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also Paul was an absolute machine in 2023 what the heck
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I’m finding the Cult of the Founder increasingly grating
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current ToggleButton for comparison. it’s so nice having a designer 😁
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to add to this, there’s a few product-y reasons why I would really like a createPost API 1. we could run a server-side language detection model that actually works, so we wouldn’t need the language select in the client (it sucks) 2. you wouldn’t need to specify a createdAt time anymore (cont.)
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com· 13 Nov 2025
Nerding out about the question of whether the client or the server should be the one who speaks to the PDS
The politics of purely client-side apps
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
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3. for more casual API users, i.e. people doing integrations, we could do stuff like auto-detecting facets. 1000x better DX 4. we could force people to specify aspect ratios on their images 😈 5. we could check if the post is actually gonna be valid - i.e. throw an error if it would fail a threadgate
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lotta product reasons here! it’s so weird from an outside perspective that our GET APIs are nice and normal, and our POST APIs are extremely unergonomic protocol-y jank. creating a post is the core feature of the app and for some reason we’re out here calculating our own TIDs 😵‍💫
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>ask if new browser is real or chromeslop >”it’s a good browser sir” >it’s chromeslop
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finally you’ll be able to commute from Lisbon to Narvik
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is it just me or they took all the style out of the EUV interface compared to the new look of CK3/Vicky3. looks kinda old fashioned almost lol
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just looking at screenshots tbf I haven’t bought the game yet
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this is going to be really exciting! it’s cutting-edge stuff
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com· 7 Nov 2025
We're working on a writeup that I'm pretty excited about -- Importing your address book to find friends is common for social, but it's insecure to enumeration attacks and database leaks so we've historically refused to implement it. The team has a proposal now that we think solves those risks.
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if you don’t read this I’m hiding your reply: 1. IT’S EXTREMELY OPT-IN - bi-directional in fact, so maximally privacy-preserving 2. you don’t have to do it 3. it’s opt in 4. you don’t have to do it 5. you don’t have to tell me you’re not going to do it, I’m not going to do it either 6. see above
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amendments are particularly exciting, will make lawmaking a lot more interesting
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like, wtf.... it's calling updateLayout() to tell the native side to re-adjust the sheet height. if you add a console log before or after, it's instant
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ok shipped a fix to that weird color change as you scroll on web
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JS: oh? you think arr.every(x => !!x).map(…) is safe? think again fucko
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