Luke Hubbard

U&A (user & agents) demo time starting about now on discord. discord.gg/UqPm5vqHN?ev...

Someone cranked up the HDR on the simulation

5:30am boat back to the island. EVs only allowed on the first ferry of the day, every other day.

phu thap yoi

quite the off-road adventure getting up here, but worth it

5 bucks a night

Closed source is a liability

6.7

So many Atproto apps now ❤️

But data layer interop means you don't *have* to "go" anywhere.

Concept demo of inverting things:

- local index of lexidex
- local cache of all your 'cons and records
- generic 'con-to-form engine

Now I can post, rsvp, bookmark all from the comfort of home.

Lesson learned if buying data center switches and importing to Thailand. Ordering from uk works great (just pay vat) but ordering from US sellers is a world of pain with Thai customs. Clocked up 3 months of red tape.

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

At Vivaldi, we believe you should be free to install the software you want on a device you own. This is as important for Android as it is for iOS, so we'e signed this letter to Google, along with friends. keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Drive by blessings

Decompose things into skills and tools and you won’t have to care about the code so much.

The agents have taken over the data center

What Do We Really Know About the Back Button? YouTube video by Interface Studies

Published a new video on "Interface Studies"

What Do We Really Know About the Back Button? This video traces the concept of "back" across five distinct systems. Each system makes a different wager on what kind of past should be available to the user. youtu.be/Z4cS2Ivg2-M?...

Who doesn’t want SUPER META and HYPER keys. Alas I left the board for this build in Bangkok so will have to wait. Still it brings me joy 🤩

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Got multi wan failover with recursive route checks on Microtik.

Most traffic will go via one of two multi wan gateway Linux boxes but configuring the Microtik as the fallback default should the gateways be down for some reason. Also for management traffic.

Cant say I enjoy networking setup.

But first coffee ☕️

Actually maybe two ☕️ ☕️

Long productive day today. Woke up at 6am (blame jet lag), got back to building the #folknet operator at 7am. Time disappeared and it was suddenly 4pm. Few more bits and then disconnecting to go see friends.

The App Store Was Always Authoritarian - Infrequently Noted Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend it...

It's nice to see some of the more established tech voices (👋 @mgsiegler.com, Om, etc.) calling out Apple and Google over the moral rot of cozying up to Trump, but we need more. Unfettered power is bi-directionally corrupting, and we have to attenuate it:

infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-…

The unix way is the way to go. Small cli tools that you combine in many ways.

Casually asking an agent to reverse engineer a minified web kvm and rebuild it in rust as I can’t be arsed waiting for slow chrome automations to do their thing.

Yeah. My son left his phone in Sydney airport on way to NZ, thankfully someone handed it in. However office is not on air side so on way back had to go through immigration etc to pick it up.

People from countries that don’t sell pixels

For the record my biggest issue with Apple is iOS not allowing alternative browser engine choice. It’s a stranglehold on the web driven by anticompetitive fear.

Picked up a pixel at Sydney airport. So long iPhone, I’m done with iOS and apple’s evil grip. Looking forward to running xe.dev on Android/Linux

Officially entered and exited Australia 🇦🇺 in 30 mins. Perhaps my shortest stay in any country ever.

Education Ministry allows stateless, migrant children to enrol in Thai schools Thailand’s Ministry of Education has announced that all schools under its supervision must accept children and students who are foreign nationals, have no household registration, or do not hold Thai n...

This is fantastic news.

Seeing migrant kids missing out on education and their own schools shut down because they were not allowed to operate was so sad.

As in most countries migrants contribute greatly to the county and every child deserves an education

www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2026/01...

Gates wants geeks to build a better condom | CNN Bill Gates is putting out a call to inventors, but he’s not looking for software, or the latest high-tech gadget – this time he’s in search of a better condom.

Makes more sense now

edition.cnn.com/2013/03/25/h...

Local-first Conf is happening in Berlin again! This is an early save the date announcement, you can add your email to get notified of more details.