Andrey Petrov
@shazow.net
A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS. 🇨🇦
Also on:
https://shazow.net
https://github.com/shazow
https://farcaster.id/shazow.eth
Also on:
https://shazow.net
https://github.com/shazow
https://farcaster.id/shazow.eth
PSA for the open source maintainers in the house: Big undesirable drive-by haphazard PRs are not new.
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
PSA for the open source maintainers in the house: Big undesirable drive-by haphazard PRs are not new.
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
is there a vaguely standard lexicon for making chat rooms on atproto?
a small part of me wants to make ssh-chat 2.0 but with atproto as a federating backend
a small part of me wants to make ssh-chat 2.0 but with atproto as a federating backend
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
is there a vaguely standard lexicon for making chat rooms on atproto?
a small part of me wants to make ssh-chat 2.0 but with atproto as a federating backend
a small part of me wants to make ssh-chat 2.0 but with atproto as a federating backend
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
A NixOS PDS Hosting Guide
How to host your own personal data server using NixOS
isabelroses.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
solved my laptop being cold in the morning in a dumb way
@piss.beauty/heater
CPUs can make a little heat, as a treat
tangled.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
solved my laptop being cold in the morning in a dumb way
wifitui (fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI for linux) now has community maintained packages on Arch AUR and Slackware! Anyone wanna maintain Debian/Nixpkgs? 👉👈
github.com/shazow/wifit...
github.com/shazow/wifit...
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
wifitui (fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI for linux) now has community maintained packages on Arch AUR and Slackware! Anyone wanna maintain Debian/Nixpkgs? 👉👈
github.com/shazow/wifit...
github.com/shazow/wifit...
Today's attempt at definitions:
Federated is where power structures can accumulate on a single provider and disadvantage others.
Decentralized is where the power structure is democratized/collectively owned and can't be concentrated to disadvantage others.
Federated is where power structures can accumulate on a single provider and disadvantage others.
Decentralized is where the power structure is democratized/collectively owned and can't be concentrated to disadvantage others.
October 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Today's attempt at definitions:
Federated is where power structures can accumulate on a single provider and disadvantage others.
Decentralized is where the power structure is democratized/collectively owned and can't be concentrated to disadvantage others.
Federated is where power structures can accumulate on a single provider and disadvantage others.
Decentralized is where the power structure is democratized/collectively owned and can't be concentrated to disadvantage others.
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
This post was 5 years in the making, @shazow.net and I made a bet about whether "six", the Python 2/3 compatibility shim, would still be a popular package in 2025:
sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-be...
sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-be...
Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim
Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether
“six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would
still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it woul...
sethmlarson.dev
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This post was 5 years in the making, @shazow.net and I made a bet about whether "six", the Python 2/3 compatibility shim, would still be a popular package in 2025:
sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-be...
sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-be...
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"
Solving AT Protocol's Centralized Identity
I spent the weekend building a proof of concept for a truly decentralized DID method using Farcaster's battle-tested identity system. Here's why AT Protocol needs this third DID option.
blog.boscolo.co
September 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"
Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala)
github.com/shazow/wifitui
github.com/shazow/wifitui
September 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala)
github.com/shazow/wifitui
github.com/shazow/wifitui
+1000 hope this gets more attention, subcommunities is the way forward, one global feed (even with varying moderation and timeline algorithms) can't replace everything.
I’m fully on board with your subcommunites (aka sub-reddits) pitch; imo feeds are the way to get there.
Feeds are a great precursor to subs, like a low stakes test run, much like how many newsletter giants started as a weekly links digest.
It SHOULD be possible to moderate a feed and post *to* it.
Feeds are a great precursor to subs, like a low stakes test run, much like how many newsletter giants started as a weekly links digest.
It SHOULD be possible to moderate a feed and post *to* it.
Feeds are cool but aren’t a substitute for real subcommunities. Can’t post into them or style them or moderate them etc.
They could be upgraded but probably easier to just create a new thing.
They could be upgraded but probably easier to just create a new thing.
September 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
+1000 hope this gets more attention, subcommunities is the way forward, one global feed (even with varying moderation and timeline algorithms) can't replace everything.
They say there is no free lunch, but what they don't tell you is that there is also no paid lunch. The whole concept of lunch is a lie.
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
They say there is no free lunch, but what they don't tell you is that there is also no paid lunch. The whole concept of lunch is a lie.
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Nix, is in fact, NixOS, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Nix plus OS. Nix is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning operating system made useful by the kernel, systemd, …
September 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Nix, is in fact, NixOS, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Nix plus OS. Nix is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning operating system made useful by the kernel, systemd, …
anyone use an alternative bluesky client exclusively? which one? anything you miss from the official client?
September 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
anyone use an alternative bluesky client exclusively? which one? anything you miss from the official client?
keep/delete?
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
September 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
keep/delete?
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
arewedecentralizedyet.online is a great reminder that the word "decentralization" is useless without talking about what kinds of power participants have over each other.
I wrote a post about this, analyzing very specific failure modes and what kinds of powers open social protocols have:
I wrote a post about this, analyzing very specific failure modes and what kinds of powers open social protocols have:
How can open social protocols fail us?
I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!
shazow.net/posts/open-s...
I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!
shazow.net/posts/open-s...
How can open social protocols fail us in 2025
Let’s compare the possible failure modes of various open social protocols:
ActivityPub/Mastodon
ATProto/Bluesky
Farcaster/Warpcast
Some scenarios I’d like to consider:
Can my identity be taken away...
shazow.net
August 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
arewedecentralizedyet.online is a great reminder that the word "decentralization" is useless without talking about what kinds of power participants have over each other.
I wrote a post about this, analyzing very specific failure modes and what kinds of powers open social protocols have:
I wrote a post about this, analyzing very specific failure modes and what kinds of powers open social protocols have:
robots.txt was the original claude․md
July 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
robots.txt was the original claude․md
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
Anyone out there with a YT channel with over 100K subscribers in a tech niche?
I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by.
Consultant recommendations welcome too!
I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by.
Consultant recommendations welcome too!
MicroConf
Welcome to MicroConf - Where Independent SaaS Founders Launch, Meet, Learn, and Grow! MicroConf is the world’s most trusted community for bootstrapped SaaS founders.
MicroConf is a community of SaaS...
www.youtube.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Anyone out there with a YT channel with over 100K subscribers in a tech niche?
I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by.
Consultant recommendations welcome too!
I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by.
Consultant recommendations welcome too!
I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses.
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
July 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses.
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
Reposted by Andrey Petrov
I'm happy to announce that #urllib3 has a new lead maintainer: Illia Volochii 👏 I'll continue to maintain the project alongside my other co-maintainers @quentin.pradet.me and @shazow.net
github.com/urllib3/urll...
github.com/urllib3/urll...
Announcement: Illia Volochii is the new lead maintainer of urllib3 · Issue #3629 · urllib3/urllib3
Hello urllib3 contributors and watchers, I've got some great news today! I've been the lead maintainer of urllib3 since July 3rd, 2019. In my opinion, one of the exceptional parts of urllib3 as a p...
github.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I'm happy to announce that #urllib3 has a new lead maintainer: Illia Volochii 👏 I'll continue to maintain the project alongside my other co-maintainers @quentin.pradet.me and @shazow.net
github.com/urllib3/urll...
github.com/urllib3/urll...
there's this thing called man pages, it's like llmstxt but from the 70s
June 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
there's this thing called man pages, it's like llmstxt but from the 70s
urllib3 gets *over* a billion downloads per month.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
May 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
urllib3 gets *over* a billion downloads per month.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
I got to share my urllib3 origin story on opensource dot org: opensource.org/maintainers/...
![Excerpt from the linked post:
My first big open source project was urllib3. Today it’s used by almost every Python user and receives almost a billion downloads each month, but it started in 2007 out of necessity.
I was working at TinEye (formerly known as Idée Inc.) as my first “real” job out of university, and we needed to upload billions of images to Amazon S3. I wrote a script to get processing and estimated how long it would take to finish… two months! Turns out in 2007, HTTP libraries weren’t reusing sockets or connection pooling, weren’t thread-safe, didn’t fully support multipart encoding, didn’t know about resuming or retries or redirecting, and much more that we take for granted today.
It took me about a week to write the first version of what ultimately became urllib3, along with workerpool for managing concurrent jobs in Python, and roughly one more week to do the entire S3 upload using these new tools. A month and a half ahead of schedule, and we became one of Amazon’s biggest S3 customers at the time.
I was pleased with my work. I was just months into my role at TinEye and I already had a material impact. Reflecting on this time almost two decades later, I realized that doing a good job at work was not what created the real impact. [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heyalnsb3cmtrqk3lks2yxfz/bafkreihngf5khjthhg2jutdnmmaffprcwvw3i7bdc3sojwfb7t3eyxj2au@jpeg)
May 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I got to share my urllib3 origin story on opensource dot org: opensource.org/maintainers/...
How can open social protocols fail us?
I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!
shazow.net/posts/open-s...
I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!
shazow.net/posts/open-s...
How can open social protocols fail us in 2025
Let’s compare the possible failure modes of various open social protocols:
ActivityPub/Mastodon
ATProto/Bluesky
Farcaster/Warpcast
Some scenarios I’d like to consider:
Can my identity be taken away...
shazow.net
May 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How can open social protocols fail us?
I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!
shazow.net/posts/open-s...
I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!
shazow.net/posts/open-s...
urllib3 gets almost a BILLION downloads
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.
April 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
urllib3 gets almost a BILLION downloads
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.