Week 12: I Blogged Through the Valley on a Horse with No Name

Did you know that often, journalists aren't able to choose the titles of their own stories, and it's up to the discretion of their editors? Horrible, right? Can you imagine not being able to give your blogs their own titles, no matter how silly? Me neither.

Anyway! I'm getting back on the horse! I very dutifully took time off from blogging for Week 10 (Christmas) and Week 11 (New Year's) to prove that Americans can, in fact, do that over the holidays! And I'm very pleased to say that our incredible developer community was no help whatsoever with this, since you all kept producing such cool projects the whole time 🙂

Among those:

Nick G's new lexicon.garden

A bunch of great innovations in community clients, like tokimeki.blue 's self-deleting posts, anisota 's post editing functionality, and the Korean midnightsky app

Our own Paul F's embedding leaflets in his personal blog

The standard.site working group

and lots of firsthand testimony of syncing with tap

I'm starting to stare down a fun and familiar Devrel schedule gauntlet for 2026 — I already mentioned heading to FOSDEM at the end of this month to speak in their Decentralised Communication dev room, and in March I'll be speaking at https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp a bit closer to home. They're doing video promos for their talks this year, so I had an excuse to get the green screen out earlier this week (back on the horse!) and cut a nice little preview of our new docs:

More to follow there when they're ready to publish it. And speaking of ready to publish... I added code tabs to those same new docs this week...

This is pretty thrilling stuff!! All the more so because our new TypeScript SDK now has a much more modern approach to user-facing Lexicon code generation than our Go SDK does (yet). This presents a fun problem for me as a docs writer, because there are instances where they aren't quite 1:1 conceptually, and figuring out how to still present them side by side for various tasks is tricky, interesting work.

Speaking of that new lex TS SDK, I also took it upon myself to start rewriting our Feed Generator example app using lex and tap . The current draft lives on tangled and is about 250 loc in a single file right now; it's been a nice friction-finding exercise in how to use the new SDK, and, along with our sneak preview rewrite of Statusphere , should be the last of our "big" sample apps to get modernized for this new release.

Hm, what else can I show off... new Ozone tutorial? Don't mind if I do!

As for when this is all officially going out the door — I'm aiming for before FOSDEM, otherwise my slidedeck is going to have a lot of links that aren't live yet! So please look forward to it. And don't forget to sign up for the Atmosphere conference in the meantime!