No heron today. A black and white swan instead. #UKWildlife #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Feathers&Form #Ornithology #MuteSwan #WildlifePhotography

Do feed generators have a canonical order? Heron is offline first, which means timelines are saved to a local db first and retrieved from there. When retrieving, items are sorted by indexedAt. It seems that indexedAt doesn't implicitly mean the order of the feed. Should there be a field for order?

Male White-necked Jacobin #hummingbird #CostaRica #birds #nature

Collared Aracari at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #toucanoftheday #Toucans

I started looking at migrating my blog to atproto via a standard.site complaint lexicon and realized atproto doesn't have a search records feature :( Closest thing is listRecords, but it'd be nice to have string matching to some degree from some lexicon fields

A young male Green-crowned Brilliant starting to show some of his new adult feathers. At Monteverde #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

Creating Docker images with jib via gradle is actually very, very cool

Why is everyone not losing their minds over how good a domain this is???

Heron 1.2.5 is rolling out with a few updates! First, a contribution from @t1c.dev, they added dynamic theming! Heron now can use a dynamic theme based off your device's wallpaper. Next is support for alt text for media uploads, and you can make the bottom navigation bar shorter if you prefer.

Fwiw anyone on android who wants a smoother experience should check out @heron.tunji.dev (not involved, just a huge fan). Really highlights what a good native app can look like. Still early days so expect some rough edges but the bones are much better

Anyone on Android have any oauth callback issues with firefox for Android? Before returning to the app, it seems to consume the oauth redirect token rendering it useless when its app side.

One of my bets for 2026 is AT Proto based publishing beyond microblogging becoming *a thing* and this looks like a big step in that direction. (If you're a publisher interested in building a better internet, say hey)

Hello atmosphere ! Over the last few weeks, a bunch of us have been collaborating on a new set of lexicons for publishing, indexing, and building out social features across long-form reading and writing apps ! 🧵1/7

Atproto lets me become the tech avatar 👨🏾‍🎨 👨🏾‍💼 🧑🏾‍💻 🧑🏾‍🔧

I’m going to be the old man (41) who talks about understanding the code the AI generates and being able to write it by hand. The kids will say I’m out of date, and I’ll never be sure they’re wrong. The indignity will never be lost on me that I’m talking about hand-writing god damn Javascript.

This was a very fun and challenging engineering problem. I'll have a blog post for it detail next year but the gist is: A single cheap docker VM listens to the raw 3000 event per second jetstream. It uses jvm bindings for ztsd to handle the high throughput.

Agami Heron at Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature #herons

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Agami Heron in full breeding splendor at Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #herons #nature

For #BirdOfTheDay #Oustretched, an Agami Heron #CostaRica #birds #birdphotography #nature

i always said i wanted to make a bluesky android client built with jetpack compose as a way to get back in the native android devleopment groove but it turns out someone already did that. heron by @tunji.dev is super slick, still needs some kinks ironed out but it's headed in a good direction.

I spent this week designing and building a server to efficiently ingest the jetstream as a foundation for a push notification server for heron. I ended up going with a Spring boot command line runner deployed to single cloud VM.

Portrait of a Raven (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

Papa Resplendent Quetzal taking food to the kids. #BirdoftheDay #naturespantry #birds #CostaRica

The latest version of Heron adds a pull down gesture for timeline settings. It was fun to implement, I used the Anchored draggable and seekable transition APIs.

Hey, I just shipped jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #294! Compose Multiplatform RC! XR! @nicolaounicos.bsky.social on Nav3! @tunji.dev on shared element transitions! Malware in Compose GitHub repos! 😞 And... React Native in Compose?!? jetc.dev/issues/294 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

I feel like this is more topical than ever with so many mobile ecosystems scaling up to large screens on tablets, and desktops, and TVs, and cars and beyond.

Thanks so much for featuring my blog post on shared element transitions for large screen devices!

finally landed it! Tap is your all-in-one sync tool for the Atmosphere: webhooks, backfill, filtering, signaling collections, no cbor/msts/signatures/cursors. this thing's got it all! give it a go and let me know what you think & if you run into any issues docs.bsky.app/blog/introdu...

I wrote an article on how I implemented the shared element transitions in Heron for tablets: www.tunjid.com/articles/sha...

The latest version of Heron bumps Jetpack Compose to 1.10 and to Navigation 3's stable release so the animations and transitions are more polished than ever

New: *Looseleaf* publishing — a way to publish standalone Leaflets on AT Protocol! 📝🍃 We started with publications on atproto; now we're bringing it all together so _anything_ you write on Leaflet, incl single documents / posts, can be 'atprotated' :) Learn more in thread! ⬇️

There's a bluesky web interface for seeing active sessions and revoking the tokens for those sessions. Anyone remember the link for that? I used it once and forgot to bookmark.

Milestone alert: We're celebrating our first anniversary today! In just one year, we went from an idea on a blog post to sending 8.6 *million* users 23.5 *billion* posts across thousands of feeds created by thousands of brilliant, creative people who are working together to create a better internet.

Little moments like this make me love the internet lol

The latest version of Heron supports custom labelers and a few moderation settings!

Navigation 3 is stable 🎉 android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉 Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

Want to rearrange your feeds on Heron? Just drag and drop them into the order you want!

Yo check out the latest @graze.social newsletter when you get a chance… no reason

Just published "NavigationEvent Info". marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/naviga... #AndroidDev #Kotlin #KMP #CMP

Getting ready for #TheAndroidShow at #dcldn25

play.google.com/store/apps/d... Heron by @tunji.dev looks great for a bsky app, it's what I'd use if I had an android phone

How have folks who've built third party bluesky clients implemented push notifications? There's this xrpc endpoint, but I'm not sure how to use it: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/app-bsky-notification-register-push

It seems bluesky made breaking changes to their response for their oauth authorization server; the introspection_endpoint in the response json has been removed. Heron is going to be broken on sign in and refresh token flows till a new version of the app can be approved 😞

The Android team is diving into what's new in Android development to help you build excellent apps across devices. Tune into The Android Show on October 30 to learn more → goo.gle/tas-oct25

Oh btw, I'm co-hosting the Android show this year! Tune in on October 30th for all the latest news in the Android world! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyt_...

Heron is now available to everyone on the play store as a public beta!

When uploading videos, bluesky recommends uploading to the video service at video.bsky.app: docs.bsky.app/docs/tutoria... How does this work with custom PDSes? Is the best bet there to just upload the video as a regular blob, and wait for it to be hydrated later?