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Emil B

@lefelys.com
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PvE in SWE Building @logue.is to fix social media, txtweb.lefelys.com - a glimpse of the truly decentralized web

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Emil B @lefelys.com · 04/10/2026
80% of tech discussions in the last 6 months
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 02/10/2026
Switching IDEs every year lowers the risk of Alzheimer’s
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 11/09/2026
Every 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 04/09/2026
Every software engineer should have a handcrafted svg of pelican riding a bicycle on his resume
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 27/08/2026
The Netherlands has monopolised photons
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 21/08/2026
God I hate spotify's releases notifications
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/07/2026
It 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/07/2026
All 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/07/2026
I 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
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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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 17/06/2026
To 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 11/06/2026
When I accept cookie on a website and it shows me a paywall after - I feel betrayed
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/05/2026
Looking 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
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Currents @currents.is · 06/05/2026
Just 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-...
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Save to Currents - Chrome Web Store
Save images to Currents
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 07/05/2026
You just described what we are working on at @logue.is (except notes, but in the future why not)
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/05/2026
My 3 best friends
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 04/05/2026
@currents.is you beat me by 2 weeks publishing first lexicon in .is domain!
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/04/2026
When you and your coworker build something from opposite ends at the same time
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 22/04/2026
What is your favorite website for anecdotes
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 21/04/2026
Why 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 15/04/2026
Exponential 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 15/04/2026
result: quality goes down, previous partners get pushed out of business, new players struggle to enter the market, innovation slows
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 15/04/2026
There’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)
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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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/04/2026
And 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/04/2026
Thousands 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"
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/04/2026
Hot 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 01/04/2026
feature request for Chrome DevTools @developer.chrome.com
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logue.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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 28/03/2026
found bug - jump can't be canceled mid-air by pressing down unlike in the original
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 21/03/2026
Post-credit scene? Nah, we’re waiting for the post-credit AI training restriction notice
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logue.is @logue.is · 14/03/2026
We’re building Logue because there’s still no humane, standard way to follow important events and topics without getting dragged into attention-farming machines.
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 07/03/2026
oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/track/lifewo...
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Lifeworld, by Oneohtrix Point Never
from the album Tranquilizer
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 06/03/2026
That’s why distributed, many people sending one request will not qualify as unfounded or excessive
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 06/03/2026
DDoB (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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 05/03/2026
The eternal loneliness of a man wandering in a finished game
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 02/03/2026
Ideal 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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 02/03/2026
big 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
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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
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 26/02/2026
Microtonal music feels like a stronger drug clark.bandcamp.com/track/18edo-...
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18EDO Bailiff, by Clark
from the album Steep Stims
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 25/02/2026
Customizable interactive side panel for logues.. distant future plans
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 24/02/2026
I 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?
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/02/2026
touch/rub/tap-sensitive interfaces (even with haptic feedback) being more cost-efficient to produce than dumb physical buttons - where progress failed us
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 23/02/2026
And of course the whole project will follow @standard.site lexicons. Interoperability, openness, and decentralization are core priorities
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 19/02/2026
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 19/02/2026
Why do we have all these LLM benchmarks if all people want is just a pelican riding a bicycle...
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026
So 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...
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026
And 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.
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026
OpenID Connect as example. RFCs had so much room for open interpretations that every new provider you add ends up coming with its own quirks
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Emil B @lefelys.com · 16/02/2026
And 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
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