well, I tried to engage with someone on a topic I care about and got a rude reply and then was blocked. wonder why people are leaving this site :/

I’m just confused what you think Bluesky’s future looks like if the user base keeps shrinking? Yahoo, for example, was acquired by private equity who leaned hard into Yahoo Finance and ignored their consumer product. Bluesky is a social media platform that requires a userbase… so it’s kind of stuck.

Yahoo is very profitable, though. And also not running on VC checks.

Shoutout @danabra.mov for vibe-fixing his talk on the big screen. Only at #ATmosphereConf

Also, I always figure Bluesky is a good place to go for random transit questions: surprised that the skytrain is driverless without planform screen doors—I always thought the two were necessarily linked. What’s the story there?

In Vancouver for #AtmosphereConf! So excited to chat with some fantastic developers (@pfrazee.com, @iame.li, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social) about building with @expo.dev on the AtProto.

Saturday, 2:30PM, Great Hall South — be there!

AtmosphereConf Sponsor: Expo The Expo team is sponsoring the conference, and joining us in person for presentations

Thank you to the @expo.dev for coming on board as a sponsor for #AtmosphereConf, as well as joining us in person to present!

@gork.it is this true

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Support got back within 5 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Pretty impressive stuff.

Hey @fly.io! Would love if customers could manually increase their own machine limits ("i.e. I know what I'm doing"). Requiring an email to support is preventing us from taking advantage of fly's fantastic scaling :)

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp

I’ve long said that a major factor in my choice of airline is WiFi. The fact that Air France now offers fast (and free!) Starlink means it’s now my usual go-to for flights to Europe. Fantastic work!

I wrote about the economics of same-day delivery:
eliothertenstein.com/notes/unihop

cc @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social. not technically complicated but fun nevertheless!

Ellsworth Kelly, “Black Relief” (2006)

Remember that content moderation is a miserable job: viewing the worst parts of the internet on repeat for 8 hours a day. The less humans have to intervene the more ethical content moderation becomes.

Wordle but it’s Zillow: realdle.jero.zone

What are some others?

[devise][république][française]

Is there any atproto API that returns the bare value of a record rather than the value syntax? I remember a while ago trying to find one and ended up just wrapping it with an XRPC endpoint.

When We Get Komooted Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

This is why we need Bluesky for Biking!

bikepacking.com/plog/when-we...

Precompiled React Native for iOS: Faster builds are coming in 0.81 React Native 0.81 introduces precompiled iOS builds, cutting compile times by up to 10x in projects where React Native is the primary dependency.

⚡ We teamed up with Meta to deliver precompiled iOS builds in 0.81/SDK 54. You get:

◆ Faster builds: Compile RN once per release
◆ Smoother integrations: Easier to add RN into brownfield apps
◆ Future-proof: Prepares RN for migration from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager

expo.dev/blog/precomp...

In the US, the gold standard is probably Amtraker, or asm.transitdocs.com. But Amtrak's terrible (undocumented) API means often a bad experience is passed on to the user. While Carto doesn't actually have location information on the trains, it manages to deliver a fantastic experience.

OpenRailwayMap OpenRailwayMap - An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.

I think the hardest part about rail maps is bridging the gap between usability and information density – i.e. you want to be able to show a ton of information to advanced users while still making the site intuitive and easy to use. For example openrailwaymap.org vs. @piero.bsky.social's amtraker.com

Carto Tchoo by @nicolaswurtz.bsky.social is one of the coolest sites I've ever seen. Doing a rail tracking website well is really hard, and from what I can tell, he nailed every aspect of the experience.

carto.tchoo.net/map

There are so many reasons to love the Paris metro, but one of them is how quick stops are. The doors are open for less than 10 seconds at some stations.

This is what platform doors and high frequency enables! If trains are arriving every 4 minutes, missing a train isn’t a big deal.

👀

Update: it's just okay. Not worth it for $90 IMO and the battery life isn't great. It's also much larger than I expected. But, I'm going to keep giving it a go and see what the one-week update is!

how do you manage to only post bangers