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Updated 21 June 2026

Right now I’m all in on building Sifa ID, and figuring out how much of the open social web you can actually run on AT Protocol.

A few things have my attention:

  • Sifa ID: identity and activity for the Atmosphere. It’s where most of my energy goes, and what powers the live feed further down this page.
  • Atproto-fying my own website (you’re looking at it): what does a personal site look like when it reads straight from your own atproto data? Even the book covers below are pulled live. The same itch is behind Barazo (community forums) and Singi Labs (the studio it all lives under).
  • Getting off Big Tech. Swapping proprietary services for open source and self-hosted ones, one at a time. It’s slow and probably never finished, but here’s how far I got in 2025.
  • My next role. I’m open to work: community, DevRel, ecosystem, product, the kind of thing I’ve spent 20+ years on. If you’re hiring or know someone, my CV is here.
  • Family. The good kind of chaos.

What I’m not doing: exercising on purpose 😅. It happens by accident at best, and yeah, I know that’s not great. Time to dust off that smart bike trainer parked next to my desk.

Where: the Netherlands 🇪🇺.

And the live half, pulled straight from my Atmosphere account

Right Now by category via Sifa ID
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  • Bluesky Post 5d ago

    Why is this silly game so much fun? Who knew that 4 @kandake.africa's add up in 2 @pds.dad's which roll up into a single @trezy.codes? 🤯 And half a @renderg.host equals a @aka.dad ?!?! 2048.social

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  • Bluesky Post 6d ago

    What would you like to see at a future ATmosphereConf? Both in terms of content and any activities around it. Purely hypothetically speaking of course

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  • Bluesky Post 1d ago

    So, euh... interesting discussions in the last couple days. Made me look again 👀 at the choices I've made building @sifa.id (public profiles...) 😅 Make sure to pour a cup 🍵 first 🧵👇

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  • Bluesky Post 4d ago

    Saturdays are perfect for teaching the kids some important life skills

    TV with Nintendo's Super Mario 1
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  • Bluesky Post 6d ago

    If you are looking for tech alternatives: don't evaluate a system by how it behaves today but by who can change the rules, and what it costs you to leave when they do.

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  • Bluesky Post 4d ago

    My idea behind building this (and what I'll be adding next) was actually to provide a fun way to learn the faces of people at upcoming meetups/events. Just select the (@atmo.rsvp) event from a dropdown, it loads all participants and off you go! #ATmosphereConf

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  • Bluesky Post 6d ago

    10km in the air. In order to get in-flight wifi, KLM wants me to confirm my account through a pin that they send to... ...check notes... ...my e-mail that I can't reach because I don't have wifi/5g? Right... 😅

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  • Bluesky Post 2d ago

    So cool, this now makes it a full Arc browser replacement for me (I had already switched back to Firefox over a year ago when Arc was abandoned), this was definitely some of the main things I missed! 🧡

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  • Bluesky Post 4d ago

    @atstore.fyi how do I fill out a mandatory field that has no options...? 😅

    Categorization dropdown, a mandatory field without options
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  • Bluesky Post 6d ago

    Wheels up 🇫🇮 HEL 🛫 AMS 🇳🇱 Really enjoyed my first time in Helsinki/Finland!

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  • Bluesky Post 8h ago

    My board is turning green, what is happening? 🍃

    2048.social board with green avatars from aka.dad and brookie.blog
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  • Bluesky Post 6d ago

    amazing: 9 hours later and still no-one got it!

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