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Jake Simonds

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AT Friends (chats about open social):  latenthomer.leaflet.pub/3m4hcfym3mk2p

blog: jakesimonds.com/blog

old blog: jakesimonds.github.io
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I Think You Should LEARN software engineering

three sketches that illustrate/capture something about software

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Dec 1, 2025

what I learned at an Ethereum convention:2

tier accounts, what hard parts can get 1,000,000 times easier?

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Nov 29, 2025

ATProto Resource List for the curious

totally unofficial/incomplete/arbitrary list of ATProto resources for the curious

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Nov 27, 2025
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We're firing 600 people because there were too many meetings

maybe technical writing should be more than dumbing hard things down

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Nov 26, 2025

Baking Soda

Visual Essay on social media in 2025

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Nov 25, 2025

testing 123

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Nov 24, 2025

What I learned at an Ethereum Convention

Devconnect 25 quick thoughts

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Nov 24, 2025
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Elevator Selfies

NFC card + static webpage + lambda + bsky burner + elevator

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Nov 20, 2025

Great and not great things about San Francisco (till I run out of things to say)

with the use (& potential abuse) of leaflet subpages

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Nov 16, 2025

Improving my relationship to technology...with more technology!

A few personal digital practices getting me away from my phone

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Nov 14, 2025

Update, Offer, Ask

Life Update post! Woo!

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Nov 13, 2025

Resolution: Do one thing a day

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Nov 9, 2025

Vibe Coders are Nepo-babies

A specific analog for how specifically I think LLM-use is "like cheating" (and why I think it's okay to cheat sometimes)

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Nov 8, 2025

San Francisco '25ers

first impressions

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Nov 8, 2025

Services

Four things I can do

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Nov 7, 2025

AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn

informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world

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Nov 6, 2025

AT friends #3: Tim Straub of Down the Rabbit Hole

Special Edition of AT friends where I pitch my High School English teacher (who has a great Substack) on the merits of Open Social

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Nov 4, 2025

LLM Analogies I've heard

Trying to jot down as many as I can think of

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Nov 1, 2025

AT friends

Links to all interviews & FAQ

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Oct 30, 2025

AT friends #2: @snarfed.org of Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy)

informal chats with people building excellent stuff on (or in this case around) ATProto

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Oct 30, 2025
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