thinking about Cabin Pressure today. what a great show
if you’ve never listened to it before please do yourself a favour and listen to it
2 2 9the snake story lives up to all my expectations
![As a reminder, the team was still tiny when all these scaling challenges emerged. There were only 6 developers (Daniel, Devin, Bryan and Jake on the backend, and Paul and Ansh on the frontend). Then in summer 2023, Daniel had a dream:
“After one stressful day, I dreamt that me, Jay [Bluesky’s CEO], and Devin were in my backyard. There were snakes everywhere you looked. We were going to wrangle and round up the snakes in a panic. But that that point, Devin stops and says to all of us: ‘wait, wait, guys, I think there’s a Postgres extension for this!’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2cp5gopk7mgjegy6wadk3ep/bafkreigkhjpgait3iljzpsad3uronwonhad7o5e63ycdlst2j6uolu4ame "As a reminder, the team was still tiny when all these scaling challenges emerged. There were only 6 developers (Daniel, Devin, Bryan and Jake on the backend, and Paul and Ansh on the frontend). Then in summer 2023, Daniel had a dream:
“After one stressful day, I dreamt that me, Jay [Bluesky’s CEO], and Devin were in my backyard. There were snakes everywhere you looked. We were going to wrangle and round up the snakes in a panic. But that that point, Devin stops and says to all of us: ‘wait, wait, guys, I think there’s a Postgres extension for this!’”")
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com· 23 Apr 2024Ever wondered how Bluesky was built?
With @hejelin.bsky.social , we spent the last couple of weeks talking with @pfrazee.com, @dholms.xyz (two "founding" engineers) to get a sense of how this platform went from zero to where it is today.
Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
poster’s gang
ca-dmv-bot@ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social· 23 Apr 2024Customer: BLUE CONVERTIBLE CAR
DMV: BLUE=GANG COLOR
Verdict: ACCEPTED
spent all day working on this. can’t wait to figure out what it is
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com· 22 Apr 2024We've officially started work on the Clip Clops feature
everyone just keeps making clip clop sounds at me with coconuts they inexplicably all have
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just learned about AbortSignal.timeout()
Eric Wareheim Mind Blown GIF by Tim and Eric - Find & Share on GIPHY
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@xblock.aendra.dev should probably just label my whole account, all I do is post bluesky screenshots
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TIL:
React Native’s TextInput is currently broken on iOS if controlled
and:
TextInput’s autoCorrect prop is not reactive
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way to shove the cat right out of the bag
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com· 18 Apr 2024First one to notice the PR wins
thinking about how deepfates randomly posted "Big day. How we feeling" on the day I joined, before I announced it
deepfates@deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com· 11 Mar 2024Big day. How we feeling