Nick The Sick

news.atmosphereconf.orgCall for Presentations for AtmosphereConf 2027 is now open!We're doing two rounds of calls, plus curated outreach to presenters

15 June 2025

I've been working on a new Y.js synchronization server for the past few weeks now. Today, I've hit a milestone for it, multiple clients synchronizing their documents & cursor updates! I threw together a demo with blocknote.js.org and it works! OSS: see the code at: github.com/nperez0111/m...

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Atmosphere Community

@atmosphere.community

The Call for Presentations (CFP) is now open for @atmosphereconf.org We're looking forward to seeing your great submissions!

ai-policy.devAI Contribution PoliciesReady-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.

It's always felt strange to me that "Copyright" is about denying the right to copy. There are infinite facts, finding useful ones doesn't make them yours. I'd rather have my ideas spread than extract value out of them.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

I'm a free information radical. I have spent most of my career publishing open-source code and building open-information systems. I grew up getting access to knowledge that I never would've otherwise had because of the Internet. The past 5 years have accelerated it. I think the future is bright.

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James

@43081j.com

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

atmo.rsvpAtmosphereConf 2027The third edition of the global gathering for the Atmosphere Community is taking place in Amsterdam, April 29th - May 2nd. This includes side-events and main conference days. Please RSVP with your interest, subscribe for updates at https://news.atmosphereconf.org, and watch us build out the website with lots of fun features https://atmosphereconf.org As well as in person, we'll also be streaming and have different ways to participate remotely. Atmosphere Conference is run by the community, for the community, as an annual global gathering to connect, share, celebrate, and learn from each other. We welcome newcomers and want to engage with new perspectives. It's a community home for builders, supporters, and participants in the atproto ecosystem. We maintain collective resources, seed projects, and convene our community to ensure every member has genuine voice in shaping the ecosystem's future. #atproto #atmosphereconf #atmosphereconf2027 #europe

I'm going to "AtmosphereConf 2027".

guild.hostvitest x npmx | GuildSep 24th 6:00PM: Join us in Amsterdam for a joint event with the Vitest and npmx communities! A huge thank you to Biscuit for hosting us Schedule: 18:00 - 19:00 -> Socialising & Food 19:00 - 19:15 ...

21 Sept

Proud of how large @bookhive.buzz is on there!

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Vladimir

@vladimir.berlin

21 Sept

If you are in Amsterdam this Thursday, come to the @vitest.dev x @npmx.dev meetup! guild.host/events/vites...

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Verified on Eurosky

@eurosky.bskycheck.com

20 Sept

@bookhive.buzz has been verified by @atproto.nl on the mu.social app

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Michael Black

@michael.bsky.team

20 Sept

I just learned Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Womp. All the more reason to use @bookhive.buzz or @popfeed.social

github.combook.lexicon.community proposal by nperez0111 · Pull Request #229 · nperez0111/bookhiveThis is a proposal for the specific community.lexicon.book.* lexicons. It is based on the following articles: https://nick-the-sick.pckt.blog/road-to-a-book-lexicon-part-1-t2eyqge https://nick-the...

20 Sept

I’d love feedback on this! github.com/nperez0111/b...

Lexicon Community@lexicon.community

Book WG momentum: @nickthesick.com submitted a PR on BookHive with proposed lexicons for book editions and standalone reviews — splitting edition data from reviews into distinct namespaces. The path to community.lexicon.* publishing: a Tangled registry PR is next. Join the discussion.

atmosphereconf.orgatmosphereconf.org

17 Sept

@atmosphereconf.org, hey I realized that since the new redesign it looks like my talk links have broken: atmosphereconf.org/event/q4QdXj7 Is this a known thing?

17 Sept

@typesafeai.bsky.social's Jev + image input might solve NSFW classifiers

sifa.idNick The Sick on SifaCheck out Nick The Sick's professional profile on Sifa.

17 Sept

That’s me!

Sifa ID@sifa.id

Featuring Nick The Sick on Sifa today. Worth a visit 🏠 @nickthesick.com

13 Sept

I bought @pikunikugame.bsky.social based on @43081j.com’s suggestion and I’m happy to report that it is a funny and fun to play game. I’m very excited for the second version coming out!

13 Sept

I think what is happening with PNPM is similar to what happened with Redis. Most people only ever use Redis as a KV cache, and then when they decided to change license, everyone freaked out because they rightly only need 1% of what Redis does.

13 Sept

By adding to your open source project rather than differentiating it with another product, you are offering the full value to someone and feel wronged when they don't reward you for it, but the reality is that they only ever needed the one thing - the package manager.

nick-the-sick.pckt.blogRoad to a book lexicon (Part 2)The one where I actually define a lexicon

28 Aug

Don't worry guys, Part 2 is here: Houston, we've got a book & review lexicon! I don't think it is in it's final shape just yet, but I believe it to be a strong proposal, and well justified if I may say so, myself 😌

Nick The Sick@nickthesick.com

I've been thinking a lot about how to define a shared book lexicon for the Lexicon Community Working Group: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/in-which-a... But, instead wrote a treatise against ISBNs. I hope I can link to it whenever someone asks why their import didn't work on @bookhive.buzz 😝

nick-the-sick.pckt.blogRoad to a book lexicon (Part 1) - Nick The SickThe article where I don't define a lexicon, and instead, complain about ISBNs

24 Aug

I like the coasts

Alex@alex.bsky.team

I don't know what I have against the Carolinas honestly

nick-the-sick.pckt.blogRoad to a book lexicon (Part 1) - Nick The SickThe article where I don't define a lexicon, and instead, complain about ISBNs

24 Aug

github.comGitHub - ascorbic/cumulus: ATProto blob proxy on Cloudflare Workers CacheATProto blob proxy on Cloudflare Workers Cache. Contribute to ascorbic/cumulus development by creating an account on GitHub.

22 Aug

In a similar sort of vein, I’ve been thinking about a separate S3-like storage solution for atproto. Like what would it take to have a decentralized hook up your own storage system for applications with much more data than what you’d want to put in a PDS. Imagine Google Photos scale

Matt Kane@mk.gg

Meet ☁️ Cumulus: an atproto blob proxy on Cloudflare Workers Cache. Supports Bluesky-compatible image resizing, mimetype filtering, CID verification. Run a lexicon-scoped instance just for your app. Subscribes to labelers to purge account and record !takedowns.

20 Aug

The world we live in now is wild

18 Aug

I've loved using hackerdaily.io as my Hacker News reader for the past few years. So, I made Hacker News that could be served over OPDS: hacker-news.nickthesick.com It serves the original article & it's HN comments section as an EPUB over OPDS, Website & RSS feeds

18 Aug

I bought the Xteink X3 ereader just now. I _need_ to know what the hype is about!

pckt.blogDon't mark AI generated content as fake - Nick The SickInstead, mark real content as real

16 Aug

I'm thinking more & more that the nature of truth is changing. We don't need content being marked as being AI generated, instead we need is a way to prove that content is real. It is a small difference that will become more & more important with time. pckt.blog/b/nick-the-s...

10 Aug

I'm looking at how to get to @zurichjs.com & just out of curiosity wanted to see the difference between the trains I was looking at, compared to a flight. It costs more to go by train & takes 9h for a 1.5h flight 🙄 We've got our priorities straight huh?

6 Aug

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userinput.appBookHive feedback | userinput.appFeedback for the BookHive web & iOS application

6 Aug

The @bookhive.buzz repo is now up to 290MB with all of the books it is storing on it: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... I wonder how much it will be once all of the books in the DB are stored to it. Apparently it has only 16% of all of the books indexed so far

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BookHive

@bookhive.buzz

2 Aug

Want to leave feedback on the web or iOS app. Use your Bluesky account to log into here, and we can see your feedback: userinput.app/s/did:plc:en...

I added a KOSync server to BookHive, which allows synchronizing reading progress across your e-readers. It's based on my existing: kosync.nickthesick.com But, I've added OPDS support which means BookHive can store your ebooks and serve them to your e-readers too.

BookHive@bookhive.buzz

BookHive now syncs with your e-reader. Upload your ebooks, browse them from KOReader, Crosspoint, or Readest, via OPDS, and your reading progress syncs back into BookHive.

Similarly, OPDS is implemented in the same sort of way, where the user can store ebooks to BookHive, and the only way to access them is through the username and password. The user can organize the books into "shelves" which will show as separate OPDS folders in the e-reader.

Of course, everything can still be managed through XRPC APIs as well, so other tools can leverage BookHive as an OPDS server.

BookHive@bookhive.buzz

BookHive now syncs with your e-reader. Upload your ebooks, browse them from KOReader, Crosspoint, or Readest, via OPDS, and your reading progress syncs back into BookHive.

BookHive now acts as a KOSync server and uses your handle as the username, and a generated password for your account (which you can rotate if you need to). It uses this username & password for both KOSync and OPDS.

When a user pushes progress it updates their BookHive record if they have linked which book they want to push it to. Otherwise, it stores it locally in the BookHive DB. If there is interest, I can add a lexicon for this to be public, but for now it is private.

BookHive@bookhive.buzz

BookHive now syncs with your e-reader. Upload your ebooks, browse them from KOReader, Crosspoint, or Readest, via OPDS, and your reading progress syncs back into BookHive.

github.comKOSync: optionally send document metadata with progress sync by nperez0111 · Pull Request #15306 · koreader/koreaderSummary Adds an opt-in "Send document metadata" toggle (default off) to the KOSync settings When enabled, sends a metadata object (filename, title, authors) alongside progress sync reque...

Since @tynanpurdy.com asked how it works: KOSync is a protocol made for KOReader (an e-reader application you can install on many devices) which is meant for synchronizing book progress between devices. I've been planning this feature for months now, and landed this: github.com/koreader/kor...

github.comfeat: Send optional document metadata with KOSync progress uploads by nperez0111 · Pull Request #1820 · crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-readerSummary Implements the metadata extension from KOReader PR #15306 When enabled via Settings > KOReader Sync > "Send Document Metadata", progress PUT requests include a metadata JSO...

KOSync previously did not say which document it was syncing in an attempt to absolve any privacy issues. But, for BookHive, I want to identify which book is being synced. I also landed support for this in crosspoint for the Xteink X3 & X4: github.com/crosspoint-r...

BookHive@bookhive.buzz

BookHive now syncs with your e-reader. Upload your ebooks, browse them from KOReader, Crosspoint, or Readest, via OPDS, and your reading progress syncs back into BookHive.

I was thinking of going a step further and making a KOReader plugin specifically for BookHive, but I'm unsure that I really need it right now. Though, I could get a lot more information than just synchronizing progress between devices if I were to integrate it.

Would enable things like highlights and annotations, reading times and pace, or even just let you manage your BookHive reviews right on device!

github.comRelease KOReader 2026.07 "Sailing Walrus" · koreader/koreaderIt's been about four months since the previous release, so it's about time, isn't it? One very interesting addition is background cleanup for PDFs with Mask and SMask, which is technobabble for bac...

30 July

Finally released in KOReader: github.com/koreader/kor... I’ve been waiting months for this. I’ve been building KOReader sync server support for @bookhive.buzz for the past few days now!

Nick The Sick@nickthesick.com

Looks like I got this merged in, soon I'll add support to @bookhive.buzz to track reading progress directly from KOReader I already added this to my koreader sync server: github.com/nperez0111/k...

github.comCapture optional document metadata from KOSync by nperez0111 · Pull Request #4 · nperez0111/koreader-syncSummary Captures the optional metadata object (filename, title, authors) from progress sync requests, introduced in koreader/koreader#15306. Persists metadata on the progress row, with a PRAGMA ta...

github.comSponsor @43081j on GitHub SponsorsMaintainer of clack, chai, parse5, unjs, vueuse, tinylibs, & more. One of the e18e.dev leads. Core contributor to lit and modernweb.

29 July

I've just added this to @bookhive.buzz!

𝕮@chrisshank.com

In the *last day*, a bunch of apps in the Atmosphere are starting to adopt this proposal! Thanks to everyone who has helped out 🙏🏻 - @mu.social ☑ - @semble.so ☑ - @aturi.to ☑ - @leaflet.pub ☑ - @frontpage.fyi ☑ - @bsky.app ☐ - @pckt.blog ☐ (just reached out)

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@43081j.com

28 July

this year i've carved a big chunk of my time out to officially work on OSS. if you like what I do, or use the things I work on, sponsorships go a long way. these help me keep the balance I have, and allow me to dedicate a lot more time to open source. thank you to those who already sponsor me 💙

26 July

Portainer is a self-hosted docker manager that I use to deploy all of my self hosted services. I’ve just hooked up its MCP server and it is awesome to have completed the loop on an agent managing all of my self hosted services. It can diagnose issues end to end and redeploy.