Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 05/05/2026I miss the old web. I miss craft. eliothertenstein.com/notes/on-crafteliothertenstein.comI miss craft 000
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/04/2026Back 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. 011
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/04/2026hey @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. 000
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 05/04/2026I’m just confused what you think Bluesky’s future looks like if the user base keeps shrinking? Yahoo, for example, was acquired by private equity who leaned hard into Yahoo Finance and ignored their consumer product. Bluesky is a social media platform that requires a userbase… so it’s kind of stuck. 100
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 04/04/2026Yahoo is very profitable, though. And also not running on VC checks. 100
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/03/2026Shoutout @danabra.mov for vibe-fixing his talk on the big screen. Only at #ATmosphereConf 0180
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 27/03/2026Also, 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? 140
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 27/03/2026In 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! 0104
Reposted by Eliot HertensteinAtmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 16/03/2026Thank you to the @expo.dev for coming on board as a sponsor for #AtmosphereConf, as well as joining us in person to present!news.atmosphereconf.orgAtmosphereConf Sponsor: ExpoThe Expo team is sponsoring the conference, and joining us in person for presentations 1445
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/02/2026Support got back within 5 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Pretty impressive stuff. 000
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/02/2026Hey @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 :) 100
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 14/01/2026I’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! 000
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 12/01/2026I wrote about the economics of same-day delivery: eliothertenstein.com/notes/unihopeliothertenstein.comThe Economics of Same-Day Delivery 010
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 13/10/2025cc @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social. not technically complicated but fun nevertheless! 020
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 07/10/2025Remember 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. 041
Reposted by Eliot HertensteinJerome Paulos @jeromepaulos.com · 06/10/2025Wordle but it’s Zillow: realdle.jero.zone 121
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 30/07/2025Is there any atproto API that returns the bare value of a record rather than the value syntax? I remember a while ago trying to find one and ended up just wrapping it with an XRPC endpoint. 100
Reposted by Eliot Hertensteinkristo jorgenson @kris.to · 27/07/2025This is why we need Bluesky for Biking! bikepacking.com/plog/when-we...bikepacking.comWhen We Get KomootedFollowing the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities... 4478
Reposted by Eliot HertensteinExpo @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.devPrecompiled React Native for iOS: Faster builds are coming in 0.81React Native 0.81 introduces precompiled iOS builds, cutting compile times by up to 10x in projects where React Native is the primary dependency. 2263
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/07/2025In the US, the gold standard is probably Amtraker, or asm.transitdocs.com. But Amtrak's terrible (undocumented) API means often a bad experience is passed on to the user. While Carto doesn't actually have location information on the trains, it manages to deliver a fantastic experience. 010
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/07/2025I think the hardest part about rail maps is bridging the gap between usability and information density – i.e. you want to be able to show a ton of information to advanced users while still making the site intuitive and easy to use. For example openrailwaymap.org vs. @piero.bsky.social's amtraker.comopenrailwaymap.orgOpenRailwayMapOpenRailwayMap - An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure. 120
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 22/07/2025Carto 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/mapcarto.tchoo.netCarto TchooCarto Tchoo — Railways map based on OpenStreetMap 120
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 19/07/2025There 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. 031
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 07/07/2025Update: 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! 020
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 29/06/2025Currently 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. 020
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 28/06/2025Oh that makes sense! I hope the busses were electric, underground diesel BRT sounds like a bit of a nightmare. 110
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 28/06/2025Anyone know why the Seattle Metro has such wide corridors in their stations? Possibly to accommodate a future express track or something? 230
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 27/06/2025Claude 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.comProject 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. 020
Reposted by Eliot HertensteinBest of the Point Reyes Light Sheriff's Calls @bestblotter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025STINSON 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. 011
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 24/06/2025Running into the same issue on the official bsky.app PDS, though. Same w/ 'encoding: text/plain' :( See gist.github.com/eiiot/e5ca09... 000
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 24/06/2025Ordered 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.com𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆PodYour phone away from phone. 020
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 21/06/2025Nope :( I’m sure there’s some way to get the matter files onto a kobo but the problem is the remote syncing. I probably would’ve had to upload them to calibre web which is just a mess. If you have any other ideas I’d be happy to help! 110
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 17/06/2025Yeah was running into that earlier as well. There are a bunch of issues with the blob uploading – if I try to upload `application/javascript` it triggers the image parsing library Sharp which promptly throws an error 🙃 020
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 17/06/2025It throws an internal server error (even with my bsky.social pds) 200
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 17/06/2025It seems to happen even with a 1mb-long string as well. Anything below 1mb gives a different error ("InternalServerError") 200
Eliot Hertenstein @eliot.sh · 17/06/2025Can 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.comupload.tsGitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 120
