we've shared previously that we were planning another community day for August 22nd at @recurse.com, here are the details! more to come soon on talks and workshops 👀
atproto.nyc community day 2026
Join us on Saturday, Aug 22nd at the Recurse Center in Brooklyn to learn, hack, and build with the AT Protocol!
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just like no comments in code is a sign of good code, there shouldn't be a need for tooltips on an application with good design
Of course I know him. We were both part of the vast interconnected web of life together.
picking up work here a little, starting with polishing the markdown editor!
you'll have to excuse me; I was pondering the significance of the moments
> Calvino then takes a sharp detour into topology. > Reading is strength training for labyrinth-solving. great post!
⏧@syntacrobat.xyz · 9mo agofor spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...
for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...
The Orientation Game
Joel Gustafson
joelgustafson.com
Found some content for something I’m learning about that was written ~10yr ago on a blog, and it’s weird how it now seems slightly quaint and old-fashioned to read. There’s a sense of luxury to how it assumes you have a long attention span, and it’s sad that people don’t anymore.
ATProto OAuth libraries forked and patched to work with Cloudflare Workers
⏧@syntacrobat.xyz · 10mo agoit's here! github.com/nDimensional...
i like how in math you get to say "consider a function f from... etc" without any preamble and other mathematicians just have to consider it
taking a deep breath before upgrading zig-ipld to Zig 0.15's new i/o interface
finally wrote a short post about how the "spatial feed" works in Aurora! the spatial feed shows you posts, in real-time, from the neighborhood you're looking at. it's a brand new kind of discovery interface!
✨ new blog post from me and @raymond.bsky.social: "serializable transactions for peer-to-peer databases" we describe "eventually consistent rollback", a new way of handling conflicts in concurrent database transactions. ECR gives you atomicity and serializability, but not finality.
I bring a sort of "I will not add your bin dir to my PATH" vibe that curl|bash installers don't really like
