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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 20/09/2026

The cup runneth over with natures bounty

Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 20/09/2026

Inspired by this godawful practice - here is my new feature to the app that i think provides better access controls - and of course you get notified when they check on you

Different location sharing preferences in an app including none - when you left or entered a place - rough approx loc - exact loc - a path of where you have been

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 19/09/2026

I think your dominant intake should be local and underground - keeps you rooted to real people you see as real. But i do think big world stuff provides a common social substrate thats important and stabalizing. Full balkanization feels like an unstable state to me.

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 19/09/2026

location sharing needs better permissions than all or nothing. Checkonyou.app

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 19/09/2026

if it’s really gonna be this way - Resy should auction the slots and give 95% of the proceeds to the restaurant. Stop the charade.

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 07/09/2026

Reading this article feels like a trip because it can be so much better!! Its totally natural to want to be able to share where you are to those you trust but our tools fall short. A local first, social, auditable approach is possible! Checkonyou.app www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 14/08/2026

Amazing - a dream come true. Also when donating make it easy to share on atproto!

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 07/08/2026

Y’all should update utm tracking to credit bluesky when you’re able! Otherwise you may misattribute traffic

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 03/08/2026

I _really_ love the idea of a "lifeline" of a post and characterizing its spread through the network. romiojoseph.github.io/bluesky/blue... Thanks again @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social for sharing. I started digging in (see screenshot) and will try to create a taxonomy and write up sometime soon.

The verge political clip getting ratio-ed in bad faith

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 01/08/2026

We dont talk enough about plot holes in childrens books… wheres the monkeys go

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 28/07/2026

Is this anything? Idea is to create a (semi)structured "Attention profile" -- that can then be used to bootstrap recommendation systems. Like a really compact representation that is informed by all of atproto

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 27/07/2026

I made a cute little animation about the idea for a talk earlier this year. I think we all have a little left and right brain thinking in us.

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 12/07/2026

Me anytime a firework goes off after July 4th

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 11/07/2026

Ok it will actually take quite a bit of time. It’s a really thorough study! The core data collection is 28k survey results of which 15k were thrown out. It does give a good glimpse into awareness and is probably really good source material for @mu.social and @bsky.app

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 10/07/2026

I think the moat will be trust, customer service, and community. we are getting closer to thing that matters - the craft was just a way to get there

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 10/07/2026

All nicely packaged like this and everything. There's your data model

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 10/07/2026

Used to live right next door: they always fed the pigeons and bless them for it.

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 07/07/2026

The Belgian team partying tonight:

asterix and obeleix in belgium celebration

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 04/07/2026

@attie.ai they say copying is the sincerest form of flattery - but also reads a little scared to me too

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 29/06/2026

When you start a book and it has a map >>>>>

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 29/06/2026

If @localfirstconf.com is successful this opinion will seem quaint- and that it will very much matter where data is stored. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 27/06/2026

When is the new Ronan Park opening? Just like it’s been done for a minute.

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 26/06/2026

Shocking - www.anthropic.com/research/eco... Claude code usage is higher on the weekends?!? Talk about latent demand.

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 22/06/2026

New Jersey is the Donut State - it’s just math

Ellis island creating a hole in NJ’s land border

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 21/06/2026

It was a heavy import on an idle machine with a lazy network filesystem -- yikes. This fixed it

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 14/06/2026

Love a good viz - numbers are reductive and you have to watch the game to know what happened but also look at the flatline in Q4

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 13/06/2026

Interesting i did not know about 2 -- i see it's in the playground! Thanks for exposing all the knobs foryou.club/playground?u...

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 12/06/2026

I built something like this but i wound up needing way beefier machines to make it useful so I stopped indexing posts.

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 12/06/2026

Im working on a theory for Twin Peaks

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 10/06/2026

Feed Local is this year's healthiest diet. Very excited to see where this leads

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 04/06/2026

Im pretty sure this is because google ai overviews… which is also not great

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 04/06/2026

I know there are other things to worry about - but they count the height of the radio antenna for the empire state but not sears tower. This feels like a Chicago snub and i dont like it. Sears tower was tallest in world from 1973 to 1998

Trump holding sign with heights of buildings vs reflecting pool

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 03/06/2026

@nbartley.bsky.social A LOTTTT of short hash name accounts -- something to filter

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 01/06/2026

Here's the inverse @enflux.bsky.social 70% of accounts have followed fewer than 10 accounts since 2025 and 40% are functionally dormant / inert. I think it means I have to rerun the analysis and purge these inert accounts, and dive into who they are. I'll have the time to do so in a couple days

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 01/06/2026

It’s not really bimodal but its a huge problem 70% of accounts have less than 10 follows. I think the key to understanding what is going on is looking at those accounts. Are they bots - or people who got not traction?

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 30/05/2026

Made me feel warm and fuzzy Shouldn’t a new follow also be active? Instead of any old follow. Presumably theres a lot of overlap. It’s weird people are churning so much im gonna randomly sample and see whats up

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 29/05/2026

One thing i want to put more time into is projecting out DAUs or WAUs based on current rates and see where we wind up -- then create a sensitivity analysis on top of it to see where the biggest changes can be driven from. For example if you 2x retention from 5% to 10% the user base will grow 50%

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 29/05/2026

One pet theory of mine is that people post and get no engagement - so why would they stick around. Most signups basically do nothing. But of those that post -- earning a like makes a big difference. Or maybe feed quality is too low to start and you churn It's bad lots of sign ups dont follow ppl

People who get engagement stick around (likely correlation not causation)

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 29/05/2026

There IS a committed base of highly active users which is why the place feels so lively -- but I personally would love to see more growth because it just makes everything else easier. I know I know -- growth for growths sake is dumb. But if the network grows we have more choices and paths ahead

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 29/05/2026

So I've been digging into bluesky retention data to see what is preventing growth of the ecosystem. Using likes/posts/follows you can see who is active or dormant on ATProto. The headline is that only 5% of users are retained at 28d and 10% of current users churn. That's not pretty