📢The project is now officially archived. Thank you everybody for your years of support and generosity; it meant the world to me. I hope we continue the mission with .
Post-mortem here:
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"We have to basically destroy the internet" - Peter Wang
discusses why Bluesky is the future on the Alfie Whattam Podcast
Shoutout to for my beta invite 🦋
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I'm calling it now. Based on SAP*, BlueSky is going to win as the biggest alternative public square.
i.e. bc it's the one I joined
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Substack writers: If you’d like to try Bluesky, here’s a form to get early access.
We’re still working our way through the signup list for our private beta, but would like to give faster access to writers at this time!
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There's a meetup happening in Tokyo! will be there and I plan to join via zoom (at 5am my time 😴)
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Your attention is an invaluable resource. We’ve been working on creating a composable, customizable marketplace of algorithms that lets you take control of how you spend your attention.
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Great meeting with and talking about open platforms, and the future of Bluesky's developer experience💙
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Bluesky AT protocol has a very clever way to specify custom domain @handles using DNS text records bmann.ca/bluesky-and-do
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You can use domain names as handles in Bluesky!
Here’s why we’ve designed the AT protocol to let you join a social network with a domain name as your handle.
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Time for a tweet thread on the blog post I published yesterday. 🧵
Our main work at so far has been on the . We built an app to make sure our protocol design supports a good user experience.
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Chat-GPT can't do math but we can, and the numbers add up on how impressive the 100s of applicants are for the GAI challenge.
Here is a thread on what we saw.
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We’re looking for a web developer that deeply cares about user experience. If you want to work with us, now is the time!
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Won't screenshot the whole thing, but wanted to callout the special thanks section in particular:
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Hey friends, please add your email to my substack if you’d like you stay in touch! I won’t email you often, this is just a way to stay connected.
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My talk from dweb camp about schemas is now available online
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This you?
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Are you a DevOps engineer? Have you maintained large-scale software deployments? Do you love infrastructure-as-code, observability, and security? Let’s talk!
blueskyweb.xyz/join/devops-en
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I tested desktop alpha version (peer-to-peer video & text chat, filesharing, built-in Lightning payments app) between the US and Egypt and it was the smoothest and highest-resolution video call I've ever done at that distance.
Clear and fast.
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the trial period for this software has ended. the tribulation period will now begin
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"I was born in 1994"
- boring
- heard it before
- tells you nothing
"I was born in the year of Cotton Eye Joe"
- arouses curiosity
- who was Cotton Eye Joe
- where did he come from?
- where did he go?
- Cotton Eye Joe
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U.S. men's facial hair styles in college yearbooks from 1898-2008
reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti
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Do you think anyone fired from Twitter is decamping to their picturesque home town where their parents are about to put them in charge of a local Christmas project, and their only assistant? a handsome carpenter (who's single)
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Kansas: Everything is dust in the wind
Me: [points at a cat] what about that
Kansas: Everything is dust and cats in the wind
Me: [points] but
Kansas: Okay jesus, dust cats and that McDonalds
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Remarkably, utility barriers that lead to punctuated equilibria are an intrinsic feature of cultural evolution. Stasis does not reflect system-specific constraints, rapid change is not the result of geniuses taking “big leaps”. #PunctuatedEquilibria
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People say Twitter-as-news has made us stupider, but deducing what actually happened from the jokes is a SKILL. You try and make sense of the Bay of Pigs Invasion from two hundred accounts tweeting, 'It's me, I'm the pigs.'
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There’s actually a term for this. It’s called “second screen” content. Not kidding
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My favorite Netflix genre is "stuff-to-watch-while-I'm-looking-at-my-phone".
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GPT-3 has basically replaced Google for me for searching through humanity's collective memory. Example below. The Google result is reminiscent of AltaVista from c.a. 1998.
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Oh. …oh no
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Most APIs on the web that take an object, immediately access all the keys they're interested in, then discard the object.
One weird exception is addEventListener:
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