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With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size.

At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

A tale of two platforms:

BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀

Screwdrivers are going to make hammers obsolete. Silly right? That's what most tech discussions turn into.

Sometimes the best engineering happens when you’re just tinkering, free from expectations and deadlines.

I can't control the world around me, but I can define the person I want to be, and how I contribute to making the world a better place.

I'll spend my days doing that work with intentionality.

Twitter is angertainment. You'll be happy you did.

Many such cases - and I increasingly feel the same way.

Twitter is becoming a mainstream "TikTok-like" space, where my feed is overwhelmed with politics, memes and what feels like "engagement bait" - from accounts I do not follow.

Bluesky feels like where I get to engage with the dev community.

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source. "public money, public code" www.zdnet.com/article/swit...

Just because the query works, it doesn't mean the data model can't be changed or improved upon.