Introducing Bluesky Protocol Services

A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK

We have killed the technical debt

Big day for docs 🙂🙂

We Needn't Have a One True Platform

On Bluesky, user numbers, and the silliness of endless growth.

Having hobbies outside of work helps fill my creative well

Also a handy of way of clearing my head when I'm work-stressed

The Internet was never real

It's always been a curated version of the human experience, something designed to sell a certain vision or impression, for one's own benefit.

Introducing atpm.dev

Package management for the decentralized web built on the AT Protocol.

sauberer wedding, doo!

Summer Evening around Suimon Bay, Okayama, Japan

A series of photos taken on a hot summer evening around Suimon Bay east of Okayama City, Japan, including a visit to an Inari Shrine and an ocean viewpoint.

Introducing the Micro.blog PDS

Ulysses: Lines 1-11

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea:

Thoughts of a Normie in the ATmosphere

Or, Fear and Self-Loathing on Bluesky

Introducing chalky.town

a chalky task planner for the atmosphere!

Inside Oya History Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan

Ōya History Museum (大谷資料館) is a museum and event space built inside a massive former stone quarry in northwestern Utsunomiya, Japan.

While waiting for a Wetlands Wildlife Safari tour on the Osprey at Spicers Creek (Cape May, New Jersey), our captain pointed out a rare south-eastern USA vagrant perched on a nearby roof: a Wood Stork! Local birders have nicknamed this juvenile "Woody Guthrie." #Birds #CapeMay #RareBirdAlert [caption id="attachment_247033" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) at...

August 12: Cultural Knowledge

We can't know what we can't know

"Neuromancer" by William Gibson

Discovered by @bigbeardedbookseller.com

Stranger Things : une analyse personnelle (1/3)

Chapitre 1 : Une série sous influence(s)

Two chipmunks

Singapore National Flower: Vanda Miss Joaquim

Run BTS Rewatch Episode 8: The Boys in 15 minutes

보물찾기, Treasure Hunt

《Undercover High School》: What's in Haeseong's name?

A dive on the artistic naming of the lead male character in 《Undercover High School》.

ATProto: Engine of Software 2.0

Accelerating the Security Development Lifecycle

Artist app diary (2): how to stay sustainable with community building and financial funding

In the second episode of this artist app diary, I get more concrete about the artist community I want to build for, what I consider the first steps and responsibilities and roles in the community for the app to stay sustainable.

Arbiter Progress Report 3

The first arbiter prototype is live!

How I got a rare GitHub t-shirt

and why they're getting harder to find

LEACH / CAMEL

When Does a Specification Become a Program?

A spec can contain prose, tests, schemas, formal models, even executable code. The useful boundary is not the syntax but, rather, what survives: if you throw the implementation away, what has to remain so you can build the next one?

Flea Market at Osu Kannon, Nagoya, Japan

Twice a month, a flea market is held at Ōsu Kannon, a Buddhist temple in Nagoya, Japan. The terrace outside the main hall provides a great overview.

Collecting the intangible

The State Library of NSW has an interesting event coming up on Sept 1st about how libraries are handling the problem of archiving digital records. I wondered about this myself. In the past famous people would leave “their papers” to historians and archivists, but very few of us have papers anymore. What would I leave […]

google’s gunst

viele webseiten klagen darüber, dass google keine besucher mehr schickt. ich kann nicht klagen.

Where's the "me time"?

The elusive moment

Graphics and Patterns, Taito, Tokyo, Japan

Interesting patterns and textures spotted at this street corner on a walk through the Taito ward of Tokyo, Japan.

poem: living spaces

it’s so full out there, nowhere to breathe among the benches. float a vessel and flip and drain it; say it’s keratinous, it’s porous, it’s neither-here-nor-there, it’s okay, and swell up, airborne.

On making Meme Museum

Last weekend I was just scrolling and had an idle thought. A couple of times I started posts to say something like “I bet somebody could do something with this” but both disappeared mid-draft.* After the second one, I thought maybe I should just do it myself.

"As We Fall Through Time" by Claire North

Discovered by Peter Musser aka @petermusser.com

Monsoon Rising (224/365)