AI is great because it brings the terror of getting hit with a massive surprise cloud bill to the practice of writing code on your own machine. That’s innovation baby!
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.)
We have been the sole owners for all that time...
service + lexicon that enables verified linked account claims with attestation
- sign into verification service with your atproto handle
- oauth into third-party services
- signed attestation written to your repo
- apps can trust links w/ one xrpc call to verifier
#atdev#stealmyidea
Processing instructions are back baby!
Fun fact: my first islands prototype abused processing instructions for island boundaries so HTML minifiers wouldn’t strip them like comments. And HTML parsers convert them to comments anyway. 🙈
I've built Macrodata: a plugin that gives Claude Code and OpenCode self-organising memory and autonomous scheduling.
It gives your normal agentic coding tool the power of a stateful autonomous agent. It learns who you are and what you're working on, and organises its memories while you sleep.
Hey, other companies 👋
@voidzero.dev is giving a good example here. If you need help defining your company's open-source funding strategy, my DMs are open. We need every company to step up its funding game. Let's take care of our maintainers, or the whole ecosystem will collapse.
Companies invest millions in their product but treat docs as an afterthought.
I disagree, it must be a core concern.
I wrote a deep dive into what it takes to write docs loved by millions, the value it delivers, and my experience in Astro Docs.
yanthomas.dev/articles/doc...
ATProto is now in IETF standardization process. BOF stage passed at IETF 124 Dublin. Working group formation is next.
datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/
I loved working full-time on @vite.dev hired by StackBlitz. High praise to companies hiring OSS devs!
But as I did when starting @vitest.dev with @antfu.me, for this new community adventure, as project steward of @npmx.dev together with @danielroe.dev, I'll be going independent. Here we go again ❤️
We have a unique opportunity with npmx. We're building something very special together. I want to give myself the chance to focus on helping steward the project. I'm going to be working as an independent open source developer this year. Support my work and help me focus on npmx long-term 🙏
It's been a fun week or two
- @npmx.dev launch
- @bomb.sh launch
- @e18e.dev project leads team created
- Google sponsors e18e
Much more to come I'm sure!
All my projects tend to have the same redirects
/chat -> discord
/on/:platform -> other social
/gh/:repo -> repos
Put together a lil @bomb.sh page to surface these!
my parents told me i could be anything, so i became a potential supply chain attack vector 🙏
the scale of @bomb.sh clack still melts my brain—happy v1.0 day to all who celebrate! 🎉
Incredibly proud of the @bomb.sh for getting this over the line! Releasing v1.0 always feels impossible—there's always something else to fix or add, and you just have to draw the line somewhere.
Expect a more regular release cadence moving forward 💜
Exciting news—Clack v1.0 is here! 🎉
🫳 Dropped CJS distribution (the only breaking change)
🆕 Added autocomplete, taskLog, and more
🌏 Localization support
🐞 Dozens of bug fixes + performance improvements
🤗 Ecosystem alignment
This release marks stable support for our current APIs
My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.
accessibilityforeveryone.site
The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.
check out the bombshell launch! 🎉
i've been involved in this for some time now and its been great fun so far. looking forward to the rest of the roadmap
Hey, we're Bombshell 👋
We're the maintainers behind projects like Astro, e18e, StudioCMS, and pkg.pr.new.
We're building focused, composable open source libraries for CLIs and TUIs.
Excited to show you what we've been up to.
bomb.sh/blog/introdu...
Hey, we're Bombshell 👋
We're the maintainers behind projects like Astro, e18e, StudioCMS, and pkg.pr.new.
We're building focused, composable open source libraries for CLIs and TUIs.
Excited to show you what we've been up to.
bomb.sh/blog/introdu...
I’ve been thinking about open source work that sits between “side project” and “venture-backed startup.” Watching the atproto space has sharpened my thinking around shared, communal infrastructure.
These are some thoughts on why that middle path eroded and what it might take to rebuild it.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
This ICE observer had her TSA-Pre-check revoked.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047...
"Three days after the interaction, on January 13th, I received an email notice that my Global Entry/TSA-Pre Check privilege for passing through airport security had been revoked."
exciting news! we're starting a new monthly live streamed show: e18e & friends. hosted by the great @thealexlichter.com!
monthly we will catch up with friends from the community, with a focus on performance and what cool things they've been building lately
first guest TBA soon, streaming 10 Feb 🎉
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Please keep sponsoring Astro! Its ecosystem is so vast that needs many people working on it. Most of these people are volunteers, and paid via Open Collective funds
Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.appwww.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
