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Our new, rebranded website is live. 🚀

🤓: and, look at that -- it's federated blackskyweb.xyz/.well-known/...
Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.
blackskyweb.xyz
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's almost like robust moderation tools are a net positive for the user experience!
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
@rude1.blacksky.team the new blacksky website is incredible, I'm so jealous. Well done. blackskyweb.xyz
Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.
blackskyweb.xyz
October 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
dotnetconf is this week! www.dotnetconf.net Block your calendars!

#dotnet
.NET Conf 2024
Join the .NET Conf 2024 free virtual event November 12-14 2024 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!
www.dotnetconf.net
November 10, 2024 at 7:42 PM
A lot of things are breaking right now, but possibly most alarming is the straining to breaking of this otherwise invisible net of social trust that is as necessary as the road, power lines, and water pipes. Indeed, it is the implied social contract infrastructure of all of those tools.
April 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
i personally think widely distributing nuclear-powered abuse and harassment tools is a net-negative, no matter how much faster it lets programmers write their CSS
“Research shows the distribution of deepfake nonconsensual intimate imagery can lead to loss of privacy, psychological distress and reputational harm – and these symptoms can be experienced multiple times by an individual victim if that content is spread repeatedly.”
Two boys made deepfake porn of 60 girls. It left a school, small town reeling
A small Pennsylvania town was rocked by an AI deepfake porn scandal. As these platforms evolve, school policies, legal recourse and awareness lag far behind.
www.yahoo.com
March 23, 2026 at 3:14 PM
one of the reasons cited for the cow-tool cow being able to invent a cow tool is that she has leisure time, a safety net and a long lifespan www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/s...
Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 PM
you can tax the guy who makes the tools but then if the tools become widespread enough you've just made everything more expensive. the boring answer of higher taxation over a broad tax base that is redistributed through a robust social safety net is still better than any ONE WEIRD TRICK
March 23, 2026 at 6:54 PM
if LLMs disappeared tomorrow it would probably be a net good for society, but they aren't going to, so I'm not going to pretend they aren't occasionally very useful tools.
March 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I’m trying to understand something:

The are people who want to develop for Linux with .NET but only want to use Microsoft provided tools, libraries and frameworks

Community built tools, libraries, and frameworks are unacceptable to these folks

Where do you think that operating system came from?
January 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Join us LIVE at #dotNetConf as we launch .NET 10 and VS2026! We are live with demos and details for the next three days! www.dotnetconf.net
.NET Conf 2025
Join the .NET Conf 2025 free virtual event November 11-13 2025 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!
www.dotnetconf.net
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Probably thebest practice I've found to be efficient in developing with GenAI tools:

Unit tests, unit tests, unit tests! (or other automated tests)

With this "security net" I am confident to run fast with these tools (incl agentic mode)

We should talk more about tests + GenAI... so important
April 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There's essentially net zero labor savings. We created a psychosis machine that tricks people into thinking its useful.

In fact, it's even worse than that - every significant study shows that relying on AI tools significantly degrades your cognitive functions!
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
My 15 sure did! As it turns out, affirming & supporting queer autistic trans kids by giving them the tools they need is a net plus for both the kid, the parents, and society as a whole!
June 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You know, I'm a prison abolitionist - I think if we throw a couple people with net worths of 8, 9, 10 digits in there, it'll only help our cause

(Literally, we keep prisons around the way we do, precisely because the are tools of class war and white supremacy)
September 29, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Blogged: Using and authoring .NET tools

andrewlock.net/using-and-au...

In this post I describe some of the complexities around authoring .NET tools, specifically around supporting multiple .NET runtimes and testing in CI

#dotnet
Using and authoring .NET tools
In this post I describe some of the complexities around authoring .NET tools, specifically around supporting multiple .NET runtimes and testing in CI
andrewlock.net
September 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It didn’t stop.
September 4, 2026 at 1:56 AM
November 5, 2024 at 3:49 AM
making cute little tools for @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net debugging
October 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If you use e621 and want to mass download based on tags, there is a tool for that. Did you know e6 has a tools page?

Downloader forum page - e621.net/forum_topics...

Github - github.com/e621-ReBot/e...

Other e621 tools - e621.net/wiki_pages/e...
May 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
[PS5] LibProsperoPKG the new .NET library to create PS5 PKGs without external tools
Developer SvenGDK has just released LibProsperoPKG, a new .NET library dedicated to creating and playing PS5...
- generation of the PFS file system
- AES-XTS encryption
- creation of the CNT container
Read more
June 28, 2026 at 9:09 PM