I haven't really been using my "personal blog" on micro.blog, so it's time to turn it off.

I already created a Leaflet personal blog that is effectively the equivalent -- personal blog posts only! And used the bmann.ca domain.

Boris Blog
Boris’ personal blog
https://blog.bmann.ca

I requested archives of MicroBlog and removed the custom domain...which used to be blog.bmannconsulting.com ...which now points here, to Leaflet!

My main website is still bmannconsulting.com. It's a static site generated by Jekyll, sourced from my Obsidian vault checked into git on desktop and Working Copy on iOS. Yes, I use git to sync my Obsidian.

What I want to get to is sense making, for myself, but also linking into others.

This is a pretty picture of interlinked local notes at https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/

This graph of my local notes might be pretty...or frustrating...or mystifying.

I've been messing around with how I want to work with my journals -- which are effectively microblog sized posts, but with wikilinks and rich text (which historically have all been cross posted to bsky anyway).

Link sharing on ATProto

I experimented a couple of months ago with different ways to store/share links on ATProto, which for me are ultimately at the core of what I'm doing - finding, thinking about, and sharing links.

Here's a "prototype" of what Cosmik Network's Semble bookmarking tool might look like when shared to bsky -- rich text link, description, comment, and permalink back to the Semble appview.

Cosmik Network - Tools for Collective Sensemaking "Cosmik builds tools that help you understand and organize research discussions across social media, powered by collective intelligence and semantic AI." Cosmik is so cool! I love it. I'm very excited for their new social bookmarking tool!

Jul 8, 2025, 10:16 PM
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Here's the auto-share post from grjte's Groundmist:

The permalink just goes to my library page, not an entry for the link itself.

And of course, the original ATProto social links, Frontpage:

The $100 Billion Disconnect: Why Canada’s Innovation Model Leaves Its Builders Behind, Jesse Rodgers
Discuss @bmannconsulting.com’s post on Frontpage.
https://frontpage.fyi/post/bmannconsulting.com/3lsxczng5qk2j

Trying link sharing and journal flows with Leaflet

Today, while reading some articles and messing with the Obsidian Web Clipper and trying to get it to work for my workflow, I tried to share a link / commentary / clip some things to my notes.

On my website:

Obsidian’s CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI
[[Decoder Podcast]] with [[Casey Newton]] interviewing [[Obsidian]] CEO [[Steph Ango]]. Steph posted a screenshot of this portion of the article on bsky, I’v…
https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/productivity-tools-need-community-more-than-ai/

On this Leaflet pub:

Obsidian’s CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI - Boris Mann Tech Blog
Stephan Go was interviewed by Casey Newton for the Verge’s Decoder Podcast.
https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsrmot7ec2c

And the same pub shared as a quote to Bluesky:

Leaflet is doing something really interesting with quotes.

They are linked to/from the original pub, and then they generate this screenshot for sharing as a bsky post.

atproto-browser screenshot https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/did:plc:2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxsrzyjclk23

It's "just" opengraph embeds, with the additional bonus that it's stored as a blob in your own PDS (atproto-browser).


So, uh, I guess I'm posting on Leaflet now.

I am writing more than ever in lot in a lot of different places (Discord, Discourse, Signal, HedgeDocs, WikiJS, Patchwork, Zulip, GDocs, and of course -- email!) to connect and communicate with many different people and groups.

Right this moment, this is an enjoyable Labour Day post that is procrasta-posting instead of a cohesive KGNotes write up (3 months ago!) or those PrivateDataWG notes from ATProto NYC.

See you in the ATmosphere!