c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷
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next year we will spread our hands toward the radiant light. / she/they / 21↑ / menacing anime girl / writing + game design + ttrpgs + computers + catposting + birdposting / local gay agenda promoter. / @veryroundbird on twitter / veryroundbird.house
c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 commented on nov. 29 -> dec. 03, 2025
oh the writingmonth style is cute... i love it immediatelyc. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 replied on i have many projects and i must scream
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SO MUCH COOL STUFF HERE!!!! you're on fire, carly!!!!
first off: ty for the spindle service i am def interested in that 👀 homemade jam looks very fun too, and super versatile with all the SSG options!!!
i am *very* excited about the smallbird.social project. best of luck with it, i am cheering you on!!! i'm fully on board with any idea along the lines of "making web hosting easier for people who know how to drag and drop files via FTP a la PHP or CGI" and so this project has been very exciting to follow. i wish i was better at PHP so that i could contribute, i've been thinking about it!
a managed hosting service for friends is something i've wanted to do for a *long* time. i was also looking at hestia & other panels but came to the same conclusion as you. it's hard! i'm in the same boat of just hosting HTML files and/or simple PHP projects (that i can dockerize for the false sense of security. and also because i hate doing things bare metal) on a server :P
I just think back fondly to the days when you'd get some random friend with a domain name to spot you a subdomain and some space on their shared hosting. the true spirit of community!!!
it's been a really interesting brainteaser to work out exactly how to get all the data i want for smallbird social and what i've learned from that about how atproto actually works at this juncture. which like damn i love an engineering puzzle so that's probably why it's consumed me but i'm glad other people think it's a worthwhile endeavor! i just know whenever i say "ok just open the command line" to most of my friends they get very scared,c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 replied on i have many projects and i must scream
professional clown
sorry also laughing at "codezoomies" and feature: ugly urls
PFFT. yes very technical term
but yeah atproto is just... really fun system to hack on? it's nice to not have to operate your own database for most uses and also have a lot of data portability. my third eye has openedc. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 commented on Building OAuth Authentication for ATProto apps: Part 1, the web use-case
I just wanted to say this is being a HUGE help so far. most of the packages for PHP are underdeveloped, so I'm rolling my own bsky auth for it (...for rolling my own appview) and boy is there a lack of walkthroughs out there that don't operate with the assumption that you have a client library that just works! I'm still trying to get the PAR request to work but this is way farther than I was yesterday.
c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 commented on 2025-09-03 link dump
> open up my RSS reader
> immediately get taken the fuck out by the first link in herec. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 commented on Towards Leaflet for Artists
thinking more about stuff... it'd probably be really nice to have the option to put additional pages on a publication so you could have stuff like an about page
as far as implementing more robust canvas features, honestly what's there right now (being able to put text or images wherever) is really good. maybe adding some basic shapes?
being able to put grids or tables in posts would also be neat but that seems like it'd probably be logistically annoying, ahahaLoading more comments...