{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Boris Mann's Homepage - Journal Feed","description":"Daily journals with links and asides, digital garden notes, and occasional long form blogs","link":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com","lastBuildDate":"Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:02:31 -0700","item":[{"description":"

[[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.\":<\/p>\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","link":"https:\/\/xeiaso.net\/blog\/2025\/rolling-ladder-behind-us\/","pubDate":"Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:24:29 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-20-1024\/"},{"description":"

[[The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine]]<\/p>\n\n

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In this post I\u2019ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they\u2019re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","link":"https:\/\/ferd.ca\/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html","pubDate":"Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:11:32 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-18-1711\/"},{"description":"

Slow Software for a Burning World<\/a> as [[Bonfire]] heads to a v1.0 release:<\/p>\n\n

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\"In a world of 'move fast and break things,' we\u2019ve chosen a different tempo \u2014 one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","link":"https:\/\/bonfirenetworks.org\/posts\/slow_software_for_a_burning_world\/","pubDate":"Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:38:34 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-18-1438\/"},{"description":"

[[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.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/blog.index.network\/the-shape-of-what-you-meant","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:17:57 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-17-1217\/"},{"description":"\n \n \n
[[Devine Lu Linvega<\/td>\n Devine]] wrote notes on [[Malleable Computing XXIIVV<\/td>\n malleable computing]] as a reflection on the [[Malleable Software Essay<\/td>\n Ink & Switch Malleable Software essay]].<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","link":"https:\/\/wiki.xxiivv.com\/site\/malleable_computing","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:19:36 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-17-1119\/"},{"description":"

[[Apps Are Avocado Slicers]]:<\/p>\n\n

\"\u2026because the avocado slicer is narrowly focused on one task, it\u2019s useless at anything else. If you used a specialized gadget for every single task, you\u2019d end up with a mountain of plastic.\"<\/p>\n\n

From [[Ink & Switch]] [[Malleable Software Essay]].<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/www.inkandswitch.com\/essay\/malleable-software\/#apps-are-avocado-slicers","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:20:23 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-17-0820\/"},{"description":"

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

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\"between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","link":"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2025\/06\/16\/why-centralized-ai-is-not-our-inevitable-future\/","pubDate":"Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:45:47 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-17-0845\/"},{"description":"

I\u2019ve been uneasy about [[Matrix]] for a long time.<\/p>\n\n

This post goes on to recommend where to look for a replacement: [[Polyproto]], [[Delta Chat]], [[Revolt]]<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyrneko.eu\/matrix-is-cooked","pubDate":"Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:34:21 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-16-1634\/"},{"description":"

[[Radicle]], an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/desktop.radicle.xyz\/","pubDate":"Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:49:32 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-13-1249\/"},{"description":"

[[Tonk]] released an explainer<\/a> about their new release - \"a CLI that helps you vibe code your second brain\", \"designed to simplify the process of building custom dashboards, tools, and AI agents using your own data.\"<\/p>\n\n

Explicitly mentions remixing your [[Obsidian]] content.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/tonk.substack.com\/p\/tonk-the-explainer","pubDate":"Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:36:21 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-13-1236\/"},{"description":"

As part of walking the startup showcase at Web Summit Vancouver, I saw Forestwalk Labs<\/a> demo'ing Timberline<\/a>, their agentic Mac app - building task management in an agent-first way.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ptXBlsZwC0","pubDate":"Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:22:10 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-13-1222\/"},{"description":"

Justin Searls explains why to be excited<\/a> about what Apple announced about LLMs at WWDC. One is that developers can do \"free, unlimited invocation of Apple's on-device language models\", so zero cost LLM features by using a user's own device. The rest is about native support in Swift for working with LLMs.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/justin.searls.co\/posts\/these-4-code-snippets-won-wwdc\/","pubDate":"Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:20:12 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-12-1420\/"},{"description":"

[[Resilio]] Sync was introduced to me by Jonny at [[Z-Space]] for user friendly file sync across many platforms. It used to be called BitTorrent Sync (and now I'm down a wikipedia<\/a> rabbit hole - oh god,comparison of file sync software<\/a>)<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/www.resilio.com\/sync\/","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:12:42 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-09-2112\/"},{"description":"

RSS Dashboard is an [[Obsidian]] plugin that pulls in posts from RSS feeds, YouTube, podcasts, and other feed based media, created by Aditya Amatya<\/a>.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/github.com\/amatya-aditya\/obsidian-rss-dashboard","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:14:58 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-09-2014\/"},{"description":"

[[Steve Klabnik]] is disappointed in the AI discourse<\/a> \"all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized\u2026both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true\"<\/p>\n\n

He recommends two good reads: The Software Engineering Identity Crisis<\/a> and Algorithmic Underground<\/a><\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/steveklabnik.com\/writing\/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse\/","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:24:48 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-06-03-0724\/"},{"description":"

I've recently gone down the rabbit hole of looking at [[JMAP]] (aka JSON Meta Application Protocol) which [[Fastmail]] supports (I signed up). It's a modern http\/json protocol being worked on at the [[IETF]], supporting email today, then contacts, calendars, etc<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/jmap.io","pubDate":"Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:01:07 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-03-09-1501\/"},{"description":"

It was about a year ago that I posted about [[Puter]]. It's a [[web desktop]] and got me thinking about these types of interfaces so I put together a page about them.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/notes\/webdesktop","pubDate":"Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:35:55 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-03-09-1335\/"},{"description":"

I used [[Cyd]] to migrate tweets to Bluesky on my @bmannconsulting.com<\/a> account, self hosted on [[BringYourOwn.Computer]].<\/p>\n\n

Feature request: support replies using bsky's facets to link to the Twitter original<\/a>.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/cyd.social\/","pubDate":"Sun, 09 Mar 2025 10:24:33 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-03-09-1024\/"},{"description":"

[[Chris Joel]] aka cdata<\/a> just posted an announce thread<\/a> that he\u2019s building [[Familiar]], a \u201cmagical notebook\u201d, bootstrapping a healthier web from today\u2019s ailing one.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/familiar.cafe","pubDate":"Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:53:17 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-03-09-0953\/"},{"description":"

[[Fideslang]] is \u201ca proposed model for a human-readable taxonomy of privacy-related data types\u201d, seen via [[Ted Han]] on bsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n","link":"https:\/\/ethyca.github.io\/fideslang\/","pubDate":"Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:44:44 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bmannconsulting.com\/journal\/2025-03-09-0944\/"}]}}