Bluesky is definitely a place for science, research and citing papers. We hope it will continue to close the gap as rapidly as it has with legacy social media. Research, science and dank memes need many homes on the internet. Bluesky provides one of the more inviting ones. Happy New Year.

Here's a fun @standard.site prototype: Atom feeds for any publication! e.g., @octet-stream.net's: geomys-atsite.exe.xyz/profile/octe... Two very cool things: 1. this was ~550 lines of code github.com/FiloSottile/... 2. the feed URL stays the same even if the handle changes or moves PDS!

Zig leaving GitHub is a signal. But as our Field CTO Guillaume Moigneu explains in LeadDev, platform changes alone won't solve the deeper AI-driven challenges facing open source. 👉 leaddev.com/ai/why-zig-i... #Upsun #OpenSource #AI #PlatformEngineering

who here wants drafts? ✋

I have been wondering what it would take to use Atproto repositories as a more general database. I think we could make them easier to query and update, without sacrificing their cryptographic properties. Another #atproto #atdev, with early food for thoughts 🧵

A follow up on this 14 million repositories number, since I received a few questions about it: This is the number of repositories visible to the new relays that have been in production since May. An #atproto #atdev 🧵

How big is the ATProto network? Before heading out on vacation, I spent a few hours playing with tap, the new atproto synchronization tool brought to us by @dholms.at. I wanted to see what it takes to build a full mirror of the ATProto network. I learned a few things, a 🧵

GitHub, my boy. Dates are hard.

@jaz.bsky.social I have rebased github.com/bluesky-soci... (support for server-side sharding in Jetstream). Any interest?

"Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. As a result, certain Cloudflare products that rely on KV service to store and disseminate information are unavailable." So which GCP service is Workers KV using under the hood?

Golang 1.24 is looking 🤩😍🤯 The Golang team just revealed the first release candidate of Golang 1.24. We're very excited to bring you a full update on what we're looking forward to the most–click over to our latest article to get all the details 👉 devcenter.upsun.com/posts/go-124/