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I write many codes @ blocknotejs.org Working on @bookhive.buzz and @teleportal.tools github.com/nperez0111 Read my blog at nickthesick.com Support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/nick_the_sick

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James @43081j.com · 24/09/2026
Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏
ai-policy.dev
AI Contribution Policies
Ready-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 24/09/2026
I'm going to "AtmosphereConf 2027".
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AtmosphereConf 2027
The third edition of the global gathering for the Atmosphere Community is taking place in Amsterdam, April 29th - May 2nd. This includes side-events and main conference days. Please RSVP with your interest, subscribe for updates at https://news.atmosphereconf.org, and watch us build out the website with lots of fun features https://atmosphereconf.org As well as in person, we'll also be streaming and have different ways to participate remotely. Atmosphere Conference is run by the community, for the community, as an annual global gathering to connect, share, celebrate, and learn from each other. We welcome newcomers and want to engage with new perspectives. It's a community home for builders, supporters, and participants in the atproto ecosystem. We maintain collective resources, seed projects, and convene our community to ensure every member has genuine voice in shaping the ecosystem's future. #atproto #atmosphereconf #atmosphereconf2027 #europe
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 21/09/2026
Proud of how large @bookhive.buzz is on there!
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Vladimir @vladimir.berlin · 21/09/2026
If you are in Amsterdam this Thursday, come to the @vitest.dev x @npmx.dev meetup! guild.host/events/vites...
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vitest x npmx | Guild
Sep 24th 6:00PM: Join us in Amsterdam for a joint event with the Vitest and npmx communities! A huge thank you to Biscuit for hosting us Schedule: 18:00 - 19:00 -> Socialising & Food 19:00 - 19:15 ...
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Verified on Eurosky @eurosky.bskycheck.com · 20/09/2026
@bookhive.buzz has been verified by @atproto.nl on the mu.social app
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Michael Black @michael.bsky.team · 20/09/2026
I just learned Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Womp. All the more reason to use @bookhive.buzz or @popfeed.social
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 20/09/2026
I’d love feedback on this! github.com/nperez0111/b...
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book.lexicon.community proposal by nperez0111 · Pull Request #229 · nperez0111/bookhive
This is a proposal for the specific community.lexicon.book.* lexicons. It is based on the following articles: https://nick-the-sick.pckt.blog/road-to-a-book-lexicon-part-1-t2eyqge https://nick-the...
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 17/09/2026
@atmosphereconf.org, hey I realized that since the new redesign it looks like my talk links have broken: atmosphereconf.org/event/q4QdXj7 Is this a known thing?
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 17/09/2026
@typesafeai.bsky.social's Jev + image input might solve NSFW classifiers
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 17/09/2026
That’s me!
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 13/09/2026
I bought @pikunikugame.bsky.social based on @43081j.com’s suggestion and I’m happy to report that it is a funny and fun to play game. I’m very excited for the second version coming out!
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 13/09/2026
I think what is happening with PNPM is similar to what happened with Redis. Most people only ever use Redis as a KV cache, and then when they decided to change license, everyone freaked out because they rightly only need 1% of what Redis does.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 28/08/2026
Don't worry guys, Part 2 is here: Houston, we've got a book & review lexicon! I don't think it is in it's final shape just yet, but I believe it to be a strong proposal, and well justified if I may say so, myself 😌
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
Road to a book lexicon (Part 2)
The one where I actually define a lexicon
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 24/08/2026
I like the coasts
A map showing places I’ve been to in the United States. Most of them being along the east and west coast given that I lived in California and Florida
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 24/08/2026
I've been thinking a lot about how to define a shared book lexicon for the Lexicon Community Working Group: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/in-which-a... But, instead wrote a treatise against ISBNs. I hope I can link to it whenever someone asks why their import didn't work on @bookhive.buzz 😝
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
Road to a book lexicon (Part 1) - Nick The Sick
The article where I don't define a lexicon, and instead, complain about ISBNs
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 22/08/2026
In a similar sort of vein, I’ve been thinking about a separate S3-like storage solution for atproto. Like what would it take to have a decentralized hook up your own storage system for applications with much more data than what you’d want to put in a PDS. Imagine Google Photos scale
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 20/08/2026
The world we live in now is wild
opencode screenshot of an LLM saying

"I accidentally left a stray Turkish comment line at the top: "Önce fake clock'a geçiyoruz..." That was a mistake"
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 18/08/2026
I've loved using hackerdaily.io as my Hacker News reader for the past few years. So, I made Hacker News that could be served over OPDS: hacker-news.nickthesick.com It serves the original article & it's HN comments section as an EPUB over OPDS, Website & RSS feeds
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 18/08/2026
I bought the Xteink X3 ereader just now. I _need_ to know what the hype is about!
Screenshot of the X3 Xteink Pocket eReader, it is currently 61 EUR
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 16/08/2026
I'm thinking more & more that the nature of truth is changing. We don't need content being marked as being AI generated, instead we need is a way to prove that content is real. It is a small difference that will become more & more important with time. pckt.blog/b/nick-the-s...
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Don't mark AI generated content as fake - Nick The Sick
Instead, mark real content as real
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 10/08/2026
I'm looking at how to get to @zurichjs.com & just out of curiosity wanted to see the difference between the trains I was looking at, compared to a flight. It costs more to go by train & takes 9h for a 1.5h flight 🙄 We've got our priorities straight huh?
A google flights listing showing that to go from Amsterdam to Zurich is 225 EUR by flying in 1h 25min, and is 252 EUR by taking a train in 8h 28m with a stop between
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 06/08/2026
live in: 🇳🇱 born in: 🇺🇸 parents: 🇺🇸🇨🇺 grandparents: 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇨🇺🇨🇺 great grandparents: 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺 been to: 🇺🇸🇨🇺🇯🇲🇭🇹🇧🇸🇩🇴🇲🇽🇨🇷🇪🇨🇨🇦🇪🇸🇳🇱🇹🇷🇱🇺🇧🇪🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇨🇭🇬🇧🇩🇰
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 06/08/2026
The @bookhive.buzz repo is now up to 290MB with all of the books it is storing on it: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... I wonder how much it will be once all of the books in the DB are stored to it. Apparently it has only 16% of all of the books indexed so far
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BookHive @bookhive.buzz · 02/08/2026
Want to leave feedback on the web or iOS app. Use your Bluesky account to log into here, and we can see your feedback: userinput.app/s/did:plc:en...
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BookHive feedback | userinput.app
Feedback for the BookHive web & iOS application
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 31/07/2026
I added a KOSync server to BookHive, which allows synchronizing reading progress across your e-readers. It's based on my existing: kosync.nickthesick.com But, I've added OPDS support which means BookHive can store your ebooks and serve them to your e-readers too.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 30/07/2026
Finally released in KOReader: github.com/koreader/kor... I’ve been waiting months for this. I’ve been building KOReader sync server support for @bookhive.buzz for the past few days now!
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Release KOReader 2026.07 "Sailing Walrus" · koreader/koreader
It's been about four months since the previous release, so it's about time, isn't it? One very interesting addition is background cleanup for PDFs with Mask and SMask, which is technobabble for bac...
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 29/07/2026
I've just added this to @bookhive.buzz!
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James @43081j.com · 28/07/2026
this year i've carved a big chunk of my time out to officially work on OSS. if you like what I do, or use the things I work on, sponsorships go a long way. these help me keep the balance I have, and allow me to dedicate a lot more time to open source. thank you to those who already sponsor me 💙
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Sponsor @43081j on GitHub Sponsors
Maintainer of clack, chai, parse5, unjs, vueuse, tinylibs, & more. One of the e18e.dev leads. Core contributor to lit and modernweb.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 26/07/2026
Portainer is a self-hosted docker manager that I use to deploy all of my self hosted services. I’ve just hooked up its MCP server and it is awesome to have completed the loop on an agent managing all of my self hosted services. It can diagnose issues end to end and redeploy.
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Ilja @fubits.dev · 16/07/2026
I call this photo „meet your idols“ because in it I met my idols (and rad humans!) @vladimir.berlin @thealexlichter.com @43081j.com @nickthesick.com (James of @npmx.dev & @e18e.dev fame made sure that @willow.sh‘s Svelte pin on my bag is blurred)
5 very happy looking people at a conference (the tagged gents). The unnamed operator of the camera made sure that image stabilisation wouldn’t be able to unblur anyone but him.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 16/07/2026
@fubits.dev has the only photo I was in for the entire @localfirstconf.com and I’m waiting for him to post it; so I have proof to my wife that I went to a conference 😅
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 14/07/2026
@43081j.com here you go buddy, have at it: npmx.dev/package/@emo...
npmx.dev
@emoji-mart/data - npmx
Data for Emoji Mart; the emoji picker for the web.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 14/07/2026
tfw you know that you’ve just completely outdone yourself
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 11/07/2026
On the train Berlin for @localfirstconf.com! Excited to be there!
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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 08/07/2026
Very happy to announce that @chatto.run, the amazing little team chat app you can self-host from your own infrastructure (and quite easily so), is now available & Open Source. ✨
hmans.dev
Chatto is now Open Source!
The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 07/07/2026
Token anxiety 😨
Screenshot showing Anthropic dashboard showing that the All models usage is 93% used and Fable is 95% used
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 06/07/2026
This took quite a lot to get a hang of. I had to re-architect how bookhive runs to have multiple processes now. At least they can all share the same SQLite DB, if this doesn't hold up, then I will probably have to move to Postgres and maybe even multiple servers
A screenshot of Cloudflare dashboard for bookhive.buzz showing a huge drop in traffic while we were blocking all scraping, and when we re-enabled scraping the load came back. 75k reqs in a day
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 21/06/2026
I've been working on E2EE for my Y.js sync server & think I have a solution that I really like now!
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 19/06/2026
The amount of times I’ve been bit by this makes me remove sharp in every project I work on. Maybe I don’t have to do this anymore?
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 17/06/2026
Goodreads has locked down their website APIs further with a WAF. I’m looking into ways to solve it to keep book data for @bookhive.buzz working. I’m hopeful that I’ll figure something out, but for now book data will be partial if someone has not already fetched that book before.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 16/06/2026
Me: fix the tests Claude: test failures were pre-existing. Tests are clean Me: *irrational anger* FIX THE TESTS
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 16/06/2026
Explain your @ A guy in eighth grade called me “Nick the Sick” when being “sick” became cool to say. Now it’s just me. Thanks Jimmy O’Connor!
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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 12/06/2026
Join the 🇳🇱 Dutch Atproto builders/meetup group here bsky.app/chat/vDInstP @tijs.org @jvtilburg.eurosky.social @laulau.land
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DutchProto
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 01/06/2026
I wanted to try out using docs.imgproxy.net which is a self-hosted tool to resize images, and I was not disappointed by the savings I could get out of encoding things as webp and resizing them for BookHive!
Table showing the significant savings that introducing imgproxy made. With an average of 69% savings over the random sample images. Overall, being significantly smaller than the source images
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 14/05/2026
Released this, very happy to see such a reduction in deps for BlockNote. Markdown parsing & serializing is annoying
Screenshot of NPMX showing that in the latest version 107 dependencies have been removed from `@blocknote/core`
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 13/05/2026
I've been wanting to share this for a while, even though the project is on hold for a bit while we figure out some things on our side. I worked on making a Notion Databases like UI, to go with BlockNote our Notion-like rich text editor. I'm super happy with how it came out: (website not final)
block-view-website.vercel.app
Build Notion-like Databases into your app with BlockView
A Notion-like database library for building block-based databases.
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 12/05/2026
I'm going to "at:// Local-First Conf".
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at:// Local-First Conf
Local-First Conf is going to have atproto content this year! Bluesky is sponsoring and @pfrazee.com is a speaker, and @tangled.org is another sponsor and will be at the conference, plus some of our friends from @npmx.dev will be there. If you're an atproto community member who is attending and/or an attendee interested in learning more about atproto, RSVP here and check out the Community Forum thread for coordinating - https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/coordinating-around-dweb-camp-local-first-conf-and-possible-atproto-hack-day/847 DWeb Camp and a July 15th community hack day also being discussed. The @inkandswitch.com account has the main event https://atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:hamnrbjmhrgouhtkaof5e2ar/e/3mdntztj5kh2o
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 12/05/2026
Thanks so much for posting @faineg.bsky.social! I’m glad you like BookHive enough to recommend it
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 10/05/2026
It's crazy how many requests BookHive gets! Most of them are just scrapers...
Cloudflare dashboard showing that over 1 month BookHive gets 235k unique visitors, serving 478k requests, most are not cachedBookHive logs showing a similar story, but broken down by logged in vs. not logged in users. Showing that not logged in users represent more than 90% of requests made
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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 05/05/2026
Hm, I know that guy 🤔
A bump of postcss triggered by a fix that @43081j (James) made
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