eric
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This is such a great post. I've already shared it with multiple people.
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
October 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is such a great post. I've already shared it with multiple people.
New post comparing my experiences of spending three months in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur each → eric.fun/bkk-kl
Bangkok vs Kuala Lumpur?
As an expat, choosing between Bangkok and KL turned out to be much harder than I thought. While I've mostly made up my mind, I wanted to do a brain …
eric.fun
October 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
New post comparing my experiences of spending three months in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur each → eric.fun/bkk-kl
I don’t have a permanent office. Most of the time I’m working out of different coworking spaces around the world. Here’s a minimal mobile setup I’ve refined to 2.3 kg that’s been with me across 8+ countries this year.
eric.fun/mobile-work/
eric.fun/mobile-work/
My Mobile Work Setup
This year, I've spent time in over 8 countries with just one small backpack (ULA Dragonfly 30L). See my previous post about my one bag setup. Living …
eric.fun
September 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I don’t have a permanent office. Most of the time I’m working out of different coworking spaces around the world. Here’s a minimal mobile setup I’ve refined to 2.3 kg that’s been with me across 8+ countries this year.
eric.fun/mobile-work/
eric.fun/mobile-work/
Great update! @leaflet.pub is turning out to be a fun platform.
New for Leaflet Publications: custom domains!
in the spirit of "A Domain of One's Own", we've added a new option for customizing your publication identity ✨
default — [publication].leaflet.pub
now — use any domain you own!
Working on theming too, for even more pub personalization :)
in the spirit of "A Domain of One's Own", we've added a new option for customizing your publication identity ✨
default — [publication].leaflet.pub
now — use any domain you own!
Working on theming too, for even more pub personalization :)
June 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Great update! @leaflet.pub is turning out to be a fun platform.
I recently gave a friend the same feedback. As a non-technical user, he wanted to set up Wordpress site to serve a 4-page site. My recommendation was to use Lovable.dev to create a single html file, then create and modify other pages via Chatgpt/Gemini. No need for a CMS and can be free.
Nearly every Squarespace, Wix, etc site can and should be a static site. And instead of decomposing your concept for a site into some CMS abstractions, you can leave it light and only do those abstractions over time. But there's also lots of repetitive tasks over time...
May 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I recently gave a friend the same feedback. As a non-technical user, he wanted to set up Wordpress site to serve a 4-page site. My recommendation was to use Lovable.dev to create a single html file, then create and modify other pages via Chatgpt/Gemini. No need for a CMS and can be free.
Cloudflare is one of my favorite companies, and their dev services like Workers, D1, and R2 are super interesting. But almost everything they do is really focused on JS/TypeScript, even their CLI which is all Node. I just wish #Cloudflare wasn't so locked into the JS ecosystem, which I can’t stand.
May 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cloudflare is one of my favorite companies, and their dev services like Workers, D1, and R2 are super interesting. But almost everything they do is really focused on JS/TypeScript, even their CLI which is all Node. I just wish #Cloudflare wasn't so locked into the JS ecosystem, which I can’t stand.
Great news! Tapbots makes amazing apps.
March 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Great news! Tapbots makes amazing apps.
I'm highly doubtful that Threads will embrace Fediverse and Activityhub.
- Threads gains absolutely nothing from Fediverse / ActivityPub integration.
- It's major technical burden to implement and maintain for zero benefit.
- Threads gains absolutely nothing from Fediverse / ActivityPub integration.
- It's major technical burden to implement and maintain for zero benefit.
July 11, 2023 at 11:48 PM
I'm highly doubtful that Threads will embrace Fediverse and Activityhub.
- Threads gains absolutely nothing from Fediverse / ActivityPub integration.
- It's major technical burden to implement and maintain for zero benefit.
- Threads gains absolutely nothing from Fediverse / ActivityPub integration.
- It's major technical burden to implement and maintain for zero benefit.
Reposted by eric
bluesky team: shares one line of code
everybody: how can i cause problems
everybody: how can i cause problems
Hello it's me your good friend Amazon S3
May 3, 2023 at 11:55 PM
bluesky team: shares one line of code
everybody: how can i cause problems
everybody: how can i cause problems
Reposted by eric
I’ve been working on understanding and building technology that empowers users my whole career, so bluesky is designed that if you don’t like it, you can leave with your connections and data. I encourage you to try one of the 3P clients and self-organize to run your own server soon.
April 28, 2023 at 6:35 PM
I’ve been working on understanding and building technology that empowers users my whole career, so bluesky is designed that if you don’t like it, you can leave with your connections and data. I encourage you to try one of the 3P clients and self-organize to run your own server soon.
Incorrect. Without "those", the app and your data will always be up for sale to the highest bidder. Decentralization depreciates the value of a single instance (e.g. bsky.app), and makes it impossible/unappealing for the next Elon to buy your shitposting platform.
April 28, 2023 at 6:35 PM
Incorrect. Without "those", the app and your data will always be up for sale to the highest bidder. Decentralization depreciates the value of a single instance (e.g. bsky.app), and makes it impossible/unappealing for the next Elon to buy your shitposting platform.
I got curious about the domain handles used on Bluesky, so I analyzed 38.849 profiles.
2.795 users (7.2% of total) have custom domain handles.
The most frequently used TLDs for custom domains are:
com: 999
dev: 249
net: 152
me: 106
xyz: 93
io: 83
org: 67
social: 66
jp: 45
blue: 41
2.795 users (7.2% of total) have custom domain handles.
The most frequently used TLDs for custom domains are:
com: 999
dev: 249
net: 152
me: 106
xyz: 93
io: 83
org: 67
social: 66
jp: 45
blue: 41
April 25, 2023 at 11:35 PM
I got curious about the domain handles used on Bluesky, so I analyzed 38.849 profiles.
2.795 users (7.2% of total) have custom domain handles.
The most frequently used TLDs for custom domains are:
com: 999
dev: 249
net: 152
me: 106
xyz: 93
io: 83
org: 67
social: 66
jp: 45
blue: 41
2.795 users (7.2% of total) have custom domain handles.
The most frequently used TLDs for custom domains are:
com: 999
dev: 249
net: 152
me: 106
xyz: 93
io: 83
org: 67
social: 66
jp: 45
blue: 41
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long term, with fully portable user accounts, your continued use of our services would be a vote of confidence in us. not a hostage situation where you lose all your friends and creations if you leave.
this is set up to be a federated republic, not a walled-off empire.
this is set up to be a federated republic, not a walled-off empire.
April 25, 2023 at 7:18 AM
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@pfrazee.com I can login to staging with an app password and see the exact settings page as the primary login. App passwords don't seem to be restricted. What am I missing?
App Passwords are secondary passwords that you can create for your BlueSky account.
They allow you to securely connect to other BlueSky apps without compromising your primary login credentials or the security of your BlueSky account.
They are essentially burner logins.
2/6
They allow you to securely connect to other BlueSky apps without compromising your primary login credentials or the security of your BlueSky account.
They are essentially burner logins.
2/6
April 23, 2023 at 10:28 PM
@pfrazee.com I can login to staging with an app password and see the exact settings page as the primary login. App passwords don't seem to be restricted. What am I missing?
Reposted by eric
If Bluesky succeeds, it will be because of account portability, and the developer ecosystem that evolves around the AT Protocol.
The concepts around big and small world features tell me they know what they are doing and have a plan to scale this thing.
The concepts around big and small world features tell me they know what they are doing and have a plan to scale this thing.
April 23, 2023 at 3:07 PM
If Bluesky succeeds, it will be because of account portability, and the developer ecosystem that evolves around the AT Protocol.
The concepts around big and small world features tell me they know what they are doing and have a plan to scale this thing.
The concepts around big and small world features tell me they know what they are doing and have a plan to scale this thing.
On Mastodon, there's a misconception that you have complete ownership and control over your data. This is only accurate if you host your own instance. If your admin chooses to shut down the server at any moment without a notice, recovering your account, followers, or posts becomes impossible.
April 17, 2023 at 10:57 PM
On Mastodon, there's a misconception that you have complete ownership and control over your data. This is only accurate if you host your own instance. If your admin chooses to shut down the server at any moment without a notice, recovering your account, followers, or posts becomes impossible.
The engagement on Bluesky, with just 20K users, is quite impressive especially compared to Mastodon. I wonder why this is so. Is it because of a better UX? Or could it be that the invite-only aspect has made forming a sense of community easier?
April 14, 2023 at 7:34 PM
The engagement on Bluesky, with just 20K users, is quite impressive especially compared to Mastodon. I wonder why this is so. Is it because of a better UX? Or could it be that the invite-only aspect has made forming a sense of community easier?
This mass-follower spam is annoying. There are accounts with over 20k followings, probably using a bot/plugin to automate it. Is this allowed @jay.bsky.team @bsky.app ?
April 14, 2023 at 2:02 AM
This mass-follower spam is annoying. There are accounts with over 20k followings, probably using a bot/plugin to automate it. Is this allowed @jay.bsky.team @bsky.app ?
I'm really liking domain names as handles here. Haven't seen it anywhere else before and probably one of the best/easiest ways to verify users.
I'm curious how the account migrations work? Will I be able to move all my posts and followers seamlessly to another host in the future?
I'm curious how the account migrations work? Will I be able to move all my posts and followers seamlessly to another host in the future?
April 13, 2023 at 9:19 PM
I'm really liking domain names as handles here. Haven't seen it anywhere else before and probably one of the best/easiest ways to verify users.
I'm curious how the account migrations work? Will I be able to move all my posts and followers seamlessly to another host in the future?
I'm curious how the account migrations work? Will I be able to move all my posts and followers seamlessly to another host in the future?
