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The really cool thing about this service is that if Bluesky the company were to shut every one of our servers down hard, this can still migrate your account to a new pds and keep going. Really awesome stuff for decentralization

SIGFUCK, SIGMARRY, SIGKILL

OAuth updates for app devs! Over the past few weeks we've been chatting with devs and doing a pass over our SDKs and docs to address issues. This blog post summarizes the main changes we've made, some tweaks still in flight, and links to longer form writing about security and design trade-offs

Recreating the Nintendo Switch Homescreen scroll UX - 90% done with CSS - a li'l JS for sounds, vibrations n' taps nerdy.dev/nintendo-swi...

Time to eat the TACO. MAGA business owners just realized the mass deportations they voted for means their own workers. The cruelty is the point until it starts affecting their bank accounts.

some interesting discussion here around protocol strategy and resistance to centralization

It’s an improv partner, not a grounded fact machine

i will defend the em dash until the day i die, it sucks that it's gotten associated with bad llm writing

New blog post: Construction Lines I turned 39 today. My career turns 20 this summer. Prompted by a recent career shift, I paused to reflect; and ask myself “What has brought me the most joy — and why?” lea.verou.me/blog/2025/co...

My laptop battery died and it's 4:55pm on a Friday and that seems like a sign

New York is going to start asking companies to identify when layoffs are due to automation such as AI. It looks like we’re going to have hard data from at least one U.S. state of whether tech layoffs are due to ZIRP ending, section 174 tax changes or AI taking jobs.

Amusing that when using the em dash (—) there's the assumption that you used AI to write stuff. This is because ChatGPT uses it a lot but most people don't (ChatGPT probably was trained on lots of quality writing) Except... some people use the em dash when writing!! E.g. I always did with longform

Is it just me or does every discipline have this problem?: Endless resources on “getting started” Intermediate: 🦗 🦗 🦗 Many resources on specific techniques (once you know what to look for)

lol

Bluesky is a funny place. It’s informative about current politics but also a great network if you want to be virulently abused by people whose politics overlaps 95% with yours. It’s actually where I learned there is a leftist vs liberal divide that is like the Montagues and Capulets feud. So weird.

heads up if you’re installing the iOS 26 beta — it breaks some of our keyboard handling code in the Bluesky app, so DMs are kinda wonky. will be fixed by the time it’s not a beta!

“Eventually I realized that what makes me happy isn’t working less, it’s loving what I do, and feeling it matters.” Love this sentiment. And happy birthday to the CSS queen herself 👑 You can now hire her to consult!

this is totally cool and normal and in no way will contribute to Iran targeting the US in the future

“Look at the wild sh!t people are saying to ChatGPT” has replaced “look at the wild sh!t people are saying on Facebook/Twitter” as the well that doesn’t run dry for tech reporters looking to fear monger about tech. At some point we’ll realize the problem is people not tech.

under this logic, it would seem, every time the government's reasons for holding you are shown false, they can make up new reasons and continue to hold you until you disprove those reasons to, ad nauseum.

How can Bluesky beat X on clicks already? Probably because if you checked usage data on X, you would find that it's actually just another TikTok clone (like Instagram) at this point. There are still a lot of VIPs on X that are tweeting but mostly just for each other.

I’d love to get a follow up with these voters after six months of this administration. Has he delivered?

@lydz.bsky.social and I asked the former Irish President Mary Robinson to trade seats on a regular commercial Aer Lingus flight between DUB and JFK so that we could sit next to each other. We had no idea who she was until after the flight. Onboard same flight was current President Michael Higgins.

quick friday tip: - you should drink more water - beer (if you're into that) is 95% water

one day without completely terrible news challenge 2025

well, that would explain why they've switched to picking up nannies at playgrounds.

www.airandspaceforces.com/transgender-... per article. "national security risk". fucking hell, they're going full lavender scare.

If you rearrange the letters in stale bagel you get eagle blast

I wish I could go back in time and undo the invention of "diversity of thought" as a concept 🤮🤮🤮

mentally i'm here

and george w bush stole the presidency with the help of the supreme court.

i read ansel adams' books when i was a teen, and this always stuck with me: he said that if a photograph is a symphony, the negative is the score and the print is the performance it's so funny to me when photographers are snobby about editing. like… i'm pretty sure ansel adams is better than you

The news is a LOT today, and that is by 2025 standards when the news is a lot every fucking day.

@harryshannon.bsky.social

remember, they aren't just coming for trans people, the 'phobes are coming for all LGBT+ people. No amount of appeasement will satisfy them.

I wrote words about images! cassidoo.co/post/og-imag...

nice post! i have some historical nits but the broad story seems about right. i was hesitant to write a historical post myself but maybe i could try writing a reflection on this one — feels less daunting. thanks Mark!

blacksky is really close on this fundraising goal, just needs a few more monthly commits and they'll get over the line!

water policy is so hard in the west. this was a huge grand bargain that would have avoided the type of dysfunction that plagues the colorado river watershed. a rare example of big functional negotiation and compromise. hope parts of this can be salvaged, somehow

i kind of wish Next just had a global SSR off switch. not because it’s necessarily a great thing to do (you lose initial load perf badly) but to draw a distinction between RSC and SSR. i think plenty of teams that just will never adopt SSR out of principle (too annoying) would benefit from RSC

had fun doing this interview with the data sitters club

So interesting to keep learning how Google's tooling is SO different to the rest of the industry. IDE: most of the industry uses VS Code, or Jetbrains or something similar. Many (most?) devs at Google use a tool called Cider: deeply intergrated with Google's services

In Mexico we say “La carne de burro no es transparente” and I think this is beautiful.

So I see an ad for a guy named Mason Porter who has a leather goods shop and it’s going out of business. I’m a sucker for leather bags and I like a deal so I start poking around.

love to see it 😭

This only becomes a problem if Oracle conflates “cloud” with unrelated lines of business—but when has a large tech company ever done THAT? Certainly not the asbestos cloud…

i love editing photos. this is the original. the pentax q-s1 USUALLY has better raws, but earlier on the trip i managed to grease a fingerprint across the ENTIRE tiny sensor & had no way to clean it. it affected sharpness & color i choose to believe this added to the film-like look (lol)

Perplexity's Deep Research more often than not beats ChatGPT's Deep Research in my experience Whenever I want to kick off research, I use both parallel (cheap enough to do so!) Perplexity usually both faster, more detailed, and provides more sources DNA of a company showing?

This session has a plot twist at the end that qualifies as a cinematic masterpiece of the year: developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

last year, Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst walked into the bar I was at. It's the most minor interaction I've had because everyone basically collectively decided "hey it's Christmas, be cool, they're just trying to have a normal day" and didn't get weird about it

Any other parents maintain long Snapchat streaks with their kids?

we sold out! HUGE thank you to everyone who participated in The Box by @codetv.dev, and congrats to the winners of - Nintendo Switch 2 - BenQ RD280U and RD240Q monitors - Bambu Lab A1 Mini 3D printer - lots more! I’m still around @renderatl.com — come say hi!

i'm four songs into this album and it's absolutely fantastic. give it a listen

protect him at all costs!!

every time i have to open my fucking email to log into an app, i am committing murder in my mind

watching x-files acadia this episode is how little amy learned about HOAs lmao

cold take: doing anything to order, set up, plan, deploy, etc. a military parade should result in mandatory jail time hot take: this includes air shows. it should be a court martial offense to fly military planes for funsies.

natural consequences are the best teacher.

@leannerenard.co.uk and @jasonbradberry.bsky.social doing cool stuff

our part of philly was like this when the pope visited creepy, deeply wrong, and simply bullshit. the streets are for the people.

"I disapprove of your em dash, but I will defend to the death your right to use it"

hard to say, since i take so many… maybe this one what's YOUR favorite 60mph photo?

Egypt is complicit and cowardly.

i was installing servers in the federal data center in the basement of the ford building in DC and shared the elevator with some slick televangelist-looking very tall white man who showed his shiny teeth to me like he was expecting me to ask for his autograph and to this day i have no idea who he is

"increase the lifetime of individual refresh tokens from two days to two weeks" 🙏🏻 #atdev

no kings except lion kings

OMG auth.js has finally moved beyond the "old way is deprecated, new way doesn't work yet" stage. v5 is still "beta" though.

A simpler way to start with C# and .NET 10: dotnet run app.cs youtu.be/rb9oXSpfEB0 #dotnet #csharp

see now this is good advice. and it won't get you shot in the head or trampled

Skyrdle 2 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Logging off

I love when folks share their own versions:

I love those June evening #SwiftLang meetups 🌆🐦😄

"What I talk about when I talk about IRs" bernsteinbear.com/blog/irs/

Anyone wondering what Trump's response to a war between Israel and Iran will be can rest assured that since there isn't a way he can directly make money or stroke his ego, he will just ignore it.

although…

the pentax auto 110 is a little marvel the pentax q series is as well, just everything delightful

Ohai #spider 🕷️🕸️

actually, on reflection, my most minor celebrity interaction might be the time andy richter retweeted me

aurora alert for northerners:

Grateful.

Happy flag day! I just love flags

i suppose i shouldn't be surprised but i successfully switched my very expensive medication from this clusterfuck of a pharmacy to a much better one — one that got a 52-WEEK approval from my insurance, instead of 11.5 WEEKS. bc they know how to multiply. and the below clusterfuck pharmacy…

Could people just fucking not

Apparently I’ve been writing tests all wrong. 😂 It’s so interesting. Artem knows more about testing than I do, so this is indubitably good advice. But my nested scenarios with grouped setup works for me. 🤷

ugh okay I will begrudgingly share a link to an Atlantic article.

"When you manually assign an app icon through Finder, macOS respects the shape and doesn't force the glass background" 🤨 #wwdc25

gee i wonder why that is

😐😐 #wwdc25 Plz fix this, Pple

"Five years in, SwiftUI is no longer the future of Apple platform development. It’s the present. And UIKit? It’s starting to look like Objective-C, still there, still supported, but clearly not where the innovation is happening." #wwdc25

Wooow this rocks 🩵 #wwdc25 "Check out the cool animations folders have when you drag a file over them... they open up. Then if they're filled, the folder shows papers in them, otherwise they don't. They also have an animation for when the file does actually move into it."

i would like more options than processed food bc i'm allergic to all that shit but… not like that.

what's everyone's vibe on living in Milwaukee vs living in Madison, yea or nay either way

"Ahoy made me more enthused about the potential for building a better online world than I’ve felt for 15 years — at some points I even felt echoes of 1995, when I learnt HTML 1.0"

I don't understand half of this tbh, but it seems well written… #atdev

We get quite a bit of air force stuff going on around here normally, but I can’t help but notice these guys have been around *a lot* recently

This looks pretty nice #wwdc25

Hmm… so I guess this won't (easily) solve the "keep an SSH client session open in the background" problem… I mean it could, but the UX wouldn't be great: "your app needs to run the task only in response to someone’s action, such as tapping a button" #wwdc25

our part of philly was like this when the pope visited creept, and simply bullshit. the streets are for the people.

Hmm… so I guess this won't (easily) solve the "keep an SSH client session open in the background" problem… I mean it could, but the UX wouldn't be great: "your app needs to run the task only in response to someone’s action, such as tapping a button"