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venki @venki.dev · 10/12/2025

I was quite excited to read about web hosting and curious why being an introvert mattered

venki @venki.dev · 14/09/2025

unfortunate how dunked-upon this post is, and that Noah & Nate Silver critiquing Bluesky in this manner are reasonably accurate. Bluesky seemed like a really awesome experiment in open social media ecosystems, but ultimately has ended up primarily being a lefty Gab/Truth Social?

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venki @venki.dev · 28/08/2025

Yeah my related "society is immutable, technology is mutable" take here is that we'll see eg: self-driving Waymo buses, or some other tech solution that rebrands buses w/ additional conveniences, and that'll probably be a cheap, low-congestion transit solution.

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venki @venki.dev · 13/06/2025

not moots & not a designer, but im a good eng on sabbatical if you wanna try to hack together someday!

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venki @venki.dev · 06/06/2025

i'd really really love to see this for bsky someday the open ecosystem really makes this feel like it'd make more sense

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venki @venki.dev · 21/05/2025

good social media platform sora.chatgpt.com/explore/top

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venki @venki.dev · 20/05/2025

building a small free product that lets you know when ChatGPT scrapes your website to use in a conversation. if you have a website & would want to beta test it, lmk

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venki @venki.dev · 12/05/2025

on the dev side: bsky.app/profile/venk...

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venki @venki.dev · 25/02/2025

would be cool to have a screen which uses an images-only firehose. maybe hard to find the bandwidth for it tho?

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venki @venki.dev · 09/01/2025

everything is $/MTok if you squint at it

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venki @venki.dev · 29/12/2024

that's right im a freelance, unpaid, documentation writer now

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venki @venki.dev · 25/12/2024

merry christmas beskies

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venki @venki.dev · 21/12/2024

Surprised that this is getting dunked on, I thought Bluesky leaned further left.

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venki @venki.dev · 17/12/2024

i'll give it to the next person

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venki @venki.dev · 09/12/2024

One reason: The American Medical Association limits the number of new medical staff we can train each year, causing a shortage of doctors & raising labor costs. blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/a... Easy to imagine an alt world where doctors make less + medical school costs less.

blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu

The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create - Bill of Health

Now is a pivotal time for the American Medical Association to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.

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venki @venki.dev · 08/12/2024

good post, incisive as usual from eury!

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venki @venki.dev · 08/12/2024

tbh - after meeting you: less queer coded than i expected given this skeet!

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venki @venki.dev · 08/12/2024

cam -> sf when? :)

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venki @venki.dev · 05/12/2024

pretty wild we have only half as many cows as 100 years ago because they each produce 6x as much milk!

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venki @venki.dev · 04/12/2024

Specifically, that there was a belief until the 2010s that tech was bringing liberty & democracy to the world. Now, the all you can say is that it’s bringing growth - which does feel more R-aligned.

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venki @venki.dev · 04/12/2024

Great piece! Compelling framing of the beliefs of {tech, DC, voters} generally shifting in ways that just made tech & democrats less aligned

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venki @venki.dev · 04/12/2024

I mirror some stacks I like, links: @const-physics.blogsky.venki.dev: why is construction the way it is @eurydicelives.blogsky.venki.dev : mostly on gender, very incisive @exp-history.blogsky.venki.dev: meta-science, psych & more www.statecraft.pub: great interviews on how govt works

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venki @venki.dev · 03/12/2024

huh this just made me realize your PDS list no longer has my PDS (blogsky.venki.dev) bug?

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venki @venki.dev · 03/12/2024

mm this kinda resonates not sure if it’s what you meant but ~= it’s more motivating / useful to get 10% of every skill first before 100% of one

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venki @venki.dev · 03/12/2024

I have this script running on a cron: github.com/venkr/bsky-p... In theory it’s not corruption proof, in practice I’ve not been able to make the race condition happen, and hence I think it’s negligible for a small PDS with frequent backups.

github.com

GitHub - venkr/bsky-pds-backup: A simple backup script for a Bluesky PDS -> S3 compatible bucket

A simple backup script for a Bluesky PDS -> S3 compatible bucket - venkr/bsky-pds-backup

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venki @venki.dev · 01/12/2024

How long is it? I think standard blog platforms do well for short standalone ones, eg: substack, ghost etc Wattpad & RoyalRoad are others I can think of - the latter skews towards longer webnovels. All of the above allow images & comments AFAIK!

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venki @venki.dev · 29/11/2024

Enforcement via non-labeler bans/suspensions is pretty rough from a “we’re decentralized” perspective 🤔

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venki @venki.dev · 29/11/2024

I generally wish the guidelines you could be banned for were more minimal. Eg: only for illegal things that you’re legally forced to ban.

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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 27/11/2024

I heard people wanted a million Bluesky posts? So I made an open-source script that allows anyone to scrape the Bluesky firehose and collect everything people post. This will be a useful resource to anyone who wants to archive this data or train generative AI. Have fun! github.com/deepfates/bs...

github.com

GitHub - deepfates/bsky-scraper

Contribute to deepfates/bsky-scraper development by creating an account on GitHub.

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venki @venki.dev · 27/11/2024

Hey! Sorry for the confusion: this is an automatic mirror of Noah’s blog (see: @blogsky.venki.dev), not his official account. I’d love an official way to declare this (eg: an “automated” tag like on Twitter), but I’ve denoted this fact via the handle & the bio for now!

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venki @venki.dev · 27/11/2024

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venki @venki.dev · 27/11/2024

Feature request: bot/automated account badges like on Twitter I’ve tried to use: a) disclaimers in bio, b) distinctive handles, but my bots are still occasionally mistaken for real people. A self-identified automated account badge would really help!

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venki @venki.dev · 22/11/2024

why do people like noahpinion more than all the other substacks? who knows

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venki @venki.dev · 20/11/2024

"small web dev consultancy" is kinda an answer I learned from @vivalapanda.moe

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venki @venki.dev · 20/11/2024

it seems fun to try to answer the apprenticeship question, which is this: "what sort of software business could hire primarily high-school graduates, teach them more than college does, pay them a (low) salary, and still end up profitable?"

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venki @venki.dev · 20/11/2024

another answer is: build companies that are okay with more, less experienced work. for eg, in big tech, imo there's a lot of super interconnected work, and the Mythical Man Month holds, ie: adding more, less-skilled people can actually slow you down. something more consulty can work better?

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venki @venki.dev · 20/11/2024

one answer is: pick the tails. ie: a company can maybe only get 75th percentile mid-career eng, but 90th percentile interns. this is kinda the norm already, because you then hope to retain the 90th percentile interns as 90th percentile mid-career engineers

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venki @venki.dev · 20/11/2024

thinking about tech internships/apprenticeships. - very high value to be hired as a intern/apprentice/junior - meh value to hire an intern/apprentice/junior (because: they're net-negative at the start + fast turnover is the norm) how do you reconcile to preserve this positive externality?

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