First leaflet.pub post. I knew I'd need to make a new blog

Forks Out meets Sesame Street!

I found myself replying to an email thread from 9 years ago just now! As I was checking the reply, I discovered that, not only was it exactly 9 years to *the day*, it was 9 years to *the minute* when I went to hit send.

Had a random throwback memory to LED Throwies from 2006, by Graffiti Research Labs. 1st thought: LEDs used to be *huge* 2nd thought: I suspect there would be a way to make these “smart” now too, with Bluetooth Low Energy and a tiny microcontroller. www.instructables.com/LED-Throwies/

Idea for an AT Proto app - for every account you follow, a UI of 2-3 posts in the time immediately before you followed them. “Oh yes, now I remember why I followed @jcsalterego.bsky.social, how could I possible have forgotten <reason>”

Has anybody changed the domain of their self hosted PDS, keeping it on the same box? #atproto

My emoji harvest from @anisota.net

I'm going to have to start a @leaflet.pub aren't I.

@jimray.bsky.team 👋 hello here too! Making the link from Harry’s email!

Strava refreshed their winter sports segment to remove chairlifts, pretty neat! Time for a niche flex…when I worked at a startup 10 years ago, we had solved this problem. Our smart goggles for skiing and snowboarding, also included our own version of “Find My Friends” on screen in the goggles!

@ates.dev throwback hack question for you. How far did you ever get with the IKEA LED display? I remember you posted about it before elsewhere?

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

#atproto dev question! So, you’ve got a mobile app, and a server (an App! An AppView!) Mobile auth happens to use OATProxy, so you’ve got OAuth tokens to access your server (App / AppView) via a users PDS with atproto-proxy headers…

@sailingirishwriter.bsky.social glad to see you’re here. Hope you’re keeping well.

Because … he’s worth it?

Just casually dropping this nerd snipe here ... aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... /cc @ngerakines.me @baileytownsend.dev @natalie.sh 👀

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

I've always found the OAuth auth flow sequence diagram to be useful to understand how what gets passed where and when. Here's the AT Protocol OAuth Authorization flow as a mermaid diagram. Is this useful for anyone else? tangled.org/strings/alex... If something's not accurate, let me know!

The CBC should provide free PDS hosting for Canadians. “The mandate of CBC/Radio-Canada, established by the Broadcasting Act, is to provide a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens, and entertains Canadians”. Empowering Canadians to broadcast themselves? #cbc #atproto

I'm hiding this video from my partner before they see it and we’re suddenly parents to a flying hamster...🤣

Obligatory AT Proto OAuth has fried my brain post

AT Protocol OAuth Authorization Flow

I've always found the OAuth auth flow sequence diagram to be useful to understand how what gets passed where and when. Here's the AT Protocol OAuth Authorization flow as a mermaid diagram. Is this useful for anyone else? tangled.org/strings/alex... If something's not accurate, let me know!

Faint #aurora in North Vancouver

<redacted> compiles, logs in and … now to to get @atproto/oauth-client authenticated calls working 🥳

Every time I charge my Apple Watch and put it into Night Stand mode, laying it sideways...I always think of that meme of applying for a dream job just to fix one bug ...

That’s Deep Cove, in North Vancouver, BC!

Optimistic me would hope it’s this. But that’s too soon, surely?! bsky.app/profile/alex...

One thing I’ve noticed lately on Bluesky and I absolutely love. The amount of people who are instinctively part of the “we can just do things” movement. Instant follow right here.

Currently reading: @sebastianraschka.com’s book on building an LLM from scratch! Back to Appendix A for me to brush up on PyTorch! I didn’t take Calculus in High School, so I’ll have some background learning to do there too.

Saw this newspaper open in the local coffee shop on the weekend, and it sparked an idea… @bmann.ca how about a Wild Goose Chase (aka Treasure Hunt) around UBC during #ATmosphereConf …

Parliamentary/ House / Senate issues could be posted in the same manner as @smokesignal.events Elected members could have their vote placed on record as Yes, No, Present, Absent. The platform hosting the votes could attest to the account belonging to the elected member, and attest each vote too.

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Now with a Bluesky XRPC example too! tangled.org/@alex.mcrobe...

This is a joyful thread.

I'm surprised the Lexicon is marked as Uncertain, rather than Maybe Later. It seems to me to be one of the most valuable parts of the AT ecosystem.

Easter Egg Alert! Google Maps and Ford Bronco teamed up to map the TransAmerica Trail – all 5,900 miles of it. When you visit the 4 Street View scenes link in the article...there's a person dressed in camouflage in frame in 2 of them! blog.google/products/map...

@chartyios.app 👋 do you happen to have a list of the Custom Formats for dates? I just bought the Premium in-app purchase and I can’t find the one I’d like (just the day of the month, but D and DD don’t seem to work)

Pushed my first @tangled.org repo this evening: Go Cap' Web. It's written in Go (and freshly migrated to Svelte – hat tip @mackuba.eu for your Svelte posts lately). Based on the work of @cloudflare.social and their Cap'n Web RPC protocol. tangled.org/@alex.mcrobe...

I'd learned about the `-p` flag before mkdir. TIL: you can provide multiple args for multiple directories, *and* multiple child directories! Examples 1. mkdir -p dir1 dir2 2. mkdir -p dir1 dir2 dir3/{child1,child2,child3}

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

For a while I’ve been using Cursor to help find Accessibility issues in frontend codebases. It’s been great for identifying issues, and then remediating them too, for the most part. Of course, no ARIA labels are better than bad ARIA labels, so it’s worth investing in learning about what works too.

We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!

40 million strong! Congrats to @bsky.app!

Just like web performance work, accessibility winds up being less expensive the earlier you implement it. Build accessibility in from the start, rather than bolting it on - make it part of the process. @marcysutton.com #webperf #PerfNow #a11y

On vacation recently a person told me they’ve all in on AI for ages. However, they meant *All Inclusive*, and being in tech it didn’t quite make sense to me until they explained!

Well that’s the first half of tonight’s game over. When does the second half start? Go Jays Go!

This umpire is loud STRIKE

i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end if this is you, reach out!!

genius plan by the blue jays to run the game so long ohtani is tired tomorrow. four dimensional chess.