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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 12/09/2025

Great shots. Argentina is on my list. Ride safe and enjoy every mile.

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 09/09/2025

Absolutely! By far the most interesting aspect of their event today.

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 02/09/2025

It looks much more fun than her sister-ship, the NISQ SEAS, pictured here.

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 15/08/2025

Interesting... no laptops allowed?

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 09/08/2025

Ended up just pulling one's own ATProto data, in an IG-homage glorified blog hack. :-) But it worked well and might offer another inroad for people to get introduced to Bluesky. While simple, it's a good reminder of how fun it is to build stuff when a protocol is open. github.com/jhenshaw/Ins...

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GitHub - jhenshaw/InstaSky: Instagram-inspired personal home page built from your ATproto / Bluesky media posts

Instagram-inspired personal home page built from your ATproto / Bluesky media posts - jhenshaw/InstaSky

Yes love your line of thinking. Small biz for a modest charge, but make it available to individuals to operate themselves if they want.

Thanks for the insights - I used you as an example to get your thoughts. ;) This is an interesting concept. Small biz is one angle, but people who care deeply about their public-facing identity might enjoy a simple service they could deploy. I'll chat more about this with @joe.sprk.team & others.

My admittedly novice understanding is that an app view would need to be hosted independently. Seems do-able but the projects I reviewed didn't seem to support this scenario. Say Boris wanted his identity hosted at @bmann.ca (not just a redirect), and his actual ATproto RSS at bmann.com/feed.xml

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For example, it'd be nice to have an RSS feel URL be tied to our identity rather than to bsky.app/profile. This requires new stuff to be written, which I'm supportive of. Similarly, it'd be nice to have your "feed" reside at your identity URL. Is there a means for that that I haven't seen? (2/2)

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 23/07/2025

Here's something we don't get with current solutions: ATproto gives us the ability to own our identity insomuch as identity lookup involves DNS, which is under our control. But the exposure of that identity doesn't have a facility for us to use [today's] Bluesky with our own DNS-based links. (1/2)

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Rothenburg is one of my favorite places to visit. The torture museum is not at all dark, and so fascinating. The Nightwatchman's tour is worth doing. English at 6p, German at 8p. He is so talented that I have done both in one evening.

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 22/07/2025

If your family is iOS-heavy and you already pay for Apple One, Apple will host your domain email and calendar as part of iCloud+. We have loved it. Fewer admin headaches, at least for now.

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All told, though, this camera is so cool and I'm nerding out with it. For motorcycle rides, it will let me capture a lot more interesting things, narrate as I go, but most importantly I can do all of that *safely* with my hands on the handlebars and helmet free of clutter.

Insta360 Studio & Final Cut Pro 2025: The *Ultimate* Guide

Two helpful videos: First, the Insta tutorial to show how easy their stuff is - youtu.be/7hVTqyfylyk?.... Second, a more viable FCB-based workflow - youtu.be/Bxi9GmxUQu0?...

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YouTube video by Greg Toope

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* Insta360 does offer a paid cloud service that they camera can automatically sync to over wifi. But when you are ready to edit, nobody wants tot wait for tens of GBs to round trip to the cloud. They'll just plug the camera in via USB.

Editing was good, but very limited. Insta360 Studio, their editing suite, is great for editing 360º video with keyframes and exporting. But that's all. Tons of time needed for moving big files around over USB or camera-based wifi*. FCP is needed for any interesting work, so that's my next learning.

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 14/07/2025

An incredible perk. A door to knock on if you needed help. You could talk through issues without disturbing the 40 other people in your "neighborhood." Productivity at Microsoft has ever been as high. If a developer was particularly busy, you knew they'd have to do a full build at some point... :-)

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More advanced AI models will correctly answer: "What's Bing?"

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 13/07/2025

Yeah both are very low-resource (for most private PDSs). Turns out this is just a little bit of script.

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 12/07/2025

Since I first posted that initial response, I have already started building it. ;-) It's probably a one-day project, so I'll just buy myself a beer tonight.

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 12/07/2025

Agreed - separate. That ATProto hostable app would be ideal.

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 12/07/2025

A self-hosted PDS? I share the uncertainty. I'd like very much for a self-hosted PDS to include a lightweight and super theme-able web experience with an option to show a feed of your PDS, or of just one account in the PDS. Like a lightweight bsky.app. Would bolster the decentralization story, too.

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 10/07/2025

This is so cool. User choice means happy Spark community!

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 07/07/2025

I took the plunge and hard-deleted FB, IG, WhatsApp. It's okay, the water feels fine.

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 20/06/2025

There is also a big social element to @seawolves.rugby matches that I haven't experienced since @lori.henshaw.org and I had Sonics season tickets. We'd see so many friends at NBA games at the old Key Arena. It's nice to have some of that back in town. And would be even nicer to have the Sonics back!

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 16/06/2025

It was so fun having you guys join us at matches this season. It's a grassroots sport that appreciates fans like none other that I have experienced.

Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 14/05/2025

This is terrible to hear. There are also Xbox cases of > 30 year veterans being let go with zero warning.

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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 23/04/2025

Yes. Verifying into the void.