Reposted by WesDowntown Brooklyn Live @dwntwnbk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Downtown Brooklyn is having a Wonka factory moment.dwntwnbk.substack.comBrooklyn Exchange is real, it’s huge & here’s the latestInside the iconic Macy’s in Downtown Brooklyn, BKX is taking shape at a scale that’s hard to grasp. Here’s what’s coming, who’s behind it and why it fits here. 021 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026If you have tickets for a movie at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn this July 4th weekend, you might want to reconsider. AC was out in in theater 7 (The Invite) today, and also theater 6. You can get a refund at check-in and you probably should. Theater 7 was like a steamy sauna. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Coincidence or not, now *might* be the right time for a Michelin-recognized spot like Yuan to open at 25 Bond in Downtown Brooklyn. It's been a tough run for less established eateries at that address so fingers crossed for this crew.open.substack.comThis wildly popular Hong Kong-born Taiwanese night-market-style spot chose Downtown Brooklyn for its first outpost beyond Asia.A cult-favorite Taiwanese restaurant with Hong Kong roots is betting on Bond Street. 010 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The hotel just opened in May, but that signage for The Livingston Hotel is classic Downtown Brooklyn. Really nice look for Livingston St. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Dear lord I love my city. We're doing this Knicks parade thing like only New York can. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Downtown Brooklyn, we just got a Brooklyn French Bakers bakeshop over on Fulton at the Pioneer Building. And true to form for most of our good eats, you'd probably walk right by the place and never think twice about it. Stop by for sure.open.substack.comBrooklyn French Bakers Just Dropped, So Let’s Talk Downtown Brooklyn FoodA selection of Downtown Brooklyn food spots we’re really happy to have nearby. 0140 14
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Trying hard to read this as if it's *not* encouraging people to blindly subscribe to something. Tech or otherwise, such conditioning is exactly what we *don’t* want to encourage these days. 101 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025HTTP enabled the World Wide Web -> web. AT Protocol enables apps like Bluesky, [x]sky, etc. Calling that layer "Sky" seems fitting somehow. Connects nicely with all things "cloud" too. 010 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Sorting through a few photos from a recent project shoot. Thought it would be neat to work with Lomo Metropolis film loaded in the LC-A. I like the results a lot. The character of the vintage Japanese boro really came through. Def gonna do more studio project work with the LC-A. 151 5
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Oh Ooni. Why do you do this to me? I like the versatility and compact size of this new Ooni Volt 2 but unlike the original (and great!) Volt 12, this one's indoor use only. If you're considering this or any countertop Neapolitan pizza oven, absolutely do yourself a favor and grab a Biscotto stone! 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I've been building social tech for a minute and I've long wanted to power feeds via people and context, anchor them on voices that usually fall into the background, and let the *tech* be silent so we can sit back and enjoy the results. And you know what? Now we can thanks in part to the work of... 120 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Advice to team Bluesky: Nuance matters here in both enforcement *and* framing. "Community Guidelines" reads cushy, but in reality you're establishing *House Rules*. Yes, we are guests in your house. Frame the "guidelines" that way and any pushback will be about the rules not about feeling sidelined. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The tension we’re seeing as Bluesky alternatives emerge comes from the same riffs we face offline. We’re still figuring out how communities actually cooperate, interconnect, and bring value to one another. With that unresolved in the physical world, we can’t expect community to slot in cleanly here. 120 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I can't help but feel that the idea of decentralized tech is being fetishized to a degree. The potential is real, but if we ignore human tendencies as we build in this space, our great work might end up fueling digital segregation under the flag of "community". *Thoughtful* tech is kinda important. 020 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Finally upgraded the @flockfeeds.social Bluesky network event ingest architecture. Jetstream makes hashed DID partitioning easy & efficient. MQTT-out because atproto events are just telemetry bits, and @nodered.org because it's built for this. All possible because of Flock’s network effect ethos. 161 6
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Social tech was never meant to be about chasing scale “because we can.” It should mirror how people connected in the pre-HTTP days (remember then??). Growth should track with community expanding, not infrastructure scaling or capital chasing. The Bluesky folks get this and it’s refreshing. 010 1
Reposted by WesBluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025Quick Tip: You can control who replies to your post on Bluesky. Just tap the 🌐 icon on your post to choose: everyone, followers, people you follow, mentioned users - or turn off replies entirely ✨ 1634245802 4.2K
Reposted by WesBluesky @bsky.app · 06/09/2025what’s the most unhinged VMAs moment of all time? 2841903180 1.9K
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025"Boring" is a feature, not a flaw. Social should leave room to live. **Why** feeds are built makes all the difference but most tools focus on the **how**...the knobs and keywords, not on the human affect. Algorithmic innovation without affective responsibility repeats the big tech problem. 121 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Not having to deal with websocket noise like backpressure tuning, retries, and dropped frames while consuming the AT Protocol CBOR firehose in Python makes me smile. Feels great to be back on my MQTT topology. websockets are fine for browser<->server but I’m building for efficient event fan-out. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It's official...autumn in New York is right around the corner! 010 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Very much about time. Baby step, all things considered, but this makes me very happy. Acela's probably the most used business travel choice between NYC and DC (certainly is for me) and it's needed an upgrade for over a decade. 020 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Laissez-faire parenting is the problem. Encryption, laws, moderation, etc...that stuff's just scaffolding. Kids aren’t protected online without engaged/intentional parenting. Parent->child accounts w/ parental controls (this challenge isn't new) help a lot. Bluesky’s tech could handle that easily. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I've been putting some polish on the @flockfeeds.social mobile experience and I'm really happy with the look & feel of it as an installable PWA. I have a redesign for the Template Gallery category filters in the works and a few more dark mode tweaks. Happy to have the main stuff done! 021 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Such a nice afternoon for a photo walk in the city. Wish I could join you @bhphoto.com. When's the next one?! 100 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025I don't know much about #manga art but this interview with manga artist Katsuya Terada was a great morning coffee read. 040 4
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I cannot resist intentional public urban art and these sculptures by SpY in Madrid are no exception. 040 4
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025We talk a lot about community on Bluesky, but most of the tools being built for it don’t really support how community actually forms. Just shared a quick post on Patreon about why I built Flock (@flockfeeds.social). It’s public. Check it out.patreon.comWhy I Built Flock | flock feedsGet more from flock feeds on Patreon 041 4
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Starting to realize that 99.99% of custom feeds on here aren’t built for how most people actually want to experience Bluesky. They’re dense, single-track streams that monopolize attention, when most of us just want to check in, catch a vibe, and get on with life. 120 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I'll be **very** happy when I no longer need to remind devs and engineers that context is the meaning and code is just the translation. When we take time to nail context, the code practically writes itself. context > code 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Seems that some folk and institutions need a reminder that those who aspire through fear and intimidation, and those who submit to such, are ultimately consumed by the very insecurities and paranoia that motivate them. Just a little Sunday morning PSA for ya. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Wish I had time to tinker with all the shiny new low-code tools and code frameworks riding the agentic AI wave, but I have work to do, so...meanwhile, with Node-RED... 010 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025OpenAI’s agentic tools are gonna change application development for good. Their new Responses API shifts the applied AI narrative from abstract “intelligence” debates to practical, intuitive applications. We’ve needed this for a while, and love [Open]AI or not, this is a profound step forward. 100 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Great talk @jay.bsky.team. Really excited to build more cool things for the protocol & Bluesky. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Heading to #SXSW (or already there)? Whip out this thoughtfully curated South By feed and show 'em how we do things 'round here. 010 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025What if we turned billionaire bear hug attempts on #atproto projects into pure whack-a-mole comedy? Community-driven, lexicon-compliant UX extensions, feature-toggled in-app via AT URIs… a consistent app experience with decentralized creativity feels about right to me. 020 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Thinking that custom feed algorithm definitions as first-class #atproto records make a ton of sense. We need a feed def algo lexicon for serious custom feed adoption, otherwise vendor lock-in is a thing, right? 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025The world didn't listen. We begged. We pleaded. Yet, CamelCase JSON keys still exist. And now we must all pay the price! 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 20/02/2025What if leaving intentional gaps in the AT Protocol leads to more community-driven development, making the ecosystem more resilient against [inevitable] bear hug attempts? Maybe incompleteness by design is a strategic advantage. 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Hey Friends! Just launched a Bluesky labeler that lets you tag your own promo posts! ✅ 'Like' the AdControls labeler & tag any post with #ad, #sponsored, #promoted, or #boosted and its labeled! 👀 Subscribe to the service to control how labeled posts appear (or not) in your feed. Get it here! 👇bsky.app 020 2
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025...and some wondered why I curated my LinkedIn connects to a cool couple hundred a few years back. So happy I did! 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Any CEO who hasn’t had a chat with their CTO about Bluesky/AT Protocol opportunities for their brand needs to have a *very* different ‘chat’ with them. 🤣 010 1
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 29/01/202530,000,000 and counting. Pretty good way to close out Jan. 2025 Bluesky crew! 000 0
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Hey Pizza People! Looks like Ooni's about to drop a proper spiral dough mixer for home bakers. Been waiting for something like this for a while. Great to see Ooni making this happen. ooni.com/pages/explor... 140 4
Wes @yesthatwes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Woke up this morning thinking that we need a Bluesky-style alternative to LinkedIn. 110 1
