Of course I know him. We were both part of the vast interconnected web of life together.

picking up work here a little, starting with polishing the markdown editor!

you'll have to excuse me; I was pondering the significance of the moments

> Calvino then takes a sharp detour into topology. > Reading is strength training for labyrinth-solving. great post!

for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...

why does using an rss reader seem so complex in 2025

is there a reason why pyflakes feels like 10x slower than typescript

im counting 3 billion unique follow records now

done!!

Found some content for something I’m learning about that was written ~10yr ago on a blog, and it’s weird how it now seems slightly quaint and old-fashioned to read. There’s a sense of luxury to how it assumes you have a long attention span, and it’s sad that people don’t anymore.

ATProto OAuth libraries forked and patched to work with Cloudflare Workers

i like how in math you get to say "consider a function f from... etc" without any preamble and other mathematicians just have to consider it

oh woah RIP libp2p

taking a deep breath before upgrading zig-ipld to Zig 0.15's new i/o interface

@syntacrobat.xyz presenting snowpo.st

@syntacrobat.xyz presenting aurora.ndimensional.xyz

cloudflare should make a config language called conflagration

trying out redwoodsdk... it's kind of revolutionary

finally wrote a short post about how the "spatial feed" works in Aurora! the spatial feed shows you posts, in real-time, from the neighborhood you're looking at. it's a brand new kind of discovery interface!

NY Review of Birds Who is working on this?

✨ new blog post from me and @raymond.bsky.social: "serializable transactions for peer-to-peer databases" we describe "eventually consistent rollback", a new way of handling conflicts in concurrent database transactions. ECR gives you atomicity and serializability, but not finality.

great news, ideal conditions have arrived

I bring a sort of "I will not add your bin dir to my PATH" vibe that curl|bash installers don't really like

is there anything interesting to be done with MQTT in the atproto world?

wikipedia pages with soothing auras en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_...

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this now actually sorts posts by time for arbitrary spatial queries, which i didn't think was possible at first

a good chaser to this hogwash publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-nev...

The time has come for Woke 2 Here's what I'm proposing:

(and I think this sort of undermines the whole premise that 'features' are a valid way to judge products)

you cant tell me how to post

actually i changed my mind, i don't want to sync anything

okay ive learned enough topology to revisit the umap paper

forgot to use synthesis power-up

www.asayers.com/jetrelay/ [...] jetrelay, a pub/sub server compatible with Bluesky’s “jetstream” data feed. Using a few pertinent Linux kernel features, it avoids doing almost any work itself. As a result, it’s highly efficient: it can saturate a 10 Gbps network connection with just 8 CPU cores.

here's some incredibly boring information about the map/territory relation (first post in a series on vagueness) joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-0...

started a school for the summer! ultralight.school

too tired to write a release post but spatial feeds are here

wow express v5 finally marked as latest on npm

I use these utility hooks in almost every React app I write but I'm scared to tell anybody because what if it means I'm Using Hooks Wrong. they seem like no-brainers to me though

"make the web weird/fun again" language is so alarm blaring.. often it is used by the worst people you know co-opting language/practice/vision from ppl at the peripheries

everything's btree

most people don't even use 10% of the computer

forgot to follow up about my Zig IPLD implementation - it works! I just cut v0.1.0 a few weeks ago with the release of Zig 0.14. it features two parallel APIs for working with either arbitrary heap-allocated values, or encoding to/from statically-typed Zig types. supports dag-cbor and dag-json.

determined to keep scaling the bluesky map by dynamically loading sampled quadtree tiles....

once you master the off-by-one gotchas they hit you with endianness gotchas. then once you master endianness gotchas they hit you with alignment gotchas.