Why
@why.bsky.team
Technical advisor to @bluesky - first engineer at Protocol Labs. Wizard Utopian
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Salvatore Ganacci is truly the Mozart of our era
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Salvatore Ganacci is truly the Mozart of our era
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people saying ai is a fad don't know what they're talking about. i'm definitely not giving up my claude now; the ability to do structural refactors "change this thing to be layered like this thing in this other project" is fantastic. i *do* want the model to be local and hope we'll get there in time
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
people saying ai is a fad don't know what they're talking about. i'm definitely not giving up my claude now; the ability to do structural refactors "change this thing to be layered like this thing in this other project" is fantastic. i *do* want the model to be local and hope we'll get there in time
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hi everyone! if you didn’t just start following me in the last 2 days, you might not have noticed that I work here now :)
in that capacity, I give you the first official weekly(?) bsky devrel blogpost: We Really Love DNS. leaflet.pub/c37b8a8f-f95...
in that capacity, I give you the first official weekly(?) bsky devrel blogpost: We Really Love DNS. leaflet.pub/c37b8a8f-f95...
Week 1, or: We Really Love DNS
leaflet.pub
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
hi everyone! if you didn’t just start following me in the last 2 days, you might not have noticed that I work here now :)
in that capacity, I give you the first official weekly(?) bsky devrel blogpost: We Really Love DNS. leaflet.pub/c37b8a8f-f95...
in that capacity, I give you the first official weekly(?) bsky devrel blogpost: We Really Love DNS. leaflet.pub/c37b8a8f-f95...
Tangled works really smoothly, I pushed Konbini over there too (though will probably still use github as my primary for this for now).
tangled.org/@why.bsky.te...
tangled.org/@why.bsky.te...
@why.bsky.team/konbini
A locally focused bluesky appview
tangled.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Tangled works really smoothly, I pushed Konbini over there too (though will probably still use github as my primary for this for now).
tangled.org/@why.bsky.te...
tangled.org/@why.bsky.te...
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atmosphere devs! 🧑🚀
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
Protocol Check-in (Fall 2025) | Bluesky
We last shared a protocol roadmap back in March 2025, and wow does time fly. If we're being honest, we haven't tied a bow on as many of these threads as we would've hoped. Oh time, strength, cash, and...
docs.bsky.app
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
atmosphere devs! 🧑🚀
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
In past side projects i would never bother to make a UI, or I would just have a janky CLI that interacts with everything, having Claude make me a simple little web interface for things now is really nice, even if its not “good” it’s very helpful and makes things more fun to keep working on
October 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In past side projects i would never bother to make a UI, or I would just have a janky CLI that interacts with everything, having Claude make me a simple little web interface for things now is really nice, even if its not “good” it’s very helpful and makes things more fun to keep working on
Added support to Konbini for jetstream and multiple backends. Jetstream is *much* lighter in terms of bandwidth and CPU to process the firehose, and the multiple backends config can be used to just subscribe to individual PDSs instead of a full relay firehose.
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Added support to Konbini for jetstream and multiple backends. Jetstream is *much* lighter in terms of bandwidth and CPU to process the firehose, and the multiple backends config can be used to just subscribe to individual PDSs instead of a full relay firehose.
It's really amazing to me, a person born in the 90s, that I have a 13" laptop that has 24 CPU cores that go up to 5.1Ghz and 96GB of ram and it weighs under 3 pounds. So easy to take for granted just how far compute performance has improved.
Young me would not believe it
Young me would not believe it
October 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It's really amazing to me, a person born in the 90s, that I have a 13" laptop that has 24 CPU cores that go up to 5.1Ghz and 96GB of ram and it weighs under 3 pounds. So easy to take for granted just how far compute performance has improved.
Young me would not believe it
Young me would not believe it
Some people seem to think that "decentralized" means "I can never have the reach of my posts restricted in any way ever" and that's just not a workable definition.
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Some people seem to think that "decentralized" means "I can never have the reach of my posts restricted in any way ever" and that's just not a workable definition.
Has anyone checked if sonnet 4.5 still does the bliss state thing?
October 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Has anyone checked if sonnet 4.5 still does the bliss state thing?
Running the following feed is like half of our production workload, its kinda silly how much work it is to do that
a great way to break up bsky appview implementation work would be implementing "Following" as a regular feedgen.
one of the harder pieces in general high-req-rate full-network scale, but a bunch of ez optimizations: only recent posts, limit following count, only subset of network, etc
one of the harder pieces in general high-req-rate full-network scale, but a bunch of ez optimizations: only recent posts, limit following count, only subset of network, etc
October 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Running the following feed is like half of our production workload, its kinda silly how much work it is to do that
Konbini now can load third party feeds!
I also added a selective (manual) backfill endpoint to load all of a given users posts, fleshed out background profile fetching a bit better, and added some (admittedly complex) instructions for how to point the main app at it
I also added a selective (manual) backfill endpoint to load all of a given users posts, fleshed out background profile fetching a bit better, and added some (admittedly complex) instructions for how to point the main app at it
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Konbini now can load third party feeds!
I also added a selective (manual) backfill endpoint to load all of a given users posts, fleshed out background profile fetching a bit better, and added some (admittedly complex) instructions for how to point the main app at it
I also added a selective (manual) backfill endpoint to load all of a given users posts, fleshed out background profile fetching a bit better, and added some (admittedly complex) instructions for how to point the main app at it
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so-called "protocol" (exaggerated scare quote hand gesture)
October 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
so-called "protocol" (exaggerated scare quote hand gesture)
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Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety.
This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety.
This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Pretty sure I can eat more lemon gelatto than the gelatto shop has.
October 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Pretty sure I can eat more lemon gelatto than the gelatto shop has.
Implemented enough of the XRPC endpoints on Konbini that I can get a fork of the main app running against it
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Implemented enough of the XRPC endpoints on Konbini that I can get a fork of the main app running against it
A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.
GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini
Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.
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The consequences of just building yet another centralized social media platform are dire, we are not here to be a second Twitter, and not here to "own" the network or your data.
de/acc
decentralization accelerationist
decentralization accelerationist
October 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The consequences of just building yet another centralized social media platform are dire, we are not here to be a second Twitter, and not here to "own" the network or your data.
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No, you are not our product. Our product _is_ the code that we write and distribute for others to use. For others to take and build their communities. Making the users the product is exactly the model that never works and continues to never work.
October 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
No, you are not our product. Our product _is_ the code that we write and distribute for others to use. For others to take and build their communities. Making the users the product is exactly the model that never works and continues to never work.
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Doll built this in a cave, out of a box of scraps.
The Appview code should have everything blueskys appview does, the only problem it is running into is getting the right numbers for database connections and pooling.
github.com/dollspace-ga...
github.com/dollspace-ga...
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Doll built this in a cave, out of a box of scraps.
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Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles
October 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles
Very excited for the healthy discourse project we are working on, I really think it’s going to move the needle
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Very excited for the healthy discourse project we are working on, I really think it’s going to move the needle
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We will regret not acting faster on climate change.
October 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We will regret not acting faster on climate change.
The slop app makes some sloppy slop
October 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The slop app makes some sloppy slop