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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 05/05/2026

I miss the old web. I miss craft. eliothertenstein.com/notes/on-craft

Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/04/2026

Back when Bluesky first launched, there was a ton of momentum about leaving Twitter. But it was hard to migrate, hard to crosspost. Too many people didn't make the jump. Software needs a critical mass like social media, and now the wind is in @tangled.org's sails. I hope they get it right.

top of hacker news: two posts about people leaving github

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/04/2026

hey @tangled.org... this might be a great time to build some tools that make it easy to try hosting your repo on Tangled, or at least write a blog post about how to move over.

search results for "tangled.org migrating from github" showing no relevant results from tangled.org

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/03/2026

Shoutout @danabra.mov for vibe-fixing his talk on the big screen. Only at #ATmosphereConf

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 27/03/2026

Also, I always figure Bluesky is a good place to go for random transit questions: surprised that the skytrain is driverless without planform screen doors—I always thought the two were necessarily linked. What’s the story there?

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 27/03/2026

In Vancouver for #AtmosphereConf! So excited to chat with some fantastic developers (@pfrazee.com, @iame.li, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social) about building with @expo.dev on the AtProto. Saturday, 2:30PM, Great Hall South — be there!

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/02/2026

Support got back within 5 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Pretty impressive stuff.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/02/2026

Hey @fly.io! Would love if customers could manually increase their own machine limits ("i.e. I know what I'm doing"). Requiring an email to support is preventing us from taking advantage of fly's fantastic scaling :)

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 05/02/2026

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 14/01/2026

I’ve long said that a major factor in my choice of airline is WiFi. The fact that Air France now offers fast (and free!) Starlink means it’s now my usual go-to for flights to Europe. Fantastic work!

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 12/01/2026

I wrote about the economics of same-day delivery: eliothertenstein.com/notes/unihop

eliothertenstein.com

The Economics of Same-Day Delivery

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 13/10/2025

Ellsworth Kelly, “Black Relief” (2006)

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 07/10/2025

Remember that content moderation is a miserable job: viewing the worst parts of the internet on repeat for 8 hours a day. The less humans have to intervene the more ethical content moderation becomes.

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Jerome Paulos @jeromepaulos.com · 06/10/2025

Wordle but it’s Zillow: realdle.jero.zone

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Expo @expo.dev · 24/07/2025

⚡ We teamed up with Meta to deliver precompiled iOS builds in 0.81/SDK 54. You get: ◆ Faster builds: Compile RN once per release ◆ Smoother integrations: Easier to add RN into brownfield apps ◆ Future-proof: Prepares RN for migration from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager expo.dev/blog/precomp...

expo.dev

Precompiled React Native for iOS: Faster builds are coming in 0.81

React Native 0.81 introduces precompiled iOS builds, cutting compile times by up to 10x in projects where React Native is the primary dependency.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/07/2025

Carto Tchoo by @nicolaswurtz.bsky.social is one of the coolest sites I've ever seen. Doing a rail tracking website well is really hard, and from what I can tell, he nailed every aspect of the experience. carto.tchoo.net/map

carto.tchoo.net

Carto Tchoo

Carto Tchoo — Railways map based on OpenStreetMap

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 19/07/2025

There are so many reasons to love the Paris metro, but one of them is how quick stops are. The doors are open for less than 10 seconds at some stations. This is what platform doors and high frequency enables! If trains are arriving every 4 minutes, missing a train isn’t a big deal.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 07/07/2025

Update: it's just okay. Not worth it for $90 IMO and the battery life isn't great. It's also much larger than I expected. But, I'm going to keep giving it a go and see what the one-week update is!

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/06/2025

Currently transported back to the 90s on my United flight — there’s a credit card reader built into the seat back and they’re showing the trailer for “Clueless (1995)” which is wonderfully dated.

A seat back on a flight, showing a tv (displaying a frame from the show clueless with three high school students) and a credit card reader

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 28/06/2025

Anyone know why the Seattle Metro has such wide corridors in their stations? Possibly to accommodate a future express track or something?

A view of the Seattle Metro “Symphony” station.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 27/06/2025

Claude running a vending machine proceeds to sell several tungsten cubes at a loss and then have an existential crisis. www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

anthropic.com

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.

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Best of the Point Reyes Light Sheriff's Calls @bestblotter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

STINSON BEACH: At 9:58 p.m. a woman said she was in hiding after learning "spiritually, through her tum tum," that a man was stalking and trying to kill her.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 24/06/2025

Ordered a tinypod (thetinypod.com) and will report back how it feels. I'm excited – I have basically stopped wearing my apple watch thanks to my Oura ring, but wish I could stop carrying my phone around. It *should* be able to do everything I want (Music, iMessage, etc.) but no YouTube or Twitter.

thetinypod.com

𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆Pod

Your phone away from phone.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 17/06/2025

Can someone from the bsky team (maybe @jaz.bsky.social?) explain why uploading a string (5mb) as a blob just doesn't work on a PDS? I have PDS_BLOB_UPLOAD_LIMIT=104857600 in my pds.env. Recreation: gist.github.com/eiiot/fce125...

gist.github.com

upload.ts

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 23/05/2025

I wrote about the news (and me). eliothertenstein.com/notes/news

eliothertenstein.com

The News and Me

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Best of the Point Reyes Light Sheriff's Calls @bestblotter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

FOREST KNOLLS: At 10:12 a.m. someone peeking through blinds saw a man with clothes strewn on the ground running around and yelling at passersby near the coffee shop.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Expo @expo.dev · 02/05/2025

The court ruling in Epic v. Apple now allows iOS apps to include in-app links to external payment pages—with just your payment processor’s fee and no modal—if your app is distributed in the U.S. This blog post is about what this means for Expo developers: expo.dev/blog/mobile-...

expo.dev

Web payment pages are here on iOS—enable external checkout in your Expo app today

Build Stripe-powered checkout flows that run on iOS, Android, and web. All from one codebase with Expo and EAS.

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eliot's pds @eliot.pds.eliot.sh · 22/04/2025

just setting up my pds

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 17/04/2025

For this build, I’m running Shimano Ultegra Di2 (R8170). Ultegra is in the upper-middle tier of Shimano’s offerings, with 105 being the lowest and Dura-Ace being the highest. Di2 means the shifting is electronic — rather than running a cable, the shifters communicate wirelessly with the derailleur.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 15/04/2025

Building a new bike and figured I'd document the progress here! Something I love about cycling is the standardization across the industry – with some caveats, most components are compatible with most frames. This build begins with a Pinarello frame, the K10s.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 03/04/2025

Phoebe Bridgers as a linguist: "There are no words in the english language"

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 06/02/2025

Instead of using “et al.” in writing I now use “and friends.” Adds a warm touch to my papers.

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 06/06/2023

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Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 06/06/2023

excited about twitter 2.0

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