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Shoegaze coder and !!! superfan. Skating, making (@agent.io), listening to KEXP, and happy to be with my many intelligent and thoughtful friends who are now on Bluesky. He/him and ๐Ÿ“ก timburks.99

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Psychology says people who educated themselves through curiosity instead of classrooms don't just learn differently. They develop a tolerance for not knowing that formally educated people often lose, ... The people who taught themselves what they know didn't just pick up different facts โ€” they picked up an entirely different relationship with the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing, and that relation...

tired: autodidactic
wired: epistemically autonomous

geediting.com/j-a-p-psycho...

07.03.2026 01:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"O victory forget your underwear"

06.03.2026 20:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You're no Alt-Man!

06.03.2026 17:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Wisp - Pandora (Official Music Video)
Wisp - Pandora (Official Music Video) YouTube video by WispVEVO

"she is a blend of shoegaze and nu gaze... intense sadness..." youtu.be/foTFjWd21e0?...

06.03.2026 16:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Shows

Another Friday, another morning replay of Diana Ratsamee's Eastern Echoes www.kexp.org/shows/easter...

06.03.2026 16:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Two ways to pass the Turing test, one infinitely easier than the other

06.03.2026 16:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's mal-rkey

05.03.2026 19:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mambo No. 5 with names of the guests

04.03.2026 00:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I appreciate what you're saying but would never underestimate venture capital's ability to mess up an ecosystem

03.03.2026 04:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah thanks! If the problem is fan-out, I wonder if this might be imposing complexity (or just change) on downstream consumers to solve a problem that is only experienced upstream at the firehose source, which could also use replication or existing tools like NATS to get scale.

03.03.2026 03:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - agentio/slink: A tool for calling XRPC APIs, automatically generated from Lexicon. A tool for calling XRPC APIs, automatically generated from Lexicon. - agentio/slink

Also having built a Lexicon code generator (github.com/agentio/slink), I can imagine a Lexicon-to-Protobuf mapping and a PDS that speaks gRPC

03.03.2026 02:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos would easily map to gRPC, and I think there's a lot of effort to get that on QUIC

03.03.2026 02:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The End of the End of History
The End of the End of History YouTube video by Ikรคvรค Pii - Topic

This is how the inside of my head sounds when I'm working - from Apparat's Midnight in a Perfect World show on #kexp

youtu.be/guHELnOzBlQ?...

02.03.2026 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
in between dreams
in between dreams YouTube video by Iris Kymm - Topic

I looked this up after hearing Iris Kymm on the KEXP Eastern Echoes show last week and... you might want to sit down before listening. youtu.be/9a1QcmpKGP8?...

02.03.2026 00:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Marc Polymeropoulos droning on MSNOW

Marc Polymeropoulos droning on MSNOW

This MF says we should celebrate the fact that US and Israeli intelligence orgs were able to murder so many Iranian leaders yesterday #msnow

28.02.2026 20:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If there's any common agreement around that, we still have to decide how we participate in those shared private areas, and I wouldn't want to do that from my public repo. But then, I'm assuming that repos are cheap and that I can easily have one that is dedicated to a shared space.

27.02.2026 21:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thanks yeah, to me this "bucket" definition seems more like a Mastodon instance or META in that it's a custodian of shared trust. I wouldn't say that it's like a repo in any way other than having an identity and an API.

27.02.2026 21:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One thing that I would like to explore is making the repo the unit of privacy. If I operate a PDS, I can have as many repos as I want and can use caller identity to decide who sees what.

27.02.2026 20:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"In order to swing, you have to imitate the people who could swing the hardest. And if you want to play with some soul, you have to play like people who play with soul." - Wynton Marsalis

27.02.2026 17:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thought for today: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious." - Fred Brooks (1975).

27.02.2026 17:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Regional spellings would be fun! I understand that it's like this with Devanagari.

27.02.2026 15:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

just like @'s pronounced

27.02.2026 15:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

just like it's pronounced

27.02.2026 15:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

idk but I think it should be written "รฆtprลtล"

27.02.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you think Sade knew in 1985 that "it's never as good as the first time" would be muzak 40 years later?

27.02.2026 01:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
maya ongaku - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
maya ongaku - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

You've got to listen to Maya Ongaku and Diana Ratsamee's followup interview or I suppose you could go on living in low-dimensional space #kexp youtu.be/TIUlGjNppa8?...

26.02.2026 05:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Here's what I saw standing by the control panel and looking into the studio where Ryli is playing for host Cheryl Waters

Here's what I saw standing by the control panel and looking into the studio where Ryli is playing for host Cheryl Waters

This is just me standing next to the great Kevin Suggs as he runs a massive soundboard for Ryli's live on-air show yesterday on #kexp in Oakland.

25.02.2026 15:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Silicon Valley stretches out below Black Mountain with snow-capped mountains in the distance

Silicon Valley stretches out below Black Mountain with snow-capped mountains in the distance

My COROS watch tracked our nearly 18 mile walk and here we can see our 2700 foot climb up Black Mountain

My COROS watch tracked our nearly 18 mile walk and here we can see our 2700 foot climb up Black Mountain

Oops, my watch also says I'm exhausted. I do feel tired and sore but much better than 1%!

Oops, my watch also says I'm exhausted. I do feel tired and sore but much better than 1%!

And that's a hike

21.02.2026 23:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Reaching the top of the Rhus Ridge trail, the sunshine breaks through the trees

Reaching the top of the Rhus Ridge trail, the sunshine breaks through the trees

A sign points the way to Black Mountain

A sign points the way to Black Mountain

Good morning!

21.02.2026 17:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing that remembering seventh grade social studies is all it takes to be called a genius these days

21.02.2026 13:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0