April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's Pckt Hey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go...

I wrote a short post-mortem on the Bluesky outage we had on Monday. First time using pckt, it was a really nice experience tbh!

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

"Working" (13h 11m 28s • esc to interrupt)

I'm gonna hazard a guess and say this won't ever actually finish

Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...

Whatcha building next? :)

"scapeslop" sounds like it carry both meanings better indeed

Woo, amazing! So glad you published it, been thinking about atproto based forum for like a year! Glad someone got there first :)

Any particular difficulties you had implementing it? What you feel like is the most thorny parts atm? Anything unsolved currently?

What the World Needs Now is Forums Sweet Forums - Mal’s Musings and other thoughts from a forums purveyorI was seven years old when I got my first video game console. It was Christmas, and I actually got two! A GameBoy Po...

I'm finally ready to show off the thing I've been working on: atBB (pre-alpha)!

It's a forum platform built on top of atproto.

I wrote up some thoughts about why I am interested in building forums: pckt.blog/b/mal-s-musi...

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That looks pretty cool, thanks for the recommendation!

Where are you running it? I've been scraping reddit for quite some years, and at the time they got rid of API clients, they are started returning 403 on the .json APIs calls unless you're using a residential IPs, never gotten it to work on VPSs

#reddit mobile app seemingly got rid of "All" and you cannot even manually go to r/all...

I guess it was about when, not if, and now I've finally uninstalled reddit and will stop using it, as they clearly want less users.

Damn, one train per second?!

Is there no compile-to-Rust languages out there? Kind of surprising, why so little of them?

How would people feel about an open source/open data alternative to myheritage/ancestry and similar family tree services? So annoying they're inaccessible unless you register, shouldn't knowledge about past people be open?

So, played around openclaw and holy shit, its an excellent demonstration of everything wrong with "modern software engineering".

Errors galore, setup broke multiple times during onboarding, technical debt all over the place, zero concerns with quality, connection breaks constantly, and so much more

What does this graph that goes slightly upwards mean? Not sure I understand what's going on. Why is "Best performing city: New York" higher and later than "New York USA +14 followers" for example? I'm guessing x-axis isn't time?

Exit plan as in "I quit" has worked pretty well for me in my career.

Doctor, same question but for dried banana chips? Is potassium overdose possible?

sincerely,

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Shit UI, best performance, as things tend to be :)

Did you test for performance/memory usage? I had to switch away from Dark Reader because it made so many websites so slow :(

Am now using an extension called "Dark Background and Light Text" which has much better performance.

Yeah, also 9-5 seems awful. In fact, workering for others seems to just not be a good deal at all, I'm not sure how people do it

What #investigative #journalists are currently digging through all the new Epstein files?

Yes please! I still have an iPhone 12 Mini, had to go to the Apple store to change the battery. Of course, they broke the screen while replacing it, so what was supposed to take an hour took the entire day instead.

If they made it easier to replace them we could just replace them ourselves

Agree in general but I do regret buying a cordless vacuum cleaner, next one will have a cable for sure. Only ~3 years after buying it, the battery only lasts for 30 minutes and require 1+ hour to charge, takes entire day just to vacuum the house now, including the forced breaks.

Happy to answer questions if any arise :)

I'm currently compiling together a webpage that will display the exact sessions I had, on all platforms and with all the details, hopefully will add some more insights into the workflow too.

$ ll -Sn *.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 26G ene 30 18:32 'DataSet 11.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 16G ene 30 18:46 'DataSet 10.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 10G ene 30 18:29 'DataSet 8.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 1,3G ene 30 18:28 'DataSet 1.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 631M ene 30 18:25 'DataSet 2.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 595M ene 30 18:25 'DataSet 3.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 352M ene 30 18:25 'DataSet 4.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 115M ene 31 14:48 'DataSet 12.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 97M ene 30 18:25 'DataSet 7.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 62M ene 30 18:25 'DataSet 5.zip' -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 52M ene 30 18:25 'DataSet 6.zip' $ sha256sum *.zip 36af3387afca3803241d511b3a44acc28e3f1b755e329bf75e4ce126ad5a4f8c DataSet 10.zip 9714273b9e325f0a1f406063c795db32f5da2095b75e602d4c4fbaba5de3ed80 DataSet 11.zip b5314b7efca98e25d8b35e4b7fac3ebb3ca2e6cfd0937aa2300ca8b71543bbe2 DataSet 12.zip 598f4d2d71f0d183cf898cd9d6fb8ec1f6161e0e71d8c37897936aef75f860b4 DataSet 1.zip 24cebbaefe9d49bca57726b5a4b531ff20e6a97c370ba87a7593dd8dbdb77bff DataSet 2.zip 1c5587152328bd45a68baefeb5fba1d55677be4ff0b381d721f37c7b3da9055e DataSet 3.zip 979154842bac356ef36bb2d0e72f78e0f6b771d79e02dd6934cff699944e2b71 DataSet 4.zip 7317e2ad089c82a59378a9c038e964feab246be62ecc24663b741617af3da709 DataSet 5.zip d54d26d94127b9a277cf3f7d9eeaf9a7271f118757997edac3bc6e1039ed6555 DataSet 6.zip 51e1961b3bcf18a21afd9bcf697fdb54dac97d1b64cf88297f4c5be268d26b8e DataSet 7.zip 8cb7345bf7a0b32f183658ac170fb0b6527895c95f0233d7b99d544579567294 DataSet 8.zip

I grabbed all the .zip files as soon as I saw they were available, thinking something like that might happen. Should I re-upload them somewhere, would that be helpful?

Tried #Kimi with Kimi Code because why not? And yeah, results aren't great. The goal? Make the build time faster

I was just looking for something like that yesterday! Fun timing :)

Introducing Sequoia: Publishing for the Open Web

Today I'm excited to announce @sequoia.pub: a CLI for self-hosted blogs to publish @standard.site lexicons to the ATmosphere

sequoia.pub/blog/introdu...

Really liked the video, especially after the 1 hour mark :) Love the honest tone, and explanation of your background!

One thing I felt wasn't mentioned, when talked about everything electrified in the home, was about water and sewage, which one typically forgets about 😅

Great as always regardless!

Agents perform 50% worse when working in a team than working alone.

The setup is simple: two agents, two tasks, two VMs, and one chat channel. They then evaluated whether the merged solution from both agents passes the requirements of both tasks.

Agreed, "one skilled human + one agent" builds better software than "one human + hundreds of agents", at least today.

I made that case using more words here: emsh.cat/one-human-on...