released three new experimental features for reddwarf.app today. you can now send and receive bites, and also view posts from bridgy/wafrn with their original formatting

get bit

not sure why but i cant log into tangled using any accounts hosted on my pds. i tried using a bsky.social acc and it worked just fine

oooh hey another constellation-powered bsky client 🌌

for this week's atproto news I'm comparing todays Dutch election result with how active the politicians are on Bluesky and in other news: - GreenEarth is building personalised algos on atproto, with 300k in funding - more interop between publishing platforms - polls on leaflet

bought a new domain reddwarf.app

It's here! PDS MOOver now supports automated backups and restores that anyone can use! This also includes adversarial account migrations! pdsmoover.com

material hue

red dwarf now lets you switch between different Microcosm instances! here im using @atproto-nix.org 's con.snek.cc and sd.snek.cc

microcosm is hard decentralization - 2x full network non-US-based public relays, among longest running indies - 3x public jetstream - the only public PLC mirror running the reference PLC code/with full PLC API support - the first public record cache infra built around com.atproto.*.getRecord

you can now reply and quote post, but still no embeds (link preview/files) just yet reddwarf.whey.party/profile/did%...

Cleaned up the styling a bit

i really like twitter's post thread sidebar for the desktop web image viewer and so added it to red dwarf (its not actually hooked up to any routes yet, its just a modal)

experimenting with tanstack virtual list on local3768forumtest.whey.party still seeing some annoying scroll jumps, scroll position restoring is less precise, and perf on mobile is noticeably worse than a plain div tangled.org/@whey.party/...

got rid of unnecessary fetches by applying more caches to more queries, and i also enabled react compiler. while its still not that fast, red dwarf should feel a bit faster for mobile users. also PWA colors should be nicer now

ATProto is a team sport - we build better together. That's why, effective today, we're opening up access to the enriched archive we use to power Graze, so anyone can build great services on top of ATProto without reinventing the wheel. Read more in the @leaflet.pub post below for details!

just found out that constellation now lets you filter by did, and it makes fetching follow state way easier. tangled.org/@whey.party/... but a problem i quickly ran into is that the main constellation instance does not index most of my follows (probably because it isnt backfilled, and my acc is old)

annoyed that you have to do this at all tangled.org/strings/did:...

I speak next week about our work to add E2EE DMs in Bluesky using the Matrix protocol. The event will be live streamed by the Matrix conference. cfp.2025.matrix.org/matrix-conf-... We will launch a Bluesky service using this technology soon. @arathorn.net @kurtopsahl.bsky.social @micahflee.com

okay i get it having two things named "Red Dwarf" is very confusing the "main" tanstack router version: - repo: tangled.org/@whey.party/... - app: reddwarf.whey.party experimental social-app fork: - repo: github.com/rimar1337/so... - app: red-dwarf-social-app.whey.party

hmm the upcoming bsky update (main.bsky.dev) undid my patch and text color on dark theme is now pure white again github.com/bluesky-soci...

yay! with @minito.dev 's red dwarf contribution, you can now unlike your likes (your likes are no longer forgotten by the app)! tangled.org/@whey.party/...

just added a few good first issues for red dwarf if you want to help tackle some of the lower hanging fruits tangled.org/@whey.party/...

if you're doing a side project and someone else is doing the same, don't let this discourage you it doesn't hurt to have alternatives, different implementations, who knows if they will go as far as you do, and in any case, you will learn a lot and have something cool to show

slices-teal-relay.bigmoves.deno.net If you leave your browser open the tracks will now load in real time 🪩

mattress.whey.party i decided to use a real triple store and also embed triple metadata via reification. havent implemented the 'canon triples' system yet though

@danabra.mov inspired me to get GraphQL working with @slices.network aaaand it's pretty rad. Slices will generate query interfaces based on your Slices' lexicon and you can join on did/ref/uri. Here's a remix on Dan's teal demo using the entire @teal.fm dataset. slices-teal-relay.bigmoves.deno.net

Not sure why i named it Mattress, im terrible at naming things slices.network/profile/whey... Also i found `goat lex` to be very useful to validate a record against the lexicon definition, it helped me debug why slices wasnt indexing my records despite the lexicon being valid (i misspelled "uri")

at://devs! I wrote up a lexicon style guide, looking for feedback. also cooking on a linting tool to check a a bunch of these

it does work, its just that its not implemented in the ui. i made a userscript that patches mastopod and i can login just fine this makes it seem like the project very under resourced, and not a technical limitation

proud to announce that im self hosting a PDS* on my vps with open registration! pds-ap.whey.party (*Activity Personal Online Data Store, not an atproto PDS)

just tried out @slices.network by feeding it @forumtest.whey.party lexicons very cool that it does lexicon validation and how it makes backfilling really easy slices.network/profile/whey... i dont think jetstream Real-time indexing works though forumtest.whey.party/f/@forumtest...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

DID I really think that worked? 😅 Try it yourself! did:plc:[m] [n] [?] [?] [?] [e] [w] [?] [?] [?] [e] [5] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [d] [3] [p] [o] [w] [c] 12 out of 24 chars correct Time: 78s Attempts: 1 @didcaptcha.com - How well do you know your DID? didcaptcha.com

Surprise! A second leaflet on private data in AT, this time exploring some schemes that might be used to implement shared-private data.

got a public url for red dwarf social app red-dwarf-social-app.whey.party so far i only got feeds and post thread to use the red dwarf direct pds + microcosm queries, and everything else is still standard unchanged social-app. i havent touched profile pages yet code is at github.com/rimar1337/so...

オスプレイ (osprey) は、使っているライブラリの名前から来てるようだ github.com/bluesky-soci...

tried porting the new react query based red dwarf fetching logic into social-app. its really slow and if i dont wait for the profile data itll crash from Maximum update depth exceeded

Forumtest development is paused because i developed ESAV for it and then realized it wasnt a good fit for a variety of reasons and then Spacedust released and i saw its potential but i did other projects with it instead so yeah forumtest is still on the table but i got distracted

Since people ask every so often: constellation's index occupies 270GiB on disk right now It has all links from all atproto records in the the last 221 days, so we're at +1.2 GiB/day needed on average to maintain it. Cassiopeia's SSD has 1TiB so we're good for a while ✨

wrote a thread about an idea i had mas.to/@Whey/115155...

okay i tried something 6789.whey.party constellation instance running on my laptop (would die soon) but it is using a jetstream instance url that isnt actually jetstream but it is actually a backfill server that implement the jetstream return shape and its growing in backfill size reallly quickly

okay so im trying something, so this is a custom feed that hydrates its own content, without relying on any appview to display it. for every new post that appears in the feed, it tracks its interactions to provide an independent and (best effort) hydrated getFeed and getPostThread apis

i am future me and i think i got it, red dwarf now caches almost everything into persistent memory (idk if thats a bad thing or not) and now can store your scroll position across page reload tangled.sh/@whey.party/...

new update to red dwarf, using the site should feel a lot faster now i migrated away from my custom cached fetch to tanstack react query and the results are great imo. also it now uses microcosm slingshot (pds edge cache) to reduce individual pds query load slingshot.microcosm.blue

just updated the #deadlock feed again after a long long while, it now includes posts talking about the new heroes. i dont play enough deadlock to know any other specific game or community terms to add to the regex though sorry

sorry it took this long and i still havent made the code any better the initial open source release of red dwarf is here tangled.sh/@whey.party/... it includes a readme that explains a bit about the project and how it works and its limitations

skylite View server now can show notifs (though slightly wrong and not timestamped) which is powered by spacedust

Excited to share some new stuff I've been I've been working on. It's an appview for building appviews called Slices. A slice reads your lexicons, indexes your records from the Jetstream, does backfill and provides a typescript client to interact with your lexicon .listRecords, .searchRecords, etc