31 Jul 2026 · Jacky Alciné's weeknotes
It's weeknotes : link dump style! I'm coming back to this style of posting what I've read, done and worked on instead of daily spamming on my microblogging accounts. Enjoy! What I've Been Up to I've been really heads down focusing on Livtet — I've made a decision to open source it so I have to rewrite a lot of the code and its setup to support it being open source while keeping some parts of the ecosystem I have for it closed. I'll write more about it next week. Links I've been reading a lot o…
31 Jul 2026 · Jacky Alciné's linklog
Erin Kissane is launching "Cloud Atlas" — an interview-based guide to the apps and projects emerging on the AT Protocol/Atmosphere, intended to make decentralized social media infrastructure more legible to people interested in alternatives to centralized platforms. This is something I haven't seen done from the outside — developers of these apps and services tend to be their own marketing departments and PR teams but this isn't (solely) that . The human texture and qualitative specificity o…
31 Jul 2026 · Jacky Alciné's linklog
According to this piece, reading rates in America have collapsed - fewer than half of adults read a book in 2022 (which - eh - I feel like this is hard to assess), daily pleasure reading fell from 28% to 16% (which is both real and wild; if reading is dead then folks are going to be just told what to think) across (and this hurts me to repeat) every age, gender, and education level , even as total words consumed explode via texts, posts, and feeds. Reading built and freed the modern mind (logic,…
23 Jul 2026 · Jacky Alciné's essays
Things are always greener and simpler as they seem from the other side. I'm working on my own project that I decided to get way more serious — namely around Livtet , now a part of my software lab and a lot of things that I used to chide a lot of folks about. From running companies to handling software, I am learning — in my big age of 33, that a lot of shit is more complicated than it seems and hiding this complexity is 80% of the job. The rest 20% is making sure the intended work and object…
7 Jul 2026 · Jacky Alciné's essays
Last year, while I was marooned in France, I wrote a bit of a reflection on my stance of using generative AI to write software . I don't pretend - in this moment - like it's a bit of a double edged sword: I don't pay for things like Antrophic or OpenAI, given their explicit involvement in being used for violence. However, there's nothing stopping the eventual transition of large government agencies to newer open models built from the ground up from the millions of documents used for public polic…
17 Jun 2026 · Jacky Alciné's linklog
Patrick Iber opened up this issue in an almost prophetic way with the editor's opening : The semiquincentennial celebrations planned by the White House will not be a demonstration of unity. They will celebrate the domination of one part of the country over the other. Donald Trump’s 250th will be a carnival, complete with a barker-in-chief, attempting to sell the idea that the United States is winning like never before. Outside of MAGA-land, there will not be so much celebrating. It is hard to …
16 Jun 2026 · Jacky Alciné's linklog
I enjoyed every moment of I Love Boosters . From Lakeith Stanfield's attempt to woo our lead character to the literal heightening of contradiction that led to a global workers' revolt — this is the kind of media that makes plain the difficulty of the people who are ignored and belabored for the comfort of the upper class. It focused on the production of fast fashion , the industry that's the underacknowledged child of the industralization of attire and the elitism of what it means to be "in st…
12 Jun 2026 · Jacky Alciné's essays
A point that might be one of grievance of a lost space never truly owned by Black people but still run by it tends to pop up on my "Following" feed on Bluesky once a month. I don't see such conversations on places like Threads — it's really an insular space of "you see what the algorithm determines worthy of attention". It comes from a variation of folks but routinely from folks who seem to long for a space that no longer exists. Yes - Twitter, now X - the company still exists, but there's a h…