Daily Journal 📓 July 2026

I subscribed to the Umans founders plan at the end of June. Below is the email they sent canceling it as of August 1st. I'm happy with the usage I had, which wasn't 24/7 agents, and two weeks of travel. I guess I'll try pay-per-token for a while, and of course our local AI compute ZAI project continues. --- We built the founding plans around a simple picture: one developer, working intensively, free from token anxiety. That picture is gone. Agentic usage exploded. Many of you now run fleets of agents 24/7 across multiple machines, and you expect more models, availability in every time zone,…

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Lots of people have been asking about the atproto alternative to Buzz, the Jack Dorsey-supported Nostr chat for agents & humans to chat in.

The answer is freeq, which is atproto + IRCv3 extensions, including CRDTs with Automerge, QUIC, iroh. Follow @freeq.at.

Plates, restaurant menus on atproto, by jbhutch.bsky.social

Fark founder Drew Curtis writes about the state of the Internet today & effects on Fark:

“The core problem that we can’t fix is if people hate the entire news cycle because of stuff, they are going to struggle to want to keep Fark as a daily read.”

⭐️ norrietaylor/distillery Team knowledge evaporates daily — pairing sessions, debugging context, architectural rationale lost to Slack. Distillery captures it at the point of creation, connects it into a living graph, and surfaces it conversationally. It monitors feeds, tracks what matters to your projects, and alerts you before you know to ask. A team brain that learns.

ycc is @why.bsky.world’s coding harness:

“A docs-driven coding harness: a coding agent that works from a spec.md and a backlog of tasks. ycc is a single binary that is client, TUI, and daemon in one.”

I met one of the devs who work on Fibery at Local-First. I like the description “an operating system for orgs run by nerds”.

Kind of Grist-like, not open source, and SaaS per-seat pricing after the first 10 users. (They do have free to use for OSS).

Vic made an Airglow automation which saves starred @tangled.org repos to your own @semble.so collection.

Tangleflow: Convert GitHub actions workflows to @tangled.org pipelines and vice versa.

By @43801j.com

PropterMalone released Clade: “Your own contact rolodex, built from the data exports the big platforms already owe you — merged, enriched by web research, searchable.”

LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Bluesky as sources.

Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity

While the podcasting sector has seen growth, this has occurred almost entirely on platforms like YouTube2, and the independent podcast app userbase has mostly just stood still.

Dustin Bluck of Castro on indie podcast apps

The majority of FOSS developers are one-man-shows, and the only cOmMuNiTy they have around them are the users requesting features or reporting bugs while most of the time not contributing in any form whatsoever

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

⭐️ PropterMalone/clade Your own contact rolodex, built from the data exports the big platforms already owe you — merged, enriched by web research, searchable. Claude Code as operator.

⭐️ umans-ai/pi-provider-umans PI provider for umans.ai

⭐️ czottmann/pi-umans From-scratch Umans provider extension for pi coding agent. (No extra tools, no vision proxy, just the provider.)

TIL caffeinate is a built in MacOS CLI command that makes it so your Mac doesn’t go to sleep.

As part of adding search to my site, I found an old journal entry referencing @byjp.me IndieSearch and Pagefind. This is exactly why I take notes!

There is a Railway feature request thread suggesting Tangled integration. Upvoted!

⭐️ 43081j/tangleflow Convert GitHub actions workflows to tangled pipelines and vice versa.

solpbc.org/rookery

I met Luke @luke.kanies.com at @localfirstconf.com & answered some atproto questions at the beer garden. He wrote Building on atproto with a lot of questions about permissioned data and how this meshes with local first.

Software today is more malleable than ever. In some way this means that it can be released in a more fluid way.

Not just development, distribution of software may change as well by @antirez.bsky.social

⭐️ supabase/auth A JWT based API for managing users and issuing JWT tokens

I have made an atproto powered Journal Editor on my website. I can login with my @bmann.ca or @bmannconsulting.com accounts, and then have a very simple editor for making Bluesky-length microblog posts, with an optional link field. It supports rich text that I input using Markdown. Realistically, this is only ever used for links. If I make a post that is over 300 characters, then it publishes it as a @standard.site article using @markpub.at. This is also how unthread.at is setup when I looked into it. It also uses the out-of-band tags field. By default, everything is tagged as "bmcjournal",…

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Fig builds Microcosm. You can sponsor on Github

Fig is awesome! @bad-example.com

⭐️ janeczku/calibre-web :books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database

Editable Website is a SvelteKit template for building CMS-free editable websites. Uses Svedit. Being built by @michaelaufreiter.com

⭐️ dollspace-gay/Wildforge

⭐️ DrCatHicks/learning-goal A Claude Code skill for designing learning goals during AI-assisted coding

hyl.st/automerge-atproto automerge-repo drop in replacement backed by Habitat “permissioned spaces” om your PDS

⭐️ ChrisShank/zemble A Zotero plugin for Semble

⭐️ oddbird/slide-deck Web presentations, as a self-contained web component

⭐️ duplicati/duplicati Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

⭐️ get-convex/convex-backend The open-source reactive database for app developers

⭐️ inanimate-tech/resident Sandbox with hardware IO and hot reload for ESP32 devices

standard.site/standard.site

katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz/fortunes my fortune file collection

mackuba.eu/blue_factory

mitchellh.com/tack

danielroe.dev/synchub.to mirror your GitHub repos to tangled.org automatically

⭐️ hipstersmoothie/standard-reader

⭐️ prime-radiant-inc/clipfan Clipboard sync daemon for Mac + remote tmux fleet. Mirrors macOS pasteboard to remote OS clipboards and tmux paste buffers. Enables image paste into Claude Code/Codex over SSH without OSC 52 or Xvfb.

⭐️ gamesgamesgamesgamesgames/cartridge-infra

⭐️ boringcomputers/nehemiah On-demand Linux computers you can hand to an AI — real Firecracker microVMs with a browser, terminal, coding agents, and an AI that drives them.

⭐️ whyrusleeping/ycc An opinionated coding harness

⭐️ tailscale/thundersnap Experimental: A Linux container environment where everything is mutable, undo is instant, and cross-machine replication is trivial.

slices.network/quickslice

⭐️ adamhathcock/opencode-sharp A plugin that better uses the roslyn language server than the built in Opencode LSP

mary.my.id/bluesky-embed

mary.my.id/boat

mary.my.id/atcute

Oh ya! I am moderating a panel at DWeb Camp Berlin with Christine Lemmer-Webber and Daniel Holmgren called Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub.