Architecture: @hono.dev and Cloudflare Workers for the APIs Cloudflare Durable Objects + SQLite for repo and pref storage, and firehose websocket server Cloudflare R2 for image and video storage Official ATProto libraries where possible for everything protocol-related

Matt Kane@mk.gg · 8mo ago

My experimental single-user PDS has a name! Meet ☁️ Cirrus, the lightest PDS in the Atmosphere npm create pds@latest

My designs get lots of publicity in magazines and online and it looks like I’m doing really well. The reality is that it’s bloody hard work being self employed and it’s not getting any easier. Have a look at what I do and repost. Thanks. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Surface Pattern Design & Illustration by Manchester based designer Gail Myerscough. Contemporary design meets mid century style. Contact for art licensing, commissions & collaboration enquiries.

gailmyerscough.co.uk

Closing the conference Eriol Fox, a designer deeply steeped in open source. They are talking about Sustaining designers: Design in humanitarian and human rights technologies. bit.ly/erioldoesdesign-monkigrasas Find the slides linked on: erioldoesdesign.bsky.social hachyderm.io/@ernoldoesdesign

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Similar Pet Theory@monkchips.com · last yr.

Kicking off day two at #monkigras with @iamstan.elmo.sh. he is very proud of modern South Africa.

When AI gives up, who' you going to call.... the human. Design for failure. @jedi.be #monkigras

TIL you can designate a github successor in case you die #monkigras docs.github.com/en/account-a...

Maintaining ownership continuity of your personal account's repositories - GitHub Docs

You can invite someone to manage your user owned repositories if you are not able to.

docs.github.com

It’s a fun day at #monkigras even if we are getting to think about how we leave our digital legacy.

If you're in the San Francisco area and need a little escape, come to the SF Java User Group tonight. @starbuxman.joshlong.com and myself will take you back in time and talk about 10+ years of Spring Boot. It should be a really fun talk! www.meetup.com/sfjava/event...

Building Scalable Systems and Services with Spring Boot, Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup

**In person only event at the Elastic San Francisco office -- registration required to access the building and see the address. Registration cut off is the morning of the e

meetup.com

TIL about pointer compression in V8 🤯

Spring gRPC version 0.3.0 available now: spring.io/blog/2025/01...

Spring gRPC 0.3.0 released

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

it's a thing that we spend an awful lot of our days looking at

Cristina Goldfain@knauswer.bsky.social · 2y ago

What is a website? Is it a sort of book? A tool? A place where you do something? I don’t like the aesthetic you propose for everything, I find it annoying for tools and books, but that’s of course my personal preference.

This is unhinged, I love it.

Numlock@numlock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Damn, knew someone would beat me to it!

TIL github discussions has polls 😍

pnpm@pnpm.io · 2y ago

pnpm can block lifecycle scripts of dependencies during installation. This is an opt-in feature though. Should we block them by default? github.com/orgs/pnpm/di...

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pnpm@pnpm.io · 2y ago

pnpm can block lifecycle scripts of dependencies during installation. This is an opt-in feature though. Should we block them by default? github.com/orgs/pnpm/di...

If you’re in your early 20s, help someone today. You will be repaid in kindness.

designers: (have the skills to make beautiful buttons absolutely smothered in clear affordances) also designers: let's make boring buttons with totally ambiguous states for like... 10 years?

TIL

Ryan Cavanaugh@searyanc.dev · 2y ago

TIL there's a device that stops the plane from tipping on to its tail as the passengers in the front unload, and if you don't have that, you have to deplane in the most annoying way possible (back row first)

for the potato fears not death

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Deno@deno.land · 2y ago

Pssst. You know, @tinyclouds.org doesn't ask for much. It would only take 300 pals to make his holiday wish come true. ⭐ github.com/denoland/deno

morning 🌍

Looking forward to it

Things escalate quickly in Essex.

if hosting providers can’t agree on how to handle trailing slashes it doesn’t bode well for WinterCG and JavaScript server runtime variability

"Free background-image remover in the browser!" ⚡️ Excited to announce bg.addy.ie, a free little app that removes backgrounds from images directly in your browser! Privacy-friendly. Uses Transformers.js, RMBG-1.4 & MODNet.

This is a whimbrel. I thought it was a stork. It has a big curvy beak and pretty wings.

TIL

Sunil Pai@threepointone.bsky.social · 2y ago

my favourite and most underrated javascript feature is the void operator new killer usecase: using it for react 19 refs to prevent returning a non-function <div ref={current => void (instance = current)} /> (re: react.dev/blog/2024/12...) developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Astro 5 is out. Anyone reading this probably already knows about Server Islands and Content Layer, but 5.0 is packed with dozens of features big and small. Here's some of my favorites 👉

Astro 5 is also coming soon to Starlight 🌟 The team is working hard to bring full support to Starlight and an update will be released soon to take advantage of all the new features and improvements. Waiting for this update before upgrading your documentation to Astro 5 is recommended.