Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work. Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

whoa (civilized, proper) woah (feral, unhinged)

Hard disagree, not well done. #realbirdfakebird

Government shutdowns are dumb. The way funding works is a policy choice, not inherent to the Constitution. Congress could pass a law today that automatically authorizes spending in perpetuity at the levels of the most recent appropriations bill. This is how other countries do it!

I didn't even hire them, they just started submitting PRs and posting. I'm sorry you had to find out this way. They told me I couldn't tell until they =========== {"error": "content_policy_violation", "code": 403}

All of the reasons Democrats are leaning into the shutdown are great, but I really wish obstruction for obstruction’s sake in the face of a fascist degradation of democracy was one of them.

I slayed realbirdfakebird.com like a pathogenic bacteria today…

This is kind of fun. #realbirdfakebird https://realbirdfakebird.com

Can you please give a little bit visibility to custom personalized feeds like For You? For example, bsky.app/feeds is a static list that hasn't been updated in >year. Sorting it by the number of daily feed users would make it easier for people to discover useful feeds.

Interesting - both ChatGPT and Claude are very convinced that Flutter's Text widget has a minLines property.

v1.17.1 is live! This version improves scroll performance on the Following feed, and contains a few small bug fixes. I probably won't have another release until early next week, as I'm focused on a UI overhaul for iPad! #buildinpublic #atproto #sideproject #mobiledev

My new way of figuring out what country is having an uprising is to look at the install stats for Bitchat. It's how I found out just now that there's an uprising in Madagascar!

Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off

inserting conservative bias into trusted institutions does not make those views suddenly trustworthy and correct it corrodes the institution they are inserted into until there is nothing of value remaining conservapedia isn’t considered credible for a reason and a new name won’t change that fact

New @leaflet.pub on the issues with building with Bluesky's AppView + CDN primarily: Also appreciate any ideas you all have for moderation!! Reposts appreciated, I spent quite a while on this lol

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

I wanted to share what I did with the first batch of @boostblue.bsky.social revenue: I bought an iPad! Boost works on iPad, but it isn’t designed for it at all. I spent the weekend reworking the iPad layout to start what I hope will become the best Bluesky experience on iPad! #atproto #ipad #ios

GIFS ARE HERE!!! v1.17.0 adds the ability to search for and post GIFs. This version doesn’t allow you to select a GIF from your library, that will come in a separate release in the next two weeks! #buildinpublic #flutter #sideproject

Chicken tenders are just a meat ladle for ranch dressing.

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link. For example x.com/dril/status/... becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/... People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

I’m working on establishing a unique design for Boost Blue. I want it to look similar to the Bluesky app, with a bit more UI delight. Thay said, do you like this shadow effect? It would apply to embedded links, media, and quotes. #uidesign #design #mobiledev

WHY IS CATS TRENDING AND NOT THE PROPER CATURDAY UNACCEPTABLE

Well don't I feel stupid

lfgg!! you can finally migrate back to a Bluesky-hosted PDS from a self-hosted/third-party one! docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin... #atproto

The view from nowhere reporting style is so stupid.

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@boostblue.bsky.social GIF update: The next version will support a GIF search and posting. It won’t support GIFs from photos. I ran into some issues there that are going to take me more time to resolve. I don’t want to hold up the GIF search and iPad UI improvements, so I’ll revisit later.

Favorite description of noise canceling headphones.

California banned sweepstakes poker, and ClubWPT Gold just adjusted their business model to no longer qualify under the new law, without changing the core way the sweeps work. (I’m fully in support of finding loopholes in stupid laws)

v1.16.4 is live!! This update addresses several bugs and, most importantly, delivers significantly smoother scrolling.

I’m going to write on of those “how to startup” books, but it’s just going to be the sentence “Just actually listen to the advice you’ve read”, repeated for 200 pages.

An upstream network problem has been impacting almost all Bluesky network services for the past 3-4 hours. Posting and other public interactions are disrupted for many accounts. As connectivity recovers, the firehose and other services will see large surges of events.

what are the odds my uber driver on the day of the rapture is jesus

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

🚀 In Flashes 1.5 we’re rolling out the first-ever Feed Builder for any consumer ATProto app - built together with @graze.social Now you truly have the freedom to create your own feeds. 🎶

Given how effective autistic people are in STEM fields we should be mixing Tylenol into prenatal vitamins*. *Acknowledging that this whole thing is completely unbacked by any scientific evidence.

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

📚🎥👾🎵📺 Popfeed updates! • You can now cross post to @leaflet.pub and @bsky.app! • Added create menu to quickly create reviews, posts, and more. • Added search to web • Most bugs from lexicon migration should be resolved

WAIT IT’S NOT AMELIA AIRHEART

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

I'm planning some blog posts around both tech and Bluesky. I'll be posting elsewhere as well, but if you're on Substack and want to be some of my first (free) subscribers, it would be greatly appreciated.

My number one use of AirPod's Transparency Mode? I like to hear the keyboard I bought just to be clicky be clicky.

I came across this great Planet Money episode on a Reddit thread asking why tropical areas are usually underdeveloped. The short answer: Insitutions generate wealth. In areas with tropical diseases, colonizers died, so rather than build long term institutions they focused on resource extraction.

Why is everyone talking about the rapture. What’s going on.

stays

Weekly roadmap update: Released: - Full Lists support Taking a backset: - Liquid Glass (continuing to explore options, not in active development) 

In Progress: - Some small bug fixes Up next: - iPad side bar navigation - GIF posting - Bookmark folders

 #buildinpublic #flutter #mobiledev