Paul Johnecheck

Paul Johnecheck

@7hird.dev

Indie game dev (https://stargamb.it) Lover of trust, justified belief, and pro-social tech.

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Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

@ronentk.me didn't see a bug report button in the Semble UX, but I encountered two just now. First, it didn't detect an expired token until I attempted to create my card, booting me to a login screen and losing my progress. Second, it did this (android firefox).

Paul Johnecheck@7hird.dev

Clicked this link hoping for a bunch of pictures of crazy ceramics; was disappointed. To fix this, I have created the new @semble.so collection 'Crazy Ceramics' semble.so/profile/7hir..., beginning with our lord and savior, Cockerel Vessel 24.97.21a, b. It's open, add some cool ceramics!

semble.soCrazy Ceramics (by Paul Johnecheck) — SembleAll your wildest and favorite ceramics humanity has made over the millenia.
Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

If it's easier to sign up for your website than it is to sign in, I see your priorities and do not appreciate them.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Pro tip: if you treat your knives poorly, eventually they become serrated enough to work great for cutting bagels

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

The truth still matters and it always will. Those who make a mockery of it may find advantage now, but the poison of their lies will afflict them and their power in time. Slowly, too slowly for many, but we can catalyze it.

dame@dame.is

i challenge you to post one optimistic take or belief today on bluesky this needn’t be toxic positivity, just good ol’ run of the mill optimism/hope in the face of a torrential downpour of doom

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

I'll be there! Time to lock in and build some sweet things.

atmo.rsvpAtmosphereConf 2027The third edition of the global gathering for the Atmosphere Community is taking place in Amsterdam, April 29th - May 2nd. This includes side-events and main conference days. Please RSVP with your interest, subscribe for updates at https://news.atmosphereconf.org, and watch us build out the website with lots of fun features https://atmosphereconf.org As well as in person, we'll also be streaming and have different ways to participate remotely. Atmosphere Conference is run by the community, for the community, as an annual global gathering to connect, share, celebrate, and learn from each other. We welcome newcomers and want to engage with new perspectives. It's a community home for builders, supporters, and participants in the atproto ecosystem. We maintain collective resources, seed projects, and convene our community to ensure every member has genuine voice in shaping the ecosystem's future. #atproto #atmosphereconf #atmosphereconf2027 #europe
Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

I would consider the ability to build excellent user experiences for novel systems strong evidence that the builder HAS internal experience.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

And we're back! Got some totally intentional adversarial migration practice in after deleting all my DO droplets. Big thanks to @pds.dad for pdsmoover.com 's backup/restore features. I was a little blown a way by how trivial it was, took me <10m What a fantastic service to the community.

pdsmoover.comPDS MOOverPDS MOOver – ATProto tools for PDS migrations and backups
aly@aly.codes

Apparently Digital Ocean canceled their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub the month before giving Omarchy 3 million dollars. social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/...

social.treehouse.systemsBart Piotrowski (@barthalion@treehouse.systems)Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.
Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Developer democracy vindicated once again! I love Debian. Recently helped a non-tech friend get his gaming PC on it; he hasn't needed my help for weeks and says he loves it.

Liam @ GamingOnLinux@gamingonlinux.com

Debian Linux developers vote to allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI" #AI #Debian #OpenSource #Linux #GenAI

gamingonlinux.comDebian Linux developers vote to allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI"The flood gates for generative AI in Debian Linux are now seemingly open, with the results from a recent vote now available.
Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

I did hit two snags when setting it up: installing Nvidia drivers tripped secure boot and the fix was easy but non-obvious. Some steam games (Palworld, some others) had problems being on an NTFS drive, ext4 was the answer. In both cases, better error messages and hand-holding would've been nice.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Terra Ignota: what a series. I need time to unpack what I've read and space to discuss it. It's also... so weighty and personal that I'm not comfortable dumping my partially-crystalized thoughts on the public internet. And that's before how spoiler-adjacent a lot of what I want to discuss is.

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apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

You don’t win an argument about definitions. You agree on definitions so that you can even have an argument

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Partway through Too Like The Lightning (Ada Palmer). It's REALLY weird (laudatory).

jared@awarm.space

do u live in NYC and want to read and discuss the science fiction epic of our generation Terra Ignota?? If so, come to the reading group I am hosting next month! atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:uk... (I will write a blog post soon on why I love this series so much if you need more convincing)

atmo.rsvpTerra Ignota NYC Reading Group #1Join us for the inaugural event of the Terra Ignota NYC reading group, meeting at Forever Brewing in Gowanus, on August 26th! We'll be discussing the first book of the series Too Like the Lightning. ...
Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Discussing it with my sister, I described it as 'realistic', but that was the wrong word. What I meant was *rich*. Palmer paints a remarkably believable world; not in spite of how alien and incomprehensible it seems, but because of it.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

She lays bare that much sci-fi centers on today's society transplanted somewhere exotic. Despite huge differences in history, situation, and technology, the people and their relations are familiar. Not so here. The book is a fascinating reminder of just how different people and groups can truly be.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

This is nauseating.

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Huh. Trying out Opus 5, and that's the second time today it's gone above any beyond. The first time was welcome, but it just built a little feature that I didn't ask for and don't want. Not sure what to make of this.

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Josh Collinsworth
@collinsworth.dev

To install a PWA on iOS, you have to: - Navigate to the site - Open the menu - Click "share" (wtf!?) - Click the SECOND "more" ellipsis icon (not the first!) - Click "add to home screen" - Click the "Add" button This is, to me, unacceptably byzantine. Just deliberately hostile on Apple's part.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Just took me 15 tries to get a password accepted by Fidelity. If your app has requirements for a password, you need to tell me which I'm failing on, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE POORLY WRITTEN AND MEAN SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THEY SAY

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

"Use one of the following special characters..." DOES NOT COMMUNICATE THAT ALL OTHER SPECIAL CHARACTERS ARE DISALLOWED!!! ALSO, WHY THE HELL AM NOT ALLOWED TO PUT AN ASTERISK IN MY PASSWORD OR HAVE IT BE OVER 20 CHARACTERS. WTF‽

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

The more you know about your program before you execute it the better, therefore Lean is the future of all programming. In this essay I shall...

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Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

First time @ #OriginsGameFair, so excited to play some games and show off Star Gambit!

Star Gambit@stargamb.it

Come Learn Star Gambit - Origins Game Fair 2026! Greater Columbus Convention Center - Columbus, Ohio Saturday and Sunday Events 6816 - 6822 tabletop.events/conventions/...

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

NOoooOOOOoo 😭 I noticed my spelling mistake a little over an hour after posting this, I definitely want to be able to edit older posts.

Paul Johnecheck@7hird.dev

Naturally, the question would be how to distinguish the two. It's not too hard to invent a sentance where updating a single character changes the meaning entirely; simple measures are easily gamable. LLMs might actually be the right tool for the job.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Backfilling Bluesky follows with Happyview, attempt 2: 18 hrs in, and it's working! However, I notice that it's not using much bandwidth. Should it really be waiting to resolve every PDS before downloading repos? I assume we're getting rate limited on PDS resolution. #atproto

Trezy@trezy.codes

New interface for tracking backfills in @happyview.dev. It updates in real-time to provide a much better view into how the backfill is going. Backfill jobs can also resume after a restart now, which wasn't always the case. #atproto

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

I'm pretty sure I'm not resource constrained anywhere. I tried creating a second follow backfill, but that one just reports a progress of 0/0.

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

Star Gambit Beta Launch: things are working, good times were had. As expected, no explosive uptake; time to focus on player experience and the community. If you'd like to give it a go, drop in tomorrow at 4-5pm Eastern (20:00 UTC) for our weekly play session! play.stargamb.it

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

What if we emphasize the shape of a handle instead of teaching vocabulary? With a little animation, we can show a examples of handles they might recognize and hint at more with "@proto.handle".

Paul Johnecheck
@7hird.dev

What if we emphasize the shape of a handle instead of teaching vocabulary? With a little animation, we can show a examples of handles they might recognize and hint at more with "@proto.handle".