Mario Sangiorgio

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ciechanow.ski/moon/ just appeared in my RSS reader and now I know what I’m going to read this evening. 
If you enjoy deep dives and interactive visualisations Bartosz Ciechanowski’s posts are a must read

I dont think its an accident that pretty much all the new appviews we start to see on atproto are less about communications and more about sharing public data in some structure, whether that is book reviews, recipes, linktree clones or pastebin clones

I miss when telling someone I liked computers we ended up talking about the tech. I can still do it today but I need to be very selective and run away from people who want me to work on their questionable startup idea, sell me a NFT, show me ads, live in a virtual reality or talk with a chatbot

I really wanna see us add an option for you to use the face ID secure enclave on your phone (also works on android) to add backup signing keys to your DID PLC documents directly through the app.

This is wild. I wasn’t expecting such a level of detail in the photo description. It can *guess* a lot, just form a single picture theyseeyourphotos.com

Shoutout to the Bluesky team for being so open about their infrastructure. This is just an example of a member of the team engaging in replies and describing what Bluesky runs on

lots of talk about how verification ought to work here. I’m pretty wary of the me dot workplace dot com approach — for me personally, I don’t want my employer owning my social media presence and I’m pretty sure they don’t want that appearance either, especially when I’m shitposting

the best websites are like, <name-of-specific-computer>.{physics|math|ee|cs}.<some-university>.edu/~<initials-of-guy>/stuff/html-page-with-no-css.htm

I’ve done Advent of Code a couple times in the past but it’s no longer my thing. 
#DecemberAdventure is a cool alternative.
I have a few features I’d like to add to my tool to optimise the use of our solar/battery system. Let’s see how far I can in December
eli.li/december-adv...

That was a really good read covering some aspects of lock-free concurrent skiplists & LSMs (log structured merge trees). By @jaffray.bsky.social buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

“Fuck that. Use Atuin” 😁

wrote up a reply to @dustyweb.bsky.social's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post

My favorite LA fact is that it used to have an amazing tram network, but then the car companies bought it, dismantled it and sold the land in small chunks so it could never be reassembled, ensuring that cars would become the dominant mode of transport in the city.

This is a really good analysis comparing the ActivityPub approach to decentralisation with Bluesky/atproto. I might quibble with some details, but overall it's fair and balanced. Thanks @dustyweb.bsky.social for taking the time to write it!

More about Bluesky/atproto in contrast to SSB: with SSB we were uncompromising with our decentralization principles, but we also wanted to see how far our technology could go. There were very few radically p2p technologies like us and didn't know its full potential.

Christine's article is important and worth reading While going through her article I wrote some of my own notes, thoughts and responses whtwnd.com/laurenshof.o...

The moment when Slack search shows that someone else had the same issue (great!) but the possible answer is buried in a 100+ messages thread (ouch!)

Good overview of #Bluesky architecture. The source of truth is decentralised in PDS but to interact with it needs to be aggregated in an AppView. PDS are cheap to run. AppViews not so much so realistically there are going to be very few of them (only one?)

It's really interesting to read the statuses from Bluesky developers describing what they're doing to keep up with the increasing load. I found some of them by following people on this starter pack go.bsky.app/4AZcmwz

Account created. Now I need to read more about the AT Protocol. Who knows if I’ll find anything interesting I can run from my homelab