Eric Bailey

eng @ Bluesky — internet person, books, etymology-curious, barfly
Tell me if I ever did a thing

GitHubBluesky

Projects

Hypercast — real-time data transport

Svbstrate — WIP, hypobox for React and RN

Presta — minimalist web framework

grdn — self-hostable microblogging with GitHub & Cloudflare

tweeet.link —  El*n broke it, haven't fixed

Front of House — everything else

History

Developers Can Now Discover and Curate Open Web Apps on GlitchHow I use ObsidianWhat’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2)The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)1998-8.pdfHeat Death of the Internet - takahēDo You Have Lightning In a Bottle? How to Benchmark Your Social App | Andreessen HorowitzBuilding Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithmstheegg_mod.htmlStatus as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the DayBloom FiltersDiseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationUntitled403 ForbiddenJSON Web Tokens are actually great, just not for sessionsRise of Worse Is BetterWhy Twitter is a Big DealNew Year’s Message: Moving Fast And Breaking Things Is The Opposite Of Tech Optimism | TechdirtFolklore.org: Saving LivesSubstack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ SignDigg's Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things | TechCrunchThe Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)OmegleThe Cathedral and the BazaarSoftware engineering quotesThe Frustration LoopA decade of major cache incidents at TwitterMeta’s MoatEgo death. | Kris NóvaUnderstanding ActivityPub - Part 3: The State of Mastodon - Sebastian Jambor’s blogSpeeding Up Massive PostgreSQL Joins with Common Table ExpressionsEvolving Mastodon’s Trust & Safety Features • Renaud Chaput12ft | The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter - The AtlanticEvergreen notesDocumenting the NowCase Study: How Duolingo Utilises Gamification To Increase User Interest - Raw.StudioHow to Do Great WorkAnything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enoughRead Something Wonderful - The Most Precious Resource is AgencyThe Perils of Prudencebeaker/archive-notice.md at master · beakerbrowser/beakerThe Real Competition is the Water | RKGSaaS Shots (@saasshots)Cool Computer Clubjulian.digitalAtlas | Open-source database schema management toolTBM 41/51: Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead)