Ben Bleything

pacific northwestern computerist. you may know me from such as he/him

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downloading a slice of atproto

using tap and ruby to fetch every Bluesky Starter Pack

May 8·8 min read·1462 words

downloading a slice of atproto

using tap and ruby to selectively backfill atproto records is harder than it looks

May 8·8 min read·1467 words

downloading slices of the atproto network

I'm working on a little experiment for which I need to analyze all of the starter packs people have created on Bluesky. All of the data on atproto is public by design so this shouldn't be too hard, ri…

May 6·1 min read·99 words

Dev Diary 0001 - Prototype Archive

let's make a website that doesn't do anything

May 2·4 min read·622 words

Dev Diary 0000 - Infrastructure Day

get in the repo, shinji

Apr 21·5 min read·984 words

why is likes.fyi like this

enough background info to background shake a background stick at, but no more

Apr 19·4 min read·721 words

introducing likes.fyi

an experimental toolkit for sharing the things you like with the people you know, built on the AT Protocol

Apr 19·2 min read·390 words