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The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past DLC Announced for Early 2027 – New Geralt Story & PC Requirements

RUMOR: Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight DLC Leaks: Joker & Harley Quinn Costumes, Mayhem Collection & Suicide Squad Characters Revealed

In the event of drone threats, official shelters in Riga would have space for only a small portion of residents

State Audit Office harshly criticizes LVM and Ministry of Agriculture: At least 130 million euros not directed to the state

Vietnam’s tourism boom masks a bigger problem

BNN interview | “Drones will continue entering Latvian airspace” — Former Armed Forces Commander calls for stronger air defense

BNN IN FOCUS | Political scientist on the fall of Evika Siliņa’s government and what voters will not forgive

Running Bluesky PDS undockered

A bit over a year ago, in the first week of January 2025, I migrated my main Bluesky account to my own PDS on a Netcup VPS. It’s been quite easy to set up using the official installer, and it’s been r…

ATProto blog posts collection

(Last update: 3 Jun 2026.) I come across a lot of blog posts about the AT Protocol and Bluesky technicals – both on Bluesky official blogs and those of the team members, and by independent developers…

How I ran one Ruby app on three SQL databases for six months

Since June 2023, I’ve been running a service written in Ruby (Sinatra) that provides several Bluesky custom feeds (initially built with a feed for the iOS/Mac developers community in mind, later expan…

Dan Abramov: Open Social

Dan's recent post about open social platforms is the first time that I've been interested in social media in like... 5 years?

Introduction to AT Protocol

Walkthrough of the various parts and concepts in Bluesky's AT Protocol (ATProto), the types of servers involved and how it all fits together

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 d…

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…

March 2024 projects update

I’ve been still pretty busy with various Bluesky- and social-related projects recently, so here’s a small update on what I’ve been working on since my November post, if you’re interested: Skythread –…

Social media update - Elon's Twitter and Mastodon

Update 01.03.2023: Updated Mastodon address - my previous instance has been unexpectedly shut down and I had to make a new account. I’ve decided to set up my own server to make sure it won’t happen ag…