Hi there! I'm the creator of the 📰 News feed. I have over a decade of experience building highly-engaging data visualisations and delivering complex technology projects for international news orgs. I'm looking for new roles that will let me grow as an engineer. Please DM me if you have any leads! RE:
Bluesky Social
ændra. (@aendra.com)
I'm actively looking for a new role, ideally outside of journalism and fully remote. If you wouldn't mind resharing my LinkedIn post I'd be most gr...
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I'm actively looking for a new role, ideally outside of journalism and fully remote. If you wouldn't mind resharing my LinkedIn post I'd be most grateful. 🙏🏼 [www.linkedin.com/posts/aendra...](
#opentowork | Ændra Rininsland
Hi everyone! I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me ...
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#opentowork | Ændra Rininsland
Hi everyone! I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me ...
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I've noticed there are two ways to do software development in this space: • ignore all criticism because your vision for the product is the only one that matters • seriously respond to good-faith criticism and use that to improve your product
If you're a news org and you need help figuring out how to do this, or if you're a freelance/independent journalist and need some direction setting up a portfolio site and/or domain, please DM me, I'm more than happy to help. 💚 RE:
Bluesky Social
Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
There's a whole lot of conversation still to be had about proving identity, but just want to call out that this option is available right now (and ...
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Seriously — stop importing old tweets you utter weirdos, you're negatively impacting all 3rd party infra that consumes the firehose RE:
Bluesky Social
Bossett (@bossett.social)
I dug into some of this - the lag in the feeds is a result of high activity AND people importing old stuff, since the feedgen needs to look at ever...
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I'm going to stop being gripe-y for a second (sorry, but I have sign-posted I'm a bit stressed) to be a touch more positive: The 📰 News feed is currently receiving about *1.2 MILLION* requests a *DAY* That's ridiculous. What's even more ridiculous is I'm able to serve this traffic on $50 of infra. https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5&cid=bafkreigmjqy6mmjghdr7kksd75bahavnywdlv7de3l2kcgq3f44qe5stjq
Here's a thought: If you want to try your hand at AT Proto development and want an oven-ready idea plus me to mentor you through building it, hit me with a DM. My latest free idea is for a bluetick-esque verification system leveraging OAuth to validate existing socials... 👀 RE:
Bluesky Social
ændra. (@aendra.com)
So many project ideas, so little time, so many unfinished existing projects
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So many project ideas, so little time, so many unfinished existing projects
Quietly closing the lid of my laptop before efficiently frisbeeing it out the window. It explodes in midair, raining fiery debris onto the yard below. [TITLE: "Machine learning. Not even once."]
One is allowed to simply not care what people on Mastodon think about Bluesky.