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speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes
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What We’re Looking for at All Things Open 2026 • All Things Open
The 2026 All Things Open call-for-papers officially opens on Tuesday, February 17. Anyone and everyone interested is encouraged to submit a talk title and abstract before the closing date of Tuesday, March 31.... Read More

About the new endpoints.bsky.app - Alex's Blog
Well, as promised, my travel calendar finally calmed down after May and I got to start shipping again 😊 I got a really nice reception to my managing to pus…
IETF127 in San Francisco in November 2026
There are lots of SF locals, I know several people are planning to fly into SF, and the two day hackathon is open for all to join, registration is no charge. Anyone planning on taking the lead on planning some community activities during the week? For AtmosphereConf, we’re going to get Ms Boba @essentialrandom.bsky.social some early sticker / postcard prints to distribute. There’s an RSVP event in the community already https://atmo.rsvp/p/atmosphere.community/e/3miu4s5e2mf2g

A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features
Today I welcomed more than 1,500 people to our second annual Universe conference in San Francisco, an event designed to celebrate the people building the future of software. It’s an…

Event:Opening (Access) Night NYC 2026
Join us for "Opening (Access) Night" as Wikimedia New York City and the Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrate Open Access Week!
News: WHAT open mailing list announcement — WHATWG
Building in the dark forest
We write from our new home in the Dark Forest. This week we fully committed to our new universe: we abandoned Slack and moved all operations into DFOS, our new tool, available more widely in the coming weeks. It feels good in here. Calm. Cozy. Just enough activity for things

Everything is Miscellaneous
I’m at a Hubweek event called “Libraries: The Next Generation.” It’s a panel hosted by the Berkman Center with Dan Cohen, the executive director of the DPLA; Andromeda Yelton, a developer who has done work with libraries; and Jeffrey Schnapp of metaLab
Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Day Two
Post-alpha plans
Hey folks 👋 We’re about a month into the spaces alpha! From what I can tell, it’s going along pretty nicely. We pushed out one breaking change about two weeks back, but it’s been pretty stable apart from that. I wanted to share a list of some of the open questions we’re still noodling on. Many of these will likely involve breaking changes. Most of these are not truly “open”, we have opinions on them and need to just nail it down. However, if anything is important to you, please sha...

I've been hard at work this weekend getting both @opensocial.community and @collectivesocial.app in a better spot, and I'm excited to see where they're at! Just in time for the book club to kick off a new book 😎 What are you reading or want to read soon?
Overcommitted Podcast
We are just getting started with The Staff Engineer's Path by @whereistanya.bsky.social ! Everyone is welcome to join our book club, check it out on Collective Social at collectivesocial.app!
Very excited to share that I work here now! Starting today I'm one of the newest @bsky.app employees. I'm stoked to be exploring the Atmosphere full time! 😎
happy Monday, I wrote up my decision-making around our new endpoints.bsky.app HTTP reference! Thanks everyone for the push to do this 😊
About the new endpoints.bsky.app
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Launch Announcements @ AtmosphereConf
news.atmosphereconf.org🌌 We’re excited to show you another great addition to the "growing constellation of interconnected apps" on the open web: Bonfire🔥 Bonfire helps build spaces for communities, outside of the Big Tech social platforms, that are shaped by the people who will use them, for exactly what they want.
Excited to announce that I will be giving the opening keynote for @newpublic.org + @publicspaces.net Open Social Award Show in Amsterdam next month! My keynote will discuss how we do community governance at @blackskyweb.xyz Best of luck to all applicants and hope to see you there!
Designing Technology for All #11: Open Socials Award Show
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