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Erlend Sogge Heggen
@erlend.sh
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Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness.

https://erlend.sh – about me
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I’m not closely following the Sarah Kendzior debacle, but on an atproto level I’d like to know whether Sarah technically has a way to retrieve her account’s content, or if her right-to-exit has effectively been denied?

Except for illegal content, imo even banned accounts should retain data access.
Sarah Kandzior’s substack comments about account closure.
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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There's no point in our cozy lil atproto app remembering a recent login for convenience when the next step is inevitably a once-more forgotten Bluesky login :(

(no my password isn't actually that long)
Roomy login screen Bluesky login screen
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Looking forward to signing in to Open Street Map with my atproto web-ID some beautiful day in the future.

Major kudos to @openstreetmap.bsky.social for supporting Login with Wikipedia though!
Signup page for OpenStreetMap.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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There are many prospective solutions to this type of informational asymmetry, but the simplest fix already exists in the forgotten arch nemesis of the past, before Bluesky became its own big baddy.

If a post I interacted with on Mastodon gets an edit, e.g. with a correction, *I get notified!*
Screenshot of a Mastodon edit-notification.
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The effect of this is that in the days following this post and others like it (I saw at least one mega-account quote-post Ravin’s for another 5k shares) the misapprehension about atproto took root in the ensuing discourse, as seen in these replies.
Two anonymized Bluesky posts, saying: 1: It's also showing anyone who's actually interested in Bluesky as a Fediverse that the CEOs have a kill switch which essentially defeats the purpose. 2: It really makes me wonder what the value proposition of ATProto even is, if federation is more fragmented than Mastodon in practice, harder to set up than Mastodon, and if Bluesky the company is going to run the main instance as unprofessionally as a Mastodon instance owner on a power trip.
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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This post is emblematic of the lacking utilities for basic sense-making and truth-seeking in mainstream social media. 🧵

tl;dr: we need edits & edit-notifications to facilitate self-corrections.
Screenshot of Bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/rvbdrm.com/post/3m2jxe5ly722x So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from: WhiteWind Skylight Bluescreen Flashes Basically all ATproto apps/projects? WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The PDS paradigm won't move your data from the cloud to your personal computer. Most people will still rely on an institutional cloud service, but instead of data-banking with a maligned corporation most people’s data can be entrusted to the equivalent of member-owned credit unions for data storage.
As the economy was transformed by industrialization and then by consumer banking, powerful new players such as Standard Oil, J.P. Morgan, and a handful of others threatened the freedom of citizens. In order to provide a counterweight to these new powers, citizens joined together to form trade unions and cooperative banking institutions, which were federally chartered to represent their members’ interests. These citizen organizations helped balance the economic and social power between large and small players and between employers and worker. The same collective organization is required to move from an individualized asset-based understanding of data control to a collective system based on rights and accountability, with legal standards upheld by a new class of representatives who act as fiduciaries for their members. In the U.S. almost 100 million people are members of credit unions, not-for-profit institutions owned by their members, and already chartered to securely manage their members’ digital data and to represent them in a wide variety of financial transactions, including insurance, investments, and benefits. The question then is, could we apply the same push for citizen power to the area of data rights in the ever-growing digital economy?
October 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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@theoatmeal.bsky.social would love to see a sequel to your excellent “reaching people on the internet” comic 👀

AT protocol enables us live more nomadically like the old-web days whilst also letting us network together as fluidly formed caravan-cities.

theoatmeal.com/comics/reach...
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021
September 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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On another readability note, Leaflet posts also don’t automatically truncate the top browser menu when I scroll down.

While this shouldn’t happen on regular posts, I’m not surprised it’s the case for the docs pages since scrolling happens within a frame.
No automatic browser truncation for leaflet posts on iOS. Manually truncated
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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If you ever get tired of GDP shills professing breathlessly about all the “progress” we’ve made in the last several decades, Network’s timeless screed by Arthur Jensen, the embodiment of big business, offers a painful but necessary remedy.

youtu.be/V9XeyBd_IuA
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immense, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel. Beale: But why me? Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday. Beale: I have seen the face of God. Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.
September 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The scroll bar shows in the framed docs page, yes, but not for blog pages, on iOS. I’m seeing the scroll bar on my android phone so this seems specific to iOS and possible only tablets.

Tested in all of safari, Firefox chrome and all lack scroll bar.
Leaflet blog page without scroll bar on iOS.
September 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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TIL

www.ichoosetostand.net/2024/09/geek...

fanlore.org/wiki/The_Gee...
The Geek Hierarchy is a flowchart created by Lore Sjöberg. It was published on the now-defunct humor website Brunching Shuttlecocks in January 2002. The hierarchy was a complicated chart that shows what fan groups consider themselves 'less geeky than' other groups. The group placed highest on the chart, which considered themselves the least geeky, was "Published Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors and Artists," followed by "Science Fiction/Fantasy Literature Fans." The lowest, geekiest group was "People Who Write Erotic Versions of Star Trek Where All the Characters Are Furries, Like Kirk is an Ocelot or Something, and They Put a Furry Version of Themselves as the Star of the Story," just below "Erotic Furies," which was below "Furries." Its purpose was to illustrate that there were always fans geekier than the individual. Unless you were a Star Trek furry.
August 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Love this!

"Privacy is not a bunker; it's a commons."

“Sovereignty is never in isolation; it's always in relation."

"We refuse acceleration without direction, optimisation without ethics, and autonomy without care."

"We do not merely seek privacy, we seek solidarity."
THE OLD CYPHERPUNK DREAM IS DEAD "Privacy is not a bunker; it's a commons." "Sovereignty is never in isolation; it's always in relation." "We refuse acceleration without direction, optimisation without ethics, and autonomy without care." "We do not merely seek privacy, we seek solidarity." "We reimagine cryptographic tools as instruments of communion, not alienation." "There is no security through insecurity." "To act as a Sapphirepunk is to believe that privacy is not the endpoint, but rather a necessary starting condition for imagination, resistance, and community." A CALL TO REIMAGINE "We summon forth new political, and poetic, imaginaries" "A being who blurs the hardened lines between body and code, self and system" "Let these new worlds be plural, caring, and free." "The design, implementation, and operation of technological systems are the ground on which future struggles will be fought." "We build in plurality, and in parity, but not in purity or with impunity." "Engineer technologies rooted in justice, and infrastructures grounded in togetherness." CRYPTOGRAPHIC TRUTHS "The world cannot be protected by cryptography alone." "Zero knowledge does not equal zero harm." CRYPTOGRAPHIC TRUTHS "The world cannot be protected by cryptography alone." "Zero knowledge does not equal zero harm." "Cypherpunk has always been a luxury belief." "Encryption without an ethics of care is merely a harder shell around the same old oppression." "The nodes of the many, outweigh the nodes of the few." "You are more than a glorified wallet. You are a contributor to a world yet to be made." "Nobody's free until everybody's free." Fannie Lou Hamer SAPPHIREPUNKS REJECT: "The abstraction of the human experience into mere code" "Market supremacism that commodities every relation" "Hyper-individualism, cloaked as innovation, hollowing out the commons" "The automation of inequality, and the weaponisation of machine efficiency" "Opaque and unfair architectures that appropriate the valour of 'privacy' and 'community'" "The privatisation of privacy, wherein the right to remain unseen becomes a luxury" "When the master's house is a casino, the master always wins." BEING SAPPHIRINE "We do not run from the world, we actively shape it." BEING SAPPHIRINE "We do not run from the world, we actively shape it." "Sapphirepunk politics attends to the emotional labor of being visible, accountable, and relationally entangled." "Technology alone cannot heal broken trust, nourish our commons, nor honour the web of life." "Just slow the fuck down and honour the craft." "Together, we have power, in the contingent labour of world-making." The Sapphirepunks
August 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Instructions unclear, went to meet up at the other buttplug gnome..
A 20-foot-tall statue in Oslo (2018) by artist Paul McCarthy, officially named Santa but known colloquially as the “Butt Plug Gnome”.
June 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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@aboutcircles.bsky.social give us a bsky share button and I’ll happily plug more of your stuff!

Anyway, anyone wants to verify me for aboutcircles.com? 🤲
Metro wallet-validation QR code.
June 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Can someone explain to me how @brettbobculbert.bsky.social that’s following 500,000 people wasn’t shut down as an invasive bot account about 490,000 follows ago?
Screenshot of account @brettbobculbert.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I will pay for a bsky-net microblogging client optimized for personal posts and persistent writing. Great prior art in ‘Tusks for Mastodon’ (see screenshot).

“Tusks transforms Mastodon to feel like your blog.”

Client would support this kind of feed-labeling as well: bsky.app/profile/erle...
Header: no timeline, just posts “Tusks transforms Mastodon to feel like your blog.”
May 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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@zeu.dev and #svelte folk, any recommendations on best practice here?
Nandi: scroll position + race condition == 😭 Zicklag: Yeah man, the scroll position for the virtualized chats is a really tricky one. Nandi: i figured out a good way to control the scroll but it's changing after update. my number one issue with frontend dev is trying not to create updates that cause updates sameoldlab: this works really well with svelte https://youtu.be/kMBDsyozllk. Helps to store the bulk of state outside of components, then they don't need to refetch in conditionals or virtualized lists
May 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Excellent post for the dweb discourse, by aljoscha-meyer.de

“a blog post on mutable links that do not suffer from link rot”

aljoscha-meyer.de/posts/mutabi...
Screenshot of text: When I publish a mutable link to some data, I give agency to the author of that data. They are free to change the contents in the future, or even to fully remove the data. Like a verbatim copy, an immutable link would not award this agency. By granting this agency, I voluntarily cede control. The quality of my work will vary based on the future actions of another human. A web of mutable references is a web of human interdepence, and builds on the voluntary giving of trust. Freely given trust and consensual interdependence are deeply human, they sit at the root of the most positive relationships we can form. I want to immerse myself (and have others immerse themselves) in a medium that fosters these notions, and I want to stay clear from media whose design choices eliminate them. A medium of mutable links should further teach an important lesson: trust must never be without alternative. I can choose to copy content and retain full control over it. If trust is not an active choice but the only option, it becomes meaningless.
May 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Screenshot of page with the text: In the demo, an AI bot for a style guide makes changes as another collaborator in the document. It puts changes on a branch, which you can choose to partially or completely merge—just like you would suggestions from a human coauthor. (image: Suggested changes from a style bot on a branch.) The changes are highlighted in a diff to help you review. Once you accept edits from a bot, the history timeline also shows which edits came from the bot. (image: Bot appears as a user in the document history.) One more thing: since the bots are simply text prompts, you can create your own by adding a bot prompt into your document collection! Bots can be shared, edited, and versioned just like regular documents—for example, you can view the history of a prompt, or use a branch to try a new variant of a prompt.
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Roomy is effectively gonna be threads-first. We just started with chat because it’s more fundamental to group comms.

The ‘board’ view of our channels will soon look a lot like the threads index of Discourse or GitHub Discussions.
Screenshot of Roomy ‘board’ interface.
May 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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We fully support forum-style communication already!

Just need to add more data & styling to the threads feed.
Roomy threads feed interface.
March 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This is one of the coolest things about Good Engineering Culture.

> I still disagree both with the architecture of a new arena, and a new parameter added to each widget method.
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> However, there is not will to implement this in a different way, so we've decided to move forward with this.
From person on GitHub: I still disagree both with the architecture of a new arena, and a new parameter added to each widget method. However, there is not will to implement this in a different way, so we've decided to move forward with this.
March 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Getting a new debit card is such a good way to do a spring-cleaning on subscriptions.

I need my music, so obviously I’ll be continuing my Spotify sub.., but I like to make them sweat a bit yk?

The bastards prey on my common ADHD-trait inability to cancel shit. It wasn’t Spotify today, but ynk 🤷‍♂️
Screenshot of Erlend’s Spotify profile, with a “Your premium payment failed” warning at the top.
February 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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When mentioning ‘PDS’ in the context of a technical blog post, what’s the best docs page or blog post to link to?

I’m a bit lost on where the go-to ‘Personal Data Servers – Explained’ page is at.

Thought it’d be highlighted along with the other fundamentals of the protocol.

#atproto
Screen capture of atproto documentation page listing the primary specifications comprising the initial version of AT Protocol.
February 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM