Salvatore Ganacci is truly the Mozart of our era

people saying ai is a fad don't know what they're talking about. i'm definitely not giving up my claude now; the ability to do structural refactors "change this thing to be layered like this thing in this other project" is fantastic. i *do* want the model to be local and hope we'll get there in time

hi everyone! if you didn’t just start following me in the last 2 days, you might not have noticed that I work here now :) in that capacity, I give you the first official weekly(?) bsky devrel blogpost: We Really Love DNS. leaflet.pub/c37b8a8f-f95...

Tangled works really smoothly, I pushed Konbini over there too (though will probably still use github as my primary for this for now). tangled.org/@why.bsky.te...

atmosphere devs! 🧑‍🚀 just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco... tl;dr expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social

In past side projects i would never bother to make a UI, or I would just have a janky CLI that interacts with everything, having Claude make me a simple little web interface for things now is really nice, even if its not “good” it’s very helpful and makes things more fun to keep working on

Added support to Konbini for jetstream and multiple backends. Jetstream is *much* lighter in terms of bandwidth and CPU to process the firehose, and the multiple backends config can be used to just subscribe to individual PDSs instead of a full relay firehose.

It's really amazing to me, a person born in the 90s, that I have a 13" laptop that has 24 CPU cores that go up to 5.1Ghz and 96GB of ram and it weighs under 3 pounds. So easy to take for granted just how far compute performance has improved. Young me would not believe it

Some people seem to think that "decentralized" means "I can never have the reach of my posts restricted in any way ever" and that's just not a workable definition.

Has anyone checked if sonnet 4.5 still does the bliss state thing?

Running the following feed is like half of our production workload, its kinda silly how much work it is to do that

Konbini now can load third party feeds! I also added a selective (manual) backfill endpoint to load all of a given users posts, fleshed out background profile fetching a bit better, and added some (admittedly complex) instructions for how to point the main app at it

so-called "protocol" (exaggerated scare quote hand gesture)

Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety. This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Pretty sure I can eat more lemon gelatto than the gelatto shop has.

Implemented enough of the XRPC endpoints on Konbini that I can get a fork of the main app running against it

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

dec/acc

The consequences of just building yet another centralized social media platform are dire, we are not here to be a second Twitter, and not here to "own" the network or your data.

No, you are not our product. Our product _is_ the code that we write and distribute for others to use. For others to take and build their communities. Making the users the product is exactly the model that never works and continues to never work.

Doll built this in a cave, out of a box of scraps.

Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles

Very excited for the healthy discourse project we are working on, I really think it’s going to move the needle

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

The slop app makes some sloppy slop

Prescient.

to be clear do not rawdog the firehose that is UNSAFE

Happy to hear that it seems like Apple hasn't given up on the Vision Pro, The first one was really impressive and I would use it a lot more if they just managed to cut the weight. It makes an excellent "second screen" for my laptop

I'm just eight instances of Claude Code in a trenchcoat

Nobody even works here. It's just me and 29 advanced AIs.

We’re hiring for two machine learning roles. A chance to do cutting edge things with ML to make this place a lot more personalized. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Bring back just wrapping yourself with a blanket in public and calling it clothes

Entering day four of "no phone because it broke and I can't get to an apple store", AMA

okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back! hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network! docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...

Mostly i'm just here to click the like button on Hideo Kojima posts

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Female founder building embryo screening to help reduce genetic disease risk. Really impactful tech

What if, an AppView that's really lazy, and only watches for events from people you follow or that are otherwise relevant to you, and that also could run in your browser.

Hey everyone! We are trying to rename an inportant part of bluesky and we need your opinions!

Got called a heathen at the ice cream shop and I’m like, fair.

From the people who brought you “meetings that could have been emails”, we present “t-shirts that could have been sweaters”

Big fan of Canada, really good stuff up there. Also a big fan of taking time away from computers. Anyways, back to work.

Note to self, when updating your computer make sure your feed server database comes back online before checking out for the day and not checking the app until Saturday 😅

So my eternal curse of going on vacation and having something break struck again. This time the wires for the cpu fan on my server were apparently rubbing against the fan, which over time was wearing through the wire and it just so happened to finally break fully the day that I left for a trip.

Heads up that the server running my feeds has had an (as of yet) unknown hardware failure and will take a little while to debug. Not sure how long its gonna be.

The really cool thing about this service is that if Bluesky the company were to shut every one of our servers down hard, this can still migrate your account to a new pds and keep going. Really awesome stuff for decentralization

It’s wild when the people who control the only feed most people see accuse us of being the echo chamber. People are scared and in pain—they deserve spaces to talk without top-down interference. That’s what we’re building.

Bleusky

Claude 4.0 review so far: Its definitely the best coding model, really solid stuff there. It doesn't necessarily generate better code on a function by function level, but it stays on track for longer tasks much better, and its a lot better at spotting issues.

“Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM” Watch this.