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Noema Magazine@noemamag.com

“Spending several hours a day on social media distorts our sense of time, giving us the impression that we were awake for just 12 or 13 hours of the day. Over months & years, surrendering this much time to our ersatz digital warrens can lead to a sense of deprivation.” — @mikesmariani.bsky.social

noemamag.comYour Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped | NOEMAWe keep marveling at how fast the years go by. The deeper problem is that we’re forgetting them — and losing the quiet, boring moments where memory forms.

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Jasmine
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just like no comments in code is a sign of good code, there shouldn't be a need for tooltips on an application with good design

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brendan
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> Calvino then takes a sharp detour into topology. > Reading is strength training for labyrinth-solving. great post!

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for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...

joelgustafson.comThe Orientation GameJoel Gustafson

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Chenoe Hart
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Found some content for something I’m learning about that was written ~10yr ago on a blog, and it’s weird how it now seems slightly quaint and old-fashioned to read. There’s a sense of luxury to how it assumes you have a long attention span, and it’s sad that people don’t anymore.

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i like how in math you get to say "consider a function f from... etc" without any preamble and other mathematicians just have to consider it

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finally wrote a short post about how the "spatial feed" works in Aurora! the spatial feed shows you posts, in real-time, from the neighborhood you're looking at. it's a brand new kind of discovery interface!

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unfortunately, you still need WebGPU to use Aurora, so Firefox and mobile Safari (and some other browsers?) will have to wait. but we're getting closer! Firefox just shipped WebGPU on Windows and the other platforms won't be long now. the best way to try it out is still desktop Chrome/Chromium.

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finally wrote a short post about how the "spatial feed" works in Aurora! the spatial feed shows you posts, in real-time, from the neighborhood you're looking at. it's a brand new kind of discovery interface!

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✨ new blog post from me and @raymond.bsky.social: "serializable transactions for peer-to-peer databases" we describe "eventually consistent rollback", a new way of handling conflicts in concurrent database transactions. ECR gives you atomicity and serializability, but not finality.

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the tradeoff is dealing with retroactive rollbacks. some txns can be automatically re-applied. some apps can just re-render off the new state. but others will need an additional finality layer for durability guarantees.

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✨ new blog post from me and @raymond.bsky.social: "serializable transactions for peer-to-peer databases" we describe "eventually consistent rollback", a new way of handling conflicts in concurrent database transactions. ECR gives you atomicity and serializability, but not finality.

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CRDTs are great for text editing, but can't enforce constraints that other parts of application state rely on. instead, what if you could freely read and write to a relational database inside transactions that are guaranteed to execute atomically?

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this is similar to existing sync engines based on event sourcing with local optimistic replication, although those require and authoritative server. ECR uses deterministic "conflict set indexing" to arbitrate conflicts, unlocking completely p2p/self-certifying transactional dbs.

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this now actually sorts posts by time for arbitrary spatial queries, which i didn't think was possible at first

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too tired to write a release post but spatial feeds are here