Architecture:
@hono.dev and Cloudflare Workers for the APIs
Cloudflare Durable Objects + SQLite for repo and pref storage, and firehose websocket server
Cloudflare R2 for image and video storage
Official ATProto libraries where possible for everything protocol-related
rockwell freedom of speech meme saying "Who will manage the Agents"
Please sir may I have some vibes
My designs get lots of publicity in magazines and online and it looks like I’m doing really well.
The reality is that it’s bloody hard work being self employed and it’s not getting any easier.
Have a look at what I do and repost. Thanks.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Picture of a human, wearing an orange shirt and black jeans with white trainers.
Closing the conference Eriol Fox, a designer deeply steeped in open source. They are talking about
Sustaining designers: Design in humanitarian and human rights technologies.
bit.ly/erioldoesdesign-monkigrasas
Find the slides linked on:
erioldoesdesign.bsky.social hachyderm.io/@ernoldoesdesign
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When AI gives up, who' you going to call.... the human. Design for failure. @jedi.be #monkigras
TIL you can designate a github successor in case you die #monkigras docs.github.com/en/account-a...
Crowd watching at Monkigras
It’s a fun day at #monkigras even if we are getting to think about how we leave our digital legacy.
If you're in the San Francisco area and need a little escape, come to the SF Java User Group tonight. @starbuxman.joshlong.com and myself will take you back in time and talk about 10+ years of Spring Boot. It should be a really fun talk!
www.meetup.com/sfjava/event...
TIL about pointer compression in V8 🤯
Spring gRPC version 0.3.0 available now: spring.io/blog/2025/01...
it's a thing that we spend an awful lot of our days looking at
This is unhinged, I love it.
TIL github discussions has polls 😍
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If you’re in your early 20s, help someone today. You will be repaid in kindness.
buttons with lighting such that there is no doubt which one is pressed.
one filled button, one outline button, no way to know what that means.
designers: (have the skills to make beautiful buttons absolutely smothered in clear affordances)
also designers: let's make boring buttons with totally ambiguous states for like... 10 years?
TIL
Printed instructions for microwaving a potato with encircled bullet point, “Potato may whistle in microwave.”
for the potato fears not death
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morning 🌍
Async Rust book arriving tomorrow
Looking forward to it
Essex is a bad place
Things escalate quickly in Essex.
if hosting providers can’t agree on how to handle trailing slashes it doesn’t bode well for WinterCG and JavaScript server runtime variability
"Free background-image remover in the browser!" ⚡️
Excited to announce bg.addy.ie, a free little app that removes backgrounds from images directly in your browser! Privacy-friendly. Uses Transformers.js, RMBG-1.4 & MODNet.
This is a whimbrel.
I thought it was a stork.
It has a big curvy beak and pretty wings.
TIL
Astro 5 is out. Anyone reading this probably already knows about Server Islands and Content Layer, but 5.0 is packed with dozens of features big and small. Here's some of my favorites 👉
