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brendan

@schlage.town
making @leaflet.pub ⁂ in brooklyn ⁂ sol's dad ⁂ ⚭ @jinjin.bsky.social

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brendan commented on Tagging and Flaggin Babyyyyy
Wow what nice tags you've added here! Wonderful!
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brendan commented on What’s to like about winter
I think winter can be a special time for long walks in large parks (or perhaps anywhere). Nice to get out in the morning when even not too early there's a special quality of light and winter quiet; it can be a great time to think and reflect and then come home and get cozy!
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brendan commented on Bluesky Embeds Post edit
hi @awarm.space very cool!!! I love reading Hearth long time fan first time mentioner
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Jon P (moved)
Agreed with @robin.berjon.com on avoiding anything that sounds like protocol supremacy. In fact it might even be worth pointing to Germ as an example of going faster and further together (and cooperating) across protocols. In the last section, not sure about the "AT Protocol *needs* you to join us". Maybe something more like "Please join us!" Otherwise, a very good articulation of the strengths of the protocol and the collaborative style of the developer ecosystem!
Good points, thanks Jon :)
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Robin Berjon
Hey! I love the overall energy and thinking. Just making some assorted notes, hopefully you find them helpful! - I think it's best to avoid the "Will Win" framing of the working title. It immediately makes the whole thing about competition, about a zero-sum game. I don't think it is. Same with "AT Protocol is the future of open social." I don't think that we need to antagonise the AP people, it just weakens us all and bystanders will conclude we're all assholes. Something I've been mulling over (and I think others too) is that AT isn't the future of social media — it's the future of the web. It eliminates domain authority, it guarantees user control over data, it avoids concentrating data value in single hands, it makes identity central: you say some of this already but my point this is the web but my point is that this is the foundation of a new web, one that works better, and I'd love to see the manifesto reflect this. Maybe the change in framing that this leads to is working title: "AT Protocol Is The Next Web: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere" and "We believe that AT Protocol is the future of the web, built on social foundations as all human endeavors should be." - I would move "AT Protocol incentivizes us to cooperate" up to be the first reason. Everywhere I go, people are desperate to do things together, to unite and make something work. I think this has strong appeal. As techies it's tempting to want to lay out the technical reasons why AT rocks first, but 1) techies have feelings too and 2) we should be trying to attract other communities too. - I have smaller style notes if you're interested, but it might be easier to do that in a shared doc (and even easier to just ignore me). Looking forward to signing this! Thank you for putting it together!
Glad to hear more style notes too! Might do next draft also in leaflet to stress test (could get noisy, but it is possible to do granular comments on highlighted parts here!)
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Robin Berjon
Hey! I love the overall energy and thinking. Just making some assorted notes, hopefully you find them helpful! - I think it's best to avoid the "Will Win" framing of the working title. It immediately makes the whole thing about competition, about a zero-sum game. I don't think it is. Same with "AT Protocol is the future of open social." I don't think that we need to antagonise the AP people, it just weakens us all and bystanders will conclude we're all assholes. Something I've been mulling over (and I think others too) is that AT isn't the future of social media — it's the future of the web. It eliminates domain authority, it guarantees user control over data, it avoids concentrating data value in single hands, it makes identity central: you say some of this already but my point this is the web but my point is that this is the foundation of a new web, one that works better, and I'd love to see the manifesto reflect this. Maybe the change in framing that this leads to is working title: "AT Protocol Is The Next Web: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere" and "We believe that AT Protocol is the future of the web, built on social foundations as all human endeavors should be." - I would move "AT Protocol incentivizes us to cooperate" up to be the first reason. Everywhere I go, people are desperate to do things together, to unite and make something work. I think this has strong appeal. As techies it's tempting to want to lay out the technical reasons why AT rocks first, but 1) techies have feelings too and 2) we should be trying to attract other communities too. - I have smaller style notes if you're interested, but it might be easier to do that in a shared doc (and even easier to just ignore me). Looking forward to signing this! Thank you for putting it together!
Thanks Robin, great notes here! Agree re: more neutral overall framing. I think there's a way to frame "we will win" as a more positive sum thing but prob best not in the title. Def don't want to antagonize AP folks, though would love to sway those interested in global scale open social.

I like the "future of the web" framing! Rhymes with Dan's recent post on atproto @ identity as "internet handle" or metaphors around e.g. a universal user-controlled passport.

Good point re: focus on cooperation. I'm very interested in appeals and incentives beyond technical & want to balance this so it's mainly for an audience of builders but not just a list of technical reasons. *Also* think we could use other, very different kinds of artifacts to illustrate the benefits to users, maybe later!
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Erlend Sogge Heggen
Would like to see a bunch of links inserted for all the facilities mentioned here. Same goes throughout the text. We gotta bring receipts ;)
Great idea Erlend, thanks, maybe once I've got a closer-to-final edit I'll do an overall link enrichment pass and put out the word to see if others have suggestions to include…will start making notes now of ones to include!
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brendan replied on let's publish looseleafs!
Faillery
This looseleaf has a URL: site/p/did/pageid + open comments. In my space, I have a page with a canvas: https://leaflet.pub/8c66f31a-3c18-4133-b8f4-2fa99e8ed671. I can either publish the page as a looseleaf XOR share a 'view' link from the canvas, but didn't find a way publish the canvas. What am i doing wrong?
Hi! I see the main (top-level) page here is a linear doc, with canvas as a subpage. We don't have a way to publish individual subpages, just the main page with whatever it contains.

But from
leaflet.pub/home you can hit the "+ new" button and make either a doc or a canvas! So if you want to publish a canvas by itself (like in this example) you'd do that + then publish as looseleaf (or to a publication). Sorry for the confusion! Reach out if you have further q's :)
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brendan commented on Some new Sill features
Awesome, excited for more links and backlinks for everything! For Leaflet too hopefully soon :)
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Congrats on an amazing month of game making! Finally catching up on all the posts here, so much cool work, love all the directions you've been exploring :)
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Lovely colors, these are awesome!
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brendan commented on a year in the rearview
This is beautiful <3
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brendan commented on [02] tank log
These tank logs are so fun! Love the updates; good luck to you & the tank over the holidays!
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Hello I would like to test out our WIP notifications feature, please reply to let me know you've seen this!
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Tynan Purdy
I would be down for tables. I wonder though, why not have a markdown block be the underlying layer for things like titles, breakers, and tables, since md supports all of those?
We want blocks that go beyond markdown but yeah should also support all markdown! Just as distinct blocks, not a generic md block…tables aren't actually in commonmark spec but a common extension (along w/ others like footnotes & inline highlight for example). Not sure yet exactly how we'll do tables.
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Valerie Rayne
Not gonna lie, what I really really want is a Previous/Next post button or link. Out of these poll options would be image galleries or tables (although I actually don't care for either). I also always think polls are fun when you can use them as quizzes too (like there's only one right answer with an explanation option). Happy to see this update though!
Yeah I think we should prob do prev/next buttons as a publication setting, not sure if everyone would want but really useful in a lot of cases!
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brendan commented on Dial P for PDSls
Appreciate this…really impressive how far the project has come in a year, great work!!
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brendan replied on Towards Leaflet for Fandom
Jordan Keller
Tags would be huge for having some flexibility in reshuffling the content infrastructure of a pub. for example: I want to create a pub of quotes I've gathered over the years from writers/musicians, and I want to tag each of those based on the subject matter therein. That way the doc containing the same quote can get pulled into any doc containing a filtered view (sub-page?) based on the tags. Would love to see this feature!
I think our initial experiments with tags will be more focused on global discovery (like tags as point of coordination across publications), but yeah lots of interesting possibilities for organizing things within docs/pubs too!
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Victoria
The reader is awesome and finally made me change my home page theme to a custom one. And I'm loving all the new feeds, especially the one of who I'm following (a great way to discover potentially new publications of my interest to subscribe).
Thanks Victoria, that's great to hear!
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