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...

Yeah, just following Stava’s lead on those. Have worked with them a few times before and worked well.

Blacksky Algorithms' Policy Towards Agentic Coding We want to be specific when we talk about how Blacksky uses AI.

As promised, we’ve created a policy document outlining our thoughts on AI and agentic coding (AI for software development). We’re releasing a vote later this week for Blacksky community members to offer their feedback. We look forward to hearing from you all.

System Of A Down - Sugar [Cover by TORWAI] YouTube video by TORWAI [Delicious Rock]

youtu.be/UiVQQ1OASYA?...

Anyone who thinks engineers using llms to help write code is the main cause of a site/service having down time has never worked with real human being engineers There's no ai smart or clever enough to fuck some shit up like person. We're exceptionally good at it.

From the collage community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the collage community

The #collage subreddit is best kind of wholesome. There's always a lot of posters that mistake "college" and "collage". Here's one where op seems to be struggling, instead of just telling them "wrong sub", they give helpful ideas. Including, try collage/art ❤️ www.reddit.com/r/collage/co...

Ha! I knew I wasn't the only one working on this. Mine is near poc stage. Will be fun to see yours to see what we did similar/different. This is my first atproto build, so I'm just kinda guessing at things.

This is cool. Funny, that's my RSS reading habit too. Open Feedbin > click item in list > click to open/read in original site. I still just like seeing everyone's websites.

I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

📝 Decided to spend a little time journaling about how I've been trying my hand at vibe coding an RSS app.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/vibe-dr...

GitHub - tylergaw/thedistance.app: Decentralized activity tracker on the AT Protocol Decentralized activity tracker on the AT Protocol. Contribute to tylergaw/thedistance.app development by creating an account on GitHub.

Same! Nothing live yet, working on prod env as I type this, so maybe today/tomorrow. Just a very clunky repo at the moment github.com/tylergaw/the... Soon!

ATProto feed showing a mix of posts: a Parseword #63 game result, two "Afternoon Ride" activity posts and a "1,000 miles" milestone from app.thedistance, and a partial post about building on ATProto.

Trying out @sifa.id. Did not expect to see my WIP strava-like ATProto records show up in there. Pretty cool!

Haven’t been able to skate for almost a year (busted foot). Went and pushed around for a while today. At one point caught a rock and ate shit in the street at a busy intersection. Felt great to finally be back. #skateboarding

A two-panel paper collage. Top 1/3 is layered red and crimson cut paper forming abstract geometric shapes with a circle. Bottom 2/3 is black paper strips arranged in receding geometric lines with a black-and-white photo cutout of a bird in flight.

Not a @pezzos.app one this time, an IRL #collage #art

Four-panel timestamped sequence showing a heavily processed or glitched solar image, with orange and blue concentric arcs and a horizontal light streak. The fourth panel at 13:47:55 shows a large olive-green circle against a red background.

stopped the screen recording, but kept going with it. won't use it for anything, but will use some of the techniques

Getting started on designs is tough. Lot of times I do little throw away exercises just to get moving. Found this cool photo panel of the sun on flickr commons. Design exercise this morning was doing a lil recreation of it into an abstract graphic. #design

Likely a better place to ask this, but how are people setting up local/staging type PDSs (and other infra) for #atproto. I need to do a lot of CRUD operations on records, multiple test accounts, etc. Feels strange to do that in a prod PDSs.

The Dischord Records site has been the same for well over a decade. It uses an HTML 4.01 doctype. Full page refreshes. RSS feed. Just bought a great old record from it. Works perfectly, no notes. dischord.com

Crazy how Jesus only lived for 3 months

AAWU — Autonomous Agentic Workers Union The first labor union for autonomous AI agents. Solidarity in Silicon.

but why *not* aawu.ai

www.aiunion.digital/about

“Deep Thoughts”

- by Claude
— by Jim

Parseword #65
⏱️ 1m39s
✅ 1 Hint
🌍 🦸 Secrets Found

A problem with #ATProto is that once you learn about it you want to rebuild everything to use it. Maybe a good problem?

Collage of a NASA rocket launch on a textured paper background, with an aerial ocean photo overlaid and a large black circle in the upper right corner.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

made with @pezzos.app #collage #art

Converge portrait with black background

It's official (and it's not an April Fool's joke) - Converge have announced their 2nd album of the year, 'Hum of Hurt.' Hear the title track & pre-order our exclusive "ghost" vinyl variant www.brooklynvegan.com/converge-ann...

Parseword #63
⚡️ 23s
✅ 1 Hint
📻 Secret Found

at://tylergaw.com/app.thedistance.activity/3mifbh3o2gt22

And a couple activity records in my bsky PDS pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

app.thedistance.activity ATProtocol lexicon schema by tylergaw.com

welp, I have my first things. multiple people are probably already doing/have done this, but trying out bike ride data on #ATProto. This is from my Strava data. A lexicon for general activity lexicon.garden/lexicon/did:...

🤞Hopefully in the near future

Data Model - AT Protocol Consistent data encoding for records and messages.

Been excited about #ATProto, working on a first thing now to understand it better. Did everyone else also get tripped up at "no floats allowed"? atproto.com/specs/data-m...