Ms Boba (rebuilding community era)

P.S. we're so late cause we were concocting evil plans so come hear about them if you're curious 👀

Twitch Twitch is the world

Today's (late) stream: creating an Astro integration for oauth login with an ATproto PDS!

(because I'm tired of implementing it over and over)

Never created an Astro integration before, so... we'll figure them out together.

www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

HTML day 2025 NYC Explore this photo album by kat on Flickr!

HTML day 2025 in NYC was a success!!! i had so much fun despite my huge nerves and met and talked to people!!! i made a page dedicated to dambara ruru <3

album of the (few) pics i took: www.flickr.com/photos/19583...

Twitch Twitch is the world

It's that time(s) of the week! Come join our guestbook adventures with authentication (yes, again), styling, and maybe even a delete feature!

www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

"how is your tech company going?"
"splendidly, thanks for asking"

very nice!! I'm only now starting to stream twice a week again and have a bit more space, but would love to double stream some webdev with folks at some point if you're ever up for it

Not the point of the post, but you're streaming? What are you streaming? 👀

EssentialRandomness - Twitch Guestbook Lexicon #11: Styling our Astro Client

Doing some more guestbook work on stream today! The bulk of it will be CSS/Astro work styling the client. Come hang out and talk web development: www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

How Streamplace Works: Embedded PDS Never have I gotten so many "wait why would you do it like that" messages.

First Streamplace architecture blog post! I wrote about Streamplace's embedded atproto PDS, why we decided to do it this way, and some thoughts about the "Static PDS" use case more generally.

Some of our sites are down for some unscheduled maintenance, which is code for @kat.bsky.girlonthemoon.xyz and @essentialrandom.bsky.social going "let's turn off this droplet and take a snapshot, how long could it take?"

It is easier to collaborate when you can have focused groups that have tighter culture and values, which is way easier to keep if the groups remain small. It also ensure a more "antifragile" system—that is a system that grows stronger when subjected to stressors (e.g. parts of it failing).

Thank you!!

Reduce scope for sure and also build more coalitions! We made a lot of great progress on collaboration since the blogpost (even though it remains an uphill battle), and I'm deeply convinced of the power of various local groups solving slices of the bigger problem, all coming together.

The things is, we’re currently in a downward spiral. Since large corporations keep disregarding the needs of their users and underpaying their workers, indie projects often feel that they, untouched by corporate greed and capitalistic incentives, are supposed to bring forth a utopia where all hard problems are solved, everyone is compensated fairly and no one is ever made to feel unhappy or unwelcome. But they come into a system that’s set up to see them fail. Being an indie project makes it harder not to meet these expectations.

Channeling from @essentialrandom.bsky.social’s talk: it is impossible to indie projects to solely bring about utopia in a system that’s set up to see them fail.

There’s ways we can help and come together.

www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/rebuil...

Thank you for the boost 💖

EssentialRandomness - Twitch A (staff) Software Engineer with a passion for fandom, introducing more people to the magic of web development and Astro. Both beginners and advanced viewers welcome!

Streaming time! Let's allow people to make new ATproto guestbooks through an Astro website using Astro actions! www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

FujoCoded LLC – A Better Web, Together Empowering fujoshi and other online subcultures to shape their web through software, education, and community collaboration.

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And if you want to help us hire more artists to turn your favorite technologies into hot men (and teach them to folks like you), support FujoCoded on Patreon: www.patreon.com/fujocoded

Git character card, as seen on fujoweb.dev/characters. Lists the catboy's likes, dislikes, tropes, and bio.

GitHub character card, as seen on fujoweb.dev/characters. Lists the catboy's likes, dislikes, tropes, and bio.

Our latest and final "Git"s (Gitea and Forgejo) are finally here, courtesy of our official catboy artist @brokemycrown.bsky.social!

Stoked to have them join our panthe(r)on, alongside Git, GitHub and GitLab. www.fujoweb.dev/characters#git

Debuting them soon in our next newsletter 👀👀 sign up👇

we are going to nix pill the himejoshis

The clear endgame here is that the programming gijinkas appear like men, and sysadmin gijinkas appear like women.

NixOS/Systemd when

The official Yuri branch of FujoCoded is now operational. We're going to teach the Himes NixOS (via lix).

EssentialRandomness - Twitch A (staff) Software Engineer with a passion for fandom, introducing more people to the magic of web development and Astro. Both beginners and advanced viewers welcome!

Stream time! Come hang out and chat as I continue my guestbook work.

Today we're adding user data to our guestbook entries, so we can see WHO has written us (and their avatar) rather than just their DID!

Join the adventure: www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

Starting now! Jump on in and let's remember what we were doing: www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

EssentialRandomness - Twitch A (staff) Software Engineer with a passion for fandom, introducing more people to the magic of web development and Astro. Both beginners and advanced viewers welcome!

In 1 hour: ATproto guestbook streams start again!

Now that "talks season" is over and I've caught up with pressing obligations, it's time to continue our ATproto guestbook. See you on Twitch in a hour for what's next: remembering what we were even doing a month ago!

www.twitch.tv/essentialran...

Bay Area friends come say hello!! I'll be there!!

Long but valuable read. You'll have to turn on speaker's notes for this.

Thank you for reading <3

Friends, check out the slides for my talk below! And thank you everyone for coming to CitrusCon :) 👇

I promise I won't take a year to publish it on a non-powerpoint presentation format this time..... probably.....

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

in the end the internet is all about wanting to see more men railing men