monk @monk.bsky.social · 01/07/2023welp twitter's not working hello bsky, how's everyone doing? i haven't been here in a while, how many of my twitter circles are still using this thing? 12320
monk @monk.bsky.social · 17/05/2023yeah that's what i'm thinking, the blockchain idealism of immutability and append-only, but for communication in the real world that's just not a good idea 050
monk @monk.bsky.social · 08/05/2023hmm yeah probably way fewer views than i'd have with the same number of followers on twitter still, getting 0 likes is weird 050
monk @monk.bsky.social · 08/05/2023weird that it's normal for me to get 0 likes on a skeet here on twitter that has literally never happened once i hit like 200 followers 1110
monk @monk.bsky.social · 03/05/2023if there's wifi and conveniently placed electrical outlets i'd show up 020
monk @monk.bsky.social · 03/05/2023what form of answer do you expect? if you ask "who is that person" and i say "that's my friend harry" and you say "but WHO is harry?", what am i supposed to answer? harry is harry, it's *a* particular person. tpot is tpot, it's *a* particular part of twitter 080
monk @monk.bsky.social · 01/05/2023i find it hilarious that jay was like "omg pls don't let the name skeets stick, anything but skeets" and then someone comes along and is like "why would jay decide to name them skeets, that's so strange" but also i feel bad for the team a bit 0180
monk @monk.bsky.social · 01/05/2023they talked about bluesky on yesterday's episode of blocked and reported "they named them 'skeets'... why would they do that, i don't get it" priceless entertainment, 10/10 4470
monk @monk.bsky.social · 29/04/2023first enhancement: the option of combining two lists i just used it to find moots from twitter that i wasn't yet following here by looking at people that my friends followed that i didn't 100
monk @monk.bsky.social · 29/04/2023also i just noticed the original listfollowers doesn't work, did elon shut down the twitter API at last? 140
monk @monk.bsky.social · 29/04/2023as you can see i made it usable on mobile too this time pls clap 280
monk @monk.bsky.social · 29/04/2023anyway the most basic version of listfollowers for bsky is out now bskyfollowers.netlify.app there's no search, export, combining 2 lists etc, that's all coming also no error handling bc there's no docs for the API, idk what errors can even happen try it out, if it crashes let me know 2130
monk @monk.bsky.social · 23/04/2023today i mostly just played with tailwind and created silly little layouts and silly little components and silly little color palettes next time i should do some actual programming 000
monk @monk.bsky.social · 23/04/2023ah, the thing i mentioned in the QT, ie the same thing i built on twitter api before, ie a website that allows you to fetch a list of someone's follows or followers, search/sort/filter through them, save to json/csv, intersect or subtract two users' lists etc 000
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023on bsky the logic itself is much faster to code because there's no rate limits to optimize around and error-handle so much thinking on listfollowers went into working with the rate limits here i just… fetch the data and show it also everyone has like 500 followers anyway rn 170
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023started one week later but finally under way today i fairly quickly discarded the idea of making my own backend right off the bat i'll start frontend only to ship something quick; afterwards i can fuck around w session cookies and bullshit like that most of the work is UI which won't go to waste 2110
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023there's an android app?? i didn't find anything searching the app store so i assumed there isn't 100
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023on making your mind a safe space for your thoughts so that your subconscious doesn't have to start bulshitting you 110
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023on the false dichotomy between self-acceptance and self-improvement, or self-acceptance and objective self-assessment on trying to do something i want to do when i'm also being told i *should* do it on putting up psychological containment barriers (very scatterbrained, looking back) 210
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023thread of threads on various aspects of being a human and living life will (hopefully) keep adding more 180
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023yeah i've been moving around lately, i don't have many friends irl either in my case i'm mostly talking about online (twitter) friends too close to me on the social graph doesn't necessarily have to mean close geographically 010
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023anyway, i don't think i'm going anywhere with this, just some random musings 170
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023obviously you can't get to eg. vibecamp-level endeavors with invite-only and social localism, and i'll be the first to say vibecamp good but on the smaller scales, i'll tend to stick to my friends, and i also did that at vibecamp for the most part, come to think of it 180
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023i do appreciate the people who do open-to-public stuff, and sometimes it leads to good outcomes, but imo it's more likely to fall apart sooner or have weird vibes but also a lot of this is just mere personal preference 180
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023and the same goes for events the most important factor of a meetup is who's there. and so i don't tend to do public events, or even public with some sort of filtering process, but invite specific friends to come do something with me 170
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023when i want to work with someone on a project, when i need help building something or making something happen, i will think of a friend to reach out to i have fewer people to select from, but i feel like the project stands on firmer ground that way. and it's more fun to work with friends 280
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023i've also seen people advertising various kinds of discussion groups, book clubs, accountability groups, project groups, etc on twitter, in a way that's open to public i feel like this selects a bit for the most lonely and lost people i'm much more likely to reach out to specific friends 170
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023as an example in the vibecamp discord i see people advertising cabins or pre/post-vibecamp airbnbs and taking ~whoever signs up (with various levels of filtering) i feel like i'd have no idea what the vibe would be or if i'd have fun i tend to ask people i know and try to put together a good crew 1110
monk @monk.bsky.social · 22/04/2023i'm a proponent of what i have been calling "social localism" localism is about sourcing food and other goods from areas that are geographically local to you social localism is about sourcing social resources from people that are in your local social graph, that you know personally 3230
monk @monk.bsky.social · 19/04/2023aaa it's like four mandays of work but i'm trash so probably in like two months 010
monk @monk.bsky.social · 17/04/2023hard to define explicitly you technically always do only what you want to do, otherwise you wouldn't be doing it, but self-coercion is a certain mental motion, a mode of being that you approach a task with, that feels like friction, like stepping on the gas and the brake at the same time 110
monk @monk.bsky.social · 17/04/2023here's a post where i originally sketched this out in more detail including an additional section on environmental sustainability as another case where being indefinitely unsustainable makes sense: mechasterion.netlify.app/2021/12/su… 2100
monk @monk.bsky.social · 17/04/2023and just like with financial or technical debt, it is beneficial to always self-coerce a small amount, to run an indefinite motivational budget deficit, as long as you grow faster even with the self-trust "interest payments" 1100
monk @monk.bsky.social · 17/04/2023as you grow, and undertaking larger and larger endeavours becomes easy for you, the amount of self-trust you initially sacrificed becomes smaller and smaller relative to your currect capabilities just like as the economy grows, government bond payments become a smaller % of the GDP 1110
