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i've been reflecting a lot lately on how so much of getting better as a developer doesn't show up in your commit history. it takes months and has no real PR/ artifact to show for it until one day you just... notice you got better at something.
wrote a post on it: sarahgerrard.me/posts/slow-p...The Slow Parts of Getting Better - Sarah GerrardMost of the growth that matters as a developer happens slowly and invisibly — building mental models, learning to articulate what you know, getting better at reasoning about tradeoffs. This post is ab...
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i wonder how much of this can be prototyped in userland with no new ui
eg just a thing that creates “collection” accounts operated by bots. curators can post stuff there by dm’ing the bot.
as a reader, you follow the account, so naturally it plays into your Following and For You etcdan
danabra.mov“semble for bluesky inside bluesky app” is a good way to articulate exactly what i’m missing in the product. custom feeds are like half of that but they’re a readonly interface1
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NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.234
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imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propagandaNate Silver Tweets
natesilver538bot.bsky.socialThese are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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