Flotilla is officially normie-friendly! I just released version 1.7.0 (and 1.7.1), which adds email/password login. This is a terrible UX, but it's also familiar, and doesn't require users to know anything about keys. It keeps key material safe by creating a FROST multisig quorum and spreading key shares across multiple independently run signer servers. So please! Share it with your non-cypherpunks and send them my way when things go wrong (or right, I won't argue). To sweeten the deal, we've also added voice rooms (thanks to @Matt Lorentz) powered by livekit for people making the exodus from Discord. Also included are UI fixes and performance improvements. Thanks to @Boka for some great suggestions, and to everyone else who reported bugs. Android image uploads should be working now, and Primal/Amber should be smoother as well. If you're interested in Flotilla or have bugs to report, please join the community at

Invite to Coracle Spaces on Flotilla

You are invited to join Coracle Spaces on Flotilla. Relay: meta.spaces.coracle.social. A space for users of Flotilla, Zooid, and Coracle hosting

I've also been slowly building out the knowledge base at

Flotilla Social

Experience a new way to connect with your community online. Join an existing community space or launch your very own branded platform tailored to y...

so take a look there for tips on deploying a zooid relay or using Flotilla.

Where did the stupid `void functionCall()` syntax come from? I've never seen it before but the LLMs love it. Nobody: LLMs: You know what I think typescript needs? MORE SYNTAX

I finally understand how it is that LLMs make you a 10x engineer; the multiplier describes you *before* adopting LLMs. Unrelated, I had to clean up my LLM's code this morning: 188 insertions(+), 415 deletions(-)

Farming isn't the production of food, it is the progressive discovery of what food to produce on your particular land, and how to do so while balancing ecological health and economic sustainability. View quoted note →

Most code we write is a mistake. Cutting ourselves off from understanding the code we write cuts us off from understanding our mistakes, which makes it impossible for us to improve. LLMs are not merely higher-level tools, because they are not themselves abstractions. Abstractions are refined over decades to hide the underlying complexity (and even then fail). Forget leaky abstractions, LLMs are pure leak, no pipe. View quoted note →

How much code survives 10 years of an application's development? How much of that development is a result of internalization of problems solved and articulation of new mental models? Is product development a direct result of the personal growth of the individual/community (team) working on the product? View quoted note →

Vibe coders claim that the mental model is disposable, what's important is the code you produce. But what if it were the opposite? That the code is disposable, what's important is the mental model you produce?