Michael Black

Michael Black

@michael.bsky.team

Software Engineer Bluesky App Team ๐Ÿ“ Chicago, IL

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It only supports a single atmosphere account, but it should be pretty easy to run for your own account if anyone's interested! Source code is linked in the footer (as well as a theme picker)

This started out as just a random poc for testing out my remote agent setup (paseo running on my raspberry pi homelab, development from my phone via paseo iOS app, CI/CD to deploy changes pushed up to gh) I though I'd probably throw it away, but it's neat seeing live record events

Switched from Chrome to Firefox in 2017 and never looked back

Firefox@firefox.com

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our โ€œCome Back to Firefoxโ€ campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why itโ€™s worth protecting.

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What @freemix.fm is doing is so ambitious, well executed from the jump, and just so freaking *cool*. They created an entire music platform with a built-in sharing and licensing system, all on atproto. You gotta see it.

Joshua Iz@joshuaiz.com

It started with a dream 20 years ago... 10 months of work with a lot of help from the AT Proto community, Bluesky, and friends. FreeMix is live!!! Open to all and all genres welcome. Free to join. I can't wait to see what you create. (oh and some exclusive tracks by me ready to be remixed)

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no kings includes billionaires who think theyโ€™re kings

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Perfect for building a leaderboard to track how many tacos you and your friends have ate ๐ŸŒฎ Great work by the Attie team on this!

Attie@attie.ai

Announcing Attie site builder! Starting today, Attie users can build small social pages like an AMA, a guestbook, or a survey your friends will argue about for a week. We made a few to get you started. Go make a better one and share it: attie.ai

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we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" โ€” places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders ๐Ÿ‘€

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com

the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only

Me, circa 2012, working at Hollister: "Be sure to check out Gilly Hicks for the hottest bras and the cutest down-undies!" ๐Ÿซ 

The Onion@theonion.com

Cashier Forced To Incorporate Humiliating New Phrase Into Every Customer Interaction https://theonion.com/cashier-forced-to-incorporate-humiliating-new-phrase-in-1827865691/

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We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.

Michael Black reposted

the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only

If you bring a white monster to an interview, you're immediately hired. No questions asked.

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social

Iโ€™m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, youโ€™re disqualified. Itโ€™s not hard, people.

Shout out to the Honeycrisp apple, developed by my alma mater the University of Minnesota

Bluesky@bsky.app

Welcome to the ONLY event about Apple happening today, as far as we know. We'll be running this as an AMAAA (Ask Me Anything About Apples). Ask your biggest Apple questions in the replies to this post and one of our Apple Geniuses will be with you shortly. ๐ŸŽ

I'm proud of the work we did on this! I learned a lot and had fun along the way We're also planning out some video quality improvements, so expect videos on bsky to continue to improve (timeline tbd)

Bluesky@bsky.app

Big video update! You can now post videos up to 10 minutes long, and they'll upload 2โ€“3x faster. That's on top of the recent increase in maximum file size to 300MB. We canโ€™t wait to see what youโ€™ll create! NOW PLAYING: "Rent Control," by @shing.bsky.social and @jayackley.bsky.social