exciting news: we'll be rolling out the New Architecture version of the app over the course of the next 7 days, starting with Android. look forward to your app being smoother and more performant 🏎️💨
11 40 289"new architecture" if you're unaware - this app is built with React Native, and recently the RN team basically rebuilt React Native from scratch to make it faster and correct-er. result should be this app is faster, especially on low-end Android devices
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okay a new build is available! come test it out!
this is an experimental version of the app which enables the react native new architecture, which should be smoother and more performant. come help us catch bugs :)
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Release v1.129.0 RC 1 (New Arch) · bluesky-social/social-app
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Samuel@samuel.fm· 13 Juljust published a fresh new iOS build, and I’ll get another Android one cooking tomorrow!
oops
skywatch@skywatch.bsky.social· 17 Jul
Migrate from @atproto/api to @bsky.app/sdk by mozzius · Pull Request #11182 · bluesky-social/social-app
Migrates the app from @atproto/api to @bsky.app/sdk (currently the published preview bsky-sdk-preview@0.0.1-preview.1, aliased) + @atproto/lex-client. The @atproto/api dependency is fully removed f...
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fable: there's some mysterious entity in this repo with me changing things. I can only assume it's cursed, or solar flares are causing bitflips
39first time using oai models for coding. it's so refreshing to ask it simple questions and for it to reply immediately rather than using 300 tool calls and taking 30 minutes
8 5 60I for one am shocked to learn that deploying intelligent machines at scale is more complicated than deploying postgres
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social· 15 Jul“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any.
“.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.”
@theatlantic.com
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> I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any.
these ai researchers have clearly never heard of Ruby on Rails
7 10 107just published a fresh new iOS build, and I’ll get another Android one cooking tomorrow!
Samuel@samuel.fm· 10 Julwe're making big moves to make the app better and more performant. soon, we'll be enabling the react native new architecture. want to help us test it out? you now can!
iOS: join the TestFlight beta
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Android: use this prerelease APK
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Release v1.128.0 RC 1 (New Arch) · bluesky-social/social-app
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uhh. turns out we weren’t typechecking like half our code?
I need to write a blog post about this
Add moduleSuffixes to tsconfig by mozzius · Pull Request #11146 · bluesky-social/social-app
Resolve platform-specific modules native-first ([".ios", ".android",
".native", ""]) during typechecking, matching the react-native
customConditions already ...
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we're making big moves to make the app better and more performant. soon, we'll be enabling the react native new architecture. want to help us test it out? you now can!
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Android: use this prerelease APK
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look whose compile times just got 8.7x faster! 🏎️💨
TypeScript@typescriptlang.org· 8 Jul📣 The moment is here. 📣
TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣
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Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript
Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
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today is a celebration of the US narrowly escaping British tyranny. unfortunately there’s no counterfactual of what would’ve happened if the British maintained territory in north america but we can only assume it would’ve been terrible
13 22 167underrated part of atproto is most of the time you don’t have to directly talk to other people’s (possibly badly made) servers, it’s all mediated via records
Emelia@thisismissem.social· 4 JulOh dear lord, I knew it was bad, but didn't know it was this bad: hackers.pub/@fedify/2026...
(I've mostly just contributed to activitypub projects that already existed, so didn't usually need to experience these specific pains)
Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be
Implementing the ActivityPub protocol from scratch introduces massive technical hurdles, including fragmented signature standards, unpredictable JSON-LD document variations, complex distributed system...
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