What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Works well for me. Thanks for adding the feed!

Looking forward to read the post. By the way, does your website have a RSS feed? I wanted to subscribe but I haven’t found it

I was hoping for solar to help a bit but the forecast shows lots of clouds and rain for all the week :(

Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski Interactive article about the Moon

ciechanow.ski/moon/ just appeared in my RSS reader and now I know what I’m going to read this evening.

If you enjoy deep dives and interactive visualisations Bartosz Ciechanowski’s posts are a must read

Judging from my recent statuses I post about the AT Protocol and my side projects.

I'm also into self-hosting, infrastructure as code and embedded development

dustycloud.org/blog/index.xml works fine for me

Regarding pricing: in the UK Octopus Energy is very popular among people with solar panels and/or electric vehicles by offering many different tariffs that work well for their use case.

They also offer good API for people who want to setup their own automation

I dont think its an accident that pretty much all the new appviews we start to see on atproto are less about communications and more about sharing public data in some structure, whether that is book reviews, recipes, linktree clones or pastebin clones

Christmas was very cheap.

If I remember correctly it was a combination of reduced load, warm temperatures and wind.

Meta users don’t mind ads on Facebook and Instagram.
Why would they start minding them on Threads?

Congrats on reaching Web Scale!

I miss when telling someone I liked computers we ended up talking about the tech.

I can still do it today but I need to be very selective and run away from people who want me to work on their questionable startup idea, sell me a NFT, show me ads, live in a virtual reality or talk with a chatbot

I really wanna see us add an option for you to use the face ID secure enclave on your phone (also works on android) to add backup signing keys to your DID PLC documents directly through the app.

They See Your PhotosEnte Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.

This is wild. I wasn’t expecting such a level of detail in the photo description.
It can *guess* a lot, just form a single picture
theyseeyourphotos.com

I have used it in a toy project for a while and it has always been a very nice experience, especially as a developer not familiar at all with JavaScript frameworks.

The only drawback I see is that I'd like to take a local-first approach and I cannot do that if all my logic lives on the server

Is this slide for a future episode of the podcast?

Backfilling the Network | Bluesky Backfilling is the process of syncing all the data in the network from scratch.

docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

Shoutout to the Bluesky team for being so open about their infrastructure.

This is just an example of a member of the team engaging in replies and describing what Bluesky runs on

lots of talk about how verification ought to work here. I’m pretty wary of the me dot workplace dot com approach — for me personally, I don’t want my employer owning my social media presence and I’m pretty sure they don’t want that appearance either, especially when I’m shitposting

Are you going to run custom software?

I wasn’t trying to defend Siri. I literally never use it.

I’m old school and interact with computers using a keyboard, not my voice, and I don’t own “smart” devices :)

Is there anything preventing to link multiple domain names to the same account?

If we go with the idea that verification is done via domain name you might want to verify that you both are part of the Bluesky team (with paul.bsky.team) and that you own your personal domain

Screenshot of a Google result for "time in the west coast". It correctly says the timezone is PST or PDT but current time is a cached value, way out of date

You should try asking Google. Ouch

Screenshot taken right now

the best websites are like, <name-of-specific-computer>.{physics|math|ee|cs}.<some-university>.edu/~<initials-of-guy>/stuff/html-page-with-no-css.htm

Whether we should deploy on Fridays and how to do it safely

“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”

-- Brian Kernighan, 1974

Screenshot of my project. It shows forecast of load and PV production and Octopus Agile prices, both in a chart and in tabular form

I’ve done Advent of Code a couple times in the past but it’s no longer my thing.

#DecemberAdventure is a cool alternative.
I have a few features I’d like to add to my tool to optimise the use of our solar/battery system.
Let’s see how far I can in December
eli.li/december-adv...