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What's the biggest barrier to adoption for startups hoping to use atproto as a differentiator?

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This means the "10x better" rule still applies. Competitors can't steal your users unless they're providing legitimate value that you don't.

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But the threat of competition goes both ways. Yes, your data moat is non-existent. But that also makes it less appealing to copy you straight up, since the copycat will also have no data moat.

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That's kind of the revolutionary thing about atproto. It puts users before businesses. Data lock-in may be a good business model, but it's hostile to users.

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What's the hardest part about building an app on atproto?

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What is the hardest thing to explain about atproto?

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

How good is frontier AI at building apps with atproto?

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The natural consequence of a two party system. I hope everyone who votes red or blue is embarrassed about legitimizing a broken, corrupt system

Lars @webpro.nl · 10/01/2025

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Having a ball hacking on Venz It converts 🔢 to 📊 Try it: try.venz.dev

try.venz.dev

Venz

Easy and accessible dataviz

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Nah. That can result in false, null, zero, empty string

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

from the creator of vite-tsconfig-paths... comes a brand new Vite plugin... multiple HTML entries in SPA mode?! pnpm add vite-multi-spa -D 👀 es-tu prêt?

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

what's the closest thing to an "Astro lite" the ideal would be a Vite plugin that renders .astro files with limited runtime features... but i'm open to "Astro-like" templating engines that are lightweight

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

from the creator of vite-tsconfig-paths... comes a brand new Vite plugin... multiple HTML entries in SPA mode?! pnpm add vite-multi-spa -D 👀 es-tu prêt?

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

sounds like he's calling npx slow

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I believe that React Hooks' complexity stems from having no run-once "setup" scope. Ofc, there are workarounds, but they're clunky. While hooks gain some reactive power in being unavoidably a part of rerenders, Remix 3 makes us wonder if that's worth the squeeze.

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

well, mine did not *stream* the html, which is what i finally decided i needed :)

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

we don't just have economic inequality, we have cognitive inequality - systematically different mental operating systems that make cross-class solidarity extraordinarily difficult to achieve.

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

a bit too mechanical/lifeless description for me 😀 at their best, apps are superpowers that provide us new, valuable ways to see and interact with the world around us, or literally give us life by saving us time

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

___vite_ssr_import__ is the bane of my existence

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Probably not! It needs good collaboration features, custom views, priority, task status. and an Android app :)

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

this new monospace font by google is pretty damn good. up there with mononoki and ibm plex mono, for me.

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

wait, how did i forget about the Pretty TypeScript Errors extension? 🫠

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

also love how VSCode either pukes large types at you with no syntax highlighting or collapsibility, or it truncates them at random places to the point of uselessness.

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

TypeScript: "type is not assignable to type" Me: "how come?" TypeScript: "fuck if i know. good luck"

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

rethinkdb and fauna *should* have worked. i still miss their query syntax

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

People need to hurry up and adopt Svelte already

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

holy nostalgia... my top 3 (pixel art wise): slowpoke, oddish, sudowoodo 😆

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

if u dropped chatgpt into the year 1999, how would the people have reacted? are we more susceptible to its influence after decades of interactions on social media?

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

(unpopular opinion?) .d.ts files published to npm should be formatted

Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Someone will eventually share a reproduction. Just tag it as "reproduction needed" in the meantime.

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I reject the idea that a bug report should be auto-closed if it doesn't have a reproduction. Reporting an issue is a good way to gauge its severity by allowing others to thumbs it up, so friction should be as minimal as possible.

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Social media is 30% status seeking, 30% reach farming, 30% propaganda, 9.99999% venting, and 0.00001% mutually innocent connection.

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"Growing up" is fighting that urge to shout down random idiots on the internet 😂

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

July 2025 update: × preact-in-motion (github.com/alloc/preact...) × drizzle-plus (github.com/alloc/drizzl...) × alien-middleware (github.com/alien-rpc/al...) × subrepo-install (github.com/aleclarson/s...) × picorun (github.com/alloc/picorun) × picospawn (github.com/alloc/picosp...)

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Alec Larson @retropragma.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

got a sick new logo for my RPC library, alien-rpc :)