Emil B @lefelys.com · 11/09/2026Every backend engineer has two little people in his head. All they do is concurrently update a single database row with a cache in front of it, so the engineer can spot possible race conditions 001
Emil B @lefelys.com · 04/09/2026Every software engineer should have a handcrafted svg of pelican riding a bicycle on his resume 011
Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/07/2026It makes me sad that software engineering, that had been slowly but steadily moving toward equilibrium is now being put on hold and becoming science again 010
Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/07/2026All engineering effort is being rerouted. If you can implement a flawed standard in 10x less time, why bother improving the standard itself? You’ll literally gain more by improving compile times, so that’s the focus now 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/07/2026I guess that’s it, the “new js framework every week” era is over. No new ideas, no QoL improvements. We are just stuck with what we have forever 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 18/06/2026> The 300-char limit I believe in the future bluesky team will add long posts (based on @standard.site) similar to X > so the information is spread out more But that's the whole point of atproto: moving from isolated platforms to public, interconnected data that apps can aggregate in different ways 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 17/06/2026To me bluesky-post based commenting improves the quality of discussion - you think twise before commenting, and put more effort into what you say For everything else there is the like button and discord communities 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 11/06/2026When I accept cookie on a website and it shows me a paywall after - I feel betrayed 010
Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/05/2026Looking at number of users of non-bluesky PDSes got me thinking - there has to be more to offer to make users consider them Email service could be a nice addition - custom subdomain with wildcard addresses like *@username.eurosky.social. Add custom TLDs support and now it is super useful 020
Reposted by Emil BCurrents @currents.is · 06/05/2026Just released the "Save to Currents" Chrome extension! You can now save images from anywhere on the web directly to your collections with a right-click. And add attribution too. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/save-...chromewebstore.google.comSave to Currents - Chrome Web StoreSave images to Currents 041
Emil B @lefelys.com · 07/05/2026You just described what we are working on at @logue.is (except notes, but in the future why not) 030
Emil B @lefelys.com · 04/05/2026@currents.is you beat me by 2 weeks publishing first lexicon in .is domain! 110
Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/04/2026When you and your coworker build something from opposite ends at the same time 010
Emil B @lefelys.com · 21/04/2026Why do code forge platforms like @github.com and @tangled.org keep treating the files list and commit history as the primary repository view? On popular repos the majority of visitors scroll straight to the README And having customizable "work mode" and "view mode" layouts would make it even better 000
Emil B @lefelys.com · 15/04/2026Exponential growth evangelism pushes stock prices up while consumers quality of life goes down. Bad economy, happy shareholders. We have reached the point where fighting this at the individual level is nearly impossible 000
Emil B @lefelys.com · 15/04/2026result: quality goes down, previous partners get pushed out of business, new players struggle to enter the market, innovation slows 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 15/04/2026There’s always visible degradation in services/products when a provider decides to become “everything.” Retailers pushing their own branded products, apps closing integrations and rebuilding third-party features themselves (Claude, X). Streaming platforms producing their own content (Netflix) 252
Emil B @lefelys.com · 11/04/2026> to read long form blog posts anywhere in the app Which means hard-coding content lexicons for each standard.site publishing platform? The actual content is free form in the spec, and while pkct/leaflet/offprint have many overlaps in lexicons - others might not 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/04/2026And LLMs won’t fix this - they’ll make it worse. “Our LLM rewrote a C compiler” “Our LLM built a new browser” Even if that software eventually becomes usable, it’s still just another pile added to the mess we already have 000
Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/04/2026Thousands of frameworks. Thousands of incompatible APIs. Auth systems full of foot-guns. CLIs nobody remembers how to use. We can’t seem to build tools that are as simple as going to an LLM and saying: "I need you to do this" 110
Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/04/2026Hot take on LLMs: they exist largely because humanity has failed at systems engineering. We keep producing half-baked standards with too much room for interpretation. Then we ship new fixed versions with backward compatibility. Then another standard appears And the cycle repeats over and over 100
Reposted by Emil Blogue.is @logue.is · 29/03/2026"Readers are burning out" Great talk from @aendra.com on #AtmosphereConf, but algorithms and feeds are't the answer to everything You shouldn't rely on algorithm to deliver news on topics that are important for you. The whole idea of news delivery must be reshaped into targeted, focused streams 141
Emil B @lefelys.com · 28/03/2026found bug - jump can't be canceled mid-air by pressing down unlike in the original 110
Emil B @lefelys.com · 21/03/2026Post-credit scene? Nah, we’re waiting for the post-credit AI training restriction notice 000
Reposted by Emil Blogue.is @logue.is · 14/03/2026We’re building Logue because there’s still no humane, standard way to follow important events and topics without getting dragged into attention-farming machines. 141
Emil B @lefelys.com · 07/03/2026oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/track/lifewo...oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.comLifeworld, by Oneohtrix Point Neverfrom the album Tranquilizer 020
Emil B @lefelys.com · 06/03/2026That’s why distributed, many people sending one request will not qualify as unfounded or excessive 010
Emil B @lefelys.com · 06/03/2026DDoB (Distributed Denial of Business) - a malicious attempt to disrupt a business by overwhelming it with a flood of GDPR data subject access requests, draining legal and operational resources 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 02/03/2026Ideal humane algorithm behavior: - track post views only so you can notify people who viewed a post later proven fake (age-old issue: the headline hits the front page, the correction ends up on the last) - base suggestions only on likes - so I control what I would see, not system guessing 000
Emil B @lefelys.com · 02/03/2026big tech social apps algorithms don’t even need you to open a post anymore. Leave it on your screen a few seconds longer than usual and you’re pushed into suggestion hell. And I really need "It was a mistake, forget I was here" button on youtube, tired of opening videos in incognito mode 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 01/03/2026#atproto could potentially become a future replacement for RSS. With projects like @standard.site and native permissioned data it could fix main RSS limitations like discovery, interactions, monetization 0213
Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/02/2026Microtonal music feels like a stronger drug clark.bandcamp.com/track/18edo-...clark.bandcamp.com18EDO Bailiff, by Clarkfrom the album Steep Stims 020
Emil B @lefelys.com · 25/02/2026Customizable interactive side panel for logues.. distant future plans 010
Emil B @lefelys.com · 24/02/2026I never met a real fan of touch-sensitive buttons (maybe one new Audi owner, but he is just protective - these cars became a big touch-slop). And I don't remember when last time big corps did something lately to not just cut costs. If I can't find these people, where Apple finds them? 110
Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/02/2026touch/rub/tap-sensitive interfaces (even with haptic feedback) being more cost-efficient to produce than dumb physical buttons - where progress failed us 110
Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/02/2026And of course the whole project will follow @standard.site lexicons. Interoperability, openness, and decentralization are core priorities 010
Emil B @lefelys.com · 19/02/2026Why do we have all these LLM benchmarks if all people want is just a pelican riding a bicycle... 010
Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026So the best path for great ideas is: implement it, get users, evolve, break, rebuild, break again and repeat until it is perfect and then hand it over to W3C... 000
Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026And then there’s ActivityPub. When you’re designing a social networking protocol it probably makes sense to involve companies that actually run social networks at scale - but that wasn’t the case. 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026OpenID Connect as example. RFCs had so much room for open interpretations that every new provider you add ends up coming with its own quirks 100
Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026And the fact that it is currently driven by a single company is great, because from my experience when open protocols/standards start out in consorciums/stardands-orgs - they usually fail to establish a "hard", fully interoperatable standard 100