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🍿 Not saying I like going to the movies but ….

Thanks Regal 😊
August 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ordering things from overseas and suddenly this delivery update send shivers down my shine 😩

#tariffs
August 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
A first for me, but a website I'm building (pre-launch) is getting traffic from Google before it's pages have been indexed?!? 🤯

But how?

#seo #sideproject
August 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚀 Passed 2700 subscribers for the @blueskydirectory.com newsletter.

Are you subscribed? blueskydirectory.com

Next issue going out later today!
July 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Played a little League of Legends today.

First time I've been in a game where everyone on the team got an S or S+ rating 🤯
July 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Going to the movies early this week…excited to watch the new Superman!
July 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The weeks movie is Jurassic World Rebirth!

Big fan of the Jurassic Park movies, so excited for this one.
July 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nothing like a power outage to celebrate the holiday!

Going to without power for 3 hours 🥲
July 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trying to make time for movies on the weekends.

🏎️ This week going to see F1.
June 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Excited to see Mumford and Sons tonight!

Gigi Perez opening in a few minutes…
June 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
🤯 Liverpool spending over £100M for a player!

Which ever version of the multiverse I've moved too, I like it.

www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpo...

#liverpool #lfc
June 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Made it to the beach.

Day started cloudy, but turning out to be a very nice day!

#photograph #beach #capecod
May 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In-fact I've actually got the old and new servers running side-by-side in case there are any issues and I need to rollback.

Still a relatively simple setup, but well positioned for scale, as resource needs continue to grow.
May 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
About to watch Clue at Proctor’s theatre in Schenectady NY.
May 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Didn’t think we’d be champions the year after Klopp leaving, makes it so much sweeter!

Congrats to everyone at the club for a fantastic season.
April 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Will be working hard to keep sending the @blueskydirectory.com newsletter on a regular schedule.

Open rate from this weekends edition was pretty similar to the others, but the click rate is nearly half. 🤯

I know it was a holiday weekend, but that's a pretty massive drop off.

#buildinpublic
April 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Finished adding verification badges to @blueskydirectory.com

Will be interesting to see how this evolves, do love that it's not just Bluesky doing the verifying. Already feels better than what we had on the other site.

Excited to continue to use my domain as verification 😉

#buildinpublic
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Scheduled! Glad I was able to keep the streak alive 😀
April 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Feb update seems to have been lost in my ether somewhere, so here is the March #SEO update for @blueskydirectory.com from Google.

Have been expecting to traffic to drop as growth has slowed, but things appear to be holding steady, which is a great sign that Bluesky has traction.

#buildinpublic
April 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Finally can say that @blueskydirectory.com has made it!

The drug spammers have arrived 😂

Requires a Bluesky account to submit, so took some effort on their part to submit.

#buildinpublic #spam #bots
March 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Got a bird house/feeder with a camera for Xmas.

Was finally warm enough to put out this week and caught this shot!

#bird
March 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Profiles database is getting to be a good size.

Gonna be interesting to see how this grows with the user base.

Don't need all the profiles for the app I'm building (have captured about 3M so far), so can optimize this for sure, but consuming all firehose data is the promised land.

#buildinpublic
March 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Unfortunately couldn't make it out to Seattle for #ATmosphereConf, so I picked up a Livestream ticket.

Looking forward to watching the talks!

You can get your tickets:
atprotocol.dev/atmosphereco...
March 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
About than 5 months ago I started working @blueskydirectory.com

This the quickest I've had a site reach a 50 DR.

I put it down entirely to luck, being in the right place at the right time, and working on the things that most people were asking for.

Sounds simple 😂

#buildinpublic
March 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sure, I've added a new option to the dropdown...
March 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM