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this is fun!

06.03.2026 02:22 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Slay the Spire 2 is out which means I will no longer be reachable by any means for 3-4 years. Goodbye

05.03.2026 20:33 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

mind dropping a link? post was deleted. I need to peer in to the void

05.03.2026 19:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

it is indeed currently ass

05.03.2026 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

we're rebuilding it and will have a new version out in a few weeks

05.03.2026 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am posting

05.03.2026 19:07 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

please enjoy my review of The Nvidia Way

05.03.2026 14:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"I am going to suck Jensen bone fucking dry" - Tae Kim

05.03.2026 14:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I always lay down in a comfy sofa before firing up claude

05.03.2026 14:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chess #oilpainting #art

05.03.2026 07:32 👍 2948 🔁 327 💬 43 📌 4

Hey devs! Heads up, we're planning on making some changes to our image CDN tomorrow.

- Images will be served as WebP by default
- The URL format you get from the Bluesky API will change a little

You can look forward to an announcement about image quality soon 👀

04.03.2026 18:32 👍 291 🔁 42 💬 28 📌 27

Good question, we take real time backups of all these systems so if a server totally dies, we can just restore the data to a different one. We’ve had to do this a few times

04.03.2026 12:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

tmux session in a tmux session in multiple terminal tabs in a tiling window manager

03.03.2026 21:08 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

FYI a couple PDSes are down (morel, oyster). Investigating

03.03.2026 20:42 👍 49 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

Hiya! The link on this page to a blog entry at roe.dev seems to be 404'ing FYI

roe.dev/blog/a-virtu...

03.03.2026 12:47 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

yay!

03.03.2026 00:56 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Woah, that’s incredible news! Congrats team!!

02.03.2026 10:47 👍 31 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! I’ve also been thinking about easy, very fast relay of repos, collections, and the entire network. Feels like we all need better tools for crazy fast replay

02.03.2026 00:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Prod PLC is roughly 150gb in Postgres as of today. Pretty chill db, doesn’t take much in the way of resources tbh, given its criticality

02.03.2026 00:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

nice. small thing, I noticed this has slurped up old standard.site records I published, and now links to my blog are 404'ing

the old records had .html in their link, which was a mistake. Several weeks ago, I deleted and re-published them

pub-search.waow.tech?q=calabro

pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

01.03.2026 23:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm thinking back to the early days before all their modern slop. I think the core loop of "send disappearing pictures to a closed group of friends" got old fast. It's cumbersome

So I think they were cooked very early on tbh, regardless of the route they chose for monetization

01.03.2026 18:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You might be right at some deeper level than I'm considering tho. After the core hook of Snapchat got old like 10 years ago, the good content (pics from friends) went away, and the only stuff that was left was total trash

01.03.2026 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t want to start anything, but I’m not sure it’s ads that are the problem with Snapchat specifically

Feels more like a content problem plus lack of innovation (their best features got slurped up by other major socials long ago)

Put another way, if Snapchat had no ads, it would still be dogshit

01.03.2026 17:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I find snapchat TEXTING me via sms that I have unread notifications an unforgivable crime

01.03.2026 16:49 👍 66 🔁 5 💬 8 📌 0
Preview
Allocating on the Stack - The Go Programming Language A description of some of the recent changes to do allocations on the stack instead of the heap.

this rules! go.dev/blog/allocat...

01.03.2026 01:33 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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/plugin marketplace add tangled.org/zzstoatzz.io...

/plugin install protopack

build <cool atproto app>

28.02.2026 23:57 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Mid-30s millennials be like “I’m having a shower tea”

28.02.2026 13:47 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

yuuuuck

27.02.2026 22:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm building on atproto because I think that a single social network has essentially no shot of dethroning the current tech monopolies. But an open ecosystem of interoperating apps is so infinitely more interesting than legacy social that it seems almost inevitable it will win

27.02.2026 19:43 👍 221 🔁 35 💬 4 📌 3

no way this was only 13 years ago, it's filmed like it was 1999

27.02.2026 01:52 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0