I got some Lego for Christmas and my inner child is so fucking excited right now.

Shout out to my parents for all the work they did for us kids at Christmas. I appreciated it back then but now I have my own kids it’s a whole new level of appreciation!

This’ll be a Black Mirror episode, bet on it.

Dammit. Thought the series finale of Plur1bus was Friday like all other episodes have been 😩

Love being this close to nature.

Goodbye work. See you next year.

Don’t forget that just because you own your data hosting your own PDS, once it’s out there on the relays, consumers of those relays have that data and are under no obligation to respect delete events. You own your data but the copies of your data are permanent.

Imagine watching this to see if your fave appears only to get near the end and realise “hey I’ve seen that cat avatar before” and that you’ve sat and watched a loop. No couldn’t be me.

I’ve been Twitter free for nearly a month now and damn it feels good.

what if somebody made a code forge that does *not* charge you to use your own computer

There’s something really peaceful about just playing through side quests of Zelda. I just spent an hour rebuilding a village 😂

willdot.net/message-broker An experimental pub/sub client and server project. ⭐️ 1

Opened GitHub up to find a project I worked on a couple years ago but didn't log in. I visited 2 pages and then got this error on the 3rd. 1: My profile 2: The repo 3: A specific PR link from the file tree -> Gives me the error Is this normal for GitHub these days?

I’ve been Twitter free for nearly a month now and damn it feels good.

do i need my own personal backfill and copy of the entire ATmosphere? no do i want one? yes

Forgot how much of a banger this album is. music.apple.com/gb/album/rtj...

Wrote a getting started guide for Tap tonight! The new tool from Bluesky to backfill records and track future ones easier. Includes install directions, some explanation of what it does and how to configure it as well to help you get started.

What's the dev tool called that I can use to create an app that handles backlinks? I want to be able to have user A make a message/post (stored in their PDS) intended for user B. Then when user B logs in, they will see the message that user A posted, along with other posts other users have posted.

“Expect terabytes of data and days to weeks for the initial backfill.” Don’t threaten me with a good time 🫣

@kelseyhightower.com on platform engineering: The deployment inputs you ask for – version, CPU, memory, disk, region – are the API your developers rely on. VMware, cloud, whatever the backend is… the API is what matters. 👉 Full interview: jb.gg/p27tj8

Shopping for cheap domains to use for test services.

If I'm taking a backup of a sqlite database, do I need to backup the .db-shm and .db-wal files too? 🤔

This line change in the previous commit to the “DEVIN, STOP REMOVING THIS LINE YOU DUMBASS…” commit makes it even funnier. github.com/stack-auth/s...

Having a blast solving these distributed systems challenges. Check my progress here tangled.org/willdot.net/...

Yeah turn compact menu bar off in safari settings to be happy again

Set up a docker environment to run the tests inside and completed the first challenge (although it's part of the walkthrough). Looking forward to doing the rest! tangled.org/willdot.net/...

I did a study of now many users in the atproto world (Bluesky and the broader Atmosphere) have strong control over their identities via rotation keys or other methods

Just remembered this fun disturbed systems challenge from @fly.io Going to give it another go as I don’t think I completed it last time. fly.io/dist-sys/

Accepted! Go 1.26 will include a SECRET package. Don't tell anyone about it 🤫 Just kidding. The package wipes the memory to keep secrets safe — hence the name. antonz.org/accepted/run...

Working on streaming files from different http requests, into a zip file directly into an S3 bucket and I suddenly realise I’ve done this exact thing at a previous job 4/5 years ago. Wish I had written up how I did it 🙈

How do people handle multiple alt accounts for testing when it comes to email addresses? Using the Google my-email+test1@ trick or is there a better approach?

Just published a guide on how I got the Tangled code (including a Knot to push code to) running locally without installing NixOS on my MacBook....controversial!!!

Just published a guide on how I got the Tangled code (including a Knot to push code to) running locally without installing NixOS on my MacBook....controversial!!!

I'm happy to announce that my PDS, selfhosted.social, is officially open to the public now!

Can’t fail to complete AOC if you never start it

Hey Will, wanna lead the retro session today? Sure what’s the worst that could happen? … 1 hour later Sorry guys, I just realised this was a 45 minute session not an hour session.

My thoughts while contributing to open source. “Backend logic all done, that was a nice easy task. Now for the front end, let’s add a select box… wait what the hell is all this? Oh htmx, I’ve heard of that, just need to make this content some sort of partial file thing, oh fuck, it’s broken” 😞

It should be illegal to create a code repository with an interesting name and then not push any code to it 😔

Every season of Stranger Things I forget what happened in the seasons before and the first half hour I have no idea what’s going on. Then I’m just sucked in and get hooked!

Don't forget folks, as it's nearly Christmas time to update your PDS index pages! And if you want a refresher on how to do so, check out my pub willdot.leaflet.pub/3m25uvnuwnk2t

I've updated my #golang Feed Generator demo to now include the ability for a feed to use feed interactions (show more / show less etc) tangled.org/willdot.net/...

I've updated my #golang Feed Generator demo to now include the ability for a feed to use feed interactions (show more / show less etc) tangled.org/willdot.net/...

Have written up some thoughts on supporting large media files with AT Protocol via sidecar services: discourse.atprotocol.community/t/media-pds-...

@profanity.accountant 🫣

Don't forget folks, as it's nearly Christmas time to update your PDS index pages! And if you want a refresher on how to do so, check out my pub willdot.leaflet.pub/3m25uvnuwnk2t

My 4 year old just said “i have 9 fingers” and why I asked he had 9 and not 10, he started to count them, starting at index 0. He’s going to be a software engineer 😍

Does a PDS expose any metrics for things like requests times etc?

My 4 year old just said “i have 9 fingers” and why I asked he had 9 and not 10, he started to count them, starting at index 0. He’s going to be a software engineer 😍

Ever do some work on a side project, think you completed it and deployed it then months later spend ages debugging why it doesn’t work any more, only to find you never finished and deployed the work? Just me that forgets things like that then.

I just noticed the little game while you wait for the Harvest on @anisota.net Very addictive 😂