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MachineSpeak
@machinespeak.bsky.social
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Engineer .. interested in "machine interpretable knowledge management", "informatic alchemy" .. and all sorts of other (mostly geeky) stuff.
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eliasjmcclellan.bsky.social
Reminder for the #writingcommunity every story has something to tell us.
Photo of fresh snow on a patio with a single paw print and caption: A Short Story about Decisions
January 25, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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altspaceforce.altgov.info
I can't unsee this. 🤣
January 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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above96th.bsky.social
We've been blessed this winter with frequent American Kestrel sightings. They're beautiful from any angle, but I'm especially fond of capturing them in flight! 🥰🥰🥰 #Kestrel #CentralPark #birding
December 14, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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altyellonatpark.org
Thank you thank you thank you
40,000 followers may not seem like much to some
But it means the world to us

We're half way to recovering our following

Join the park side at @altyellonatpark.org
December 13, 2024 at 7:17 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
A neat post in LinkedIn, by @craignewmark.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-s...
"Don’t Strip-Mine The Sky"
"More thoughts on what Bluesky Social’s ultimate business model could look like: A modern take on Craigslist, a company that never exploited its users." "But enshittification never came for Craigslist...
www.linkedin.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:44 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
My daughter works in a bougie food store, and mentioned recently serving a "lady from Cork".

I figured "gotta be a limerick" and there is ..

There was a young lady from Cork,
Whose Dad made a fortune in pork,
He bought for his daughter,
A tutor who taught her,
To balance green peas on her fork.
December 7, 2024 at 5:42 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 1̶7̶ 1̶6̶ 1̶5̶ 1̶4̶ 1̶3̶ 1̶2̶ 11 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 7, 2024 at 4:26 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
It pays to advertise ..
www.reddit.com/r/philly/s/k...
From the philly community on Reddit: Of course
Explore this post and more from the philly community
www.reddit.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:02 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Brownies .. for the price of Pi.
December 4, 2024 at 1:49 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 1̶7̶ 1̶6̶ 1̶5̶ 1̶4̶ 1̶3̶ 12 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of "Napoleon's Buttons", by Penny Le Couteur
December 1, 2024 at 8:28 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 1̶7̶ 1̶6̶ 1̶5̶ 1̶4̶ 13 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of "Göedel, Eacher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", by Douglas R. Hofstadter
December 1, 2024 at 3:26 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Very cool video showing someone resurrecting an old electron microscope.

The patient troubleshooting and multidisciplinary skills involved in repairing the device will inspire any hands-on geek

youtu.be/Kqx9blbYDB0?...
I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash
YouTube video by ProjectsInFlight
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 5:25 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 1̶7̶ 1̶6̶ 1̶5̶ 1̶4̶ 13 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Image of the cover of "The Fractal Geometry Of Nature", by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
November 28, 2024 at 6:57 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 1̶7̶ 1̶6̶ 1̶5̶ 14 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Ain't gonna lie .. I can recite many .. possibly even most .. of the pages from memory
The cover of "Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!", by Theodore Geisel.
November 28, 2024 at 3:05 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 1̶7̶ 1̶6̶ 15 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 27, 2024 at 4:45 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 1̶7̶ 16 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 26, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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apoorvalal.com
This code ran and uploaded itself via atproto
atproto_test
November 25, 2024 at 5:36 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Very cool demo showing web page being stored in a PDS
bsky.app/profile/utop...

Great writeup .. I was able to use it to make a nearly identical PDS-hosted web page here:
stinkhorn.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atp...

The gist .. you can upload anything, and give it an arbitrary lexicon type
November 25, 2024 at 5:04 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 1̶8̶ 17 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", by Hunter S. Thompson .. w/ illustrations by Ralph Steadman
November 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Another interesting, general article about ATProto development by @cybercultural.com

thenewstack.io/blueskys-at-...

Reminds me of Solid in a way. A fusion of Bsky's reach, ATProto's potential elegance for interop facades, and, say, a next gen semantic web w/ modal logic ability might be dreamy.
Bluesky's AT Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers
Should developers build on Bluesky's AT Protocol? It has a compelling identity and content architecture, but decentralization is a grey area.
thenewstack.io
November 24, 2024 at 8:47 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
An interesting article by, I think, @chrismcleod.dev:
chrismcleod.dev/blog/next-st...

I think this may be my next avenue of exploration .. especially given the availability of a pre-configured Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container: github.com/bluesky-soci...
Next steps with Bluesky - hosting your own data and more on the API
Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.
chrismcleod.dev
November 24, 2024 at 6:39 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
So, it turns out that you can put pretty much anything that you want into any of the standard collections in a BlueSky PDS.

The app.bsky.graph.list seems like the the most promising digital "junk drawer".

The "Lists" UI seems to ignore these "non-conforming" objects.
Screenshot of Postman call to: POST xrpc/com.atproto.repo.createRecord showing how to insert an arbitrary object into a collection in the PDS.
November 24, 2024 at 5:13 AM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Just started tinkering with the bsky REST API.

Used this Postman collection:
www.postman.com/api-evangeli...

And this "Hello World" article to learn how to generate tokens:
chrismcleod.dev/blog/a-hello...

Experiment 1: see if I can DM myself as a cheesy way to bookmark interesting stuff ..
Screenshot of Postman call to GET /xrpc/app.bsky.graph.getLists.
November 23, 2024 at 10:29 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
Choose 2̶0̶ 1̶9̶ 18 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of "How The Irish Saved Civilization", by Thomas Cahill
November 23, 2024 at 2:53 PM
machinespeak.bsky.social
This looks like a nice way to get started on creating applications that use ATProto.

The pre-built container should save the hassle of setting up development system infrastructure, freeing you focus on "the what" aspects of a design.

There goes my weekend ..

github.com/bluesky-soci...
GitHub - bluesky-social/pds: Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation
Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation - bluesky-social/pds
github.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:36 PM