I wrote a bit about my recent CAR parsing optimization adventures:
Making Ruby go brrrr (with Codex)
lab.mackuba.euAug 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Write Games, Not Engines
Blog of Agatha Mallett: This is a mirroring of "Write Games, Not Engines" by Josh Petrie.
Knuth: Literate Programming
This book is the first in a series of eight volumes that contain archival forms of my published papers, together with new material.
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
Optimistic Computing
I recently made two new friends: Abhinav Omprakash and Dawn Walker. Abhinav said I’m an optimist and I should write about it. Dawn said I shouldn’t try to coin any new terms. I should know better, but this essay follows Abhinav’s recommendation — and credits Dawn, in the very likely event I should have followed her advice instead. I have been alive for approximately four decades. Each of those decades was witness to its own fun brand of computering.
Finally finished writing, sorry 😭😅 It was honestly kinda fun to write stuff like this, I might continue by writing about other stuff too :O
ATmosphereConf 2026
whenlifehandsyoulemons.leaflet.pubI learned a lot from @calabro.io's write-up of the recent Bluesky outage. So much that I was inspired to write my own post about his post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/12/thoughts-on-the-bl…
Thoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up
surfingcomplexity.blogFinally had some time (to attempt) to catch up on reading the articles published on Offprint. Wanted to share a few that were fun reads First article is by @bunniesin.space. They’re exploring the world of atproto and reading their thoughts and confusion on @mu.social’s lex extension was a good read
Some thoughts on extending lexicons | Offprint
amybunny.offprint.appI wrote about my #AtmosphereConf experience. I hope it's as cathartic to read as it was for me to write. Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience. All I wish is that we had more time.
The Joy of AtmosphereConf · augment
augment.inkI wrote up a bunch of thoughts on what I learned from trying different ways to build an atproto sports app
Sports in the Atmosphere
pmcewen.leaflet.pubMy "Introduction to #ATProto" blog post that I've been working on for some time is ready 🙂 It goes through things like records, lexicons, DIDs, then PDS/AppView etc. and how it all works together. Let me know if anything is wrong! More parts later, with the Fedi comparisons & misconceptions etc.
Introduction to AT Protocol
mackuba.euAt @cascadiajs.com this year I gave a talk about #atproto and the Atmosphere: the open social ecosystem Bluesky and many other apps are built on, and what it means to actually own your data. I made a bunch of silly drawings for it, and I'm sharing them in this 🧵!
i wrote up some new technical writing for my folks who run labellers! 💞
How to change your labeller's service record for the new subcategory definitions
leaflet.pubI spent several hours today, away from the code, writing about Gifthood. It's likely the longest blog post I have ever written. Might make for some good weekend reading for atproto and decentralized web folks alike.
The Condition of Giving
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