I miss the old web. I miss craft. eliothertenstein.com/notes/on-craft

Back when Bluesky first launched, there was a ton of momentum about leaving Twitter. But it was hard to migrate, hard to crosspost. Too many people didn't make the jump. Software needs a critical mass like social media, and now the wind is in @tangled.org's sails. I hope they get it right.

Eliot Hertenstein@eliot.sh · 3mo ago

hey @tangled.org... this might be a great time to build some tools that make it easy to try hosting your repo on Tangled, or at least write a blog post about how to move over.

hey @tangled.org... this might be a great time to build some tools that make it easy to try hosting your repo on Tangled, or at least write a blog post about how to move over.

Shoutout @danabra.mov for vibe-fixing his talk on the big screen. Only at #ATmosphereConf

Also, I always figure Bluesky is a good place to go for random transit questions: surprised that the skytrain is driverless without planform screen doors—I always thought the two were necessarily linked. What’s the story there?

Eliot Hertenstein@eliot.sh · 4mo ago

In Vancouver for #AtmosphereConf! So excited to chat with some fantastic developers (@pfrazee.com, @iame.li, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social) about building with @expo.dev on the AtProto. Saturday, 2:30PM, Great Hall South — be there!

In Vancouver for #AtmosphereConf! So excited to chat with some fantastic developers (@pfrazee.com, @iame.li, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social) about building with @expo.dev on the AtProto. Saturday, 2:30PM, Great Hall South — be there!

Thank you to the @expo.dev for coming on board as a sponsor for #AtmosphereConf, as well as joining us in person to present!

AtmosphereConf Sponsor: Expo

The Expo team is sponsoring the conference, and joining us in person for presentations

news.atmosphereconf.org

Support got back within 5 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Pretty impressive stuff.

Eliot Hertenstein@eliot.sh · 5mo ago

Hey @fly.io! Would love if customers could manually increase their own machine limits ("i.e. I know what I'm doing"). Requiring an email to support is preventing us from taking advantage of fly's fantastic scaling :)

Hey @fly.io! Would love if customers could manually increase their own machine limits ("i.e. I know what I'm doing"). Requiring an email to support is preventing us from taking advantage of fly's fantastic scaling :)

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp

warrior cop@wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law

I’ve long said that a major factor in my choice of airline is WiFi. The fact that Air France now offers fast (and free!) Starlink means it’s now my usual go-to for flights to Europe. Fantastic work!

I wrote about the economics of same-day delivery: eliothertenstein.com/notes/unihop

Ellsworth Kelly, “Black Relief” (2006)

Remember that content moderation is a miserable job: viewing the worst parts of the internet on repeat for 8 hours a day. The less humans have to intervene the more ethical content moderation becomes.

hailey@hailey.at · 10mo ago

if you post your content on _any_ serious social media site on the entire internet in 2025, there is going to be ai moderation used to moderate that content. if you don't want this, go and participate in mybb forum with 500 users.

Wordle but it’s Zillow: realdle.jero.zone

This is why we need Bluesky for Biking! bikepacking.com/plog/when-we...

When We Get Komooted

Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

bikepacking.com

⚡ We teamed up with Meta to deliver precompiled iOS builds in 0.81/SDK 54. You get: ◆ Faster builds: Compile RN once per release ◆ Smoother integrations: Easier to add RN into brownfield apps ◆ Future-proof: Prepares RN for migration from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager expo.dev/blog/precomp...

Precompiled React Native for iOS: Faster builds are coming in 0.81

React Native 0.81 introduces precompiled iOS builds, cutting compile times by up to 10x in projects where React Native is the primary dependency.

expo.dev

Carto Tchoo by @nicolaswurtz.bsky.social is one of the coolest sites I've ever seen. Doing a rail tracking website well is really hard, and from what I can tell, he nailed every aspect of the experience. carto.tchoo.net/map

There are so many reasons to love the Paris metro, but one of them is how quick stops are. The doors are open for less than 10 seconds at some stations. This is what platform doors and high frequency enables! If trains are arriving every 4 minutes, missing a train isn’t a big deal.

Update: it's just okay. Not worth it for $90 IMO and the battery life isn't great. It's also much larger than I expected. But, I'm going to keep giving it a go and see what the one-week update is!

Eliot Hertenstein@eliot.sh · last yr.

Ordered a tinypod (thetinypod.com) and will report back how it feels. I'm excited – I have basically stopped wearing my apple watch thanks to my Oura ring, but wish I could stop carrying my phone around. It *should* be able to do everything I want (Music, iMessage, etc.) but no YouTube or Twitter.

Currently transported back to the 90s on my United flight — there’s a credit card reader built into the seat back and they’re showing the trailer for “Clueless (1995)” which is wonderfully dated.

Anyone know why the Seattle Metro has such wide corridors in their stations? Possibly to accommodate a future express track or something?

Claude running a vending machine proceeds to sell several tungsten cubes at a loss and then have an existential crisis. www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.

anthropic.com

STINSON BEACH: At 9:58 p.m. a woman said she was in hiding after learning "spiritually, through her tum tum," that a man was stalking and trying to kill her.

Ordered a tinypod (thetinypod.com) and will report back how it feels. I'm excited – I have basically stopped wearing my apple watch thanks to my Oura ring, but wish I could stop carrying my phone around. It *should* be able to do everything I want (Music, iMessage, etc.) but no YouTube or Twitter.

𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆Pod

Your phone away from phone.

thetinypod.com

Can someone from the bsky team (maybe @jaz.bsky.social?) explain why uploading a string (5mb) as a blob just doesn't work on a PDS? I have PDS_BLOB_UPLOAD_LIMIT=104857600 in my pds.env. Recreation: gist.github.com/eiiot/fce125...

upload.ts

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

Having a day

I wrote about the news (and me). eliothertenstein.com/notes/news

The News and Me

eliothertenstein.com

FOREST KNOLLS: At 10:12 a.m. someone peeking through blinds saw a man with clothes strewn on the ground running around and yelling at passersby near the coffee shop.