unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

I can now say I'm open to work as a full-stack software engineer with a product focus. I'm a founder with 5 years of startup/small business experience and a doctorate from Yale. Bay Area and open to in-person/hybrid/remote. Reach out if you'd like to reach out!

For almost the past 8 months I've been following a self-taught roadmap for web development and I'm finally "finished". Wrote about the process here. www.natemay.dev/blog/how-i-l...

Kind of obsessed with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 's web app. This is a nonprofit (helping you make a plan for switching to solar & electric appliances) and they've pulled off better performance and UI/UX than most banks/ecommerce giants. www.rewiringamerica.org

I just open-sourced the platform I'm building to house the creative music learning tools I've developed. I'll be posting updates as I go and welcoming feedback. #nextjs #buildinpublic www.natemay.dev/blog/announc...

What if, instead of replacing humans and building shoddy software to solve nonexistent problems, AI-driven productivity boosts were used to make things ~work better~.

New blog post about how and why I built Finfetch, an open source transaction downloader. www.natemay.dev/projects/fin...

I just released Finfetch--a free/open source app that allows you to download all your bank and credit card transactions to CSVs with one click. Should be useful if you keep track of your income/expenses in spreadsheets or with #plain-text-accounting software. github.com/natepmay/fin...

Here's more info about my firehose racing game, why it exists, and what was fun about making it. www.natemay.dev/projects/hos...

Ever wanted to race words against each other on the Bluesky firehose? No? Well now you can anyway. Been working on this for a few too many months and it's time for it to see the light of day. Enjoy! hose-race.natemay.dev

New personal website is up. I'm christening it with a post about Chordle, the music Wordle spinoff I made in 2022 that went viral and got me into web development. www.natemay.dev/projects/cho...

Been in deep work mode for the past few months. A few updates: - New handle (@natemay.dev). Old one was @natemay.bsky.social. - I'm no longer actively maintaining balloon.fyi but you're welcome to download the data if you'd like it. - I'll be sharing more work soon.

React 19 is finally here. github.com/facebook/rea...

Genuinely glad we had effectively a tsunami drill here in the SF Bay Area. Here's what I learned while trying to keep my family safe:

Seemingly the only online tsunami zone map, which is pointed to by every official emergency resource, currently looks like this. DevOps is important.

Idea: blindsky - all account information on a post, number of likes, reposts, etc, are hidden until you interact with the post. Content based interaction. People tend to gravitate towards the already popular (the herd effect), not necessarily for the merits of the content.

🎅🎄🎁 ADVENT OF SVELTE 🎅🎄🎁 We're going to ship one thing a day every day from now until Christmas. Wish us luck! svelte.dev/blog/advent-... First up...

I have a bit of an eye injury right now and I have blurry vision/some pain keeping my eyes open. It's manageable at the moment so taking this time to explore what it would be like to try to navigate the web if I went blind. 🧵

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

In this newly released dataset: A lot of objections about not consenting to be in these kinds of datasets

In case any #atdev folks were thinking about using @skyware.js.org to deploy a bot using Deno Deploy, looks like you'll have to wait a few weeks: github.com/skyware-js/b...

**This Website is Hosted on Bluesky** This weekend I found myself digging through the AT Protocol specifications and the Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) implementation. In doing so, I discovered that I could setup a website that is fully hosted on Bluesky. danielmangum.com/posts/this-w...

Post editing: clunky but possible.

If you want to read @dustyweb.bsky.social 's recent thread and all replies as a tree diagram, here it is (much more readable than the bluesky client): blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?a...

No-code tools for creating ________ __bots__ : - bluebotsdonequick.com by @olafmoriarty.bsky.social __feeds__ : - blueskyfeedcreator.com by @blueskyfeedcreator.com - blueskyfeeds.com by @anianimals.moe - skyfeed.app by @redsolver.dev

need stopper packs

In-depth dive from one of the authors of ActivityPub.

I've put together the most comprehensive database of Bluesky/Atproto apps and tools that I know about: balloon.fyi. Would love some help getting the word out about this--I think it will be useful for a lot of folks and there are many ways it could evolve. 🎈 #atproto #apps #developers

devs! want to build something on #atproto but not sure where to start? check out this "Call for Projects" with a bunch of ideas, ranging from protocol frameworks, to entire apps, to bots

Adorable.

Bluesky is very likely to reach 20M users in the next 11-17 hours. Here are 5 community-built visualizations for Bluesky user data 🧵

Exploring the full bluesky firehose, in three dimensions: firehose3d.theo.io

Now that I've broken 34 followers I'm in the 90th percentile on this app according to @jaz.bsky.social 's Bsky Stats (bsky.jazco.dev/stats). Good reminder of how long the tail is currently. There are probably a lot of interesting people with single-digit follower counts.

2 yrs ago today: appears to be the first post on here.

Does anyone know of a way to combine all your feeds into one feed? #feed #newfeed #bluesky

Nice, @theo.io made exactly what I was looking for. It works perfectly, found a ton of Bluesky people I didn't know were here!

I know most of you from real life or the Bad Place, but if we are newly acquainted, you might enjoy my MusicRadar column analyzing various recent and classic songs www.musicradar.com/author/ethan...

I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants. I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere Hit me with your best ideas!

I want to build a client that shows you popular links in your feed, similar to feedseer.com, which I built for Mastodon (or Nuzzel for Twitter, for those who remember it). Funding could help /w infrastructure costs.

We can build a set of tools for disaster/emergency/humanitarian responses. I am based in Cairo so we are seeing spikes of demands for housing, medical supports regularly whenever conflict starts in the region. Having a fast mechanism to connect arrivals and mutual aid groups would be amazing.

waow

Someone asked the difference between Bluesky and Mastodon and I told them that they're both food courts, but with Mastodon you have to get your whole meal from one place and with Bluesky you can mix and match. (X is a giant IHOP with no other options). Thoughts?

today is my birthday. my wish is that you consider subscribing to see/saw or telling people about it. I used to write about punk for Pitchfork but it was occasional + in the margins of news work. see/saw is a firehose of punk coverage. other great writers contribute things. thanks ❤️ see-saw.fun