What is Semble?
R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
By R. S. Doiel, 2026-02-21 (revised: 2026-03-03, epilogue added 2026-03-27)
Tending Your Software Garden
Software: do you write it like a book, grow it like a plant, accrete it like a pearl, or construct it like a building? As Steve McConnell notes in Code Complete 2, there’s no shortage of software development metaphors: A confusing abundance of metaphors has grown up around software
SembleIt — A fast, local-first client for semble
A snappy, offline-capable client for semble. Save links, notes, and highlights as cards — built on AT Protocol.
Collection
Updated 1mo
About software.
Semble Product Inspiration
Products we take design, functionality or organizational inspiration from for semble
Future of Programming
Politics of computing
Programming
Shitty software
What is Semble?
A collection of various explanations of this very “app”
Malleable Software
Software that gives users extreme agency over the interface, such as JIT interfaces.
Live Programming
Personal Computing
Semble-Coding
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How to Semble?
Guides and resources about what Semble is and how to use it.
www.cs.columbia.edu
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Triumph of the Nerds: The Transcripts, Part I
Everest Pipkin
Digital Topology & Economic Power
bandukwala.me
Kanjun 🐙 on Twitter / X
Hiring and firing a DBA
LLMs and performative productivity
Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub
We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
Agents want flexible schemas
Elicit: AI for scientific research
Alerts | Elicit: Al for scientific research
Embed Bsky
Skysquare — Public conversation, anchored to the web
alphaXiv
Hark, a link blog! - Boris Mann Tech Blog
www.tinlizzie.org
The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design
Cyber-Marx
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
📏 When machines start calling the shots
Information Civics
Data Feminism
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
AI-powered garbage trucks have flagged 20,000 homes in one Texas city.
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links
Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links
What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
This is really exciting to see! I think some magical things can happen when we "free" our links from static pages and let them intermingle…
Sensors, not just bookmarks [Patterns of Sensemaking #1] - Cosmik Labs
taurean (@taurean.bryant.land)
connections collecting things of a "theme" and making connections
Lego Brick Commons & Spontaneous Collaboration - Wesley's notes
I think about semble as the infrastructure for social bookmarking and explorations of the collective sensemaking that emerges on top of it.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Web Tiles (by paperpilot.dev) — Semble
Introducing Patchwork-26
Semble Multi-User Graph Explorer
Spatial programming without escape
An invitation into Droste's Lair
Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic | Retool
Issue 084: Spreadsheets
Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)
Live Programming in Hostile Territory
Semble bookmarklet
Semble iOS shortcut
Semble (@semble.so)
How Notifications Work in Semble
Semble Explore Feed and Follow Graph
What is the Semble Page