Eliot Hertenstein

I miss the old web. I miss craft. eliothertenstein.com/notes/on-craft

Back when Bluesky first launched, there was a ton of momentum about leaving Twitter. But it was hard to migrate, hard to crosspost. Too many people didn't make the jump. Software needs a critical mass like social media, and now the wind is in @tangled.org's sails. I hope they get it right.

hey @tangled.org... this might be a great time to build some tools that make it easy to try hosting your repo on Tangled, or at least write a blog post about how to move over.

Shoutout @danabra.mov for vibe-fixing his talk on the big screen. Only at #ATmosphereConf

Also, I always figure Bluesky is a good place to go for random transit questions: surprised that the skytrain is driverless without planform screen doors—I always thought the two were necessarily linked. What’s the story there?

In Vancouver for #AtmosphereConf! So excited to chat with some fantastic developers (@pfrazee.com, @iame.li, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social) about building with @expo.dev on the AtProto. Saturday, 2:30PM, Great Hall South — be there!

Thank you to the @expo.dev for coming on board as a sponsor for #AtmosphereConf, as well as joining us in person to present!

Support got back within 5 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Pretty impressive stuff.

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp

I’ve long said that a major factor in my choice of airline is WiFi. The fact that Air France now offers fast (and free!) Starlink means it’s now my usual go-to for flights to Europe. Fantastic work!

I wrote about the economics of same-day delivery: eliothertenstein.com/notes/unihop

Remember that content moderation is a miserable job: viewing the worst parts of the internet on repeat for 8 hours a day. The less humans have to intervene the more ethical content moderation becomes.

Wordle but it’s Zillow: realdle.jero.zone

This is why we need Bluesky for Biking! bikepacking.com/plog/when-we...

⚡ We teamed up with Meta to deliver precompiled iOS builds in 0.81/SDK 54. You get: ◆ Faster builds: Compile RN once per release ◆ Smoother integrations: Easier to add RN into brownfield apps ◆ Future-proof: Prepares RN for migration from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager expo.dev/blog/precomp...

There are so many reasons to love the Paris metro, but one of them is how quick stops are. The doors are open for less than 10 seconds at some stations. This is what platform doors and high frequency enables! If trains are arriving every 4 minutes, missing a train isn’t a big deal.

Update: it's just okay. Not worth it for $90 IMO and the battery life isn't great. It's also much larger than I expected. But, I'm going to keep giving it a go and see what the one-week update is!

Currently transported back to the 90s on my United flight — there’s a credit card reader built into the seat back and they’re showing the trailer for “Clueless (1995)” which is wonderfully dated.

Anyone know why the Seattle Metro has such wide corridors in their stations? Possibly to accommodate a future express track or something?

Claude running a vending machine proceeds to sell several tungsten cubes at a loss and then have an existential crisis. www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

STINSON BEACH: At 9:58 p.m. a woman said she was in hiding after learning "spiritually, through her tum tum," that a man was stalking and trying to kill her.

Ordered a tinypod (thetinypod.com) and will report back how it feels. I'm excited – I have basically stopped wearing my apple watch thanks to my Oura ring, but wish I could stop carrying my phone around. It *should* be able to do everything I want (Music, iMessage, etc.) but no YouTube or Twitter.

Having a day

I wrote about the news (and me). eliothertenstein.com/notes/news

FOREST KNOLLS: At 10:12 a.m. someone peeking through blinds saw a man with clothes strewn on the ground running around and yelling at passersby near the coffee shop.

The court ruling in Epic v. Apple now allows iOS apps to include in-app links to external payment pages—with just your payment processor’s fee and no modal—if your app is distributed in the U.S. This blog post is about what this means for Expo developers: expo.dev/blog/mobile-...

just setting up my pds

For this build, I’m running Shimano Ultegra Di2 (R8170). Ultegra is in the upper-middle tier of Shimano’s offerings, with 105 being the lowest and Dura-Ace being the highest. Di2 means the shifting is electronic — rather than running a cable, the shifters communicate wirelessly with the derailleur.

Phoebe Bridgers as a linguist: "There are no words in the english language"

Instead of using “et al.” in writing I now use “and friends.” Adds a warm touch to my papers.

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excited about twitter 2.0