Gregor Samosa
@watwa.re
putting the yikes in Dijkstra
building skylights.my, floma.io & mietencheck.de
Before: MDN & commonvoice.mozilla.org
Blog: https://watwa.re
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A7-MU0u2kNOoKLoRUO1PH_m7V0EVTamQmquKWtsrlh7W#did:plc:c764uyv2vgzswy5gpc4jgknf
building skylights.my, floma.io & mietencheck.de
Before: MDN & commonvoice.mozilla.org
Blog: https://watwa.re
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A7-MU0u2kNOoKLoRUO1PH_m7V0EVTamQmquKWtsrlh7W#did:plc:c764uyv2vgzswy5gpc4jgknf
Sth that would make me ditch React in one of my projects: a controllable rich text editor. Meaning: changeable content through the reactive state system instead of the default-value only approach all the existing ones are doing
I spoze they have their reasons sth sth expensive internal state, ⬇️
I spoze they have their reasons sth sth expensive internal state, ⬇️
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Sth that would make me ditch React in one of my projects: a controllable rich text editor. Meaning: changeable content through the reactive state system instead of the default-value only approach all the existing ones are doing
I spoze they have their reasons sth sth expensive internal state, ⬇️
I spoze they have their reasons sth sth expensive internal state, ⬇️
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use floating point.” Now they have 2.10000000000000008882 problems.
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use floating point.” Now they have 2.10000000000000008882 problems.
I’m gonna CRISPR my babies to have real meaty eyelids so that they can sleep anywhere without needing curtains
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’m gonna CRISPR my babies to have real meaty eyelids so that they can sleep anywhere without needing curtains
First I really enjoyed that article, then I saw it was by a former colleague, smol worlds!
wow this is the first time I anticipated a saas shutdown, anyway, modernity continues to be incredibly stupid phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11...
December 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
First I really enjoyed that article, then I saw it was by a former colleague, smol worlds!
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😶🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings
a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember
last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember
last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
😶🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings
a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember
last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember
last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
I look back fondly on having built the first skylight(s) on atproto and the first letterboxd/goodreads. But tbh others have done more with those concepts, and I'm starting my new job with voize.de on Monday so I'm happy to freeze skylights.my and become a popfeeder myself
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I look back fondly on having built the first skylight(s) on atproto and the first letterboxd/goodreads. But tbh others have done more with those concepts, and I'm starting my new job with voize.de on Monday so I'm happy to freeze skylights.my and become a popfeeder myself
Brains huh? They really make you think
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Brains huh? They really make you think
gonna tell my kids it's HYPER TEXT MACHINE LEARNING
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
gonna tell my kids it's HYPER TEXT MACHINE LEARNING
As Gregor Samosa awoke this morning from uneasy sleep he found the memory of a dream where he was watching an Andrew Scott film with the man himself, all the while trying to ask him out for a friend, despite being transfixed himself
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
As Gregor Samosa awoke this morning from uneasy sleep he found the memory of a dream where he was watching an Andrew Scott film with the man himself, all the while trying to ask him out for a friend, despite being transfixed himself
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There are many, many apps, startups and communities being built on the AT Protocol. We featured a tiny handful at #EuroskyLive last week. 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There are many, many apps, startups and communities being built on the AT Protocol. We featured a tiny handful at #EuroskyLive last week. 🧵
Reposted by Gregor Samosa
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
Is anyone working on a GPL-like license for atproto data? I.e. “if you use this lexicon/pds you must put all your non-private data in a lexicon/pds as well”
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Is anyone working on a GPL-like license for atproto data? I.e. “if you use this lexicon/pds you must put all your non-private data in a lexicon/pds as well”
the things my bluesky post composer has seen... unspeakable
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
the things my bluesky post composer has seen... unspeakable
Finally someone put one my core aliefs about computing and our paradigmatic stuckness into words. Text is seen as god given when it’s just as arbitrary, interpreted and engineered as any other (more) structured format
Adjacent point, there is nothing inherently ubiquitous about plain text in computing. It took decades of standardization, adoption, and gradual convergence of a behemoth of infrastructure that now resides in every computing environment that we take for granted.
nah i think DBs in any form (including my beloved CRDTs) are almost always a "least worst" option for end user software.
if i have a plain text file i can read it, i can edit it, i can open it in ~any program. the barrier to doing anything useful with a sqlite db or an automerge doc is way higher.
if i have a plain text file i can read it, i can edit it, i can open it in ~any program. the barrier to doing anything useful with a sqlite db or an automerge doc is way higher.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Finally someone put one my core aliefs about computing and our paradigmatic stuckness into words. Text is seen as god given when it’s just as arbitrary, interpreted and engineered as any other (more) structured format
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🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
working on my PLC replica 😎
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
working on my PLC replica 😎
Signal has now landlorded me into paying 2 bucks a month since I’ve been carrying a 8gb update from device to device for years that I’m only now able to backup, to their own hosted service.
Not saying Signal is clearly bad or malicious, just wish we had something better
Not saying Signal is clearly bad or malicious, just wish we had something better
Now available on iOS 😎
Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups.
signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups
signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Signal has now landlorded me into paying 2 bucks a month since I’ve been carrying a 8gb update from device to device for years that I’m only now able to backup, to their own hosted service.
Not saying Signal is clearly bad or malicious, just wish we had something better
Not saying Signal is clearly bad or malicious, just wish we had something better
shocked and amazed that the @solidjs.com playground has a straight-up chromium devtools embed. Chapeau!
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
shocked and amazed that the @solidjs.com playground has a straight-up chromium devtools embed. Chapeau!
OH streets of Berlin: AI generated … looks sick … thousands of likes … if you put ad money behind it for sure
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
OH streets of Berlin: AI generated … looks sick … thousands of likes … if you put ad money behind it for sure
et al is academic for y'all
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
et al is academic for y'all
Always great to see internet friends in person can only recommend
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Always great to see internet friends in person can only recommend
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hacked together a real quick “matching score” for all #EuroskyLive attendees I could discover divepool.social/c/eurosky/ .
eurosky similarity
divepool.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
hacked together a real quick “matching score” for all #EuroskyLive attendees I could discover divepool.social/c/eurosky/ .
*starting to put import statements at the end of the file bc apparently that’s the world people want to live in*
helper functions should go below the functions they're helping
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
*starting to put import statements at the end of the file bc apparently that’s the world people want to live in*
can I have a rowboat.net for nested data structures, with customizable grouping rules?
Rowboat
A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets.
rowboat.net
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
can I have a rowboat.net for nested data structures, with customizable grouping rules?