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A Starry Sky

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Hey ๐Ÿ‘‹, I'm Skyler, your typical transgender software developer from the UK; I'll accept most follow requests but may not accept all bots. I'm a software engineer, working @collaboraonline.com For other socials: https://a.starrysky.fyi

23 Followers  |  35 Following  |  34 Posts  |  Joined: 12.12.2023  |  2.2099

Latest posts by a.starrysky.fyi on Bluesky

#shitpost ig

30.10.2025 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A poster with the dog from the "please throw, no take, only throw" meme. The poster says "the right amount of engineering was" and the dog has been edited to say "NO ENGINEERING!".

The poster has a footnote in very small text which reads "p.s. You can't say enginearing [sic] without saying earing". Both engineering and earring are misspelled in this so they match.

A poster with the dog from the "please throw, no take, only throw" meme. The poster says "the right amount of engineering was" and the dog has been edited to say "NO ENGINEERING!". The poster has a footnote in very small text which reads "p.s. You can't say enginearing [sic] without saying earing". Both engineering and earring are misspelled in this so they match.

30.10.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's pretty wild, next you're gonna tell us she hadn't kissed anyone before or something either

30.10.2025 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(I say "probably" because Gamewisp emojis were very limited in quantity iirc so you may not have been actually able to do this with them)

24.10.2025 05:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the past, Discord have done either promotions where you get Nitro for free for a short time, or promotions where you can use emojis everywhere without Nitro (gamewisp emojis). If either of these happen in a way you can get access to, you probably don't have to pay Discord at all

24.10.2025 05:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That places your theoretical cap at 100,000+defaults which is enough to pull this off. To do that, you would have to pay Discord A Lot Of Money. But, even without paying anything more than a Nitro basic (or classic if you have that) fee you can get 20,000 emojis which is still enough to do this

24.10.2025 05:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you pay Discord this gets way better: you can use any emoji from up to 200 servers in any channel where this wasn't turned off by a server admin. If your servers are additionally also paid they can have up to 250 emojis (and I think they can have that in both animated and regular form for 500)

24.10.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's worth noting that unless you pay Discord you can't use emojis from any server you're not currently speaking in and you can't use animated emojis (exception: you can add a normal reaction that someone else has already added to a message). That would place your emoji limit at 50+defaults

24.10.2025 05:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The number of emojis on a single message is limited to 20, so that's your cap. You need 5,120 emojis to do this for arbitrary messages. It might be better to instead strip down how much you're encoding (do you really need control characters, say?)

24.10.2025 05:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you though? I'm pretty sure I'm around a 3, and I know you're *at least* 2 or 3 points less than me

23.10.2025 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A map showing the "Kiss & Fly - Drop off" point at Brussels Airport

A map showing the "Kiss & Fly - Drop off" point at Brussels Airport

What if we accidentally ... at the

20.10.2025 07:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

using a self-hosted email server:

"I hope this email finds you,
..."

10.10.2025 10:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 240    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
a group of minions are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing goggles and saying `` mua ! love you '' Alt: a yellow minion from the Despicable Me films miming a kiss, the caption is "Mua! Love you"

no I don't remember, yes it probably has to do with these minions

05.10.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thank goodness I didn't have to yet again explain minion3665 because that's not my username on this platform that uses domains instead of usernames

05.10.2025 23:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"does @starrysky.fyi also lead to you?"
yes

"any other usernames?"
I've got @skyler.tgirl.gay, but I'm sure you can guess why that one is what it is ๐Ÿ˜‰

05.10.2025 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if you're wondering why the a., because it sounds better in my head to have "a starry sky" than "starry sky"

05.10.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

.fyi rhymes, and also starrysky.xyz was already taken

05.10.2025 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

explain your username: my name is Skyler, Sky for short. Once upon a time I wore some starry pajamas and quipped that I was A Starry Skyler. Now, one domain purchase later, my username is A Starry Sky (just FYI)

05.10.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

You totally should! and again, if you need any more help feel free to keep messaging me on matrix :) - i'll do my best

02.10.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To be fair it's not a fully featured nix installation, you can't actually use it from the device as the store is mounted from some .iso or the like, but it was a way of me getting dependencies and build inputs onto the device without hassle/conflicts/etc.

02.10.2025 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've got a repository somewhere that puts nix on kobo e-reader devices

02.10.2025 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ - thanks so much to all these people (including our very own @a.starrysky.fyi and @thecoded.prof, but also many, many more) for making the latest @tangled.org release, y'all are awesome!

02.10.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

girl with a small home and a biiig nix store

30.09.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's a doggirl eat doggirl world send post

30.09.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's ok - I'd love to chat w/ you about this on matrix & help out if you want

27.09.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I got my Discord account when I was 12 and also I now basically live more on the internet than irl so you can see how well that worked out

26.09.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it still took me a year from there to start really using it for-real-for-real though. I still wasn't meant to be using it (and definitely wasn't meant to use social media/etc.)... that held until I was 13

26.09.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

technically? when I was on the family DS XL at the age of... 9?

I wasn't allowed on it much (I wasn't supposed to be using the browser at all) and if you've used the DS browser you'd know it doesn't really count. The first time I had something useful was 11 when I got a raspberry pi 2b+

26.09.2025 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was driving me up a wall, thanks for the info and work around! โ„๏ธ

26.09.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Nix Builds as a Service nixbuild.net is a build cluster solution that adds scalability and intelligent scheduling to any Nix workflow. Use it as a cloud service or in private enterprise deployments.

If you don't have a remote builder, nixbuild.net is pretty fast and - in my testing - not so terribly priced (though not enough for me to forgo setting up my own machine as a remote builder when I've got it)

25.09.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@a.starrysky.fyi is following 20 prominent accounts