The Future of AI Should Serve People, Not Platforms
AI has begun to reshape every part of our digital experience. I keep coming back to Kranzberg’s first law of technology: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” Its impact depends on how it’s used, by whom, and for what.
10 things I want to work on after the conference
WARNING: Extremely long and information-rich blog post incoming! I started putting this together in my head on the last day of the conference as a way to gather and report out on some discussions. Before long it turned into an entire over-3000-word roadmap.
Open Social Software. npmx
We’ve just celebrated reaching 3,000 stars, made a number of major releases, and the team gave a really great presentation at atmosphereconf... But it seems I still hadn’t actually answered so many questions - just teased at the end of the previous article. I think it’s time to formulate the answers and finally gather them all in one place.
April 1, 1926 Weather from the Hill, Olaf Thorvaldsen | Cook County News Herald
Winter seems intent on lingering past its welcome. The coming week will run colder than is customary for early April, with daytime temperatures only narrowly climbing above freezing. Snow is likely next Tuesday and should leave a half-inch cover in town, with deeper totals for those living farther inland.
Announcing the Bay Area RPG Webring
Hey I decided to make a Webring for specifically bay area ttrpg people! I made it via onion ring so shout out to those wonderful people! You can't really put a web ring on a leaflet so it's on my blogspot so head on over to https://poundsofnothing.evilgoblin.wedding/2026/04/announcing-bay-area-rpg-webring.html to see it and also see how to join if that's something you want to do.
New ATproto Suite for Drupal
I have been working on various ATproto integrations for Drupal over past few months, and have now combined them into a single suite. The code is available on Github [1]. Much of this is tailored to my custom Drupal content types and would only server as an example to others, however you should be able to use the atproto_client as is and write your own code on top of it. The individual modules provide Action Plugins for use with ECA. There are recipes for installing the ECA models. Some of the modules also depend on the Indieweb Webmention module which provides the entity types for Syndications and Webmentions. I set the Drupal core requirement to 11.3 because that is the environment I'm working in, but I'm sure most of it would work with earlier versions if you just changed that. This is Alpha level code - use at your own risk. [1] https://github.com/lieb77/atproto
New ATproto Suite for Drupal
I have been working on various ATproto integrations for Drupal over past few months, and have now combined them into a single suite. The code is available on Github [1]. Much of this is tailored to my custom Drupal content types and would only server as an example to others, however you should be able to use the atproto_client as is and write your own code on top of it. The individual modules provide Action Plugins for use with ECA. There are recipes for installing the ECA models. Some of the modules also depend on the Indieweb Webmention module which provides the entity types for Syndications and Webmentions. I set the Drupal core requirement to 11.3 because that is the environment I'm working in, but I'm sure most of it would work with earlier versions if you just changed that. This is Alpha level code - use at your own risk. [1] https://[email protected]:lieb77/atproto.git
Distorted Perception
I don’t have a stable mental image of myself. Sometimes I look in the mirror or at a photo and my perception fragments. I might feel fine and other times my brain catastrophizes, making me feel like I look terrible. I often forget my own physical presence, so I feel small and insubstantial in my mind even though I’m short and over weight with fat on my arms and belly. Later, with some temporal distance, I can perceive myself more objectively and even see beauty, but in the moment the experience is disorienting. My friends try to reassure me and tell me I’m pretty, but sometimes it feels like a lie. I don’t equate beauty with worth. I know my value isn’t just in how I look, but that doesn’t stop my perception from feeling skewed in the moment. It’s a shifting, fluid perception of self that can feel almost derealized at times.