Tom Atkins

Let's talk about the bristlemouths, 13 species of bioluminescent deep-dwelling ocean fish in genus Cyclothone. There are a lot of them. Like, a lot. Specifically, our best guess is there are a million billion (1E15) bristlemouths on Earth. Making them the most populous vertebrate on the planet.

this is huge (if implemented). as i understand it, this is a protocol extending atproto that lets you declare member-only spaces (e.g. forums, groups, or something more exotic) holding data that different apps can read and write. so — like atproto, but with access control

I recently switched fully to Firefox. The fact that Jake works on it helped motivate me.

A couple of years ago @michaelaufreiter.com helped me realise a dream to launch @postowl.com. We used ProseMirror for live in-place rich text editing. Now he's gone to another level by implementing his own live rich text editor in Svelte - lean and fast. I can't wait to get this into an app!

Outstanding explanation about why atproto is such an exciting evolution for the web. This is why I got excited about Bluesky. Do take some time to read it.

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

youtu.be/r-Nw7HbaeWY?... As relevant as ever and still sounding awesome.

youtu.be/eZpdCm21PFY?... Excellent video and do check out his channel - some gold on there especially if you live in Ireland.

Really disappointing to learn that @zed.dev just took money from racist and Islamophobic Sequoia Capital, who recently started investing in Israel in order to support Israel's genocide! Zed's team should be appalled and ashamed. For context about Sequoia bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Bluesky Pro Tip - create a list called 'Friends IRL' (IRL = In Real Life) and add the people you actually know. Pin the list and enjoy seeing just the stuff from people you actually know! 🤗

Bluesky is a PBC (public benefit corporation) with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.” From the start, our goal has been to build a decentralized social network that is usable by the mainstream.

Here’s a link to search for starter packs by topic blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

I made a @sveltesociety.dev starter pack! A list of a lot of the Svelte community I know on here 😊 go.bsky.app/QEhPG3P

Bluesky makes it possible for users and orgs *outside Bluesky* to label content for misinformation or other issues. You subscribe to these in the app, and can unsubscribe at any time. Stackable moderation is one of our most novel experiments, so I'm excited that @newsdetective.bsky.social is here

If you want to understand how we scaled to handle this influx like we did, this blog post from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com goes over a lot of our design and implementation decisions

I love discovering new music from the Bandcamp Links feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

📢 App Version 1.90 is rolling out now (1/11) This release is focused on personal moderation controls, and includes a lot of new tools for reducing unwanted attention! Open this thread for more details. 👀

I was lucky enough to go to this fantastic gig on Monday. Thanks to @jasonlee.ie for taking much better photos than I did! I can recommend checking out the recent albums from both This is the Kit and Rozi Plain.

Just back from the Scottish highlands. Majestic as always.

My favourite time of year for enjoying the garden.

Proud of this one, for Bandcamp Daily: chats with Seán Ronayne about his soundscape album 'Wild Silence', and the importance of his mission to record the call of Ireland's bird species - some 200 or so of them. #ireland #birds #biodiversity #environment daily.bandcamp.com/features/sea...

Dogtail Soup being amazing at Levis Cornerhouse last weekend.

I'm slowly getting more out of Bluesky. Occasionally I put some effort into looking at who people follow to find new people to follow. I also get great value from custom feeds and list to help get away from the 'scrolling through a random list of disparate topics' feeling.

Mint, strawberries, fennel, lavender, lemon verbena, pinks, violas, thyme, oregano and rosemary on the little herb table by the kitchen door. Foxglove and lily aside, they will all end up in the kitchen sooner or later.

This was a fun and challenging feature to build, so happy it's finally rolling out! If you wanna read a bit about how I built the backend for it, check out this blog post - jazco.dev/2024/04/20/r... Roaring Bitmaps are a really neat datastructure and have a lot of uses in large-scale systems :)

So much music in the world. I don't try and keep up. But there are some gems in this great selection: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/i-foun...

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was. www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-...

Had a wonderful stay on Cape Clear at the weekend. Beautiful sunshine, people and nature on the edge of Europe.

Gleninchaquin waterfall near Kenmare. Taken in October 2022. Well worth a visit if it's been raining! And there's a great walk into the hills above. #blackandwhite #monochrome #ireland

Can't resist sharing a pic of this oak which leans over the river at the bottom of our place near Ballydehob. I imagine it's roots doing something similar to the branches underground.

Browsing through my photos and I think I'll share some here occasionally. This was taken last summer while sailing round the Fastnet lighthouse, waiting for my brother to arrive in his small yacht that he'd sailed over single-handed from Plymouth.

Interesting vision of how we might be able to prevent software supply-chain attacks like the xz backdoor in the future www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

Woah. Backdoor in liblzma targeting ssh servers. www.openwall.com/lists/oss-se... It has everything: malicious upstream, masterful obfuscation, detection due to performance degradation, inclusion in OpenSSH via distro patches for systemd support… Now I’m curious what it does in RSA_public_decrypt

I'm really enjoying using the Zed text editor. VSCode never tempted me away from Sblime Text. But Zed has. macOS only for now. Recommend watching their blog for some great inverviews on the development process: zed.dev/blog #programming

Great idea from Ben Werdmuller: Share Openly werd.io/2024/share-o...

Bluesky is built to give users control over their social spaces online. Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets users collaboratively inspect and label content on the network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.

I would like to thank everyone who already donated via GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/redsolver) 💙 Thanks to *you*, SkyFeed is now over 52% of the way to being sustainable, meaning SkyFeed can continue to host free feeds for millions of users, without any ads or similar bullshit!

A project I found inspiring as it captured the desire to make it free and easy for anyone to have their own website. I made a couple of DAT sites and viewed them on another computer. Magic! You reputation from that and other projects brought me here. Thanks for all the creative work. 🙂