Hector

Hi! I'm Hector 👋 Time for a quick #introduction I think: - Software developer (10+ years) - Backend & a little frontend - Go - Kotlin - Svelte 🧡 - Exploring gamedev with Godot 🕹️ - Hosting my own stuff for fun 🏡 - Hiking, nature & traveling - Learning digital art - Plant-based 🌱 #promosky

When you schedule messages on Slack, do you mention it was scheduled? 🤔 I usually don't, but I often wonder if I should. Just in case something changes between the time I wrote the message and the time it gets received. Is there any "scheduled message etiquette" I should know about?

Why is it that banks have such bad security practices when compared to pretty much anything else? One I came across: - User IDs are sequential - Passwords are 7 characters (only numbers) - 2FA only with SMS - Login asks for only 3 digits of your 7 number code 🤯

This morning I finally took the time to clean out my phone's USB-C port. Now the cable actually goes in all the way and doesn't fall out all the time! So satisfying 😌

Yesterday I published a complete rewrite of my website! 🙌 It's now completely written in Svelte hctr.dev/post/rewriti...

I'm rebuilding my website (again) and I'm almost at a point where I'm happy with the new design. But then I go back to the live version and I think "hmm, this looks better than I remembered. Is the new version actually better? Or just different?" 🙃

Yesterday I finally upgraded my laptop from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22.1! My favourite "feature" so far is that the fans no longer spin up as soon as I plug in the power 🤯

Came back to an old project I worked on a few years ago. Just wanted to make a few tweaks, nothing major. Now I'm trying really hard to resist the urge to rewrite it all 🙃

If you're an indie maker or interested in dev, I'm putting together a starter pack. Drop your @ here, and I'll make sure to include you. Power to the people! 🚀 go.bsky.app/AFG1Sgc

If you're an indie hacker and wondering whom to follow... Here are two starter packs featuring 210+ Indie Hackers: Part 1 - go.bsky.app/7PVRQFX Part 2 - go.bsky.app/GHWuWr6 Let me know if you want to be added 👇 P.S. Guys, please, repost this 🙌

Spent an hour banging my head against Nginx to get a reverse proxy working. Turns out the only problem was the port being closed on the firewall 🙃

You can now click on stars to open the corresponding post! ⭐ On desktop you need to be *very* fast though! nightsky.hctr.dev

This is very cool! Yet another visualisation of all the activity happening on Bluesky 💙

The response to this has been staggering. I expected that maybe a couple of people would think it was neat. I never thought thousands of people would try it! 💙 For those who may be curious, the source code is now available here: gitlab.com/hctrdev/bsky...

I didn’t like the vibe of the last one with the black background. I’ve been toying with the Bluesky api again. I’m addicted. Here’s my most used emojis ever for all time. Generate #emojibubble here: skythings.lukeacl.com/emojis/. Warning if you yap a lot it’ll be slow to generate.

OK, this went a bit viral 😅 I never thought so many people would enjoy this! It's been so lovely reading everyone's comments this morning. Thank you 💙

Bluesky by the Numbers today: 1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts 2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts 2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!) Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!! We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board. Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago! Holy Moly

I'm a bit new to this frontend development business, and I am genuinely enjoying it, but does it always turn into a kind of art project? 🤔 In terms of UI I'm usually only worried about what to write in log messages.

The screenshot is from my self-hosted Grafana instance, which is pulling system metrics from my laptop using Prometheus. All over my @tailscale.com network. I think it's clever. Useless 99% of the time, but who cares? Graphs are cool 😎

okay well we're gonna add over 1 million users in a single 24 hour period today, so please bear with us.

I think my laptop is looking for a new battery 🙃

Are you new to generative art or have ever been interesting in trying it? I wrote something for you. www.wking.dev/guides/the-g...

I love a good unit test. ❤️

Love this! So easy to start playing around with the protocol. Now, what to build? 🤔

Also - and I cannot emphasise this enough - twitter actively suppresses links. This is terrible for journalism - of any ideological stripe. Bluesky doesn't so it's a far better platform for writers.

remember to setup labels pronouns: @pronouns.adorable.mom timezone: @khronos.world

if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌 if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins

So I guess we're just doin bigger numbers every day now. This is pretty damn exciting and I'm glad y'all are here and justifying the time we spent investing in scaling. Really feels special to see this 20% day over day growth in activity and the "fresh of breath air" new users are experiencing. 💜

POLL for Bluesky veterans: What is YOUR advice for newcomers looking for more engagement, who say they're not getting much traction, who feel like no one's reading their posts? Pls reply with your top tips below, or reply with a post a link to your advice thread or post. #BlueSkyTips

I think I can stay hours just watching firehose (firesky.tv)

I hate to bitch about engagement again because I know everyone is tired of it, but please remember to retweet things you enjoy. There's no punishment for it on bluesky, and no algorithm aside of the discover feed to push the artists you like.

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK 🦋 On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/ For feed readers,  I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

Took me way longer than I'd like to admit to realise that "bsky" makes a lot more sense as "B-Sky" than "B-S-K-Y" 😅

For hobby projects and experiments I have a little script that automatically commits all changes every 30 seconds. For small/private projects I just can't be bothered to write nice commits, but I still want a git history. Does anyone else do that? Or is that just me? 🤔