Jesse Karmani

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Do y’all do #bloomscrolling over here?

arboretum.harvard.eduMagnolia Flowers Fall Apart Beautifully - Arnold ArboretumThings fall apart. That is the essence of a plant. I don’t mean the kind of falling apart of decay, but rather, the wonderful falling apart of the regular shedding of […]

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Trying to get the flower part names right for the alt text also led me to stumble upon this lovely little webpage: arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/magn... They do indeed 😌

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Alana Purdy’s Husband ⁂

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see @sifa.id

I hate LinkedIn with a burning passion and especially hate that it’s pushed as something you *have* to have for professional networking. I have unsubscribed from ALL of their engagement bait emails, but every few months they sneak me back onto some list to see if they can trick me into engaging 😡

It’s just before the end of the month, so my guess is some PM is trying to hit their engagement target so they don’t get offered the layoff package by Microsoft

atproto linkedin replacement when?

Jesse Karmani@jesseplusplus.com

Omg why is You Can See Everything 3 hours long?! Guess I’m waiting until it’s out on streaming so I can watch it in chunks on my couch 😂

blog.railway.comSecurity Disclosure: Wednesday October 21st | Railway BlogRailway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables and recommends your immediate attention

Love that they tell you this is compromised, but you can’t do anything about it yet. I’ve got some test stuff on railway I was about to toss anyway, but yikes

hailey@hailey.at

the pwning continues blog.railway.com/p/security-d...

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hailey

@hailey.at

the pwning continues blog.railway.com/p/security-d...

ooh i'm loving how easy it is to just spin up a new db for my appview and have it backfill data from spaces no more data migrations for anything that's on a pds is 🔥

my baby is learning to communicate in the native tongue of her people already! she grabbed my phone tonight and started poking the screen. this is what I saw when I took it back 😂

same tbh

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ugh I've have to re-build @frequency.app's spaces appview to have a confidential client oauth flow. i misunderstood what the service auth tokens could do and i need the appview to be able to sync member spaces without having a user logged into the client and constantly refreshing keys every ~10 mins

i like that you can write directly from the client if you auth to the pds and just give the appview service auth tokens, but that doesn't allow more complex app logic on the backend without forbidden token sharing

getting a good start on the new stickers 😌 (this thing really attracts fingerprints tho)

Jesse Karmani@jesseplusplus.com

I finally upgraded from my M1 air. The perf difference is totally worth it, but I’m still gonna miss this little guy. The sticker game was 🔥

i went to see the social reckoning movie yesterday. it was a small theater outside of downtown on a cloudy afternoon. i thought with all the headlines of it 'bombing' opening weekend, the theater would be empty, but there were still >50 people watching with me. most of them were middle aged or older

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as i sat there in the theater looking around at my fellow movie-goers, i wondered how many of them had watched friends get radicalized on facebook. how many had seen a loved one fall down a conspiratorial rabbit hole because the algorithm suggested that content and kept feeding them more and more?

it just renewed my motivation for building @frequency.app. fb, instagram - they are holding our friends and family hostage and manipulating their reality every day, and they don't care about the cost to us. we need to have good alternatives that show people it doesn't have to be that way.

it was a good follow-up to original movie, in typical aaron sorkin style. i'm glad that story got told, and they did a good job explaining the technical details in understandable terms. they kept the numbers simple (64% of people who joined extremist groups did so after the algorithm suggested them)

oura ring needs more activity categories we detected an elevated heart rate - what were you doing for 19 minutes at 7:53am? yoga? I wish. Where is your baby wrestling category?

although I guess my yoga teacher would say that you don’t have to just do asanas, anything can be yoga with the right mindset

I finally upgraded from my M1 air. The perf difference is totally worth it, but I’m still gonna miss this little guy. The sticker game was 🔥

damn, RIP to an absolute legend thanks for being such a badass role model to so many of us who came after you 🙏🏻

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

back in my day these were separate stations! get off my lawn! etc. etc. 😆

Jesse Karmani@jesseplusplus.com

the coffee shop I'm working from this morning is clearly playing a 90s radio station, but it's a strange mix of of all of the genres together.. some numetal then a faith hill song followed by the smashing pumpkins. as someone who lived through the 90s this is so strange 😐

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Andrew Lisowski 💻

@hipstersmoothie.com

i'm sorry but it's a bop and the music video is really fun

Max Woolf@minimaxir.bsky.social

uhhhhhhh

wfh with a baby is great sometimes I'm just coding away and I overhear my partner asking her if she wants to sit in front of the mirror and watch herself while she poops 😆

so good! 🤩

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com

Early testers of catsup are fans of the swipe-between-profiles UX with the pfp pill hint. Went through a lot of different versions before landing on that, so I'm happy to see it 🥹

pckt.blogPeople, Not Feeds - transmissions from the atmosphereHow to move from addictive design to connective design

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Sam Clemente@samclemente.me

I build to enhance, not replace, real life

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Anuj Ahooja

@quillmatiq.com

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i refuse to believe the internet as an entire venue has to be an addictive space to work

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Anuj Ahooja

@quillmatiq.com

i love the renewed focus on "what if this, but shaped around people" while legacy platforms are doubling down on "what if even more engagement" thru things as wild as *alternate versions of the same video* (srsly wat) further pushing a flattening of online creative. @jesseplusplus.com has been...

Jesse Karmani@jesseplusplus.com

In which I submit a proposed addition to the discourse: pckt.blog/b/jesseplusp...

pckt.blogPeople, Not Feeds - transmissions from the atmosphereHow to move from addictive design to connective design

I also give a sneak peek of what I've been putting together for the next version of @frequency.app that I'm building on top of the new atproto spaces! I'm always nervous to share things before they're done, but lmk what you think 🫣

Jesse Karmani@jesseplusplus.com

In which I submit a proposed addition to the discourse: pckt.blog/b/jesseplusp...

pckt.blogPeople, Not Feeds - transmissions from the atmosphereHow to move from addictive design to connective design

In which I submit a proposed addition to the discourse: pckt.blog/b/jesseplusp...

with a special shout out to @tessa.germnetwork.com, @quillmatiq.com, @cheeaun.com and everyone talking about going against the accepted design patterns and testing out these ideas

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈

@jaspar.bsky.social

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last blog post... 8 months ago. shipped the new human... 6+ months ago. yep, checks out 😅

I know I'm not the first person to be confused by this, but why don't my standard.site posts just show up when I try a different atproto blogging platform? I am poking around on @pckt.blog and expected my existing posts that I made on leaflet to *just appear*. Any progress on imports @brookie.blog?

Ok one positive thing about our unusually muggy weather for the last 2-3 months is that my favorite tree, the jacaranda, hung onto its blooms for longer than usual. Instead of dropping them all in mid-July like they usually do, we’ve gotten to enjoy them through the end of September

Jesse Karmani@jesseplusplus.com

The ants have been ridiculously bad in Southern California this year with the unusually warm and humid weather. The ones invading my house are just normal black ants, but these tree ones were biters!

TIL not to stand under a palm tree during ant season 😣 As I was moving my baby from the stroller to a carrier, she reached up to grab a palm frond and started playing with it while I was strapping her in. I thought it was a great distraction until I noticed the ants suddenly all over me and her!

The ants have been ridiculously bad in Southern California this year with the unusually warm and humid weather. The ones invading my house are just normal black ants, but these tree ones were biters!

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Rudy Fraser

@rude1.blacksky.team

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tawk. 🗣️

22 Sept

y'all. babies *actually* say "nom nom nom" when they're learning to chew food it is adorable! 😆

19thnews.orgYou’ll do anything for your baby. The algorithm knows how to exploit that.In the mega-consumption era of parenthood, the internet tells new moms that products can solve the hardest parts of having a newborn. All they have to do is add to cart.

22 Sept

I hate how targeted new parents are. Since I'm a huge privacy weirdo, I blocked as much tracking as possible. It mostly worked, but the funny thing is that it just pushed the targeting to my partner - he's the one getting the ads for padded helmets to protect our baby's head while she crawls 🙄

Ben Werdmuller@werd.io

"In the mega-consumption era of parenthood, the internet tells new moms that products can solve the hardest parts of having a newborn. All they have to do is add to cart." 19thnews.org/2026/09/moth...

atmo.rsvpAtproto Spaces Office HoursBring your questions, concerns, and excitement to the first Atproto Spaces Office Hours. The Atmosphere Team at Bluesky wants to hear what's working, what's not working, what you think can be improved, and what you're building. https://meet.google.com/sgr-qjvx-bru

22 Sept

I'm going to "Atproto Spaces Office Hours".

cnbc.comGoogle's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systemsThe disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

19 Sept

This is the only article I’ve seen so far mentioning that all of the recent incidents of AI hacking from the big firms were CTF exercises run by the *same* AI cybersecurity firm who messed up the sandbox and allowed internet access. I wish the headlines told that story. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/g...

16 Sept

I know the #permissioned-data spaces-alpha is indeed an alpha and much will change, but have there been DNS changes today that removed the wildcard for handle.spaces-alpha.bsky.network? I can't resolve my test account's handle anywhere except the PDS login screen today. cc @dholms.at

25 Aug

i miss seeing this little weirdo's butt sticking out from under the covers 😂

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

Thanks to everyone for covering the weekend posting shift. Monday posters, as we discussed in the standup, this week's focus is "weird dogs." Eyes on the prize everybody have a great week