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me and @pfrazee.com trying to figure out how to fix the relay
December 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
me and @pfrazee.com trying to figure out how to fix the relay
Quick appreciation post for checklists.
I had to do a delicate migration in prod, so I did the SRE thing: step by step checklist, minimize the critical sections where things are down, lots of sanity checks, dry run first. (If I was really serious, I'd have found someone to watch over my shoulder.)
I had to do a delicate migration in prod, so I did the SRE thing: step by step checklist, minimize the critical sections where things are down, lots of sanity checks, dry run first. (If I was really serious, I'd have found someone to watch over my shoulder.)
December 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Quick appreciation post for checklists.
I had to do a delicate migration in prod, so I did the SRE thing: step by step checklist, minimize the critical sections where things are down, lots of sanity checks, dry run first. (If I was really serious, I'd have found someone to watch over my shoulder.)
I had to do a delicate migration in prod, so I did the SRE thing: step by step checklist, minimize the critical sections where things are down, lots of sanity checks, dry run first. (If I was really serious, I'd have found someone to watch over my shoulder.)
11 year old: "The best thing about Santa Claus is that I don't have to write him a thank you note!"
December 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
11 year old: "The best thing about Santa Claus is that I don't have to write him a thank you note!"
"Democracy is the worst form of government...except for all the others."
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill - Wikiquote
en.wikiquote.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"Democracy is the worst form of government...except for all the others."
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
Fun fact: "six seven" traces its roots all the way back to Old English in the 1380s. Geoffrey Chaucer coined it in his epic poem Troilus and Criseyd:
"But manly set the world on sixe and sevene;
And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene."
www.librarius.com/troicris.htm
"But manly set the world on sixe and sevene;
And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene."
www.librarius.com/troicris.htm
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) - "Troilus and Criseyde" (middle-english hypertext with glossary)
www.librarius.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Fun fact: "six seven" traces its roots all the way back to Old English in the 1380s. Geoffrey Chaucer coined it in his epic poem Troilus and Criseyd:
"But manly set the world on sixe and sevene;
And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene."
www.librarius.com/troicris.htm
"But manly set the world on sixe and sevene;
And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene."
www.librarius.com/troicris.htm
"You should consider that the essential art of civilization is maintenance."
- Pete Seeger
- Pete Seeger
Page | Books in Progress
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
books.worksinprogress.co
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"You should consider that the essential art of civilization is maintenance."
- Pete Seeger
- Pete Seeger
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Embrace pronoia, which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Embrace pronoia, which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
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Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our community, and (2) we want to discuss our ideas publicly. Some...
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We have a mini launch today with two new blocking features on Bridgy Fed:
1. For ATProto and ActivityPub, you can now use the "block" DM command to block multiple users at once 🙅🏼♂️🙅🏼🙅🏼♀️
2. For ActivityPub, you can now subscribe to ATProto Block Lists over the bridge 📃🚫
More in our latest blog post:
1. For ATProto and ActivityPub, you can now use the "block" DM command to block multiple users at once 🙅🏼♂️🙅🏼🙅🏼♀️
2. For ActivityPub, you can now subscribe to ATProto Block Lists over the bridge 📃🚫
More in our latest blog post:
Launch: New Blocking Features on Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed has always had a simple way to block users over the bridge, whether the other user is bridged or not.
If the user is bridged, you can use your native platform’s blocking features. If the u...
blog.anew.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our community, and (2) we want to discuss our ideas publicly. Some...
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TIL: "free driver"
opposite of free rider
opposite of free rider
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
TIL: "free driver"
opposite of free rider
opposite of free rider
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AT Friends 2 is up! Had @snarfed.org explain Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy), learned a lot about the various open social protocols
AT friends #2: @snarfed.org of Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy)
informal chats with people building excellent stuff on (or in this case around) AT Proto
latenthomer.leaflet.pub
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
AT Friends 2 is up! Had @snarfed.org explain Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy), learned a lot about the various open social protocols
Lately I've been thinking about orphaned code. Code that's still running, live, with no remaining developers or users.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Lately I've been thinking about orphaned code. Code that's still running, live, with no remaining developers or users.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.
The history of coffee is basically one long quest to make it taste as good as it smells.
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The history of coffee is basically one long quest to make it taste as good as it smells.
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
standards bodies: "bureaucracy for good"
October 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
standards bodies: "bureaucracy for good"
A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
October 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!
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Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use "the internet" to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another.
January 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use "the internet" to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another.
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