11 Aug 2026 · Jacky Alciné's linklog
Ever since listening to the first episode of Revolution Social with rabble and Jack Dorsey , my opinions on Dorsey have slightly changed. I didn't understand - not fully - why he allowed the sale of Twitter to Elon, but that episode talks more about it (tl;dr: capitalism wins over logic every time). That capital has been one he's been sitting on but as of late, he's been funding a lot of projects that are anti-cenorship, something I'm adamant about, which is different from moderation, something …
7 Aug 2026 · Jacky Alciné's weeknotes
I'm publishing this on the 8th but it's meant to be for the 7th. I was preoccupied with a impromptu move to New York City — eating up all of my attention as well as the passing of my dog, Stella. She passed quietly, lived for 15 years, of which half I've grown to know and love her. I'm working on a small memoriam site for her — so many folks have reached out about her and I wanted to give y'all something, she always to give folks things.
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
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,…
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…
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…