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Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company’s small team, which is working to give users control over their algorithms and social media experiences.

1/2 of the dev team here

We aren't quite done here yet, not even official 1.0, but happy to answer questions!

What exactly would that be?

I feel like the middle ground your talking about could be just a feed?

A feed is: a server that consumes the firehose and decided on whether to store posts, when loaded in the app it returns some post to create a feed

So essentially you only store references to part of the network rather than storing the whole thing

If you want to hear more about extism we did an interview with them https://www.devtools.fm/episode/58

I built one of those. Twitter's API isn't going to do you any favors. There is no publicly available API to get the replies to a tweet. So building out a full thread is hard. Then once you figure out how to use their internal API you'll quickly hit rate limits </3

I did kinda that same thing for soundcloud a few years ago with meteor <3. It's been awhile since this code was touched.

I stopped developing it because soundcloud's UI started to really match my design and feature set.

but:

- my search is faster (just a long startup time) - it will actually shuffle all your songs and not just the last 20-ish

https://sctunes.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/hipstersmoothie/sctunes.meteor

If you use VSCode just put `// @ts-check` at the top of your files. I find a bunch of bugs with just that.

It's actually accessible. take a look at this tweet and inspect the image. all the code is in the alt attribute. So they have thought of that. This will only be if you tweet it from their webapp though.

It would be cool if there was a way to copy paste the text easier.

The 805 is by far the worst freeway in SD. During any commuting time, you are bound to crawl.

As a 23 year old software engineer that recently chose to live in SD over SF I find this article kind of funny. It didn't make sense to me to choose a place where i might make more money, but have to spend it all to live. Life can be pretty cheap in SD. I live 20 minutes/15 miles from work, a commute that would take an hour in the bay. I also pay <$700 for the master bedroom in my house. I'm also a 10 min uber to any downtown spot I want. Not much overpriced food here either, and many options if you drive 15 minutes. You may not be working at Google or Apple down here, but that might not be the worst thing.

I think some of this might be offset by the fact that this plan doesn't seem to focus on just cars. A solar product described in the first step of the plan could help fund the cars.

A lot of people i know default, including me, to using snapchat as their main camera in most situations. You can download whatever you take a picture of through the app and choose not to post it at all. It has all the features i need from the camera plus some basic photo editing. Also the reverse isn't true: I cant take a picture through the normal camera then choose to post it to snapchat. this both locks you into using the Snapchat camera and ensures that most pics you see on snapchat are taken in the moment, which is very important to the app. btw I'm 23

Very Cool! I've been thinking a lot about decentralized social networks and the value that they could bring. With companies I love like Soundcloud so far in the red, it is only time until they go under or change fundamentally. I think this idea of decentralized feeds fits very well with the current state of music, many different artists, collectives, and labels that basically only exist on the internet. If anyone wants to explore the idea with me I am very open to it!

Cool website! But your scroll is super messed up. On my macbook scrolling up and down has no effect, but pinch and depinch with scroll the page.

If livecoding keeps acting like this they are gonna lose whatever foothold they currently have of coding live streaming. With twitch.tv's recent announcment to open up streaming to creatives it is only a matter of time until they capture this audience too.

I love meteor and can wait for galaxy! atmosphere is awesome, so I can only expect something amazing.

The react integrate is pretty cool too I just did a trello clone to learn more about react https://github.com/hipstersmoothie/react-meteor-trello

Now I just need a new project to use react with!

This is awesome! Will definitely use it to throw a quick stream of older Music Videos up on the television. It would be cool to see a list of that month's videos or be able to customize the stream a little.

For those who miss place to discover current artists through music videos, I built http://kikbak.tv. It goes through blogs hourly to create a top 100 chart for the day. Artists spend so much money on music videos and there are no popular discovery platforms! I truly miss mtv, so let's rebuild it somehow.

One of the biggest problems in our government was never implementing a way to refactor without grand upheaval. Also they didn't really think about scale very well and campaign funding restrictions. I feel we are in a place right now where special interest is more important than public.

Hi all! My roommate and I are Seniors at Cal Poly SLO and we built this webapp over the past couple of weeks. It is much like the acquired wearehunted, the dead twitter music, and the new wonder.fm except with music videos! Kikbak.tv goes through hundreds of blogs all day looking for new music videos. Once we find them, our server starts to track the social shares and plays associated with it. This gets transformed into a top 100 chart that changes throughout the day as videos get posted to blogs and the videos themselves get more popular. I would love feedback, thanks!

This is awesome! I've been building an app with a grid that scrolls horizontally and this is the best solution! Getting this pattern in html is really hard:

      1 4 7 10
      2 5 8 11
      3 6 9 12

Other than than columns, which dont respond the screen size that well, this is the only good option. Thanks for educating me!

You should really watch the special Vice HBO did on the current situation.

You're citing the levels of sea ice, which are at an all time high right now. But the sea ice is only around a meter thick max! Land ice on the other hand is far deeper, therefore containing more water. Sea ice form quickly, like on a lake during winter. Land ice is a lot thicker and harder to form, and we are losing that in Germany size chunks.

Vice did an excellent mini-doc on the issue. They do a good job of covering the problems, effects, and solutions. It is such a complicated situation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUwjk4S3gw

Love the app, just bought it today and recommended it to friends. I have found a few bugs though:

* In finder, if i press up and down, ghostnote doesn't recognize the focus change. Although if I go to another app, then tab back, ghostnote is focused on the right folder.

* In xcode it is quite hard to get ghostnote to focus on the right thing. a double click sometimes works. But clicking file a then file b causes ghostnote to focus on file a.

Thanks for an app that is sure to change my workflow!

I am in the same boat! Got my recommendation for insomnia and have slept well ever since :D

I made my version of a front-end for soundcloud. It is for when you have a large amount favorites, but it also can get to your playlists and artist pages. I found that once you've liked over 200 songs on soundcloud it gets really hard to view your older favorites. My client loads my ~1100 favorites and a few seconds. You can also: * sort by a different criteria * shuffle all your favorites or a playlist at once * add multiple songs to playlists by holding alt, clicking the songs, then clicking the playlist * make a queue by holding shift and clicking songs

It is a side project and is by no means done, has a few bugs, and the initial load can be weird (still fast though). Feel free to give me some feedback.

sctunes.meteor.com

I am just completing my first internship at Intuit as a software development intern working on turbotaxonline, after only 2 years in the Cal Poly SLO computer science program. Before college I had no experience in programming at all, and before the summer I had no experience in web dev. So it doesn't take all that much experience to be able to function in an internship, you just have to be driven to learn and teach yourself.