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Be the hero you want to see in the world

you ever accidentally listen to Rhiannon six times in a row

I have accomplished an important milestone in my big project: I've written an introductory blog post that describes some of the features that don't exist yet

ha ha ha "blogging" yes thank you

is there a word or phrase for "thinking out loud, but on my blog"

actually the more I think about this, the whole permission system is probably best considered advisory at this point. it's way too easy for an application to get overly broad permissions... I think all you can really do is design very defensively

I should start a blog

atproto is really interesting and there's a lot of fun stuff to think about as you dig in

for my specific application I don't think it matters, since my plan is to only read from the community lexicon and store my stuff in a sidecar that I control (which seems to be a common pattern)

this could be improved somewhat by adding filtering to permission scopes, so an app could request write access to only records it wrote... but as long as type-level scopes are available the finer grained stuff would be a handshake agreement sort of situation

if I'm understanding the docs correctly, you can't scope a permission request any narrower than the record type. if you're using a community lexicon that means that every app that stores data using that lexicon has full write access to your data

this is not a problem, just something to understand

been thinking about the pros and cons of using shared/community lexicons in an app. two biggest pros for me are being community-minded and getting interop for free. the biggest con is a dramatically increased risk of someone else's bug ruining your day

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

yesssssss success!!

…would

Gimli: i never thought I'd die without trying some elf pussy Legolas: what about some elf bussy? Gimli: *inquisitive look*

Bsky's broken so nobody will see me post this

I hope so

Two black cats sitting on top of a stainless steel kitchen garbage can. On the left is a smaller cat in the Ready Loaf position. On the right is a larger cat sitting upright. Neither cat is looking at the camera

ATTENBOROUGH: the cats are starving. they have been hunting all day but only have two meals and one snack (each) to show for it.

they must eat soon or it will be too late. they have just enough energy for one final, desperate attempt: become as annoying as possible until the human feeds them

okay that's really helpful, thank you. I've heard of gastown and openclaw and they both tripped my bullshit alarm. glad to hear my intuition is calibrated okay

I think it's interesting that people are experimenting with that stuff but the appeal outside of experimentation is a little baffling to me

I would read it. I'm planning on writing up my explorations

thanks for the tip! it's hard to determine where the dumb shit line is. I assume most of the hype is on the wrong side of it... what I really want is people talking about adopting AI from the perspective of an experienced professional with an established pre-AI career but that has been hard to find

I've been mostly waiting to see how things shake out before I start learning anything but it's really starting to feel like it's time to catch up

can confirm

one time I took an internet retailer's website down on black friday morning by typing a command that was slightly different than the one I meant to type

that was 15 years ago and I still make unassisted mistakes all the time

could I avoid this by running my own pds? yes of course. would I rather hang out with my cats and play video games? also yes

one advantage of working on atproto apps is you can develop against the bsky pds, thus giving you the occasional reason to take the day off for reasons outside of your control

I don't care if they're banging rocks together to code it, ops is hard, incidents are hard, shut the fuck up and be kind

step 1: lay off everyone who knows how to computer
step 2: ???
step 3: profit

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