Weeknotes for 7/31/2026

It's weeknotes: link dump style!

I'm coming back to this style of posting what I've read, done and worked on instead of daily spamming on my microblogging accounts. Enjoy!

What I've Been Up to

I've been really heads down focusing on Livtet — I've made a decision to open source it so I have to rewrite a lot of the code and its setup to support it being open source while keeping some parts of the ecosystem I have for it closed. I'll write more about it next week.

I've been reading a lot of what other people have been writing; here's a list:

  • atproto-fact-labeler (beta) is routing existing fact-checks onto Bluesky: This is awesome and I'm glad that something like this is being built in the open. I hate seeing bad posts that are nonfactual and provably false but being able to have something immediately highlight this is empowering.
  • Launching a Cloud Atlas: Erin Kissane's notorious for being a great wordsmith about the open social Web (or the social Internet as she posits as a better moniker). I wrote more about her piece and recommend it highly.
  • ATPROTO isn’t just for Bluesky weiners: Dan Abramov has been doing a lot of interviews recently working to promote and legitimize ATProto as The New Social protocol for the Internet. This is validating my own work with Olamaelcu!
  • The End of Reading is Here: Well. The title says it all but I had more thoughts on this topic. It's hard reading this while working on an app focused on literate folks but never say never! I felt worth expanding on.
  • A Social Filesystem: Now this was one that affirmed some stuff I knew. Dan worked at Bluesky and Facebook and has the ears of the tech industry's darlings. He supposes the idea of applying the personal computing concept of user-owned files to social media by creating a "social filesystem" where users maintain repositories containing all their data across different apps as structured records, rather than letting individual platforms store and control user content. This system, implemented through the AT Protocol, enables users to switch apps and hosting providers without losing their data, and allows multiple apps to work with the same data simultaneously, much like different programs can read the same file format. Safe to say that I'm super invested.
  • Where It's at://: This is a long blog post explaining how at:// URLs work using Rudy's post as an example, lol.
  • AI as a Tool for the Mental Load: I'm on the same page here. And frankly, as someone who's routinely overwhelmed, having a bit of a beep boop in the thinking flow has been helping.

Lots of posts about AT Protocol mainly because I'm building for and around it!

Books

I've been recommended to read Cutthroat and Verity — I'm still working my way through the first one and plan to start the second before the movie comes out. I'm also planning to finish my re-read of We Tried To Tell Y'all and start The Emancipated Spectator.

I'm currently in the market looking for contract or full-time work, feel free to hit me up at yo@jacky.wtf and share my resume at https://www.jacky.wtf/work!