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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 23h

Pretty soon I'm going to make a blog post about how we use SQLite in the @roomy.space web app.

Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 23h

It's actually quite convenient to take relational data and get JSON results out of multiple joined tables in using SQLite.

It's also surprisingly easy accomplish reactive queries with table granularity, without using any SQLite extensions or features not enabled in the official SQLite WASM build.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 1d

There's no reason that ActivityPub can't have a more PDS-like architecture, where identity & data are separated from applications, arguably that's what the C2S part of the spec was about.

But AT Protocol having amazing SDKs also enabled people to build and try new things quicker

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 15d

Have just been working on email OTP for self-hosted PDSes, and I think I have it working correctly. I might need some extra logic in here for non-self-hosted but I'm not exactly sure what.

tbd on masking the email address though.

And yeah, my voice is a little hoarse at the moment >_>

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 1d

Great post, thanks!

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Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social · 5d

[new blog post]

The Invisible Curriculum of Research

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Invisible Curriculum of Research

Courses, textbooks, and papers provide the formal curriculum of research. But there is also an invisible curriculum. Unwritten rules and ski...

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 3d

We deployed our latest code and new architecture to roomy.space, but things are still very experimental.

We are able to use the UI work from the previous version of Roomy, but it isn't "plugged in" yet, so most features are not fully functional.

Getting those things working again is th next step!

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

The web can be made personal again.

blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

blog.muni.town

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 3d

Heads up!

roomy.chat is now called @roomy.space!

Roomy will let you start with chat, but grow that into so much more long term.

The new name reflects the nature of giving you room to share whatever you need in your personal and communal spaces.

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 3d

Someone actually hosted a static website right off the PDS at some point, if I recall correctly.

I don't know what it was exactly to search and find it again, though.

I don't think size is an issue when blobs for images can be quite large.

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dan @danabra.mov · 4d

i really like this post

Exentio Kawasaki 🎐🌸✒️ @exentio.sexy · 4d

I think the big chunk missing right now to fully use atproto without bsky is for independent appviews to stop adopting their bans, and to achieve real full independence we need lighter appviews. The relays are kinda optional, by the way

You may want to check this out

blog.muni.town/atproto-isnt...

ATProto Isn't What You Think

This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it.

blog.muni.town

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 6d

Can we get a public ‘Open Social’ events calendar going on as a crowdsourced resource on @smokesignal.events ?

I’m lacking a reliable answer to the question ‘what events pertaining to the open social web are happening this month?’

Would need to support entry of off-protocol listings.

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 6d

I've played 5 minutes of this game so far and I already love it.

Escape from Castle Claymount

Escape from Castle Claymount · Thinky Games

Meet whimsical captives as you plan your escape from a castle guarded by a lone knight.

thinkygames.com

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Kaylee | Marketing Manager and Freelancer @kayleemarketing.bsky.social · 7d

Retention isn’t about trapping people in subscriptions.

It’s about delivering so much value that they want to stay.

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Kaylee | Marketing Manager and Freelancer @kayleemarketing.bsky.social · 7d

Most “marketing hacks” focus on chasing sales.
But here’s the truth: if every touchpoint with your customer delivers real value, sales follow naturally.
Value builds trust → trust builds loyalty.

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 7d

Nice to hear a marketing manager say these things. 😄

It feels like 99% of businesses don't think that way, but delivering real value is huge part of the premise for the businesses I want to start.

I'm not convinced horrible-to-people hacks are the only way to make a business profitable.

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Matthew Weidner @mweidner.bsky.social · 8d

I made a guest post on @powersync.com's blog: powersync.com/blog/collabo...
It describes a demo we made of collaborative text editing on top of PowerSync's DB sync engine, using character IDs & totally-ordered updates in a DB table (w/o CRDTs).

Collaborative Text Editing Over PowerSync

This blog post describes the resulting demo of collaborative text editing over PowerSync. The demo uses Tiptap as the editor, has basic support for shared cursors and anonymous share links, and includ...

powersync.com

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Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com · 7d

@danabra.mov has been on a bit of a tear with a really good mantra: "we can just do things". It feels like there's something in the air as of late, too - tooling, community, and network effects feel like they're finally hitting an inflection point in ATProto. Can we get at it with data? 🧵

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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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Orhun Parmaksız @orhun.dev · 8d

Now you can create your own game UI or world textures with Ratatui! 🐀

🧊 soft_ratatui — Pure software renderer.

🚀 Perfect for embedding TUI widgets anywhere.

🦀 No terminal or GPU needed, just Rust!

⭐ GitHub: github.com/gold-silver-...

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #gamedev #egui #bevy #renderer

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 8d

Thank you! PDSLS is my go-to for cleaning up my garbage dev records I make as I dev my app. :D

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dan @danabra.mov · 9d

okay so. i want to fix the "random logouts" problem. i'll be sending PRs but i hope somebody on the bsky side can take point on reviewing them. i'll happily iterate on reviews but i don't want them to get stuck in limbo. @hailey.at @samuel.bsky.team any volunteers from the team on reviews?

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Iroh @iroh.computer · 9d

Sup frens I have a DHT protocol now: www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-wr...

A DHT for iroh - Part 1, The Protocol

Let's write a DHT for iroh

www.iroh.computer

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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 ...

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dan @danabra.mov · 12d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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