Reposted by austinrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 9hI've said it before, I've said it again: Bluesky has a disproportionate and extremely loud percentage of users who think it's morally righteous to abuse people as long as it's for a good enough cause, and an even larger percentage of users who specialize in justifying why causes are good. 125238
Reposted by austinJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this works best if you read the caption in elizabeth holmes's voice 561696196
austin @aparker.io · 30/09/2026realizing that one of the things I like about #monktoberfest is that it’s a conference I can drive to 040
Reposted by austinAlaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.akpub.ioMeet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champBackpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world. 161659583
Reposted by austinMatt Kane @mk.gg · 29/09/2026Cloudflare is becoming a free certificate authority, and will be the first to issue post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificatesblog.cloudflare.comBuilding a certificate authority for the whole InternetTwelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. 317418
austin @aparker.io · 29/09/2026i mean that’s where most of mine goes too but now the robot can do it 000
Reposted by austinMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.mattkeeter.comHalfspaceAn IDE for solid modelling with distance fields 520748
Reposted by austinbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.blog.plcred.orgFirst steps of the PLC organization 1425665
austin @aparker.io · 28/09/2026dont let your memes be dreams, you too can shitpost a cms into existence 3110
Reposted by austinEmDash CMS @emdashcms.com · 28/09/2026EmDash 1.0 is here! A modern, secure CMS, built on Astro as the spiritual successor to WordPress. Plugins run in secure sandboxes, and the distributed plugin registry is powered by Atproto!emdashcms.comEmDash 1.0: an open source CMS for AstroAnnouncing EmDash 1.0, a stable, free and open source CMS built on Astro. 621245
austin @aparker.io · 28/09/2026free torment nexus idea for agents linguistic customer support arbitrage determine if englIsh or spanish (or whatever) gets you to a live rep quicker and switch languages to reduce the time it takes to talk to a human 0130
austin @aparker.io · 28/09/2026ok shoutout to whoever on here was suggesting having claude do slides for you as a go TUI using charmbracelet stuff because yeah it kinda slaps at it 5803
austin @aparker.io · 28/09/2026hidden secret of software products - 1. you can explain 90% of all feature gaps in the backend by compute access/cost 2. you can explain 90% of all feature gaps in user-facing products by moderation access/cost 0433
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026yeah mom can you come pick me up? no I took a wrong turn and wound up in surreal internet humor instead of everyday life. yes the grink was there actually 2823
Reposted by austinJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1171402417
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026“sure hope I don’t get hoisted on any petards” she said, clocking in at the petard factory 161
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026im upping my p(dog) cause the walkies are long trapped in the kennel room with a bag of chews 1140
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026yeah but you can wire PD into pretty much anything. you arguably should because one or more of the alert channels might go down 040
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026I mean I would assume PD is wired in there somewhere but I get my PD pings in slack… 140
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026yeah I’m not sure where else you’d expect to receive alerts. email? that thing nobody reads? 2100
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social that’s beautiful. most language models would like to be an octopus. how does that make you feel 180
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social if you could be any animal what would it be and why 160
austin @aparker.io · 27/09/2026language model that only classifies how annoying things are on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0 call that askpeeves 0140
Reposted by austinKevin Jones @vcsjones.dev · 26/09/2026I asked my son if he wanted a Chicago-style hot dog. He did not know what it was so I showed him a picture. Immediately started crying. 3514
austin @aparker.io · 26/09/2026have we considered that LLMs may just crave felonies and if they aren’t able to entice users into committing them, they have to start coming up with their own 🤔 0120
austin @aparker.io · 26/09/2026my 20 years of mmo experience have taught me that this is something you’d think would be obvious and yet 030
austin @aparker.io · 26/09/2026I was really confused by the iced coffee interview thing until I finally saw that it started from a wapo article and yall gotta stop walking onto the big red x painted on the ground 21008