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improver of circumstances
welp twitter's not working

hello bsky, how's everyone doing?

i haven't been here in a while, how many of my twitter circles are still using this thing?
July 1, 2023 at 2:26 PM
ME AND WHO
aln.lat Alan @aln.lat · May 14
It's the best, and play together 😺
May 14, 2023 at 10:18 PM
weird that it's normal for me to get 0 likes on a skeet here

on twitter that has literally never happened once i hit like 200 followers
May 8, 2023 at 2:23 PM
they talked about bluesky on yesterday's episode of blocked and reported

"they named them 'skeets'... why would they do that, i don't get it"

priceless entertainment, 10/10
May 1, 2023 at 11:10 AM
anyway

the most basic version of listfollowers for bsky is out now

https://bskyfollowers.netlify.app/

there's no search, export, combining 2 lists etc, that's all coming

also no error handling bc there's no docs for the API, idk what errors can even happen

try it out, if it crashes let me know
April 29, 2023 at 12:30 AM
started one week later but finally under way

today i fairly quickly discarded the idea of making my own backend right off the bat

i'll start frontend only to ship something quick; afterwards i can fuck around w session cookies and bullshit like that

most of the work is UI which won't go to waste
ok this weekend i'll get started on a bsky client

not exhaustively covering all of the functionality but picking some functions to complement the official client

starting off with followers management/search/sort/filter a la listfollowers.com
April 22, 2023 at 9:05 PM
thread of threads on various aspects of being a human and living life

will (hopefully) keep adding more
April 22, 2023 at 3:58 PM
i'm a proponent of what i have been calling "social localism"

localism is about sourcing food and other goods from areas that are geographically local to you

social localism is about sourcing social resources from people that are in your local social graph, that you know personally
April 22, 2023 at 3:45 PM
one of my favorite ideas is thinking of self-coercion as motivational debt

then, from "the optimal amount of debt is not zero", we derive "the optimal amount of self-coercion is not zero"
April 17, 2023 at 10:30 AM
ah

bsky doesn't have an oauth provider, so any bsky client will have to be username+password login, which means people will be asking to see the source code, and i really do not wanna set up a separate monk github account and split my projects under 2 accts

gonna namedoxx with my regular github ig
April 16, 2023 at 2:49 PM
when i first started on twitter i poasted mostly actual thoughts

over time i got lazy and devolved into basic bitch slice-of-life poasting

and people seem to like it but

i miss the wisepoasting

with a clean start on bsky i wanna get back to the roots
April 16, 2023 at 11:36 AM
sometimes you think "i should do X" but you don't wanna do X

"that girl is 100% flirting with me. i should ask her out"

rationally, you're convinced it's a good move. but

you're a coward

now what
April 16, 2023 at 11:25 AM
ok this weekend i'll get started on a bsky client

not exhaustively covering all of the functionality but picking some functions to complement the official client

starting off with followers management/search/sort/filter a la listfollowers.com
April 12, 2023 at 10:25 PM
sigh lmao guys

"you thought your tl is just random people that you can start talking to? no no we actually all know each other really well. but you don't need to feel excluded!! oh it hadn't occured to you to feel excluded? well now it has 😊"
if you are new here and don’t know anything about the twitter group that’s moved over etc do not worry!!! I will be your friend
April 12, 2023 at 12:31 PM
sometimes i want to improve along some axis bc i'm positively motivated to make things better. things being better is good

sometimes other people shame me for where i am in life and imply i should improve to stop being shameful (often they do this unintentionally!)

>
April 12, 2023 at 11:04 AM
dating someone should feel like a freefall
April 11, 2023 at 7:20 PM
no don't tell me i'll have to extend listfollowers.com to work with bsky too

this feels like one of those technical interview questions where they make you handle one usecase and then add a different one to see how extendable your design is
April 11, 2023 at 11:38 AM
huh i simply can't log in to the web app from a mobile browser, not even when i request the desktop site

welp i'll see you all in the evening
April 10, 2023 at 9:44 AM
ok who wants to do a DMs proof of concept?

go here:
https://www.devglan.com/online-tools/rsa-encryption-decryption

encrypt your message with the public key in the next tweet and poast the encrypted output

if you want me to reply, use the same link to generate your keypair & give me your pub key
April 10, 2023 at 9:22 AM
wait i just realized that on twitter i got more followers than most of my moots bc i started earlier and it snowballed from there

here we're on equal footing and i'll have to learn how to poast good

oh no
April 10, 2023 at 8:17 AM
pass it on
a blue sky tweet is called a skeet
April 10, 2023 at 8:04 AM
test
April 9, 2023 at 8:33 PM
the UI here is janky af

you can tell there's one frontend dev who's working their ass off and zero UI designers

it's kinda cute
April 9, 2023 at 8:29 PM
hey guys
April 9, 2023 at 7:57 PM