I call this photo „meet your idols“ because in it I met my idols (and rad humans!) @vladimir.berlin @thealexlichter.com @43081j.com @nickthesick.com (James of @npmx.dev & @e18e.dev fame made sure that @willow.sh‘s Svelte pin on my bag is blurred)

@fubits.dev has the only photo I was in for the entire @localfirstconf.com and I’m waiting for him to post it; so I have proof to my wife that I went to a conference 😅

@43081j.com here you go buddy, have at it: npmx.dev/package/@emo...

tfw you know that you’ve just completely outdone yourself

On the train Berlin for @localfirstconf.com! Excited to be there!

Very happy to announce that @chatto.run, the amazing little team chat app you can self-host from your own infrastructure (and quite easily so), is now available & Open Source. ✨

Token anxiety 😨

This took quite a lot to get a hang of. I had to re-architect how bookhive runs to have multiple processes now. At least they can all share the same SQLite DB, if this doesn't hold up, then I will probably have to move to Postgres and maybe even multiple servers

I've been working on E2EE for my Y.js sync server & think I have a solution that I really like now!

The amount of times I’ve been bit by this makes me remove sharp in every project I work on. Maybe I don’t have to do this anymore?

Goodreads has locked down their website APIs further with a WAF. I’m looking into ways to solve it to keep book data for @bookhive.buzz working. I’m hopeful that I’ll figure something out, but for now book data will be partial if someone has not already fetched that book before.

Me: fix the tests Claude: test failures were pre-existing. Tests are clean Me: *irrational anger* FIX THE TESTS

Explain your @ A guy in eighth grade called me “Nick the Sick” when being “sick” became cool to say. Now it’s just me. Thanks Jimmy O’Connor!

Join the 🇳🇱 Dutch Atproto builders/meetup group here bsky.app/chat/vDInstP @tijs.org @jvtilburg.eurosky.social @laulau.land

I wanted to try out using docs.imgproxy.net which is a self-hosted tool to resize images, and I was not disappointed by the savings I could get out of encoding things as webp and resizing them for BookHive!

Released this, very happy to see such a reduction in deps for BlockNote. Markdown parsing & serializing is annoying

I've been wanting to share this for a while, even though the project is on hold for a bit while we figure out some things on our side. I worked on making a Notion Databases like UI, to go with BlockNote our Notion-like rich text editor. I'm super happy with how it came out: (website not final)

I'm going to "at:// Local-First Conf".

Thanks so much for posting @faineg.bsky.social! I’m glad you like BookHive enough to recommend it

It's crazy how many requests BookHive gets! Most of them are just scrapers...

Hm, I know that guy 🤔

Looks like I got this merged in, soon I'll add support to @bookhive.buzz to track reading progress directly from KOReader I already added this to my koreader sync server: github.com/nperez0111/k...

Honestly, I've been dame'd before and it hurt me... I think there is just a lack of appreciation that maybe someone is just trying their best with what they have, available Open Source for FREE. There isn't any sense engaging with someone like this: bsky.app/profile/dame...

Little write up of some thoughts I've had lately on AI generated music: nickthesick.com/blog/Music+i...

Standard news: standard.site lexicons with upvotes and downvotes and obviously commenting for flame wars

I'm pretty proud that my mom was able to download the @bookhive.buzz app, create an account, and log a book she read, all on her own! She has no clue what Bluesky is, and doesn't need to. As far as she knows, she has a BookHive account.

@pckt.blog the syntax highlighting is not the same between the edit view and the rendered view, which isn't super nice. Maybe it is trying to respect my theme?

Because I've been asked a few times about the new Y.js and y-prosemirror updates I decided to put them altogether in a single blog: nick-the-sick.pckt.blog/yjs-14-at-yp...

Looks like we've got a review, so does seem like this might go somewhere!

@npmx.dev I'm sure that this is already on your radar, but better-hub is looking to be a very nice alternative view on GitHub: www.better-hub.com

Did we ever get closure on the Deno drama???

I just found out about panproto: panproto.dev Where can I get more information on this @aaronstevenwhite.io this is such a cool project. I'm particularly interested in lens for migrations of CRDTs like Y.js

Well, we can just do things, so here it is! npmx.dev/package/bett... An ATProto better-auth provider. So you can easily add bluesky auth in addition to other auth providers with better-auth

I had wanted to make this for Koreader but didn’t have enough metadata to do it. Cool to see moonreader can!

Open to new opportunities! If you know of any senior eng / fullstack roles (remote or PNW based), especially in the open source / decentralized tech space, shoot me a DM! 10+ years fullstack, currently building on #atproto, check out @grain.social

Bluesky has spoken! It's official "Atmosphere account", now we can stop bike-shedding

vibekanban.com/blog/shutdown Vibe Kanban was really nice. I do wish that I could have everything under a single tool. Kanban is such a nice format

I even type with proper capitalization and full sentences. I probably waste so much time, but it’s the only way I write. I text like this too. Always full sentences…. I always feel weird talking to someone who texts like they are using a T9 and I’m here writing an English essay.

I love when claude confidently declares that it has the full picture, it always reminds me that he absolutely does not have the full picture

For reference, I just turned on cloudflare caching on the site March 27 (in hope of caching images) and apparently I was getting 10k requests a day. Now, almost all requests are under 1s (P95+) and most are under 175ms (P75+)! It's crazy what some optimization work can do, worth it!

We now should stay performant even with so many AI scrapers blatantly ignoring robots.txt It is so tiring to figure out all the possible ways that the service could be bogged down, but it definitely forced me to optimize absolutely anything I can think of.

Finally, Apple got around to approving the corresponding mobile app for the BookHive V2 update! Check it out on iOS: app.bookhive.buzz

I actually just did this and man is it so satisfying to have like 80 deps gone for 2 large files of code. We already have so many markdown tests in BlockNote but I went ahead and added a bunch more to help guide the LLM to make good choices. github.com/TypeCellOS/B...

I made a write up of my #ATmosphereConf presentation I was pretty bummed about feeling like I didn't have enough time, but seeing the write up makes me feel like I did get a lot of information through. I'm honored to have been able to present at the conference, it was a great experience!

@atprotocol.dev (or maybe @stream.place) unsure that there is anyway to modify the video of my #atmosphereconf talk, but my talk has like 30 minutes of silence at the start of it (since I started after a coffee break) Any help you can give would be great! atmo.rsvp/p/atmosphere...

Oh no, another side project might be coming. Now that I’ve landed on the perfect name. Notation = Notion + AT

Just made it back home to Rotterdam. The #ATmosphereconf community was just absolutely lovely. I had a great time meeting people who I’ve followed, and many more. Definitely will be back! Especially if in EU!

I’d like to welcome @patak.dog A better @patak.cat better UI than the previous one. Brought to you by NPM

Nick The Sick is at #AtmosphereConf and launching BookHive#AtmosphereConfV2! BookHive is a social reading app, and in V2, they're launching account handles, shelves to track lists of books, and reading stats! Learn more here:

I'm feeling very honored today to be able to speak about my work on @bookhive.buzz to so many people at #ATmosphereConf today at 16:00 So many people that I've met and admired even before meeting them in person. It's been such a pleasure, and felt so welcomed by everyone!