matt @stavola.xyz · 4hI am happy that it does seem, despite the layoffs, people were taken care of. 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 4hLike I am very pro-union, but this whole ordeal was a clusterfuck and frankly embarrassing. It really feels like CWA's unionization approach was a bad match for DF's company culture and created a lot of mistrust from day one. Not seeing most would be ineligible and flagging it as an issue is bad. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 4h> One union-supportive person pointed out [...] the union would have been able to negotiate with Microsoft for severance like the other unions were doing. However, that same person acknowledged that a union may not have been able to secure as good a deal as Schafer had. Unintentionally hilarious 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 5hThis guy is weird as shit but nobody on this site could ever get me to hate him. Like, his fellow 1%ers are focused on a global fascist project, meanwhile Bryan is just like "erm, actually, I've been measuring my wife's morning clit length for the last 128 months and you are mistaken." Amazing. 120
matt @stavola.xyz · 7hI kinda felt like an idiot for doing the right thing, but at least I tried! 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 7hBought produce, unpacked it, and realized it was all slimy. Tossed it, but decided to do the responsible thing and go back to let the store know so they could check the others just in case. Don't want anyone to get sick, you know? The staff were, unfortunately, teens who couldn't have cared less. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 10/10/2026Honestly, props to @vitalik.ca for bankrolling part of this work using shibe shitcoin money. Good to know something good can come out of that! 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 10/10/2026An open source COVID vaccine?!?!? Wow, that's absolutely fucking amazing!chronicles.popvax.comPopVax Goes ClinicalFirst participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001. 120
matt @stavola.xyz · 10/10/2026Tonight I had the extremely fun experience of macOS refusing to open apps, having terminal programs hang indefinitely, and then losing the ability to log in. After some time, Claude and I narrowed it down to rustc creating >9M temp files and choking out dirhelper, blocking absolutely everything. 120
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026If I can continue being a crazed sicko, but there could be overlap with the above and this: 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026It may end up being something a bit too much for humans to effectively utilize, but agents might be really into the whole mix-match-meld thing and actively make it part of their workflows. Like "help peer" but npm? Maybe this is dumb or batshit, but I think it's an interesting thing to explore! 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026I've been thinking of them as elaborations or maybe lemmas. If your vcs/package manager/language was sufficiently smart enough, you should be able to publish and consume things that are essentially "this package with this other stuff." Not specifying a commit, but rather the material itself. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026Of course this model works, it's what we've done forever, but there has to be some in-between. You can almost dream of a model where you essentially have a third, more permissionless, operation. One that doesn't require you to accept disproportionate burden or sell the value of your contributions. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026With a fork, you can "just" push but that doesn't make the decision necessarily lighter. You are now committing to owning the project as a whole, not just the changes. Congrats, now you're the maintainer!Enjoy keeping things up to date with upstream and dealing with your own merge/fork scenarios. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026With a merge, you're waiting on the maintainers to agree to adopt changes. This means proving perceived value, ensuring you meet some bar of quality, conforming to an opinionated set of requirements, et cetera. Often you will go back and forth with multiple rounds, with no guarantee of completion. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026I feel like it's incredibly limiting how merges (collaborative) and forks (disputative) are the only two fundamental operations for evolving open source software projects. Agents work really well up until they require either, then they are at a chokepoint requiring real buy-in from multiple parties. 120
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026I hate to xpost from Twitter, but @tinyclouds.org doesn't post here. Really looks like the motivation is a complete philosophical shift to celld/Workers. I'm skeptical, to say the least, but I guess this is kind of a blind spot for me. I'm a big fan of Cap'n Proto and I know Workers builds on it. 3110
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026I really championed Deno in a lot of stuff, especially at work. Especially at work. While I'm sure there are going to be *some* community members that step up, leaving the baby on the cliffside like this has a predictable outcome. Anyway, all the bun guys at my day job are probably celebrating. 120
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026That part of the post reads like "lol ggpo!" as if the project remaining open source was enough. I would've liked to see something like the creation of an org to shepherd Deno or at least something that indicated more details to come. Anything that would've showed that more thought went into this! 110
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026> We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. This fucking blows, mandeno.comDeno is joining Cloudflare | DenoPutting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web 131
matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026I feel like one of the hardest parts of gamedev is having a camera system that isn't shit 031
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026I would very much like to play Order of the Sinking Star, but alas... 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026This is basically my stance regarding the weirdos that are all-in on AI-hate. I am not convinced that Claude can feel anything when you hurl abuse at it. However, I am certain that fantasizing about violence against an LLM and inventing slurs for it is neither a good use of time nor very healthy. 0161
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026It definitely wouldn't hurt for some well known ATProto nerd to go on Conan or something and name drop ~5 atmosphere apps and discuss how they all work together. 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026You need to lead with the "here is what it can do" and have those things "on hand" before you can really get people on board. Leave the proselytizing at the door, as most people simply do not care about the philosophical aspect. Instead, show them what they're missing in the internective future. 110
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026Or when Bill Gates went on Letterman to explain the Internet in 1995: youtu.be/w8ZEnrSccFg?...youtu.beBill Gates Trying to Convince Dave the Internet is the Future | David LettermanYouTube video by Letterman 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026The challenge in uptake/understanding here isn't new here either. Look at how they were talking about the Internet in 1994:youtu.be1994: "Today Show": "What is the Internet, Anyway?"YouTube video by Chrissy Miklacic 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026The only carve out for this imo is the term PDS. I feel like it still needs its email moment, but it'll come. A PDS should be a thing you hold and not a term of technology. For that, we need PDS clients that have a good and standard UX, like your GMail inbox. And apps, lots of apps. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026Success for the Atmosphere isn't when the avg person knows words like ATProto. Success looks like mom wondering why her FB feed doesn't have photos her kids posted on Grain. Success looks like a neighbor asking why he can only use the official Reddit app. Success is when silos look and feel weird. 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 07/10/2026I'm with you. My position is that fundamental protocol improvements (like spaces) are valuable, but we do need spoonfeedy things (like Spaces™) to keep the average person engaged with the Atmosphere; bsky should leverage whatever they can to keep people here and funnel them to other apps long term. 110
matt @stavola.xyz · 07/10/2026That's why I think many people are into this as a feature: you have to do significantly less work. You or I can set up the former, maybe even make time for it, but someone who just wants to make a group for the Rangers fans in their neighborhood doesn't want to bother. They stick with FB groups :( 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 07/10/2026The thing that makes community spaces possible also makes private profiles possible for bsky. Many people want both! 150
Reposted by mattEris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 06/10/2026Claude give me the Vyvanse and estrogen make no mistakes do a breakthrough can u throw a little coke in too 1132640
matt @stavola.xyz · 06/10/2026Right now my ability to travel is quite limited, so the possibility of having mahjong only a couple of blocks from me is extremely enticing. I fall for those posters every single time! 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 06/10/2026On one hand, it's kinda cool to see mahjong take off in the US. On the other, it's a bit sad to see almost exclusively American mahjong. Whenever I see a mahjong poster in my neighborhood, I always get prematurely excited before realizing it's not riichi. All mahjong is good, but more riichi pls. 110
matt @stavola.xyz · 05/10/2026Like why are people so addicted to fedposting/virtue signaling? How many people even disagree with the core point? Bsky is literally the choir you are preaching at! What do you even gain by posting something in flagrant violation of the TOS? Is it just to get a tmp suspension to pin on your chest? 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 05/10/2026Would be nice if the people who decry "shit moderation" (see: suspension for explicit death threats of public figures) stopped complaining and ran their own site. You can make the TOS whatever you want and defend your own decisions. With ATProto you won't even lose anything in the migration :) 100
matt @stavola.xyz · 04/10/2026@popfeed.social love the app but the action bar needs to be bumped up a bit so it doesn't hide behind the system nav 😞 000
matt @stavola.xyz · 03/10/2026Every day on LinkedIn I see shit like "after 5 years of sun staring, I discovered it can make you blind. however by eating a whole onion beforehand, you can tank the damage." 000
