Nick Oates

Most attempts to make the web harder to scrape will also make it less accessible. Hard to prevent static analysis without also breaking screen readers

I'm 17 today 🎉

the past year has been really fun, can't wait for the future!

It'd be cool if custom domain handles on Bluesky were clickable links

I genuinely think I'd pay like $5/mo for Apple Maps on Android.

tbh I'm concerned about the long-term viability of bluesky. running a platform at this scale just doesn't seem sustainable without ads.

my favorite part about windows is how "update and restart" and "update and shut down" both, in fact, restart your computer

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #18,776, Nick Oates ‪@nickoates.com‬, joined on Apr 12, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #18,776!

bluesky is so much better now wow

I really like the butterfly logo they decided on, it looks great and is decently recognizable!

Bluesky's app has a really annoying bug where, when swiping between feeds, it will sometimes open the post that you swiped on.

Twitter continuously comes up with new ways for me to want to use Twitter less.

I invited like 6 people to Bluesky and then proceeded to never use it 🙃

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soooo what ever happened to federation on Bluesky?

nvm a bird is now available as a logo

The Home+ feed is awesome. Easily my favorite way to view Bluesky at the moment.

don't have to pay API fees if you don't use the API ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

doesn't feel unique enough imo. there's like a million cloud storage apps with that exact icon.

Bluesky needs a logo. Using a gradient or just an image of a blue sky doesn't really work in a lot of cases.

Not sure what it should be though. A bird is the obvious choice, but it's also obviously taken.

definitely is more "unfinished because we haven't had the time to add that yet" rather than "missing because of conflicts with our protocol design/business model"

feels like early Twitter in a lot of ways.

blocking is not enough. I need a feature for deleting someone else’s account

by far the best feature on my website is the random cat photos on the 404 page.

https://nickoates.com/404

being able to use my domain as my handle is cool, and it also doubles as verification. awesome feature!