Andrew F
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Andrew F
@aftd.dev
Web dev, previously a lawyer
atproto-browser.vercel.app
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
As a tactic, flooding the zone is very effective. Someone scrolling through their phone is just going to pick up on "Trump bad" and a variety of flavors of that just sticks better than any single message.
November 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Message discipline is overrated in the age of social media. I talked to a former Trump supporter the other day complaining about the current state of affairs, and it was interesting to see him flip back and forth between SNAP and Epstein.
November 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I think this should be true of finance generally as well. If you want to ride the meme stonk, you should crowd the floor at an exchange and get in a yelling match with a bunch of other traders. And then when the market crashes, the papers get to take a picture of you looking miserable.
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The game is a stealth game. So you have to duck in and out of vents and hide from people and drones while you go steal things. But if you play co-op, you can pull a three raccoons in a trench coat act and sneak into restricted areas.
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I'd say this is a face-eating leopard moment, but it's honestly unclear who the leopard is here.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
FWIW, I think there is something to be said for using an LLM to turn my normie human query into a regex or boolean search with filters or whatever. But, you know, after that, just give me the actual messages, not a possibly inaccurate summary.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"Sorry, but this book is too good" is evergreen
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Helping first time home buyers is not quite the same thing as helping renters.

Also, I am not sure the federal student program is a great model here. They help some afford college, but without putting downward pressure on prices, that just traps people in debt.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My sense is that the business opportunity is really for a collection of Wordle-adjacent games that also happens to have some prestigious journalism attached to it.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Reposted by Andrew F
Your numbers depict the topology of possibility, not probability. Each ship, each captain, each intelligence must still trust the other. For even if you have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries, without charity, we are but blind, moving through a forest darkly.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Yeah, it's API abuse. You can see an example of this user's message here. There's the text, and there are are four mentions with a `byteStart` and `byteEnd` of 0.
atproto-browser.vercel.app
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I'm not sure but the Bluesky API format permits *any* text to be a mention. Essentially, you post a message and then separately annotate it by saying "characters 5-7 are a mention for <person>". There is no validation AFAICT.
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I hear Ted Kaczynski was good at math.
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Should we get a cargo bike with an electric motor?"

"Pssh, I got legs."

Mistakes were made!
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
As someone who semi-regularly bikes the kid to school, it annoys me to no end that the grade goes up on the way there (when we're in a rush) and not back home (when we can take our time).
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM