborative platform which you can write your app for once, and run it on any platform. Learn more and grab the macOS app at playbit.app With love and a bit of code, – Edward, Nick, Julia and Rasmus
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London tech and ai scene heatmap.
Adding more now. Will sync to office spaces next week.
londonmaxxxing.com
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@benjitaylor Request for Github Copilot CLI and OpenCode tracking please 🙏
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Readout 0.0.8 is live: new session transcript search tab, new tool usage tab, skill and agent customisation (add/edit/remove), cost projections, session handoffs, sidebar customisation, and most importantly, a cute new splash screen.
→ readout.org
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Local-First Conf 2026 tickets are now on sale.
July 12–14 · Berlin · 350 people · single track
This year's theme: user empowerment in an age of fluid software. We're going beyond CRDTs to explore malleable software, peer-to-peer, self-sovereign identity, open-weight models, ATproto, and much more.
If you're building for user agency, this is your conference. CFP is open. We want YOUR talk. 👇localfirstconf.com
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GitHub issue/PR navigation is significantly faster recently. Large PRs also render so much better [on Safari, especially]. It is noticeably improving my day since I navigate between them with high frequency. Thanks to whoever made this happen. ❤️
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@raul_dronca Nice - that's looking much better! Letting users click into each detail of the steps is also essential. As much transparency as possible. But with progressive disclosure so it's not overwhelming.
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@Mappletons Thanks for the feedback and totally fair observation! This is just a pure animation/interaction exploration, not a real agent UI.
But you're absolutely right that if it were a real agent, showing what's happening at each stage would be essential.
Something like this:
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@Mappletons Absolutely! I wassss waiting to see if I was going to have time to add some extra goodies to them before signing up to demo but I’m sure I’ll be able to manage by then
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The GitHub Next team is coming to London in March! We're hosting a meet-up for anyone interested in the next generation of software eng tools
We'll show our recent work & research, but also have open spots for community demos
March 3rd at 6pm
Sign up → luma.com/v5eltkec
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(And no, unfortunately/fortunately we don't have power over or insight into GitHub's uptime or the speed of the PR page. Sorry, not our work)
We're a small R&D team exploring non-obvious futures; what's the post-PR, post-async-code-review, post-manual-git-management world like?
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@thesolarmonk Sometimes :) splitting time between here and bluesky
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The meta design system organically growing
Maggie Appleton@Mappletons
Designing designs < designing custom machines for designs
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maggieappleton.com/forest-talk
This is pretty much on track. But no one has taken "the filtered web" that seriously yet or built many tools and systems around web browsing to verify, validate, cut noise, filter, etc.
All AI x browser efforts seem to optimise for prompt injection 🤷♀️
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In early 2023 I did a talk on "the dark forest web" and AI – emerging repercussions of sharing a web with agentic systems. A slide I had to cut for time was like "marketplaces will develop where agents pay humans for meatspace chores"
And it is wild/horrifying to see it happen..
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg
ok this is weird new app called "rent a human" ai agents "rent" humans to do work for them IRL 1. humans make profile skills, location, rated 2. agents find humans with mcp/api & give instructions 3. humans do tasks IRL 4. humans get paid in stablecoins etc instantly
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@rich_cahill @doctorbaytas @mlfrg @meetgranola yes! that's where I got the idea from. came away realising I needed to do way more system design and way less direct design
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Designing designs < designing custom machines for designs
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@wwwillchen Yup. External links still severely punished in the algorithm. Designed to keep you on site.
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@Mappletons why do people not link in the original post? is it because of the algorithims?
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I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing too many words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code
(link below because this platform is still trash)
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@uripont_ thanks! graphic were all done in figma and exported as SVGs
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@Mappletons came here after the post just to say that indeed the graphics were top-notch, now a major inspiration source in terms of design language and use of colors. curious about the tooling used. congrats, you certainly should be proud of them!
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