Vlad Sitalo
vlad.sitalo.org
Vlad Sitalo
@vlad.sitalo.org
Recently have been diving deep into getting good at West Coast Swing/Modern Swing 🕺.

Building https://modernswing.forum/

I love hacking ⌨ and I'm fascinated by Tools for thought 🧰

https://vlad.roam.garden
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Prototyped sort of ampie.app version for Bluesky.

It shows you bluesky mentions for a given link you're visiting.
Definitely gives a feeling of more "connected" web
Reposted by Vlad Sitalo
HYTRADBOI is tomorrow! Feb 28 0900 PDT. The chat will run for days, so it's worth joining even if you can't make the early hours.

Bring all your friends too! Re-skeet, share on your favorite forum, put flyers under your neighbours doors etc.

See you tomorrow!

www.hytradboi.com/2025/#tickets
HYTRADBOI 2025
HYTRADBOI is a fun online conference about databases, programming languages, and everything in between.
www.hytradboi.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is currently broken bc search API started returning 403 for me (e.g. public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsk...)

Will see if there is a workaround in a bit!
January 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Are there any established good practices/standard advice on mixing Automerge (or CRDTs more generally) and complex querying (e.g. having documents in something like sqlite/pglite and running queries based on their content and relationship/etc)
January 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
TIL www.sortabase.com exists, excited for more explorations in collaborative structured data.

Though specific DB I was interested in (on Wireless Earbuds) seems outdated unfortunately
Sortabase | Collaborative, visual databases by communities
Sortabase is a platform for communities to build and manage collaborative, visual databases
www.sortabase.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It also now shows "best posts" when you visit someone's profile on Bluesky - something I've been missing from Twemex.
December 30, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Using the sidebar bsky.app/profile/vlad... I stumbled on the mention of @en.blueark.app and migrated my historical tweets to Bluesky.

In turn making the sidebar more useful (as it has access to more context now)
Prototyped sort of ampie.app version for Bluesky.

It shows you bluesky mentions for a given link you're visiting.
Definitely gives a feeling of more "connected" web
December 26, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Reposted by Vlad Sitalo
Published as a userscript here if you want to play with it (v much prototype quality): greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5...

Use `Alt+x` to toggle the sidebar
Bluesky URL Mention Sidebar
Display a sidebar with all mentions of the current URL on Bluesky, togglable via Alt+X, with logging, disabled in iframes, drag-resizeable, closeable, updates on navigation without monkey-patching, hi...
greasyfork.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Reposted by Vlad Sitalo
my first custom feed: Top Articles

It shows you the links the people you follow have most shared in the last 24 hours
December 14, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Prototyped sort of ampie.app version for Bluesky.

It shows you bluesky mentions for a given link you're visiting.
Definitely gives a feeling of more "connected" web
December 18, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I've built "subscribe to a Bluesky thread as an RSS feed" - check it out at vlad-blueskythreadtorss.web.val.run

Subscribing to updates to specific thread is the functionality I wanted to exist on Twi/X since forever. Delighted on how easy it was to build my own version of it for Bsky!
December 14, 2024 at 7:47 PM
My Roam Research automation of the day:

A keyboard shortcut to create a new block on a daily note page and open it in sidebar with focus on it. The intent is "quick capture" within Roam without having to switch contexts.

Code: gist.github.com/Stvad/0f6e88...
Roam Research shortcut to create a new block on a daily note page and open it in sidebar with focus on it
Roam Research shortcut to create a new block on a daily note page and open it in sidebar with focus on it - quick-capture.js
gist.github.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Recently upgraded my voice note process.

Wrote up details here: vlad.roam.garden/Streamlining...
November 22, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Thinking of revamping roam garden, looking for inspirations.
Anything in networked-thought-publishing space people found exciting recently?
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
In NYC again - till the end of the month! Pls reach out to say hi!
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
In NYC till next Thu - ping me if you'd like to say hi 🙂
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Cat cafe but for mechanical keyboards with different switches ⌨️
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Dance has become a big part of my life this year.
And naturally I started to wonder - can I build tools that help me get better at dancing? I’m exploring some experiments in the space, but I wonder if people are aware of existing things that would fit that description?
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
I've been failing at reading things on the internet for many years, but I kept trying and tweaking my approach.
Finally, last year I've arrived at something that actually works!

I've written up the process here in hopes other people find it...
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
What is the state of the art in collaborative knowledge creation?

I want something Roam-like, but publicly accessible and indexable (& editable)

With good history and facilities to enable some level of moderation (e.g. wikipedia) to prevent spam/vandalism
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Reminder that this is happening every Tue! https://x.com/VladyslavSitalo/status/1667012383137751042
December 26, 2024 at 4:26 AM
As a part of my recent explorations of @matrixdotorg I've figured out how to build serverless bots for it (using @ValDotTown) check out the guide at https://vlad.roam.garden/How-to-create-a-serverless-Matrix-Chat-bot
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
I'm running an experiment when every Tue, starting 5pm I'd be at @thesfcommons and encourage my friends to come and hang out with me
The goal is to create additional opportunities for meaningful interactions while removing the overhead of...
December 26, 2024 at 4:15 AM
I've been recently thinking about how knowledge management and chat can work better together (think RoamResearch x Slack)

And written an article that explores some of the ideas I had (it links to a few prototypes I built around this):...
December 26, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Roam Garden tip.

It currently doesn't support Roam's `video` command, but you can still embed videos by pasting the embed code youtube/etc will give you into a block

And such a block will be rendered as video in the garden
December 26, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Belatedly following the trends - I made a 'date me' doc 🙂

Please check it out and send it to people who you think can be a good match!

http://date.vlad.sitalo.org
December 26, 2024 at 4:20 AM