softprops.bsky.social

@softprops.bsky.social

Back when tigers used to smoke… Code brew and hocus focus 👨‍💻 tangled.org/softprops.tngl.sh github.com/softprops

I feel bad for the next generation of software producers that will have started their journey after a time when one could produce software without a requiring subscription and/or token fees. Ah yes it’s true, coding used to be something you do for free. What a privilege that was

For appview services, what’s the pattern for user outreach? In a platform model that’s a user signing up for an account with an email and email is the outreach. For atproto logins, what’s does that commonly look like for appview services?

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

Cooking up some enhancements for collaborative editing in Leaflet :) Send a friend a doc edit link to give it a try!

screenshot of text in a leaflet doc, with two cursors showing in the text, a blue one and a purple one, the blue one with hover state showing 'brendan'

the text content: "Wow Leaflet has multiplayer cursors now? 👀😮"

What's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.

A group chat staffed entirely by the Bluesky team's pets, who are very excited to tell each other that group chats now exist.

At proto holds this space in my life where it’s quite literally the only unambiguously positive thing that’s going on in tech. Anyone can look at it without convincing and agree it’s great direction for the industry.

📣 Attention bsky lexicon atproto devs 📣 We're working on a new post embed type we're calling a "gallery". It will support up to 10 images to start, and may support videos in the future. If you've got questions or comments, please drop us a line in the GitHub Discussion!

New Post Embed: Gallery 📸 · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #5032

As you may have noticed, we've been working on improvements to sharing photos on Bluesky. We recently shipped an increase to the image size limit, as well as implemented a carousel on the frontend,...

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gm tanglers! its time for the release thread 🧵 ⭐ you can now access CI logs right from your terminal, with plain ol' SSH ⭐ 1. push your changes 2. if CI is triggered, the knot will give you an ssh command 3. paste that into a new shell 4. live tail CI logs! watch to know more: 1/5