Optimising ATproto applications is complicated (but that's okay)
Bluesky, as a decentralised platform, poses a unique challenge for engineers trying to optimise for latency. Where is the AppView hosted? What about the location of the PDS? What about Eurosky users? I wanted to dig a little further this weekend into how it all works, and what could be done to improve Navyfragen's speed and reduce geographical latency, for users around the world. Because the traditional just put a bunch of distributed caches worldwide solution doesn't really work as well as you'...
Sir David Attenborough joins us to celebrate the Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Sir David Attenborough drops by for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative's tenth birthday in the DAB, and I spend the afternoon demoing TESSERA and the Dash of Life to a campus packed with visitors.
Testing Atmosphere
Just testing how the atmosphere plugin works.
Chinatown (1974)
Roman Polanskis „Chinatown“ von 1974 ist ein Klassiker des neo noir, nicht nur, weil er Merkmale des film noir enthält: der Detektiv, die femme fatale, alle Protagonist*innen sind nicht das, was sie zunächst scheint und alle kämpfen mit Dämonen der Vergangenheit. Noch dazu spielt er in den dreißiger Jahren der letzten Jahrhunderts und reproduziert das...
【福井】ソースカツ丼を食べ、東尋坊と雄島を巡る旅
福井旅行１日目は、ヨーロッパ軒総本店で名物ソースカツ丼を味わい、東尋坊と雄島を巡ります。荒波が打ち付ける断崖絶壁や無人島ならではの神秘的な景観を体感。福井駅の恐竜広場や東尋坊タワーなど、福井らしいスポットも楽しんだ観光記です。
[Fr, 19.6.2026 – ATmosphere, MIGA, Tundra]
Bei Felix über ATmosphere gelesen und gleich bei mir eingerichtet. (Hier noch ein paar weitere Links dazu). Das AT-Protokoll bzw. das Fediverse sind wirklich sehr interessant und schaffen vielleicht eine bessere Vernetzung des geschriebenen Internets. Ich habe es noch nicht ganz verstanden, wie die Aggregierung bzw. die Föderierung funktioniert. Eventuell passieren nach der Veröffentlichung dieses...
A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations
Let's poke at the differences between scroll-driven and scroll-triggered animations.
Genug mit dem Beobachten! VERBIETEN MUSS MAN DIE NAZIS! "Bayerns Verfassungsschutz darf AfD beobachten" https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/entscheidung-unanfechtbar-bayerns-verfassungsschutz-darf-afd-beobachten-15722151.html
I stayed at a nudist resort in Bali (via escape.com.au)
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net: **I stayed at a nudist resort in Bali**I'm no prude and I love being sans clothing, but walking straight out of my villa completely nude into the breakfast area to be greeted by fully clothed Balinese staff asking how I would like my...
Sommer, Sonne, Hitze…
Den Henning ist warm, schreibt er auf seinem Blog. Auch bei Mastodon liest man viele Klagen, ob der aktuellen Temperaturen. Und bei mir so? Ich komme damit erstaunlich gut zurecht. Ich kann sogar recht gut schlafen, hier in Mordor der Dachgeschosswohnung. Ich bin selbst ein wenig verwundert. Gewöhnt man sich irgendwann an diese Hitzephasen? Denn...
Atmospheric Login Diary 1: On the Button
Atmospheric login is one of those topics that maintains a constant hum of discussion in our ecosystem, and for good reason: it's how everyday folks make their way into our burgeoning, internected web of apps. I'd like to explore this in some depth, so consider this the first of several diaries. As someone whose job description says, verbatim, “grow the Atmosphere”, open questions about login have become something of a fixture in my mind. Because there are some real stakes here for the network. A...
Lente bookhaul
Gelesen: William Gibson – Neuromancer
Die Sprawl-Trilogie hatte ich in deutscher Übersetzung in einer Auflage, die ich hier zumindest nicht wiedererkenne, möglicherweise von Goldmann. Ich verschenkte sie irgendwann in den Nullerjahren innerhalb der Verwandtschaft. Unnötig viel Zeit verging, bis ich sie endlich erneut und im Original zu lesen begonnen habe. Nicht nur handelt es sich bei dem ersten Band Neuromancer...
#oneaday Day 742: Crash and burn
There is increasing talk of the video games industry staring down an honest-to-goodness crash -- and this time around, unlike the notorious Great Global Video Game Crash of North America from 1983, it looks very much like it could be one that will happen across the world. All this said, I feel like, at this...
Beweis Nr. 1.234: Die AfD ist ein Haufen Nazis "„Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?“: AfD-Politikerin soll Goebbels-Zitat als Klingelton benutzt haben" https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wollt-ihr-den-totalen-krieg-afd-politikerin-soll-goebbels-zitat-als-klingelton-benutzt-haben-15724617.html
Quick Hit #151
Safari TP 246 becomes the first to trial the alpha() relative color CSS function.
2026/145
Der Jiaogulan (chinesisch 絞股藍 / 绞股蓝) zu Beginn seiner vierten Saison auf unserem Balkon. Das ist eine Pflanze, der man beim Wachsen zusehen kann!
Better Than Sex, 30 Years Later: Revisiting the Book That Broke My Brain
07:39. I’m in my lounge chair drinking black coffee, the morning still soft around the edges. For my morning read today, I’ve been revisiting Hunter S. Thompson, starting with the book that began my literary love affair with his work: Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie. There’s something about Hunter that still gets...
Parakeet - A Year On
a blog post by Mia, which does contain some of her own personal views Parakeet was announced on Bluesky not too long over a year ago now. In this post, I’ll be going over where we are, the lessons learned, and some plans for the future. I spoke to (some of) the impetus behind Parakeet, and some of the progress at a high level in an article I wrote on my personal blog at the end of 2025. If you’re new here, it might be worth skim reading that first.
Equilibrium (170/365)
Pointing at the wider atmosphere
A few small updates since the last post.
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There's a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave's I don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation and Simon's "I will not publish anything that takes someone else...
Ambient Irony on Amodei vs Altman
I look forward to reading Pixy Misa's Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and political news with irreverent commentary. Pixy Misa is a pseudonymous Australian server admin (I think) who, in addition to posting on tech and politics, also sometimes posts about anime (sadly not as much of...
I confronted my 52-year-old body at a naturist club (via telegraph.co.uk)
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net: **I confronted my 52-year-old body at a naturist club**Would getting my kit off in front of others help me feel happier in my own midlife skin? There was only one way to find outBy Katy Regan, 14 June 2026It’s a boiling hot Sunday...
Practical programming for permacomputing
WARNING: The following text has a lot of advisory things should be this way while naturally my own software isn't bug-free. I recommend a philosophical path to follow. I myself don't follow that path perfectly, but it's what I'm currently striving towards. My whole career, I have been writing software according to a set of values I don't hold. An organization, particularly the kind whose purpose is first-and-foremost to make money, wants the software it produces to achieve a usable state as quic...
How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke
Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It's a "science" experiment akin to baking soda & vinegar volcano, freezing a banana in liquid hydrogen and shattering...