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Technical advisor to @bluesky - first engineer at Protocol Labs. Wizard Utopian

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Fresh new edition, beautiful cover work @qntm.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Must be a time of day thing, I see you as being interested in three different "dev" related clusters, one tech journalist cluster, and the dutch politics cluster.
You're also an "influencer" in two clusters:
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Okay, mine eventually got to something of a loop bliss state
October 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“Its a metaphor” - but what if it wasn’t
October 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Konbini now can load third party feeds!
I also added a selective (manual) backfill endpoint to load all of a given users posts, fleshed out background profile fetching a bit better, and added some (admittedly complex) instructions for how to point the main app at it
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Implemented enough of the XRPC endpoints on Konbini that I can get a fork of the main app running against it
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
screenshot of it working, thanks claude for the UI
October 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
yeah people have tried this a number of times over the past decade or so, it never works.
October 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The slop app makes some sloppy slop
October 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It seems like anthropic has done something like this, the models really careful about this question now:
October 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
supposedly thats gotten way better in 4.5
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Big fan of Canada, really good stuff up there. Also a big fan of taking time away from computers.

Anyways, back to work.
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So my eternal curse of going on vacation and having something break struck again. This time the wires for the cpu fan on my server were apparently rubbing against the fan, which over time was wearing through the wire and it just so happened to finally break fully the day that I left for a trip.
July 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
June 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Its this one, no complaints so far, seems to work fine
June 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
June 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
May 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
*nickelback voice*: Look at this mossy rock!
May 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just gotta crossbreed these guys with some pit vipers:
May 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Sunbeam snakes are pretty cool
May 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Uh
May 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Heres a flower for you, notice anything about it?
May 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Which of these creatures do you like more?
May 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Heres a nice one for you:
May 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
San Francisco residents hearing outrage about people spending $4000/mo on a nice place when they spend $4000/mo on one room in a 120 year old house with termites and holes in the walls
May 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM