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
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.
Wrote something that I'm down to talk more about #atprotonyc regarding book lexicons, having interoperable AppViews and getting to consensus for books. It's about the books, man!
A place of consensus making for the book lexicon — Olamaelcu
www.olamaelcu.netFinally 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.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.euI 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.blogi 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.pubFinally 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
amybunny.offprint.appAt @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 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
gifthood.orgI 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.pub
