Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026not reddit hiring a backup spinner to supervise the first spinner 🌚 000
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Behold the middle of the world 🌚 This is the Equator Marker in Nanyuki, the point where the Northern and Southern Hemispheres meet, right on the Nanyuki - Nyeri highway. The only place in Kenya where you can have 0°0'0" on your GPS 📍 010
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026super stoked that FitCall has finally landed on AppStore🥳🤗🎉 built from the ground up by a full circle development team,most of whom had never built a product in a team setting prior to this it was such an honor to mentor a dedicated group of people.FitCall emerged top out of 10products in HNG i14 010
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026Boy was I glad I waited for that head turn. It lasted 2 seconds then she looked away. The lionesses are sisters. No wonder the semblance 🌚 010
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026We ship 2 Android apps from 1 codebase. Automating their Play Store releases broke in 5 different, sneaky ways — a versionCode rule that isn't per-track, a Play error that lied about its own cause, and a 1-line GitHub Actions bug that invalidated an entire workflow file. dev.to/cynthizo/fro...dev.toFrom Manual APKs to Automated Play Store Releases: Every Mistake We Made Shipping Two Android Apps From One CodebaseWe built one Expo React Native codebase that ships two separate Android apps (staff + student), then tried to automate releasing both to Google Play. Here's every wrong turn: EAS free-tier limits, a v... 020
Reposted by CynthiaWIRED @wired.com · 01/07/2026A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose. www.wired.com/story/claude...wired.comClaude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music FestivalA researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose. 314542
Reposted by CynthiaTom Francis @pentadact.com · 24/06/2026Git still hiring poets to write error messages. 131710344
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026I built a BoJack Horseman–themed Slack bot for a comedy channel 🎭 /pitch a joke → earn an EP-ID → face a live community vote → build your permanent Wit-ness Record → queues overflow entries for an encore performance the next morning. horsin-around-slackbot.vercel.apphorsin-around-slackbot.vercel.appHorsin' Around — The Most Prestigious Comedy Stage in Your Slack WorkspaceA BoJack Horseman-themed comedy submission bot for Slack. Submit a joke. Earn an EP-ID. Get roasted by your coworkers. Build a legacy. Or don’t. 310
Reposted by CynthiaDean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I am doing life wrong, aren't I? 😉 Tesla profits fall 46% in 2025 SpaceX operates currently at a 5 billion loss. 50458291617
Reposted by CynthiaAndy Bell @bell.bz · 23/06/2026I've just drafted the AT protocol posts for this series. Sorry it's been so long since the last post. We've been *busy*. I'm gonna hopefully draft out a few more this week to keep a steady flow. piccalil.li/projects/per...piccalil.liPersonal website redesignAndy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully, inspire you to build your own corner of the internet. 2253
Reposted by CynthiaLukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 23/06/2026OpenAI shipped a telemetry system that logs more than the actual work being done. Codex burning through SSDs at a rate of ~640 TB/year – one user hit 37 TB written in 21 days. On a consumer SSD that’s full drive death in under a year. github.com/openai/codex... 36460108
Reposted by CynthiaWes Bos @wesbos.com · 23/06/2026I had over 100gb of node_modules on my machine and I'm ALWAYS out of space use `npkill` to find and delete older node_module folders 1811011
Reposted by Cynthiadan @danabra.mov · 19/06/2026"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explaineroverreacted.ioThere Are No Instances in atproto — overreactedLike RSS and Google Reader. 42676202
Reposted by Cynthianolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 26/02/2026ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join! 13579190
Reposted by CynthiaMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 04/04/2026guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center. 266103091555
Reposted by CynthiaPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now. 65653241
Reposted by CynthiaGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 31/03/2026This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down! 882391533
Reposted by CynthiaAdam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Really interesting, in particular the update where some of the bots/bot owners articulate their setup glama.ai/blog/2026-03...glama.aiI prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are botsHow a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots 093
Reposted by CynthiaAbdel Sghiouar @boredabdel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Kickstart your career in open source. Applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 are officially open 🚀 ⏰ Deadline: March 31, 2026, at 18:00 UTC. 👉 Apply now: opensource.googleblog.com/2026/03/open... #GSoC2026 #GoogleSummerOfCode #OpenSource #TechCareers #Coding #SoftwareEngineering 0132
Reposted by CynthiaLuke 🏳️🌈✈️ @lukeacl.com · 22/03/2026No. You didn’t develop an app. You’re not an app developer. You used AI to generate slop. You’re a nuisance. 818814
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026Happy Sunday from Cinnabon Rolls in Lavington, Kenya🤗 030
Reposted by CynthiaScott Jenson @jenson.org · 22/03/2026My Mac had >100 old Wifi connections and the Mac REQUIRES you delete them 1 at a time. I created a shell script to automate the process. I thought others might be interested. gist.github.com/scottjenson/...gist.github.comshell script to remove old Mac wifi connectionsshell script to remove old Mac wifi connections. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 57610
Reposted by CynthiaOpenAlternative @openalternative.co · 21/03/2026🚀 Look who's climbing! Puter just crossed 40,000 GitHub stars! Props to the team 💫 Your personal cloud for files, apps, and gamesopenalternative.coPuter: Open Source Alternative to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and DropboxPuter is a privacy-focused personal cloud platform that securely stores your files, apps, and games, accessible from anywhere. 1377
Reposted by CynthiaOpenAlternative @openalternative.co · 21/03/2026Bknd — Feature-rich backend that runs anywhere you need it ⭐ Stars: 3,706 🔗 Forks: 141 ⏩ Last commit: Mar 17, 2026 ⌛ First commit: Nov 16, 2024openalternative.coBknd: Open Source Alternative to Supabase, Firebase and AppWriteLightweight Firebase alternative with database, auth, storage, and workflows. Framework-agnostic backend that integrates with NextJS, Remix, Hono and more. 0103
Reposted by CynthiaJaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026Affinity photo processing software is now free!! If you're looking to step away from monthly payments to Adobe, this is the new deal... It's basically Photoshop with a different name✌️🥰 Why we made Affinity free, and how we’ll keep it that way share.google/n14kZ5wIVOxS...share.googleWhy we made Affinity free, and how we’ll keep it that wayWe’ve made Affinity completely free, empowering professional designers with studio-grade creative software, supported by Canva’s sustainable ecosystem. 1616643
Reposted by CynthiaKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 20/03/2026Announcing the Zero Token architecture. Instead of burning AI tokens, you learn to think for yourself, and complete tasks using your brain. 1951499
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 21/03/2026This is exactly how I approach anything new! I satisfy the initial curiosity first, but it’s when things break (or suddenly click) that I get even more obsessed with figuring out how it works. The breakdown process is the most addictive part! 🤩 030
Reposted by Cynthiaauburn. @auburnosm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026#OSMockups Ubuntu, now available in your car. 87211
Reposted by CynthiaKonnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com · 19/03/2026Look mom! Another reason to stop using Vercel. vercel.com/legal/terms#... (Is this even legal?) 615339
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026supabase dx is genuinely great. but there are two postgres-level traps hiding underneath that show up as the same silent failure. wrote about the GRANT nobody tells you about + the race condition nobody mentions 🌚 dev.to/cynthizo/the... cycy.is-a.dev🚀 #webdev #supabasedev.toThe Supabase Gotchas Nobody Warns You About (Until You Hit Them)Supabase DX is genuinely great. But there are two PostgreSQL-level traps waiting quietly underneath — and they both show up as the same silent failure. 010
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026As a backend dev still figuring this out: maybe ‘learn the medium’ in 2026 means something different? not writing HTTP servers by hand, but knowing why your async endpoint is slow, when you need a queue, how to spot when AI hallucinated a migration that’ll wreck prod at 3am 072
Reposted by CynthiaAndrey Petrov @shazow.net · 22/02/2026There's only a few ways to deal with attacks on permissionless networks: 1. Increase the cost to the attacker 2. Reduce the cost to the defender 3. Reduce the value to the attacker 0102
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026My grandmother said it in Swahili. my codebase confirmed it. usipoziba ufa, utajenga ukuta — seal the crack or rebuild the wall. wrote about auditing legacy code, the discipline it takes, and the backend principles that transcend any language or framework. cycy.is-a.dev 🇰🇪 dev.to/cynthia-cycy...dev.toUsipoziba Ufa, Utajenga Ukuta — On Technical Debt and the Discipline to Fix ItThere's a Swahili proverb: if you don't seal the crack, you'll rebuild the wall. Here are the backend first principles I learned the hard way cleaning up a production codebase. 010
Reposted by CynthiaCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026This UI in Google Docs is so maddening. The button with the big underline should be text highlighting, but it's actually text color. And the writing implement button should change the text color but is actually text highlighting. I get it wrong every single time 191236
Reposted by CynthiaHendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 14/03/2026The worst thing about AI is that all of social media is now entirely consumed by the discourse: one third people heralding machine Jesus, one third people uttering nonsense takes like "it's good, but not perfect; thus it's bad", and one third people wishing literal death upon you. I'm tired. 4133
Reposted by Cynthia⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 11/03/2026people rightfully make fun of “gork is this true” but the fact at this point is that frontier models have much better reading comprehension and world knowledge than the average social media user 1015614
Reposted by Cynthiaalice @alice.mosphere.at · 12/03/2026introducing 👀 💨 atproto-smoke 💨: one of the most comprehensive smoke/e2e test suites, primarily for PDS developers clone the repo, write a very small adapter, give it two accounts and start the test! tangled.org/alice.mosphe... 316129
Reposted by CynthiaShawn Hymel @shawnhymel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Time for another #Rust video! This time, I show how lifetimes and lifetime annotations work. They come up a lot when working with embassy, so it's useful to know what that 'a means. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hzr... #embedded #microcontroller #programming #RaspberryPiPico @digikey.bsky.socialyoutube.comIntro to Embedded Rust Part 8: Lifetimes and Lifetime Annotations | DigiKeyYouTube video by DigiKey 310910
Reposted by CynthiaZed @zed.dev · 12/03/2026We're hiring an Open Source Engineer! 🦀 Build features, review PRs, shape how contributors engage with Zed. Interesting problems, Rust codebase, small team, fully remote. Your work ships in days and users notice. Know someone? Are you someone? 👀 zed.dev/jobs/open-so...zed.devJoin Zed: Open Source EngineerWork at Zed: Join us as a Open Source Engineer and help build the ultimate software development experience. 26916
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 12/03/2026Of celebrating small wins...🥳 Bagged a git badge for this blog on resolving DNS issues with @github.com dev.to/cynthia-cycy... 000
Reposted by CynthiaLuke Schuler 🍹 @lukospicturehouse.com · 10/03/2026Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday 243459593