It has been a wild 18 months working at Bluesky on atproto. Goalposts and narratives have a way of getting pulled around by crises and the priorities of the week, making it is easy to lose track of the big picture. In this post, i'm dredging up some of my …
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What is atproto.com good for?
Bluesky released early documentation for the "AT Protocol" (atproto) a few weeks ago, and I've been noodling around with it. Technically, it strikes an appealing balance between rigid cryptographically-signed content-addressable storage on the one hand, and familiar web-friendly schemas and integrations on the other. But at an ecosystem level, there …
Trip Report: Biking SF to LA
To celebrate Lucy's successful completion of her Phd, and to see her off before she heads back to Seattle, we biked from San Francisco (well, Salinas) to Los Angeles at the end of March, 2019. It was glorious!
I grew an interest in the Palomar 200-inch telescope after Casey and …What I Learned At JuliaCon
Note: It looks like videos of the JuliaCon talks were uploaded to Youtube the day this post was finally published!
I was in Cambridge, MA for a few days the other week at JuliaCon, a small conference for the Julia programming language. Julia is a young language (started around 2014 …
Everything Is Broken (Installing Elm Edition)
This post is a narrative rant (in the same vein of Dan Luu's "Everything is Broken" post) about my problems one afternoon getting a Fancy New Programming Language to work on my laptop. Skip down for my thoughts on solutions.
A few folks here at the Recurse Center had nice …
New Web Server (2016)
For the past 9 years or so (February 2007 through April 2016), this website has run reliably despite being a weird machine: a custom prototype web application for archiving and sharing digital "artifacts" of all sorts. I remember a bold and sparkling afternoon at a coffee house in Santa Cruz …
