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"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

Every clip I see about Bauza is so heartbreaking, he seems like such an amazing dude. Also, we gotta bring back using voice actors for animated shows and not just celebrities looking for an easy buck.

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Bauza's vocal range...so many random incidental roles: a bizarrely perfect Dr. Quest on Mystery Incorporated, like five characters in the movie Buddy, The GI Joe announcer voice on Community, he was the only modern guy who could get close to a Mel Blanc yell, they had him doing JUNE FORAY characters

just occurred to me that BC could be plausibly described as facing down a Bourbon Restoration

Built a demo tool to deal with the two way problem of non-profit member orgs not knowing how to use volunteers & volunteers not staying activated. Next is finding orgs who want to demo a free tool (that'll stay free to use) It's ATProto native, too.

well it’s a good thing I was already putting together a Saddam Hussein costume for Halloween and live a few blocks from a Cheesecake Factory

ok its actually an extremely funny bit that r/opensource just banned discussion of linux

it is so funny what the French hatred for air conditioning drives them to do. they have now invented Jeansulation www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

If anybody wants to discuss a standard lexicon for check-ins and photo locations and/or wants to find out about the new place/atgeo service @eurosky.social is running now please find me here. #atproto

how we looking fam

turns out you really can have it both ways

would be really fun to be a poli sci prof who gets to teach a lecture on "can a group of bus stop lawyers successfully recreate the Avignon Papacy" but I guess failing that I can just watch Better Call Saul while playing Crusader Kings like I do already

Yes! All tracks have their own lexicons and are published on protocol (as are stems and samples and releases). Purchases are private and not on protocol.

I feel like this should be a much bigger story than is being reported. The shareholders of Facebook, a giant company with a trillion dollar cap, would rather cover any spread of their CEO's taxes if Prop 40 passes than see him leave the state.

It started with a dream 20 years ago... 10 months of work with a lot of help from the AT Proto community, Bluesky, and friends. FreeMix is live!!! Open to all and all genres welcome. Free to join. I can't wait to see what you create. (oh and some exclusive tracks by me ready to be remixed)

longtime followers may know that I am a great fan of anything I can buy to ruggedize my Prius— eg, Prius tow hitch, Prius aftermarket 4x4 conversion. anyway, I’ve just bought some Prius tire chains and let’s just say I’m staking my entire self image on them

Huge milestone for the open social web—the first dedicated AT Protocol devroom is coming to FOSDEM 2027 in Brussels (Jan 30–31)! Congrats to @viivi.rocks, @edouard.paris, and the @atproto.eu community on bringing the room together. Watch for the CfP by Oct 27!

Next up on our new weekly Spaces blog series, we've got an intro to Atmospheric Groups! Featuring Moleman, @grain.social, and @pds.ls: atproto.com/blog/atmosph...

What @freemix.fm is doing is so ambitious, well executed from the jump, and just so freaking *cool*. They created an entire music platform with a built-in sharing and licensing system, all on atproto. You gotta see it.

Congrats to @joshuaiz.com for launching such an ambitious project. FreeMix empowers musicians with flexible licensing for their tracks and stems—it's a platform for fair collaboration and discovery. I'm very excited about its integration with AT Protocol, and its potential impact! app.freemix.fm

just got word that freemix.fm has officially launched today! super excited about this — we even have a nice native integration here on Bluesky app.freemix.fm/track/joshua...

cold take: Europeans and Canadians take too much satisfaction from simply dramatically observing that US government policy changes a lot between parties. I'm not sure if they just really want to act above our domestic politics (wouldn't that be nice) & not take notice, but it doesn't work that way!

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🪐 spaces alpha release 🪐 folks, this is the big one! lots of updates across pretty core protocol mechanisms. hopefully the last/only of it's kind (tho we are planning another release next Thurs)

this is a bit of a jump scare after a long... day... but the timeline on this was almost a year and many things are patched. in particular, the PDS reference distro uses caddy (with QUIC HTTP3). but it self-updates and has been patched for some time. if you run caddy for other stuff, update it

nightmare

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When your dentist asks who played Phil Fish in Barney Miller

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anyway I often joke that I'm "the 15th most important person" when dealing with security/reliability stuff but I did just update the reference PDS with all the recent Node fixes, you'll get it automatically 🙂

The Huntington invites you to “This Land Is ...,” a major exhibition that offers an open-ended exploration into what this land means to various people, past and present, using historical artifacts, manuscripts, and artworks. The full story: lataco.com/the-huntingt... By Hadley Tomicki

Breaking news: Chiricahua is the United States’ newest national park. The sacred Apache site in Arizona features rhyolite rock spires and balanced rocks that were formed 27 million years ago in a volcanic eruption, according to the National Park Service.