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Boris Mann Aug 5, 2025

[[The Shape of What You Meant]] is a blog post about [[Index Network]], a kind of ambient discovery that describes its contrast with performative social media and how things must be public in order to aid in discovery.
https://blog.index.network/the-shape-of-what-you-meant

The Shape of What You Meant

You’ve probably been there, looking for someone, not just anyone, but someone who gets it. Maybe you’re building something new and don’t want to do it alone. Maybe your idea doesn’t even have a name yet, but you know it needs others to take shape. You’ve got places to post, share, search, and shout. Too many, really. But despite the flood of tools, you’re still stuck trying to meet someone who actually gets what you're doing. It’s not that the people you’re looking for don’t exist. They do. I...

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Boris Mann Aug 3, 2025

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world/

🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥

In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.

Boris Mann Aug 3, 2025

Slow Software for a Burning World as [[Bonfire]] heads to a v1.0 release:

"In a world of 'move fast and break things,' we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale."

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Boris Mann Aug 3, 2025

https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html

The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.

Boris Mann Aug 3, 2025

[[The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine]]

In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.

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Boris Mann Aug 2, 2025

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

Rolling the ladder up behind us

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

Boris Mann Aug 2, 2025

[[Rolling up the ladder behind us]], by Xe Iaso. "Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.":

I had a lot of respect for [[Anthropic]] before they released this feculent bile that is the Model Context Protocol spec and initial implementations to the public. It just feels so half-baked and barely functional.

Boris Mann Jul 2, 2025

Lucas ✦Jul 2, 2025

Added #Macrowave as project to my website and took the time to write about why we are working on it.

https://lucas.love/projects/macrowave

Macrowave

Macrowave is a native macOS and iOS app that makes it easy to share system audio with friends to listen to music together.

Boris Mann Jul 2, 2025

Alex McLean Jun 30, 2025

What's a good number of presentations to fit in a conference day?
NIME (a single-track conference with low acceptance rate), fits in about 14 presentations of various lengths (all pretty darn short - 5, 10, or 15 mins), amongst a couple of other sessions. They have 5 papers per 90 minute session. https://nime2025.org/program/

ICMC (a multi-track conference) fits ~5 in a morning session and ~5 in an evening session, with 100 minute sessions.
https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/papers/

xCoAx (another single-track conference) fits 11 papers in 3 x 60 hour long sessions per day, plus performances, keynote etc
https://2025.xcoax.org/

I generally feel that conferences have too many presentations, and it's impossible to try to take them all in.. But OTOH having loads is a good way to get an interesting group of people together.. What's the sweet spot?