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my @localfirstconf.com talk is up! showing how to use atproto to build realtime collaborative apps — multiplayer text editors, video chat, etc — without maintaining any infrastructure
Jake Lazaroff
@jakelazaroff.com
nyc-based programmer and designer. eng @phaze.app, alum @recurse.com. azzajew. public transit enjoyer. thoughts on local-first software, atproto, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae. 🌐 https://jakelazaroff.com
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my @localfirstconf.com talk is up! showing how to use atproto to build realtime collaborative apps — multiplayer text editors, video chat, etc — without maintaining any infrastructure
there's really no difference between this and saying that playing violent video games is harmful to the characters
Anthropic is introducing a new policy to address users who are being abusive and cruel towards Claude. This is good and shouldn’t be controversial. Humans that perpetrate abuse and cruelty towards things, even “inanimate” or “lower” lifeforms, should face consequences for their behavior.
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i made a bet on preact last year as the foundation for my company's app and i've never once regretted it. easily the most underrated javascript framework. excited to upgrade to v11!
Preact 11 is out 🎉 We’ve been hard at work at making our diffing use modern features like moveBefore , leveraging ESM for tree-shaking Preact Compat and ensuring you have a great experience with resumed hydration.
you said "trust me" so i trusted you
this was pretty fun, thanks for making it @collinsworth.dev #Tupo - Sep 22nd 2026 (Easy) ⏱️ Solved in 5:34 💯 A perfect game! Play at playtupo.com
paramore joined my 1000 scrobble club would probably have happened way back in like 2006 if i'd had last.fm at the time
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I want Custom Attributes to exist - think Custom Elements (Web Components) but Attributes. I've been working on a proposal, specs, and now a polyfill: www.keithcirkel.co.uk/custom-attri... More coming soon!
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"apps should be distributed, not hosted" has been rattling around in my brain for an entire month
Stray product(s) idea. A class of atproto apps should be spa's (single page apps) installable directly to our pds @wisp.place style. Apps should be distributed, not hosted. I should be able to install the Bluesky app to bluesky.captaincalliope.at, and then install that to my phone and desktop.
this is unbelievably good 🤯
here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...
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🙋♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it
that sort of technological solutionism always reminds of this interview with joseph weizenbaum — creator of ELIZA, the first chatbot! — on the role of computers in education ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/i...
one mistake people make a lot is treating every technological incursion into a field as a form of progress when that is absolutely not always the case
one mistake people make a lot is treating every technological incursion into a field as a form of progress when that is absolutely not always the case
journalism? ai is getting there medical? ai is getting there legal? ai is getting there farming? ai is getting there art? ai is getting there you can absolutely be a part of the creative and design process with ai, and you very well may keep a job! but your job is going to be very different
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the good reason is that ~every native UI development toolchain is significantly more excruciating than web dev
You want to know why your thing sucks now? There's a 50/50 chance it is secretly a web browser and site for no good reason instead of a real computer program. I don't know why we've turned many things that should not be web dev into web dev, but here we are.
guess i can add @digitalocean.com to the list of businesses to which i'll no longer be giving money
@digitalocean.com et tu, brute? omarchy.org/news/2026/09...
@mayor.nyc.gov building new rails takes forever, please let's not squander one of our few opportunities to revive an existing right-of-way
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a guy extracted all of the 3d models from Katamari Damacy and put it up on a site: katamari.andrew-boylan.com
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The Internet is absolutely beautiful. A guy made a video about an artist at a Con with nobody at his booth who talked about a comic he made himself about Nigerian folklore. Artist woke up to 25k new followers and 200+ orders www.instagram.com/reel/DcUvl_u...
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pretty wild how liberating it is to write code that just works in the browser without a build step
It's still incredibly pleasing to run through old projects converting TS into JS + JSDoc. I made the decision to cut out TS (excluding `.d.ts` files, they get a pass) from all my personal projects years ago and I'm still very much convinced that's the right move. TS as an authoring format ain't it.
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🍂📝 Applications are OPEN for the Fall 2 Batch, which begins on September 21! Spend 6 or 12 weeks programming with other curious peers in Brooklyn or online. Read more information and apply via the link in our bio or at www.recurse.com/apply
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you've see it before... and you'll probably see it again op.tngl.io/every-fuckin...
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This is the most important video I've ever made. In this, I explore the negative and positive mental health effects of AI coding, with data and expert commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn...
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