kat
@katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz
kat 21 she/her i like computers and idols and other nonsense admin of katproto PDS. girl in my pfp is dambara ruru and you should stan her
In today's "Ms Boba hedges closer to divorce by starting to stream at 8PM", come forth to continue my ever-sprawling Permissioned Spaces diagram, so I may fulfill my role of "speak now" before I gotta "forever seet—". I mean, hold my peace. - twitch.tv/essentialran... - stream.place/essentialran...
names you can hear david letterman saying with mild incredulity
Bonita Gooch is the next representative for Kansas House District 84, unseating incumbent Ford Carr by a 70-30 margin
uploading clips from AKB48 IxR unit's first live because i miss them www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Qh...
200725 AKB48 - IxR - "Monica, Yoake da"
YouTube video by february6
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i think about this performance so often that this youtube upload is from me. i had to preserve it somewhere besides the idol tracker www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDPP...
ske48 191005 takayanagi akane furuhata nao juujun na slave
YouTube video by february6
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today i watched all 12 episodes of HKT48 vs NGT48 sashikita gassen on my friend's recommendation and it was a lot of fun. i was mostly watching for HKT more than NGT for obvious reasons but it was fun all around when i could briefly put aside my personal side-eye at half the NGT girls
Ah yes, for anyone who missed my talk about building for niche communities. It is funny that the thumbnail ended up being drake and Sam Altman
"Designing for Niche Communities" by @torrent-empress.bsky.social
mark kondratiuk getting neutral status is soooo. lol. just, lol
i'm biased bc i love her but karen chen's spirals are works of art www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V65...
Spirals in Modern Figure Skating
YouTube video by i'll_geffen
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it's here! v1.0 of astro-lilypond is out! if you're a fellow freak who enjoys notating music as text, show me what you make 😄
Astro LilyPond
Render music notation from text with Astro.
lilypond.ky.fyi
Tom King leaving Wonder Woman… Stephanie Williams Donna Troy story…… we did it girls
My talk from last month's @atproto.nyc, on Atmospheric Stacks! How the Atmosphere can compete with incumbents like Substack — not by recreating 'em app for app, but by replacing 'em collectively, as an ecosystem. With @leaflet.pub & @standard.site as case study + expanded with a few *addenda* :)
On Atmospheric Stacks…
Or, how we can supplant Substack and take back the stack, together as an ecosystem!
scraps.schlage.town
FYI if tix for our upcoming community day are a stretch for whatever reason, happy to help with a discount code for a comped ticket, please DM Also, still finalizing budget & lineup, but looks like we'll be able to help w/ travel for a handful of folks, priority to those doing talks/workshops!
Get tickets to atproto.nyc community day 2026
Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT · Recurse Center
events.atmosphere.tickets
Very good conversation from @essentialrandom.bsky.social if you're working on standardizing lexicons.
Record and Query Layers: Which One(s) for this Working Group?
Hello everyone! @brittanyellich.com and I met yesterday for an informal brainstorming/thinking session about Lexicon, and ended up with a question I’ve never really seen spelled out, but that may help...
discourse.atmosphere.community
I wrote an update on the dispute with Ruby Central over Bundler and RubyGems. I'm sad it's reached this point, especially since Ruby Central's conferences are a big part of what convinced me to join the Ruby community back in the day. andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/rub…
Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I’ve been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central doing now? 2) has the dispute over Bundler…
andre.arko.net
it would be incredible if even one programming community was safe from Big Companies Doing Capitalism in Open Source
I wrote an update on the dispute with Ruby Central over Bundler and RubyGems. I'm sad it's reached this point, especially since Ruby Central's conferences are a big part of what convinced me to join the Ruby community back in the day. andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/rub…
> The code is mostly bash, because the agents said that was best for this, so bash it is. It's either ~150k or ~300k LOC depending on whether you count the prod agents, half of it being test code either way. Also about 25k lines of elisp. Oh my god LMAO
can you believe sm wasted years of a group this good on that kwangya bullshit???? aespa is fucking awesome
"Switchblade" by aespa, Ty Dolla $ign, out now.