Tag: Bear Community
We said we'd fix it. Here's where we are.
A progress report on our own infrastructure, and a look at how ATProto actually works.
When Bluesky goes down, we go down. That needs to change.
What happened this week, why it affected Chunky Guys, and what we're building so it doesn't happen again.
The Chunky Guys cap: a brief history
How a small run of baseball caps became a minor legend, and why we're finally opening a shop.
Building in the open
What you've told us, what we're building, and a word about bugs.
"But it's just Bluesky..."
We hear you. Here's what we've done about it, and what's coming next.
Boops: the story so far...
A small feature with a surprisingly complicated launch.
How an Instagram page became an app
A decade of building community, the principles that shaped it, and the platform that grew from it.
The Bear Code | Queer History
So I have gotten asked quite a few times what the string of characters labeled “bear code” is up on my mastodon profile. This was an old, old bit of gay internet arcarna from before sending a photo through the internet was terribly time consuming and costly thing. Painstakingly waiting for a single jpg to download line-by-line over copper telephone lines. The code was a shorthand way for people to describe themselves without images in small internet servers and chatrooms. The code’s creation is attributed to Bob Donahue (Bear code: B5 c+ f s-: w t- r k?) and Jeff […]