the lead character was literally mentored by a thiel analogue until at some point they decided to write out that aspect and write in a hagiography about him being a peace and freedom libertarian who ultimately just wanted a p2p internet or whatever
It takes 3,000 people to contribute $5 a month to pay someone to maintain critical public-good services like this. 3,000 isn't a lot. Neither is $5.
opencollective.com/blacksky
I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
If you work in tech for long enough you will inevitably be faced with a choice whether or not to congratulate an ex-coworker on LinkedIn for starting a new job called "Senior Ladder-Puller-Upper"
Hey! We're trying a thing. Personalization. On Graze feeds. We have a few feeds we'd love for y'all to try out and tell us how it feels!
i gave you my peace prize, please respond
one wordle after another
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You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
You think I lift to get attention from girls? Brother I am 👏happily 👏married. I do this so the kindly gay man compliments my legs. *That* is the good shit
Christmas adventurer down
screenshot of a skeet displaying some inexplicable behavior of sports fandom
they have to win the heartbreak contest too
I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
I wonder how many miles I’ve scrolled with my thumb.
Great news! @graze.social was hard at work today, and we've shipped our new core engine (OS release soon) - many many things to come soon, but as of *now*, posts are already traveling from jetstream to feeds *60%* faster! Stay tuned for some new features we'll be following up with!
methodically making ginger lemon honey tea for my cold like anton chigurh dressing his leg wound
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
@devingaffney.com holding the Demolicious belt!
Are we a real company now? @devingaffney.com took the belt at a pitch competition tonight sponsored by @joshcarterpdx.bsky.social's Upstart Collective
I've been working on a network-local ATProtocol dev environment that gives me end-to-end production functionality for Smoke Signal, including handle resolution and repository access. Here’s how I put it together. 🧵
Authentication is hard. We've been juggling OAuth and pockets full of app passwords, and we're know we're not the only ones. That's why today, we're open sourcing an all in one, best-in-class service that anyone can use to deal with ATProto authentication - for free.
