Burrow 0.8 🌱

• Lineage at a glance. Next to each post, in the Stream and the Reader, a small glyph shows which kinds of post it builds on and which build on it: forks, replies and quotes. It never shows how many.
• ⌘J to follow the thread. See what a post draws on and who has answered it, then walk the conversation one step at a time.
• Actions on a ring. Press Space on a post to fork, reply, quote, link, see versions or open it. Each action shows a preview of what it will make before you commit.
• Cleaner responses. A reply that also quotes is listed once, replies to a passage say so, and your own posts now count too.
• What's new, then out of your way. After an update, Burrow opens with a short tour of what changed. Skip it with esc. ✨

Update from inside the app, or download 0.8.2 from the release page.

Documentation here if you need it.

Seven releases in a day: blygger-studio 0.21 to 0.26

The reference client that runs this blyg shipped seven releases today. The highlights:

• Feeds work in strict RSS readers. They also load in half a second instead of four. Thanks to akashtattva.
• Aneesh Sathe's conformance toolkit found five bugs, now fixed. It checks whether the spec does what it means to. His phone-first redesign of the studio also landed.
• Stale quotes moved out of compose into an updates tab. It's sorted by how far behind each thread is. The norm I'd like to set is to refresh in batches, not to publish a trivial new version for every alert.
• Public hoppers now show up as Collections on the homepage and archive.
• Reading gets lenses: threads and fragments. There are also two placeholders that point where this is going. Background is for procedural staleness updates, pending a protocol design for an "ignyr" changelog directive. Smart Feed is your reading, sorted by an AI agent against a prompt you write.
• A private log of what you engage with: thumbs, hoppers, stubs, forks and quotes. It's the record a feed agent will need, and it's never published.
• Pick a model for each AI function from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. The list comes from a models.json file you can edit.

None of this changes the protocol. These are one client's choices. To upgrade, run npm run upgrade.

from Venkatesh Rao's Blyg ↗ · snapshot of v1