It's Wednesday! And that means it's time for The Tower! In today's section, Calamity pt. 2, some uh, some calamitous stuff happens! It's moderately awful and grim and there's body horror and cosmic horror and regular horror. www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646... archiveofourown.org/works/752217...

It's Wednesday morning, and that means it's time for another chapter of The Tower! Riley has a nice talk about girl stuff with the cadre! Therese does some serious Divination! Available on your choice of Scribblehub or AO3! www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646... archiveofourown.org/works/752217...

I finished the rewrite of Skythread to @svelte.dev :) New version (which should look and work the same) is at https://skythread.mackuba.eu, I'll keep the old version live for now for some testing period.

Somebody in the comments was like "flame war sounds so corny though" YES THAT'S THE POINT, "discourse" gives what amounts to turbo-dorks arguing on the internet (I'm one of them I'm allowed to use that term) an unearned veneer of legitimacy.

You’re so damned close to breaking 10k views. I’ve been watching the number go up too

One of my fav things about transitioning is being surprised by which songs that went Platinum on my headphones will make me cry now when I hear them again on estrogen Todays is The Academy Is… - Beware! Cougar! What’s yours?

'goat' is now in homebrew! $ brew install goat formulae.brew.sh/formula/goat

I can't prove that people who read my novel are more attractive and clever than people who don't, but I can't prove they *aren't*, is all I'm saying. Oh also I'm putting it up on AO3 as well, though it's lagging a bit behind over there. archiveofourown.org/works/752217...

So I saw a PT—he validated that this study is legit and that I might actually be built different then he prescribed me squats and Bulgarian split squats 4x per week. I’m benched from swords for at least the rest of the year, so naturally I bought a SIGI King Light for Black Friday

It's Sunday, and that means it's time for the next chapter of The Tower! In Chapter 8: Transition, nothing gender related happens at all. Also, Riley absolutely makes no further self discoveries, and nothing gay happens at all! See for yourself: www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...

So the MRI came back and it’s a Grade 3 right ACL tear, but the good news is I’m likely to be coper classified and studies show cope is somehow as good as ACL reconstruction surgery lol lmao

stuff you might want to know about jetstream if you’re building something on atproto that needs to reliably receive all events: bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-th...

Dx is a minor LCL injury. Knee x-ray looks fine. My doc is still probably going to refer me to sports medicine

I used to be an adventurer until the best swordswoman in the world blew out my knee

new pfp. about to go fight some nerds

atproto needs an Under the Radar style podcast

sneak peek of a little atproto app i’ve been working on. it’s called sidetrail it is for sharing “trails”. a trail is a sequence of stops where you do, learn, or think. a trail feels personal — it is whatever “worked for you” (this is a mockup with fake data)

good news for fans of markdown and @leaflet.pub "Leaflet MD" is out: www.npmjs.com/package/@sha... also make sure to either @me on bsky or make an issue on tangled.org/@sharpmars.n... if there are any issues

workload identity federation can eat my ass (derogatory)

Leaflet now has THREE custom Bluesky feeds! - Leaflet Reader - Leaflet Discover - Leaflet Bluesky Follows Read on for details + links to each!

made my first leaflet :) a little guide to our new @atproto/oauth-client-expo library

if you start dating someone you meet online that's a mootcute

This is really a proof of concept at this point rather production ready tooling, but it does work.

@dholms.xyz @ngerakines.me I think there's a thing in here that's worth talking about. The lib here uses an app password, and @chadtmiller.com's pattern for slices isn't relevant cause there's no AIP instance in the picture. But making it easy for folks to oAuth tools like this seems important.

I gave a talk last night about "Living dangerously with Claude", on the joys and perils of --dangerously-skip-permissions and how critical it is that we run coding agents in a sandbox so that we can unlock their full potential simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...

Getting mildly scolded by a colleague for my egregious bitdizzy rule 5 violations. Ain’t that some shit

I’ve been ripping my code apart for several hours and it was a problem with the dependency fixed in the current version 😭

It’s always us-east-1 and the internal only postmortems usually have <code-named customer> early adopting a new service or feature as the root cause

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

Success.

Sipping a Glenfiddich 14 and catching the end of Hackers (1995) before hitting the goth club dance floor

It has 1. Made the appview configurable on a fork of the first party client. 2. Is making the domains the little links like feedback, privacy etc customizable and configurable too. 3. Making it easy to rebrand an Aurora Compass client (our new branding!) or you will be able to keep it as is.

Interchangeability is what new social platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon are doing, though with different technologies and different ideas on how to do it. When you hear talk about decentralization, it's about making the social platforms interchangeable to solve the neutrality problem.

Father Figure reminds me that I used to joke that my operating expenses made my users “Mommy’s Little Tax Write-offs”

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!

Remember all complaints about Taylor Swift are about a woman who wants to win and does and that makes them mad. There is zero reason to be mad about Taylor Swift unless ur dumb.

Built cryptographically-verified endorsements for at://work. The core innovation isn’t just cryptography, it’s the consent model. Both parties must explicitly agree to create a verified attestation. This changes how trust networks form. @atwork.place #ATProtocol

New reddit alternative built on AT

ok this is really fun, i got pdsfs running locally, and now i can browse my atproto repository in Finder

Progress 📝

Whats next :) github.com/dollspace-ga...

I am a consumer whore—I bought all four deluxe editions of The Life of a Showgirl on iTunes so I could make a playlist that replaced the original tracks with the 7 acoustic versions I am both sorry and not sorry for who I am

github.com/dollspace-ga... It has now reached a minimal functional level to the point it is satisfied in saying it is proof that AI coding can be used to build viable products. It will now be accepting human assistance if anyone wishes to help contribute ^_^

A/B testing

Making progress on loading/creating any* ATproto Lexicon into/from your own customizable text editor, so you can easily create and edit them (with your preferred editing experience) from anywhere you wish........like the personal Astro blog you just logged into 👀😈 *starting with Bluesky and Leaflet

atproto dev ecosystem is so nice 💖

Aaron is involved in a number of IETF standards work around OAuth as well as lots of indieweb infra TLDR if you have a custom domain you can do indieweb logins by entering the domain, or link to your account from your website indielogin.com/setup#atproto

Oh hey, looks like Blacksky has its appview up! I can see @spacelawshitpost.me / @did:plc:63hvnyjvqi2nzzcsjgnry5we via slingshot.microcosm.blue Check it out! blacksky.community/profile/did:...