Bryan Watts's Avatar

Bryan Watts

@outermind.bsky.social

Software author on a lifelong quest to reimagine the systems we’ve inherited. He/him. Safe person. Local-first software/event sourcing/hypermedia nerd.

43 Followers  |  120 Following  |  14 Posts  |  Joined: 27.11.2024  |  1.4786

Latest posts by outermind.bsky.social on Bluesky

Only two industries call their customers "users"

03.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can’t spell “cowardice” without ICE

26.01.2026 02:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The opposite of brainrot is brainwrought

16.01.2026 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who called it a dark photon and not a photoff?

14.01.2026 04:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Clearly staying on X is more valuable when your account is being suppressed

10.01.2026 18:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wait this isn't satire? Why would you pay X anything? Do you not realize your attention is a currency?

10.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Telling a developer there’s an app for that is like telling a musician there’s already a song about love

24.12.2025 23:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the browser is underrated
web development is taken for granted
it really is such a powerful engine for applications that anyone can use anywhere, with and without internet

15.12.2025 03:39 — 👍 98    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1

Politics is subject to Conway's Law: change communication structures and you will change systems. The way forward is to give up the idea of globally-scoped software mediated by centralized power structures.

09.12.2025 14:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The appetite for local-first software is growing

04.12.2025 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Overall the presentation went well. The second half was a bit rushed and highlighted how important dry runs are in establishing pacing.

Dream is my worldview as a pattern and I will be refining this talk as a way to convey it.

Timestamped:

www.youtube.com/live/fVuXngr...

01.12.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

2️⃣ Bryan Watts @outermind.bsky.social is a solution Architect, and will talk to us about Composable Systems. Software engineering is often an art, and I'm looking forward to Bryan's talk on this.

24.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Come learn about Dream, an architectural pattern I've developed for organizing software around our innate grasp of stories

24.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Post image

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/32 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PST (November 24, 2025) for yet another exciting lineup.
1️⃣ Paolo Scanferla @pscanf.com - creator of Superego
2️⃣ Bryan Watts @outermind.bsky.social – Solution architect
3️⃣ Yurko Turskiy @yurko.me – Engineer at Capsule

👉🏽 LoFi.so

24.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

🚀

27.05.2025 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Too much incredulity, not enough curiosity

19.04.2025 02:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dark matter and energy are clearly the universe's OS partition

12.02.2025 16:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@outermind is following 19 prominent accounts