Reposted by CynthiaTyler Lawson @tyler.fun · 10/10/2026chalky.town is now out of beta. It will be free forever as a personal task planner that syncs directly with your PDS (and it works offline)chalky.townchalky.towna local-first weekly planner backed by your own ATProto repo. 8514 51
Reposted by CynthiaAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works. 18814215 814
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026not reddit hiring a backup spinner to supervise the first spinner 🌚 000 0
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 1
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 1
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 1
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 2
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 145
Reposted by CynthiaTom Francis @pentadact.com · 24/06/2026Git still hiring poets to write error messages. 131710344 1.7K
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026anyway here's the repo if you want to make your coworkers' lives unnecessarily complicated too 🦦 it's open source, clone it, wire up your own Slack app, make your own #horsin-around 🐴 github.com/CynthiaWahome/horsin-aroundgithub.comGitHub - CynthiaWahome/horsin-around: 🎭 A BoJack Horseman–themed Slack bot for the #horsin-around comedy channel. Talent submit jokes via /pitch, earn a unique EP-ID, and face a live community vote. F...🎭 A BoJack Horseman–themed Slack bot for the #horsin-around comedy channel. Talent submit jokes via /pitch, earn a unique EP-ID, and face a live community vote. Features Encore Queue, Wit-ness Reco... 010 1
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026it's themed after BoJack Horseman because the channel is called horsin-around and at some point the bit became the whole thing 🌚 BoJack and Princess Carolyn alternate daily. Mr. Peanutbutter sends the welcome DM and makes occasional announcements. 000 0
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026under the hood it has: - dual bot personas (BoJack and Princess Carolyn) that alternate daily - a content moderation pipeline - an encore queue for when you're too funny too fast - a permanent record of your cringe % for a comedy channel. in a Slack workspace. that like 6 people use. no notes. 000 0
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 3
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. 50358271617 5.8K
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 25
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 460
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 110
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. 42675202 675
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 579
Reposted by CynthiaMicro-bleh-stics Spookmelier @eephus.biz · 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. 266103061553 10.3K
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. 65652241 652
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 2.4K
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 9
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 13
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 188
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026Happy Sunday from Cinnabon Rolls in Lavington, Kenya🤗 030 3
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 76
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 37
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 10
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 166
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 514
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 3
Reposted by Cynthiaauburn. @auburnosm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026#OSMockups Ubuntu, now available in your car. 87211 72
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 153
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 1
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 7
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 10
Cynthia @cynthia.eurosky.social · 18/03/2026Finally figured out what was causing the headache. I opened an issue for it here. github.com/eurosky-soci...github.com[BUG] Stateless validation gap: `create` action fails to verify email against authenticated PDS session · Issue #7 · eurosky-social/eu-haulDescription There is a logic gap between MigrationsController#lookup_handle and MigrationsController#create. While the former retrieves the correct email from the source PDS, that information is no... 030 3
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 1