Nikita

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This might be my favorite JWST image from the nearby Universe so far. You’re seeing the late stages of evolution of a star like the Sun, after it’s exhausted its nuclear fuel. This is a transient phase where it’s ejected its outer gas layers, which are then irradiated by the hot stellar remnant.

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 9mo ago

Another STUNNING image from JWST, this time of the Red Spider Nebula—the vast, wispy, gaseous remains of a now-dead star, the white dwarf core still glowing in the centre.

A series of wispy, blue strands emanate from the centre of the image, which is glowing orangey–red with a little pink. The background is FESTOONED with stars, all set against a black backdrop.

in early 2000s microsoft ceo said open source was “cancer”. now open source is common sense i wonder how long it’ll take for open social to become common sense

jazz <> neon postgres <> edgedb first two should be easy to do 2 way as postgres has LISTEN edgedb only has polling for now but above is dreamy setup, jazz is distributed state for apps neon for proper sql and edgedb for read only queries with its nice query language

writing go is my happy place a sync engine with go would be sick, I wonder if I can do a node-jazz wrapper

I am surprised you can’t long press on icons for extra actions in this app such an easy win to give users more things without cluttering up ui in X for example one tap share is X share and long press is iOS native share I want to do a build of app where long pressing like is bookmark

Matt Hamlin@matthamlin.me · 2y ago

Feature i want on @bsky.app: Promote the share button to an action on the main feed (right now i need to hit the three dots to open a bottom sheet), and then allow me to press and hold the share action to share to other apps (like twitter)

anyone tried to get custom build of @bsky.app iOS running? I want to bolt on bookmarks as a ‘second like’ but wonder if I can even put bluesky app on my phone from github or i need some special things

if the data is distributed, how do pieces of data (which may live on different servers) refer to each other? the answer is the same as on the web — using links! at://<your identity>/<record type>/<record key> this is how a “like” by one person refers to a “post” by another person — it links to it

ok, let's break it down. at the core of atproto is the data. it lives own your own computer (or someone hosts it for you). think of it as a hard drive with JSON files on it data is structured (i.e. has a type), and can references other records on other peoples' computer with a URI like a hyperlink

Diagram labelled network state

Two areas, my data storage and your data storage
In my data storage, there is a post and a like. the like has an arrow to a post in your data storage
Lu wilson@todepond.com · 2y ago

okay let me get this straight... it's like this, right? to participate in this particular microblogging site we're all on, it has to go through the first-party appview?