Reminder that even if you hate features we add (and by that I mean GIFs), a core principle is that you’re able to curate your experience and “control your scroll”! Go subscribe to @nogifsplease.bsky.social and it’ll be like they were never added at all
11 59 152for the record, gifs aren't inherently cringe - if I hated gifs I wouldn't have added them! it's our beloved users who are cringe, and I wouldn't have it any other way ❤️
Samuel@samuel.fm· 24 Apr 2024adding reaction gifs was controversial, but you must understand that this site is an Elder Millennial Retirement Home. cringe gifs is just part of their culture, its like an enrichment thing to stave of dementia
adding reaction gifs was controversial, but you must understand that this site is an Elder Millennial Retirement Home. cringe gifs is just part of their culture, its like an enrichment thing to stave of dementia
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the weekend is going to hit so much harder this week, now that we can post the daniel craig gif
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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
