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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 4d ago

    "Pick us, because we're built in the EU!" 🇪🇺 Then: 🚩 still the same bad BigTech practices 🚩 centralized, walled-garden structures 🚩 "invite only" silicon valley growth tricks, not a real limit 🚩 some make you send in your ID or passport first (RUN!) 🚩 if they go down, your data still goes with them

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  • Bluesky Post 4d ago

    Very happy that this first stage of getting worldwide official company data on atproto is now completed. This unlocks next stages like company pages, employee verification, an atproto company labeller...

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  • Bluesky Post 2d ago

    OMG so this means there is an ALGORITHM determining the visibility of feeds? BSKY USERS REVOLT! /s

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  • Bluesky Post 21h ago

    Sorry, too busy shipping features to discuss trademarks

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  • Bluesky Post 2d ago

    @flo-bit.dev hey, would you be interested discussing adding some Sifa sources to @blento.app ? Think it would be neat and useful if people can build/show their CV on blento pages, drag/drop the sections they want, or maybe a simple card that shows their current employer, current work status etc.

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  • Bluesky Post 1h ago

    kudos to the @npmx.dev team to continuously create new fun homepage images/animations

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  • Bluesky Post 2d ago

    Oeh: @mozilla.org launched their State of Open Source AI report: stateofopensource.ai

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  • Bluesky Post 5d ago

    Would the real patak please stand up?

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  • Bluesky Post 3d ago

    shit I waited too long and now the umans.ai founder plans are no longer available 🤦

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  • Bluesky Post 6d ago

    Help, my @bookhive.buzz "Want to Read" list is way too long... Which books should I tackle first? Or do you maybe even have better suggestions for the next pick...? gui.do/bookshelf/#w...

    Bookshelf
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  • Bluesky Post 6d ago

    oh boy...

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  • Bluesky Post 1d ago

    If you are a "non-profit founder" (e.g. @cjkarr.bsky.social)... Does that mean you've founded a non-profit company... ... or that the company you have founded didn't manage to turn a profit (yet). 🤔 If it's the latter I should maybe put "non-profit founder" on by business card as well? 😅

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