I wrote up my talk at @localfirstconf.com as a blogpost The AT Protocol is a high-scale network by design. It works by codifying proven architectures into a protocol. If you've ever used kafka to connect some backend services, then you basically know how atproto works.

Starting from scale in the design of the AT Protocol

Bluesky was founded in 2022 to produce a protocol which Twitter could adopt. The product goals changed, but the requirements didn't.

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Awesome day at @localfirstconf.com, a lot of inspiring chats and talks, thanks all! 🙏

We‘re back after a delicious lunch with @patak.cat and @willow.sh and their talk: ”npmx: a fast community-built browser for the npm registry“ Also, happy birthday to Willow 🎂🥳

@localfirstconf.com started with lots of amazing talks. @jakelazaroff.com’s talk was super interesting, multiplayer editor via @atproto.com and WebRTC, lots of great ideas being shared 🙏

Been using `lldb` to step through programs, it's really nice to just see what's going on line by line. It helped me fix a bug and update all tests for github.com/csalmeida/envo ⚡️

How do you send 880,000 verified medical messages a month with near-zero support load — and no central database to breach? Switzerland's Health Info Net fragments & distributes encrypted messages across an IPFS swarm. Read the case study: docs.ipfs.tech/case-studies...

Customizable select is coming to Safari 27! 🥳 Want to try it out? Check out my demo collection: codepen.io/collection/B...

Update Envo - A `.env` parser for Zig to version `0.16.0` ⚡ and it's now compliant with the new `Io` implementation.

GitHub - csalmeida/envo: A .env parser library written in Zig.

A .env parser library written in Zig. Contribute to csalmeida/envo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Rewrote my site from WordPress to Zine by @kristoff.it ⚡️ Zine is still in alpha but the template system handled the layout well enough that I could keep the design and just focus on the port. csalmeida.com

Cristiano Almeida - Software Developer

Cristiano works as a full stack software developer specializing in web applications and systems programming.

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Andrew's interview with JetBrains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ

Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube

Andrew Kelley quit his job in 2018 to build a programming language. Eight years later, Zig powers Ghostty, TigerBeetle and Uber's cross-compilation. It's top...

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HTML in Canvas API is NUTS

Introducing Envo, a .env file parser for Zig github.com/csalmeida/envo 📦 Zero dependencies ⚡ Recursive descent & iterative strategies 🌱 Built from scratch to learn parsing & systems programming

pizauth-1.0.11 is out, and ensures it keeps retrying in the face of transitory HTTP errors tratt.net/laurie/src/p...

ESLint depends on sponsorships to pay maintainers. We're operating at a deficit with roughly a junior engineer's salary supporting a dozen maintainers plus awarding outside contributions. Please talk to your company about sponsoring ESLint: https://eslint.org/donate

Three new Zig Days! - USA: Seattle, WA - Canada: Kitchener-Waterloo - Europe: Bristol (UK) If you live close to any of them, go to zig.day and subscribe to be notified of upcoming events (we also have RSS and iCal)!

Quick example single and multi thread use of prime number generation with Zig. Single threaded version took `~1551ms` and Multi threaded took `~240ms` across 10 threads. github.com/csalmeida/zi...

I'm looking for some part-time #Laravel work, if anyone knows of anything please get in touch!

I've put together a simple Zig + Raylib template for anyone looking to get up and running quickly: github.com/csalmeida/zi...

Archived Hozokit, my trusty WordPress template. Though only used by myself and arrontp.co.uk, it powered countless client sites and helped pay my rent for years. Small tool, big impact. 🫡 github.com/csalmeida/ho...

GitHub - csalmeida/hozokit: Theme Building Framework for WordPress

Theme Building Framework for WordPress. Contribute to csalmeida/hozokit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Does anyone that works with macOS know if the CocoaAPI is still the best way to manage windows on macOS? I could not find anything on developer.apple.com/documentation/ but found it on the archived docs: developer.apple.com/library/arch... Any help would appreciated, thanks!

Featured | Apple Developer Documentation

Browse the latest sample code, articles, tutorials, and API reference.

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While practicing passing values around with pointers in C I ended looking up into ANSI Escape Codes and creating a small library to print characters with styling to the terminal. 😄 github.com/csalmeida/c-...

If you're not familiar with my work, I maintain an open source high performance UI layout library written in C 🙂 github.com/nicbarker/cl... #cprogramming #c #ui

GitHub - nicbarker/clay: High performance UI layout library in C.

High performance UI layout library in C. Contribute to nicbarker/clay development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Another day, another dynamic form with repeater fields. 😄

Built @ladybirdbrowser from source to try it out, there's a lot of features missing. It's early days but it's cool to see a new browser project with its own engine. 🚀

I often need to convert assets into WebP so I created a Rust crate for it: crates.io/crates/webp-...

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

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I've published a tiny Rust crate with all 249 countries with alpha codes, ISO 3166-2 and region information: crates.io/crates/gazet... 🌍

The team at Evil Martians just released updated documentation on integrating InertiaJS with Rails. I recently experimented with it and set up a project using Rails and Svelte 5. Check it out—hope you find it helpful! github.com/csalmeida/in...

GitHub - csalmeida/inertia-rails-svelte-example: An example of Using Rails 7 with Svelte 5

An example of Using Rails 7 with Svelte 5. Contribute to csalmeida/inertia-rails-svelte-example development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Who knew opening a window on macOS with SDL2 would be like solving a Rubik's Cube in the dark? 😂 Really cool to see this finally working though! 🎉

We're hiring, and we would love for you to help us build the future of Laravel. ❤️ We're looking for full-stack, technical support, and infrastructure engineers, as well as product managers. 🤝 Learn more on our brand new careers page: laravel.com/careers.

I am happy to reveal the next speaker of the upcoming virtual Bevy Game Dev Meetup on January 30rd: @chrisbiscardi.bsky.social will present: "Growing little experiments" with #bevyengine - be sure to sign up: www.meetup.com/bevy-game-de... #rustlang #gamedev 🦀🎮