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Autoblue 2.0 is here, with standard.site support
Autoblue 2.0 is out now! This is a big release, and it brings one of the most exciting additions to Autoblue so far: support for publishing your WordPress posts asstandard.site documents on the AT Protocol. standard.site You can learn more about the standard.site protocol on the official announcement from Bluesky. Practically, what it means is […]General
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About "AI Naku!"
This blog, “AI Naku!”, will feature stories about generative AI failures. Generative AI has its uses, but at the current state, without full disclosure and transparency, this type of “artificial intelligence” is being peddled as the way to the so-called “Artificial General Intelligence”, or AGI. AGI is something that nobody can define — well, they (the techbros) can, but they cannot agree on the common definition. So, don’t believe the generative AI hype. Step back and analyze what they are sell...General
Migrating from one password manager to another
This morning I decided to check on my 1Password account one last time -- before I finally kill the subscription. I have been using it sparingly since iCloud Passwords became a stand-alone application. I missed the 1Password support for files and full notes, which were not migrated to iCloud Passwords or Proton Pass. I found out about it last Friday when I re-enabled Apple Pay on my Apple Watch, something I forgot to configure. Good thing it was enabled on the iPhone. Anyway, so I revisited 1Pass...General
What's next?
Am starting to see how pckt.blog will fit into my workflow. I have yet to pull the trigger and subscribe, though. What would make me do that? Yeah, I might be asking too much, but I see the potential. Who knows? One can wish, right?General
Welcome *again*
That good folks of pckt.blog did a great service by helping troubleshoot my self-hosting PDS<->pckt.blog issue. thanks thanks Welcome again. The atproto community is really great and I cannot wait to get my students to try it out and develop cool apps for the atmosphere. So stay tuned.General
A blog site that actually looks like a blog site
Let this experiment in writing continue into a different platformGeneral
Social media update 2025
So here we are, halfway through 2025, a bit over 2.5 years after the Eloncalypse… For better or worse, the Twitter as we knew it in the 2010s and the communities we had there are mostly gone. But it doesn’t feel like we’ve all settled on anything comparable.
If you’re a software developer who was active on Twitter before, by now you’ve almost certainly tried at least one of the alternatives – Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads, and you’re probably posting actively on at least one of these, but probably not on all of them. The problem is that nobody has enough mental space to be active on 3-4 similar social networks, so we’ve split into different camps which only partially overlap. You’re probably still missing some friends from Twitter and some interesting content. It’s all a bit in flux and a bit of a mess.
Myself, I’ve basically left Twitter; I haven’t spent much time on Threads (among other reasons, it was unavailable in Europe for a long time); and I’m mostly hanging out on Bluesky and somewhat on Mastodon.
So where do we go from here?
Obviously everyone has their own take on that, this is just mine. But I really think we should all try to make an effort to focus on the widely understood “open social”, or what Laurens Hof from Fediverse Report now calls “Connected places”. That means Bluesky and Mastodon/Fediverse (with emphasis on “and”), and to some degree maybe also Threads, although that depends on how their integration with ActivityPub progresses (and it’s looking more and more like they aren’t very serious about it).
My advice:
→ If you’re currently cross-posting or bridging between Mastodon and Bluesky: awesome! ❤️
→ If you’re active on Mastodon, but currently ignoring or forgot about Bluesky: please reconsider it. I know that these two communities have a lot of differences between them, and we love to hate each other (I fully admit I’m guilty of that myself). It’s likely you prefer one or the other of these for various reasons, and you might not be a fan of the other one. But I think it’s clear at this point that none of them will disappear in the near-term at least or replace the other for everyone.
It would be great if we all made some effort to connect to the other side, for those who like it more there. What are the options? Depending on what’s more convenient to you:
there are some native apps which let you post to two or more services in parallel, e.g. Croissant, Openvibe or SoraSNS
most social media management services like Buffer now support both Fediverse and Bluesky, so you can use that to post to both, including scheduling etc. There are several others like this, and they usually have some free plans.
e.g. Fedica was one of the ones that had support for Bluesky from very early on
also my friend from my first job, Peter Solnica (known from some Ruby libraries like DataMapper/ROM, dry-rb, Hanami, and now some Elixir libs too) is building his own called JustCrossPost
I use a little tool in Ruby I wrote for myself named …GeneralSocial
Micro.blog journal
Update 17.11.2025: I’ve migrated this journal blog now from Micro.blog to Leaflet, a new blogging service built on top of Bluesky’s ATProto. I wrote about this here, the new URL is https://lab.mackuba.eu (I’ll add a redirect from ‘journal’ later).
Just a quick update, if you’re following this blog via RSS: I’ve started a separate “journal” blog on micro.blog: journal.mackuba.eu.
Micro.blog is an interesting service: it’s a one-man indie business that’s sort of a hybrid between a blogging platform and a microblogging social network. You can write anything between full-size blog posts and tweet-sized single messages, and you can cross-post them to Bluesky, Mastodon etc. You can also follow people from the community that’s formed there and reply to them, all in the form of those mini-blogposts (there are no likes or retweets though). The idea, as I understand, is to use a network of blogs to build a social network that uses the web itself as the foundation.
I’m not really planning to use it in this social network mode, since I’m pretty happy now posting on Bluesky and to limited degree on Mastodon (I’ve completely stopped posting on Twitter at this point, since last autumn, when Elon started openly supporting Trump). I’m also not completely sold on this “web as a social network” idea. And I don’t intend it to replace this blog here either – I will still be (very) occasionally posting those super long articles here like the one about NSButtons or the guide to Bluesky.
But I’ve felt the need for a while to have a place to post something in between those – not full blog, and not a micro blog, but a “mediumblog” so to say (not to be confused with a Medium blog) – like this post, for example. Something where I can sometimes post my thoughts more easily, when I want to write something that doesn’t really fit in a few skeets/toots, with less effort required to start and finish it. This seems like it could work for that.
It’s also nice that it’s supposed to sync replies from Bluesky/Mastodon under the posted link back to the blog page as comments below (I’ll try to implement the same thing here). I also have it configured with my own domain, so I can possibly migrate it to something self-hosted like Jekyll or Hugo at some point, keeping all the links and content.
For now, I’ve posted two updates about what I’ve been working on recently:
about tuning a Postgres database to which I’m trying to migrate my Bluesky feeds service
and a review of all I’ve done in 2024
I don’t know how often I will end up posting there, I don’t want to pressure myself, just to have a place to post when I have a need. So if you’re curious, follow me there via RSS (or on Bluesky or Mastodon).GeneralSocial
It Has Been A Minute
It's been a while since I've added content here.randomgeneral
You want to build a Recommender System in Prod
> be you > have participated in kaggle recommender system competitions > datascientist.mp3 > bossman says to recommend stuff for noobs > because they can’t search properly or whatever > ok bossman > no defined problem statement? > no csv? > no accuracy and mae test suite? > no leaderboard? what d...general
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