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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti
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Cofounder of Svelte Society, Organiser of Svelte Summit 📍Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 4h
Woah!

For those that have not played Silksong - this is very impressive! 👏
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 17h
Best value is your own server - here’s the @sveltesociety.dev one 😎
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 18h
*new website!

prod.sveltesociety.dev for those that want a sneak peek. Usable but expect some bugs as we keep migrating content! :)
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 18h
As we're nearing the launch of the Svelte Society website (~2-3 weeks out) - I'm starting to look for sponsors. Does your company use Svelte? Do you want to show up as a sponsor on the website? Reach out!
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 19h
I suppose this is the software version of workslop 😬

www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/a...
Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop'
ai-pocalypse: Remember when AI was supposed to make us more productive, not hate each other?
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 1d
I had a bunch of fun talking with @dummdidumm.bsky.social about the new Remote Functions feature in SvelteKit! If you evenr wondered what they're about, this is the episode for you!
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Svelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · 1d
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Svelte Radio: Remote Functions with Simon Holthausen. Have a listen:
Remote Functions with Simon Holthausen
SummaryIn this episode, Simon Holthausen from the Svelte team joins to...
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 6d
No, the problem isn’t the payments themselves, it’s having to register for VAT and stuff. Maybe I should just sell using Swedish VAT and people will have to live with the products being a bit more expensive?
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 6d
The Merchant of Records only allow digital products so doesn’t do anything for us, unfortunately :/
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 6d
Yeah I want to do this, trust me! But it’s tough to handle taxes across the board :/
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 7d
Ok - performance sounds like the differentiator then, because I can already use the SQLite driver and S3 driver with the Node adapter :)

It’s actually been great! I love that the debugging story has gotten better as well, debugging SQLite issues was a major headache before iirc
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 7d
Right... but like... what is the point of the adapter? 😅
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 7d
I have to admit, the bun adapter is not selling itself well. The node adapter works very well.

I assume it adapts the output to use bun.serve instead of polka or whatever the Node adapter uses? 🤔
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 10d
Don't you like workslop? Sounds like you're ANTI tech m8!
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 12d
Then there's also the question of... who pays for the storage?
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 12d
Yes, that's the kind of backup that regular users "like".

If you wanted to do it decentralized, maybe some kind of "raid" setup, distributed on multiple PDSes where you can lose N number of shards. If you lose one (server goes down), it "heals" by distributing a new shard to a new PDS 🤔
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
Yeah I totally get where you're coming from but my point is that the user shouldn't even have to care. It should just happen behind the scenes, automatically.

In the Nostr world it's "solved" by connecting to multiple Relays instead of just one but that isn't particularly user friendly either.
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
This is too technical for the average non-developer user, even if you slap a nice GUI on it. They have no clue what PDS they are using or what a PDS is.
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
I'm sure it's super easy but you can't expect non developers to use this in any meaningful numbers.

Ideally the user wouldn't even know their data is being backed up. It should be built-in to the applications! :)
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
I’m all for making it easier, would be great if they did make it easy to back up but I also wonder if the incentives align to make that happen. I guess it wouldn’t be an expensive feature so may e the incentives do t matter much 🤷‍♂️
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
Users that aren’t developers are not going to set up a GitHub action to backup their data - I don’t think they would even think about backing up data tbh.

I wonder if maybe the applications should backup to Google Drive or iCloud. That would make it easy for users.
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
Right - how realistic is it to expect users to do this in practice?

If I haven't backed up my data before the application "turns rogue" and removes the ability for me to get my data I'm screwed? 🤔
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
The Nostr model where you send data to multiple relays seems more censorship resistant. Maybe you can do that with ATProto as well?
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
One thing I've been wondering is how does the protocol protect against a PDS just keeping data hostage?

One could imagine a VC backed company building an app and then once they reach critical mass, they just turn off the export feature. 😬

Hopefully I've misunderstood how it works.
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
That sounds like fun! @willow.sh has usually done a lot when it comes to hacktoberfest - maybe they can pick this up and run with it?
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Kevin Åberg Kultalahti @kevinak.se · 13d
A couple of days ago I told you that we're putting the band back together. Well. Here's the pisode!

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We're putting the band back together. | Svelte Radio | Episode 82
SummaryWe're putting the band back together. Svelte Radio is officially back. This first episode is a bit of catch-up. Not a ton of Svelte chatter. Look forward to many fun and interesting episodes. N...
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