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Nate May
@natemay.dev
Web, music, (human) learning.
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I can now say I'm open to work as a full-stack software engineer with a product focus. I'm a founder with 5 years of startup/small business experience and a doctorate from Yale. Bay Area and open to in-person/hybrid/remote. Reach out if you'd like to reach out!
April 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
For almost the past 8 months I've been following a self-taught roadmap for web development and I'm finally "finished". Wrote about the process here. www.natemay.dev/blog/how-i-l...
How I Learned to Build for a Changing Web | Nate May
My self-taught roadmap.
www.natemay.dev
April 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Kind of obsessed with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 's web app. This is a nonprofit (helping you make a plan for switching to solar & electric appliances) and they've pulled off better performance and UI/UX than most banks/ecommerce giants. www.rewiringamerica.org
Home | Rewiring America
Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, communities, and businesses.
www.rewiringamerica.org
April 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I just open-sourced the platform I'm building to house the creative music learning tools I've developed. I'll be posting updates as I go and welcoming feedback. #nextjs #buildinpublic www.natemay.dev/blog/announc...
Going Public with Synthase Studio | Nate May
I'm building an app for music learning tools.
www.natemay.dev
April 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
What if, instead of replacing humans and building shoddy software to solve nonexistent problems, AI-driven productivity boosts were used to make things ~work better~.
April 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New blog post about how and why I built Finfetch, an open source transaction downloader. www.natemay.dev/projects/fin...
Finfetch | Nate May
Download all your transactions simply.
www.natemay.dev
April 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I just released Finfetch--a free/open source app that allows you to download all your bank and credit card transactions to CSVs with one click. Should be useful if you keep track of your income/expenses in spreadsheets or with #plain-text-accounting software. github.com/natepmay/fin...
GitHub - natepmay/finfetch: Download all your financial transactions simply.
Download all your financial transactions simply. Contribute to natepmay/finfetch development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here's more info about my firehose racing game, why it exists, and what was fun about making it. www.natemay.dev/projects/hos...
Hose Race | Nate May
Race words on the Bluesky firehose.
www.natemay.dev
March 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ever wanted to race words against each other on the Bluesky firehose? No? Well now you can anyway.

Been working on this for a few too many months and it's time for it to see the light of day. Enjoy!

hose-race.natemay.dev
Hose Race
Race words on the Bluesky firehose.
hose-race.natemay.dev
March 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New personal website is up. I'm christening it with a post about Chordle, the music Wordle spinoff I made in 2022 that went viral and got me into web development. www.natemay.dev/projects/cho...
Chordle | Nate May
A daily word game
www.natemay.dev
March 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Been in deep work mode for the past few months. A few updates:
- New handle (@natemay.dev). Old one was @natemay.bsky.social.
- I'm no longer actively maintaining balloon.fyi but you're welcome to download the data if you'd like it.
- I'll be sharing more work soon.
March 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Genuinely glad we had effectively a tsunami drill here in the SF Bay Area. Here's what I learned while trying to keep my family safe:
December 5, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Seemingly the only online tsunami zone map, which is pointed to by every official emergency resource, currently looks like this.

DevOps is important.
December 5, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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December 4, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Idea:

blindsky - all account information on a post, number of likes, reposts, etc, are hidden until you interact with the post.

Content based interaction.

People tend to gravitate towards the already popular (the herd effect), not necessarily for the merits of the content.
November 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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🎅🎄🎁 ADVENT OF SVELTE 🎅🎄🎁

We're going to ship one thing a day every day from now until Christmas. Wish us luck! svelte.dev/blog/advent-...

First up...
Advent of Svelte
Twenty-four days, twenty-four features
svelte.dev
December 1, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I have a bit of an eye injury right now and I have blurry vision/some pain keeping my eyes open. It's manageable at the moment so taking this time to explore what it would be like to try to navigate the web if I went blind. 🧵
November 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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In this newly released dataset: A lot of objections about not consenting to be in these kinds of datasets
November 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM
In case any #atdev folks were thinking about using @skyware.js.org to deploy a bot using Deno Deploy, looks like you'll have to wait a few weeks: github.com/skyware-js/b...
Bot constructor broken on Deno <2.1.0 · Issue #21 · skyware-js/bot
This is not something to fix in this codebase, but I wanted to leave it here in case anyone else had hopes of deploying a bot on Deno Deploy. Tl;dr: It looks like that won't be possible until Janua...
github.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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**This Website is Hosted on Bluesky**

This weekend I found myself digging through the AT Protocol specifications and the Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) implementation. In doing so, I discovered that I could setup a website that is fully hosted on Bluesky.

danielmangum.com/posts/this-w...
November 24, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Post editing: clunky but possible.
November 23, 2024 at 6:48 PM
If you want to read @dustyweb.bsky.social 's recent thread and all replies as a tree diagram, here it is (much more readable than the bluesky client): blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?a...
Skythread
blue.mackuba.eu
November 23, 2024 at 6:39 PM