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File formats let different apps work together without knowing about each other.

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Then Dan goes on to describe how the files paradigm could apply to social apps like Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, GitHub, and TikTok.

But this is no hypothetical.

It's literally how the at protocol works, which Dan calls a social file system.

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I've previously written about the at protocol in OpenSocial looking at its model from a web-centric perspective, but I think that looking at it from the file system perspective is just as intriguing, so I invite you to take a tour of how it works.

A personal file system starts with a file.

What does a social file system start with?

RepoBar puts GitHub at a glance from your menu bar.

RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view without opening the browser.

Pin the repos you care about and get a clear, glanceable dashboard of CI, releases, traffic, and activity right from the macOS menu bar.

RepoBar works with GitHub Enterprise, but it doesn't work with Linux or Windows.

No big deal.

Fire up an agent and you could have this idea ported to your OS of choice in a few hours, tops.

Or have it fork and add multi-platform support.

It's now time for sponsor news.

Your agent's dependency choices are a liability.

Coding agents are good, but they don't know when a dependency is compromised.

That's a liability teams want to avoid, but how?