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Cynthia

@cynthia.eurosky.social
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Backend Developer - building the part of the stack nobody screenshots 🌚 backend · cloud · open source | the systems are quiet. that's the point. I write about the debugging journeys nobody puts in the docs — more at wamzii.com --

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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
not reddit hiring a backup spinner to supervise the first spinner 🌚
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Behold 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 📍
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
that golden 4time pull shark looks good on me 🤭
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
super 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
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Boy 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 🌚
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
We 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...
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From Manual APKs to Automated Play Store Releases: Every Mistake We Made Shipping Two Android Apps From One Codebase
We 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...
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/07/2026
A 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...
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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A 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.
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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 24/06/2026
Git still hiring poets to write error messages.
A git error message reading "fatal: you are on a branch yet to be born"
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
I 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.app
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Horsin' Around — The Most Prestigious Comedy Stage in Your Slack Workspace
A 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.
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Dean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I am doing life wrong, aren't I? 😉 Tesla profits fall 46% in 2025 SpaceX operates currently at a 5 billion loss.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/06/2026
I'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...
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Personal website redesign
Andy 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.
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
OpenAI 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...
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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 23/06/2026
I 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
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dan @danabra.mov · 19/06/2026
"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer
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There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
Like RSS and Google Reader.
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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
ssh 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!
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
guys, 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.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Using 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.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 31/03/2026
This 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!
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026
sit with this for a while, let it simmer 🦦
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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Really interesting, in particular the update where some of the bots/bot owners articulate their setup glama.ai/blog/2026-03...
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I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots
How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots
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Abdel Sghiouar @boredabdel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Kickstart 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
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Luke 🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukeacl.com · 22/03/2026
No. You didn’t develop an app. You’re not an app developer. You used AI to generate slop. You’re a nuisance.
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026
Happy Sunday from Cinnabon Rolls in Lavington, Kenya🤗
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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 22/03/2026
My 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/...
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shell script to remove old Mac wifi connections
shell script to remove old Mac wifi connections. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 21/03/2026
Oh, that’s a lesson alright 🦦
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OpenAlternative @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 games
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Puter: Open Source Alternative to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox
Puter is a privacy-focused personal cloud platform that securely stores your files, apps, and games, accessible from anywhere.
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OpenAlternative @openalternative.co · 21/03/2026
Bknd — Feature-rich backend that runs anywhere you need it ⭐ Stars: 3,706 🔗 Forks: 141 ⏩ Last commit: Mar 17, 2026 ⌛ First commit: Nov 16, 2024
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Bknd: Open Source Alternative to Supabase, Firebase and AppWrite
Lightweight Firebase alternative with database, auth, storage, and workflows. Framework-agnostic backend that integrates with NextJS, Remix, Hono and more.
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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 @disentingcat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
microsoft: before you sign in we need to send you a code
also microsoft: omg was that you that requested a code
also microsoft: omg someone just signed in to your account
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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026
Affinity 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...
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Why we made Affinity free, and how we’ll keep it that way
We’ve made Affinity completely free, empowering professional designers with studio-grade creative software, supported by Canva’s sustainable ecosystem.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 20/03/2026
Announcing the Zero Token architecture. Instead of burning AI tokens, you learn to think for yourself, and complete tasks using your brain.
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 21/03/2026
This 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! 🤩
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auburn. @auburnosm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#OSMockups Ubuntu, now available in your car.
A desktop of the car interface of Ubuntu, consisting of the Ubuntu layout. At the centre of the mockup are 3 widgets: the left one shows the map view, with the speed indicator at the top enclosed in a rounded pill. The bottom-right shows a search box, with the indicator text saying "Search for places." The top right shows the music widget, with controls similar to Apple CarPlay. The music widget shows the playing music (Bill Haley and His Comets - Round Around the Clock).
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Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com · 19/03/2026
Look mom! Another reason to stop using Vercel. vercel.com/legal/terms#... (Is this even legal?)
By submitting Your Content on or through the Services, you grant Vercel a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, store, perform, and create derivatives of Your Content to provide and improve the Services, develop new products and services, secure and protect the Services and third parties from fraud, abuse, malware, malicious files or content, viruses and the like.
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026
supabase 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 #supabase
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The 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.
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026
As 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
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Andrey Petrov @shazow.net · 22/02/2026
There'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
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026
My 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...
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Usipoziba Ufa, Utajenga Ukuta — On Technical Debt and the Discipline to Fix It
There'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.
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 15/03/2026
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This 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
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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 14/03/2026
The 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.
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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 11/03/2026
people 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
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 12/03/2026
Eurosky be like
DJ Khaled with his head in his hand on an album cover with his name and title "Suffering From Success"
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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 12/03/2026
introducing 👀 💨 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...
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Shawn Hymel @shawnhymel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Time 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.social
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Intro to Embedded Rust Part 8: Lifetimes and Lifetime Annotations | DigiKey
YouTube video by DigiKey
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Zed @zed.dev · 12/03/2026
We'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...
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Join Zed: Open Source Engineer
Work at Zed: Join us as a Open Source Engineer and help build the ultimate software development experience.
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Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 12/03/2026
Of celebrating small wins...🥳 Bagged a git badge for this blog on resolving DNS issues with @github.com dev.to/cynthia-cycy...
Congratulations to @cynthia.eurosky.social on posting the most beloved #git post from the past seven days!
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Luke Schuler 🍹 @lukospicturehouse.com · 10/03/2026
Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday
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