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If you want to work hard & feel pride, start a business.

If you want to work hard & feel love, start a family.

These are not exclusive, but often confused.

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Ellie Huxtable @ellie.wtf · 8d

Finally sharing what I’ve been building for almost a year now! 🐢✨

Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run

It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰

Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 8d

“When we asked participants in our study how it feels to receive workslop, 53% report being annoyed, 38% confused, and 22% offended.”

Yikes.

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve experienced this first hand a bunch myself, where someone clearly piped AI output direct to me without sufficient review. I reflexively turn to those folks less now.

This isn’t a pessimistic view of LLMs, use them! Just read & review before sending.

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 8d

This strikes me as the crux of how the knowledge economy now looks way more like the service economy: we need to remain a high source of signal in the eyes of our peers by gating out the slop.

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 9d

Wrote up my initial impressions of the brand new Claude Sonnet 4.5 - I think it may live up to Anthropic's claims of being the "best coding model in the world", for the next few weeks at least!
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/...

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the “best coding model in the world” (at least for now)

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 today, with a very bold set of claims: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It’s the strongest model for building …

simonwillison.net

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 11d

From now on when someone asks me for post-quantum secure encryption I’m going to ask them if they’re willing to care for slime mold:

stephanierentschler.com/speculative-...

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 12d

Big win. Now you can leave Bluesky AND return to their servers if you wanted to.

Folks who migrated to blacksky.app, myatproto.social, and cryptoanarchy.network were taking a leap of faith move over to servers hosted by Blacksky Algorithms.

Hopefully this de-risks things for folks.

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 12d

okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back!

hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network!

docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...

Enabling Account Migration Back to Bluesky’s PDS | Bluesky

One of the core promises of AT is the seamless account migration between PDS hosts. Since federation opened up in the AT network, it has been possible to migrate away from the Bluesky PDS and between ...

docs.bsky.app

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 12d

decentralization is a network topology, not a framework for making people's lives better :)

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 19d

"The iroh-lan UI is designed for zero-friction, ephemeral networking: no accounts, no central servers, no device lists. Name a network, choose a password, and you’re on a private L3 LAN with anyone who does the same, created out of thin air and gone when you leave."

yup.

github.com/rustonbsd/ir...

github.com

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 19d

there are so many reasons I'm supposed to tryhard on linkedin but the whole thing is just so cringe.

I think of github as a social network where people *do* work. LinkedIn is a social network where people... talk about doing work? This will be hard.

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 19d

Dooooooo it. Do it for the spirit of gravel. Do it for N+1

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Iroh @iroh.computer · 19d

*community intensifies*

The two biggest wins of my latest release are from outside contributors!

www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-0-...

iroh 0.92.0 - mDNS improvements

Release of iroh v0.92.0

www.iroh.computer

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 19d

PSA: go around twice when tying the bow part. Works way better, double word score if it's also a square knot

www.youtube.com/shorts/0MX-5...

The BEST way to tie your shoelaces

YouTube video by Veritasium

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 20d

The core tenant of user agency is a credible path of exit.

skyfall.dev/posts/slack

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Eli Mallon @iame.li · 21d

Was chatting with @b5.bsky.social and @makeworld.space about validating their DASL libraries so I've gone through and created the CBOR NAUGHTY LIST of repositories that contain data that doesn't validate against the atproto spec

(This is only users that have interacted with Streamplace)

PDS accepts various CBOR records that the firehose rejects · Issue #4212 · bluesky-social/atproto

Describe the bug Cross-posting this from hyphacoop/dasl-testing#15 here's a collection of 867 CBOR records from atproto repos that failed ingest into Streamplace when we were hydrating new versions...

github.com

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · Sep 4

Repo for my #rustconf talk with links and notes is at github.com/sunshowers/c... -- have a look!

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · Sep 8

zomg, learned about gpui at rustconf, so pumped to see another repo building on it! Best of luck! Will follow along!

b5 @b5.bsky.social · Sep 6

K-pop demon hunters is unironically in my top 5

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