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Jay Stevens

@jaystevens.me

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Now: Engineer @ Respawn - Apex Legends Prior: Battlefield Mobile, Star Wars FPS, <redacted> Long Ago: Skipper/Tiki Bird Wrangler @ Disneyland Views are my own, blah blah blah. Big fan of model trains, tiki bars, and general electronic doohickeys. He/him

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · Oct 19

Hey there hi there ho there - we're doing intros?

I'm Jay. Long ago I was a Jungle Cruise skipper at Disneyland. Today I'm a gamedev at Respawn Entertainment.

I have 3 cats - Togepi, Moo, and Mothman.

My hobbies are various tech-y things, working on my tiki bar, and my N-Scale model railroad!

3 cats watching birds on TV. There is a black cat, a white cat, and a grey cat. All 3 birds are very interested in the television.

2 model railroad tracks traveling on the inside of a temple. There is lava coming up from the ground and a statue with a glowing jewel on top of its head.

Me back when I worked as a Jungle Cruise skipper! I'm 6 feet tall, white skin with black hair, and I'm holding a microphone while working at the Jungle Cruise. I was 22 or 23 when this photo was taken.

Me laying down stomach-first on a box while dressed in my Jungle Cruise outfit. My glasses are askew. The box says "this end up" and has an arrow pointing upward.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28m

I am sure there is a better way to do it - @baileytownsend.dev mentioned I could be using a put instead of a create to skip creating a bunch of records.

But I honestly didn't do _that_ much thinking when I wrote the script, I just needed something that worked

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 35m

If you're self-hosted (looks like you might be), I think you can do 10,000 records/day before Bluesky drops starts dropping records from your PDS at the Relay level.

Not sure if those 10k records only count Bluesky lexicons or not, so if you want to science it I'd be interested in the results

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 36m

It took approximately 72 hours to port the 16k records that met the criteria for a scrobble.

A lot of that is because I hit rate limits and got locked out of ALL activity on the network for 18 hours (I couldn't even like posts on Bluesky).

Rate limit info is here: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

Rate Limits | Bluesky

Rate limits help service providers keep the network secure. For example, by limiting the number of requests a user or bot can make in a given time period, it prevents bad actors from brute-forcing cer...

docs.bsky.app

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 36m

@indexx.dev - if you want, the code I wrote is here: tangled.org/strings/did:...

It's built for Spotify but if you can parse the Apple Music output then it should work.

I was on a Mushroom PDS at the time and was getting hit with rate limits, but I think non-Mushroom PDSes have higher limits

converter.py · by @jaystevens.me

Converts a Spotify full account export (not the limited export, the full one) to PDS records compatible with Teal.fm's "fm.teal.alpha.feed.play" lexicon

tangled.org

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 19h

Honestly I'd almost say it's worth checking out if only because wow I have never seen a show this bad before.

It is impressive to be this bad in 2025; you have to really try

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 19h

It's 3D animated but so inconsistent with its animation.

There's no impact frames half the time. Sometimes a model gets rotated around its root without any bone animation, or they play a sequence at double speed for no reason.
The voice acting is completely flat and the script is all over the place

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 19h

My fiance isn't feeling well which means she controls the remote - and I get to suffer through her choice of shows to watch.

We're watching the 2025 Winx Club reboot on Netflix. This is without a doubt the WORST show I've ever seen. It's impressive how bad it is, like watching a train wreck

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"