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microcosm 2025 - microcosm
A quick (and almost complete) retrospective of what happened in microcosm's first year
And I was afraid I wouldn't have anything to blog this week! - Alex's Blog
Yup— this is a silly edge case we created because of requirements at the T&S level and at the protocol level, which we obviously need to solve at the app level by making this impossible to do unintentionally. Sorry for the unforced error here! Will be fixed soon.
Activity Vocabulary
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WebAssembly Core Specification
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Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol
Foreword This statement was originally published on the swicg/general repository after I had been granted approval to merge. Since then one community member has raised that it did not follow the Community Group's processes, and consequently the document has been taken down from the original location. When publishing,

Inside Google’s Ironwood TPU v7 Supply Chain
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Inside Google's Ironwood TPU v7 Supply Chain (Updated)
Version 2: What Changed, What Was Wrong, and What's Next for TPU v8?

It's been a fun week of figuring out the new jetstream sync engine but ALSO trying out @microcosm.blue Hubble at the same time. I set out with a mission to build a service to report follow counts and ended up working with them both. Check out my write up on my new @pckt.blog 50 Shades of Protocol.
Building the Social Graph with Hubble and Jetstream - 50 Shades of Protocol
pckt.blogThis is the summer of micro-papers: small ideas, shared freely, archived for posterity. I've had 2 separate emails and multiple new citations based on my micro-paper I wrote for micro-papers back in 2023.
The Micro-Paper: Towards cheaper, citable research ideas and conversations
arxiv.orgAtmosphere sync: Tap, Hydrant, roll-your-own?
updates.microcosm.blueOh dear lord, I knew it was bad, but didn't know it was this bad: hackers.pub/@fedify/2026/why-activitypub-… (I've mostly just contributed to activitypub projects that already existed, so didn't usually need to experience these specific pains)
Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be
hackers.pubThe Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE Separate from my proposal for publickey.directory (which I've certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been…...
The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE
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