Barry Frost

Barry Frost

@barryfrost.com

Software engineer and leader. Hacking on #atproto and #indieweb projects in my spare time. https://barryfrost.com/ ⁂ 🇬🇧

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New post - I've rebuilt my website with @astro.build on top of #atproto, pulling in my data from across the Atmosphere. It's been a fun project and I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out.

barryfrost.comMy Atmospheric personal websiteWhen I post on Bluesky, upload photos to Grain, finish reading a book on BookHive, listen to an album with Rocksky or rate a film on Popfeed, within a minute this activity also appears on my website. None of these services know my website exists. I haven't written integrations or
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What if Man City get a massive Premier League points deduction and decide to rest their best players in the PL so they're fit to win the Champions League? (effectively "doing a PSG") 🤔 City would then qualify for next season's CL as winners, keep their stars and could play their B team in the EFL.

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We were at a sunny Potters Bar Town FC today, and saw a 2-1 home win. Even better, we had our photo taken with Arsenal's Premier League trophy which was visiting. #arsenal

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👋 Why, yes, I am Gen X and a DCFC fan! These two Tiny Desk Concerts are ace.

kottke.org@kottke.org

Attention Gen X: Death Cab For Cutie Tiny Desk Concert! Ben Gibbard: “I'm starting to realize that some of our earlier records came out a similar distance away from, like, the Beatles records when I was a kid." [kottke.org]

kottke.orgDeath Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk ConcertDeath Cab for Cutie rolled into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, which featured two new songs from their current album and some oldies: Title and Registration and Soul Meets Body. Gibbard noted: I’m star
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After watching Succession and now The Sheep Detectives, I’m not sure whose accent is best: Nicholas Braun’s English or Matthew Macfadyen’s American. Nick might have edged it.

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New evening activity: waiting anxiously for the outside temperature to drop below indoors to then fling open all the windows and curtains 🥵 #heatwave

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Standard Reader is not only a really well-designed reader for atmosphere posts, but a killer way of discovering and following new publications. I've added it to my daily reading links.

Standard Reader@standard-reader.app

Introducing Standard Reader: a calm, text-first home for long-form writing on the Atmosphere. Read standard.site publications, follow the writers you love, and find new voices across the network. standard-reader.app

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Happy to hear that Last.fm is now independent and remains intact. My 22 years of scrobbles are safe. It's still the first place I go to research gigs.

Last.fm@last.fm

It's been a big week, and the response so far has been incredible. Thank you 🤘 https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591

support.last.fmLast.fm is now independentToday, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly wh...
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I've been using @talat.app for a few weeks for transcribing meetings locally on my Mac. Works nicely with my Claude workflow via its MCP connector, calendar integration and speaker detection. One-off payment, no subscription. Recommended.

talat.app@talat.app

v0.11.0 is out, and since we were too busy to announce v0.10.0 properly, let's do that too: hellooo new design! There's too much to cover in a single post, but you can read the details over at talat.app/changelog, and take a look at some of the updated screenshots below 👇

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Because GitHub Actions have become so unreliable, I've moved a site's scheduled tasks from a scheduled workflow to use Cloudflare's cron triggers. They now correctly run every 15m on CF rather than (maybe) every 2-4h on GH.

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I took my kids to see Super Mario Galaxy today. We all loved it. It’s light on storyline, but it’s fun, well-paced for children and packs in so many characters and little touches from the games.

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Giving Zed another try as my IDE/editor. I knew it was fast, but what's really impressive is the polish.

Zed@zed.dev

Zed 1.0: Your last next editor.

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Visited the @tessl.io office yesterday for @guypo.com presenting on using agentic engineering across teams, hosted by #CTOCraft. Good networking chat before about engineer concerns, AI-related burnout, metrics and security.