I’m glad someone else is doing this because I have been teetering on the edge of doing a very similar concept (but in Rust) for a month or so now

it's terrifying to be trans right now but you can't erase yourself for them

I should stop coming up with more ideas for projects because now I’m thinking about going Pi shopping.

sometimes you just need to be silly on the internet tangled.org/@parakeet.at... (bit sus bc there's a branch with a migration dated prior but it was fine when I just tested)

my favourite IntelliJ feature is the one where it doesn’t work with macOS Sequoia’s window snap shortcuts, and the one where the rust toolchain dir can’t be set globally, and the one where it turns off on-the-fly analysis when using diesel randomly wonderful, loving it, this is worth £170 per year

this is a zero tolerance anti- Harry potter account. I'm not even kidding at this point. genuinely. stop associating with the franchise in any and all ways or get the fuck out of my replies

wait is jimmy kimmel not the same guy as jimmy fallon

I should probably start using the @parakeet.at account for some of my Parakeet posting, but it feels odd to make posts like “merged bookmarks” or “fudged the preferences bugs?” when there’s not even a (publicised) live instance yet. A commit bot *would* be a good start tho

oops. guess I'm going back to self-hosting grafana. had a good run though. (recs wanted for good template dashboards for things like node_exporter, caddy, redis, and postgres bc I suck at building dashboards)

<sports posting> absolutely wild on the cricket #ENGvSA tonight. excellent scenes from England and a tragic display from South Africa, especially in the last few overs </sports posting>

1,000 repos on blacksky.app 👀

okay this is my weekend project. two days to spin up an appview indexing non-bsky PDSes only - shouldn’t be *too* bad I run a PLC mirror already, I’ll use relay.feeds.blue, and then my own appview code.

has anyone done a relay that only subscribes to non-bsky PDSes? might do one at the weekend if not.

Decentralization will continue until moderation improves

i am now internected - that was remarkably uneventful with PDS MOOver

We gotta stop reading the Washington Post. We gotta stop hate reading it. We gotta stop being mad about it. We just have to stop. I say this as someone who yesterday posted about how shitty it is. We have to wish WaPo and NYT into the cornfield.

the new iPhones are *so* goddamn ugly - thought the Air was bad until they showed the Pro. If I wanted a Pixel, I'd just buy a Pixel (except actually the 17 Pro is uglier than the Pixel 10 pro) Hope I can drag enough life out of my 14 Pro until they make a not ugly iPhone again (+ a new mini pls)

Okay finally got around to opening up the repo containing my Rust AppView code. You probably shouldn't deploy this in prod, but it's out there, at least. There's also the project account at @parakeet.at, which I probably won't use. - tangled.sh/@parakeet.at... - tangled.sh/@parakeet.at...

six weeks later but I’ve got a laser consultation coming up, and Mum and I are going into [city]’s finest charity shops in a few weeks to see what we can see.

finally getting around to doing the really annoying thing and updating the name and handle on this account to a name I _actually use_. debated leaving it but it's really not worth it. proper domain handle tbc but this'll work for now (I have a domain but it's for the appview project so idk)

debating adding to my never ending list of projects, a nice little rust based last.fm scrobbler, since modern macOS seems to be a little bit upset with the current app.

bookmarks speedrun tonight? why not.

ooooh I just came up with an excellent cognitohazard that I certainly will not be poasting because It Bad. It’s *hilarious*, but it’s **bad**

windows is now bluescreening after sitting on the shutting down screen for five minutes. absolutely wonderful software as ever. (okay actually my Mac used to hang on shutdown for a few minutes until I reset it last week, and I think the two things might be related but idk I need to test tomorrow)

now that I’ve finished my week of faffing around with computers (moving my gaming machine to Linux* & shrinking windows, reinstalling macOS, and updating my usernames (finally lol)) I can return to my Totally Not Writing A Database times (*I use arch btw etc etc)

Using MacOS in the year of our lord 2025 really makes me wish there were better non-Apple laptop options.

puberty blockers are a compromise and trans kids deserve the right to experience puberty at the same time as their peers

Northsky Phase 1 (PDS Migration) will unfortunately not solve this particular issue for our users in Mississippi. IP Addresses originating from MS are being blocked by Bluesky itself at the application layer. The most straightforward way to access your account if you're from MS is to use a VPN.

which place in the list are of things that are hard in Computer Science is talking yourself out of building a database? also, does anyone know how to talk someone out of building a database? asking for a friend.

welcome to the United Kingdom - where every day we concoct new Extremely Normal Concepts, such as a backlit advertising board with a colour print, running most of the day, if not 24/7, to talk about *checks notes* climate change

*taps the sign*

brb banning the goverment from having technology until they learn how computers work

Apparently monthly Rust AppView progress update: - nearly 20 million repos backfilled - this turned out to be chunkier than even I imagined, consuming just shy of 7TiB* - Feeds, mutes (mostly), and caching - Started on getPostThreadV2 (holding for a bit yet) and viewer states - repo soon (tm)

had to consciously stop myself from slipping into girl voice in conversation with a colleague earlier which was a wild experience - that’s not happened before, but I guess it’s a good thing that I went to use it without thinking about doing it

took a few hours away from the internet this evening, played some video games and finished off Gravity Falls - would recommend, highly needed on today of all days

running a server for more than five seconds in 2025 be like (also this is my goddamn laptop over tailscale funnel - how did something find this ffs)

reading bottle blondes and in chapter three I’m imagining XKCD 2502 ‘Average Familiarity’ but it’s the average person only knows gender is a performance and maslow’s hierarchy of needs, of course* *the chapter doesn’t mention Maslow but this is a bit from work it’s fine

what if we broke things in new and interesting ways? (to be clear, this is my code returning everything in reverse order - it *probably shouldn't* break bluesky to do this, but getPostThreadV2 is still beta so it's whatever idc)

referenced a dril tweet* to my mum and brother earlier and neither of them got it and I’m a little disappointed, but at least they got to be in today’s lucky 10,000. *the corn cob one

Calling the UK a circus would be an insult to circuses at this point (also, lmao) Guess my employer’s webpage about connecting to the VPN is adult content now.

if you fudge the maths a bit*, I’ve read 7 books so far this year - hoping to average one a month, which I should with 4 Dorley books *include WYFFH 2 and RCBG even though they aren’t complete.

Google searches for VPN after the UK government's online censorship bill comes into effect.

WYFFH keeps winning though because it keeps triggering ‘oh god I need to actually *do* things to transition’ thoughts and I’ve been having a moment recently spurred on by coming out at work so imma research laser places and maybe do some clothes shopping tomorrow

github.com/InvoxiPlayGa... supports Firefox and Chrome

I should probably write a blog post with my thoughts on this (threat) because it’s just a super interesting predicament overall. *adds to list for day off*

well age assurance is going live any moment so here’s a great thread from Jack that’s got loads of useful info and is way more succinct than I could ever manage: (posting this mostly so I’ve got track of it if I ever need to share it)

hey guys check this out ;p (something is misbehaving wrt caching in the chain so I'm back on deer custom appview until it works itself out But Alas we have feeds)

Relatedly does anyone know of any feeds that use the feed skeleton reason fields? Could do with some lives ones for testing. (cc #atproto)

You’ve heard of P!AtD, but now try Girl voice! On the work call It went well although doing it for an hour straight really proved how much I need to work on stamina

I do not like this guidance either, but at least the EU have the technical proficiency to specify doing age verification with ZKPs (which I’m not too familiar with but even with my rudimentary understanding, is better than doing it willy-nilly like us)