Meri

Meri

@meri.garden

despite it all we will find each other design + engineering @roomy.space

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Meri
@meri.garden

found out today I didn't get the job 🫥 i have another interview this week though so luckily i get another ride on the rollercoaster also bsky didn't respond at all to my job app 😅 lmk if you know anything going!!

Meri@meri.garden

Waiting to hear back after an interview is *rough* 😮‍💨

Meri
@meri.garden

recommend seeing La bola negra in cinema if u can! sumptuous, expansive, vital, poetic, gripping, tender film. Queers, Spanish civil war, communing with Lorca and other lives lost to fascism. Ty to my gf for taking me on a date 💕

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Zicklag
@zicklag.dev

Me and @erlend.sh are trying to figure out what makes sense for a universal "thread" lexicon, to make things like @atmobb.app, @colibri.social, and @roomy.space topics / threads all index-able, similar to @standard.site. Maybe we could, in fact, use standard.site? I'm looking for feedback!

discourse.atmosphere.communityBasic Metadata for Modality SpacesSo, continuing to think about this, focusing on space metadata: what would people think about using standard.site to describe things like forum threads? @schlage.town @awarm.space, trying to find sta...
Meri
@meri.garden

atproto girl… fediverse boy

Meri@meri.garden

went to a 'solarpunk' tech meetup last night and told a boy I think he's cute 🤭

Meri
@meri.garden

went to a 'solarpunk' tech meetup last night and told a boy I think he's cute 🤭

Meri
@meri.garden

all leftists are conscripted to spend their 20s in the eternal war between naive ineffective moralist anarchists vs arrogant authoritarian colonialist communists and everyone who has grown out of that binary is doomed to watch powerlessly

Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦@coyotestail.bsky.social

love it when anarchists say this because most "local community" councils irl in places like new england or small rural towns are typically deeply *right wing* and hate immigrants and queer people despite representing a "broad swathe" of the entire population. leftism is supposed to be COSMOPOLITAN.

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dietrich
@burrito.space

went to a fundraiser by ppl from Dawei in southern Myanmar, which lost over 50 villages recently to flooding. no intl orgs are collecting funds because it's also a conflict zone. and the junta isn't letting aid orgs in, and turned off the internet 😐 (i can route donations, dm or signal)

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Sam Littlefair
@littlefair.ca

DevRel? More like developers’ relations to the means of production, amirite?

Jim Ray@jimray.bsky.team

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

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Ronen Tamari
@ronentk.me

Where to even begin. Anthropic wants to "apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible," via crash courses with hand-picked religious thinkers. Why was one of the Jewish representatives an Israeli scholar who's defended autonomous weapons for armies and police?

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Roomy
@roomy.space

Roomy was down today because we hit a usage limit on Railway cos of all our new users recently! Sorry about that and thanks for your support! 🩵

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Meri
@meri.garden

Replying to @meri.garden

There’s something pretty concerning happening if technologists pathologise people feeling threatened by technology. People have very good reasons to feel threatened and it’s our job to create safety (while staying safe ourselves from reactionary abuse). It’s hard

Meri
@meri.garden

kind of fun agent finding. Roomy's appserver routes materialisation and queries for each space between 8 Bun workers. the distribution across workers is determined by a hash of the space DID mod the number of workers. 8 = 2^3, so the hash % 8 only diverges on the lowest 3 bits of the input.

Meri
@meri.garden

The (non-cryptographic) hash function we used is FNV-1a which is simple and fast but works by XORing and multiplying, which pushes information from low bits to high bits. This makes the low bits ~linear in the input, and the result was 97% of all write volume being routed to one worker.

Meri
@meri.garden

The solution is to add a integer finaliser step that biases randomness towards low bits, a solution which came from this blog post. It's still not an even distribution because the space distribution is super spiky but it definitely helps mitigate it if the hash is actually random 😅

nullprogram.comProspecting for Hash Functions

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Erlend Sogge Heggen
@erlend.sh

So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term increase in leisure time and worker agency.

apenwarr@apenwarr.ca

So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.

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Filippo Valsorda
@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

The thing that worries me most lately is that many people who know that “fascism is bad, actually” have also convinced themselves that AI tools must be eschewed as fake or impure. In a self-reinforcing loop, there is relatively little AI tooling and infra by “fascism is bad” folks.

Meri
@meri.garden

sustainability doesn't happen overnight obvs! finding my feet rn in a bit of a transition moment. thanks so much for your support last week 🩵

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Matt Hodges
@matthodges.bsky.social

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

Matt Hodges@matthodges.bsky.social

Somehow Jev has not yet triggered much discussion of cheap, low-latency, general-purpose classification as infrastructure for targeted oppression.

Meri
@meri.garden

having one of those deep deep deep exhaustion from the injustice of years of precarity possibly leading nowhere days 😮‍💨😭 if anyone has a lead on something to help keep me afloat it would mean a lot! reposts appreciated also x

Meri@meri.garden

I'm very grateful to have been entrusted with @erlend.sh's Discourse payout to keep me above water while working on this, and with that narrow $1.5k/month runway I've worked harder than I ever have. That money's run out now, so please know that if you're in a position to support us at all

Meri
@meri.garden

I'd be very up for contracting work around ATProto or otherwise, feeling really confident in my general abilities after wearing so many hats on Roomy and solving real problems and verifying my work and shipping a lot of features. And really want to keep doing it but also to put food on table 😅

Meri
@meri.garden

exploring future Roomy appserver architecture - cool to learn this queuing theory model for service utilisation, how wait time blows up hyperbolically even under constant service time which is really unintuitive to me, but it's because of requests arrive at random/Poisson intervals

Meri
@meri.garden

so you could use this to e.g. set some threshold for service time above which to partition a worker

Meri
@meri.garden

I'm incredibly proud to be at this point after about a year of saying we will start selling subscriptions: finally, I can honestly say this is software that I love using every day, something that adds value to my life, something I think is worth paying for to make available to your community.

Roomy@roomy.space

Help fund our lil indie operation! Larger legacy communities on Discord can now pay $30/month to unlock live bridging at scale for the purpose of either safe-keeping or incrementally transitioning their community to Roomy and the atmosphere. should we add a $5/month good-vibes-only supporter plan?

blog.roomy.spaceRoomy ProScaling sustainability as an indie company
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Meri
@meri.garden

I'm very grateful to have been entrusted with @erlend.sh's Discourse payout to keep me above water while working on this, and with that narrow $1.5k/month runway I've worked harder than I ever have. That money's run out now, so please know that if you're in a position to support us at all

Meri
@meri.garden

I'm incredibly proud to be at this point after about a year of saying we will start selling subscriptions: finally, I can honestly say this is software that I love using every day, something that adds value to my life, something I think is worth paying for to make available to your community.

Roomy@roomy.space

Help fund our lil indie operation! Larger legacy communities on Discord can now pay $30/month to unlock live bridging at scale for the purpose of either safe-keeping or incrementally transitioning their community to Roomy and the atmosphere. should we add a $5/month good-vibes-only supporter plan?

blog.roomy.spaceRoomy ProScaling sustainability as an indie company
Meri
@meri.garden

I also feel proud of our incentive structure in this product, keeping core Roomy free and putting paid services in the connective periphery. We’ll need to keep experimenting but I feel optimistic about our approach, which keeps Atmospheric integrations free and central, keeping us on track.

Meri
@meri.garden

I’m determined to sustain our work making open social software without relying on donations. I also want to do it without accepting conditions that would demand hyperscaling and enshittifying, because I want the world to actually be better, not just for more code to exist.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen
@erlend.sh

@meri.garden carried this release on her back, and is presently driving the Roomy product. Every $ of revenue buys more development time for meri to continue her work at a steady cadence.

Roomy@roomy.space

Help fund our lil indie operation! Larger legacy communities on Discord can now pay $30/month to unlock live bridging at scale for the purpose of either safe-keeping or incrementally transitioning their community to Roomy and the atmosphere. should we add a $5/month good-vibes-only supporter plan?

blog.roomy.spaceRoomy ProScaling sustainability as an indie company

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Laurie Voss
@seldo.com

I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/

seldo.comNobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.comThirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
Meri
@meri.garden

having this be the most reach i've ever got for a post teaches me one thing: this is a platform for combat

Meri@meri.garden

one of my least favourite leftist trends is people deciding on some moral stance as an individual and then telling people if they disagree they are ‘crossing a picket line’ there’s something so neoliberal about conflating an organised workplace with ~online vibes~

Meri
@meri.garden

one of my least favourite leftist trends is people deciding on some moral stance as an individual and then telling people if they disagree they are ‘crossing a picket line’ there’s something so neoliberal about conflating an organised workplace with ~online vibes~

maybell🌻@maybell.itch.io

admitting ai is causing the world to "suck" and also choosing to use them is crossing the picket line. it is time for introspection.

Meri
@meri.garden

I misunderstood HappyView’s Confidential API client to mean it could act as a Confidential OAuth client for apps, and @trezy.codes just went ahead and implemented that anyway, what a legend 🌟

HappyView@happyview.dev

It's finally here! HappyView v2.14 dropped today. 😎 #atproto