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Barry Frost

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Short posts, links and replies that I've published on my Bluesky account.

In reply to @olly.world

Thanks for writing this up, Olly. I always find it fascinating reading behind-the-scenes articles of web services: latency considerations, edge cases with certs, minimising downtime, etc.

After watching Succession and now The Sheep Detectives, I’m not sure whose accent is best: Nicholas Braun’s English or Matthew Macfadyen’s American. Nick might have edged it.

Succession Thumbs Up: two men giving each other a thumbs-up.

I'm obsessed with Allan Peters' brand logo redesign videos, especially his use of paper cut-outs to show his process with typography and negative space. He then mocks up how they might look on clothing and in patterns. Addictive. www.youtube.com/@allangregor...

Allan Peters

In reply to @calumryan.com

Great to see you again too. Best wishes for your job/house stress. I hope it all gets resolved swiftly.

New evening activity: waiting anxiously for the outside temperature to drop below indoors to then fling open all the windows and curtains 🥵 #heatwave

Standard Reader is not only a really well-designed reader for atmosphere posts, but a killer way of discovering and following new publications. I've added it to my daily reading links.

Standard Reader @standard-reader.app

Introducing Standard Reader: a calm, text-first home for long-form writing on the Atmosphere. Read standard.site publications, follow the writers you love, and find new voices across the network. standard-reader.app

In reply to @snarfed.org

As a tormented Arsenal fan, thank you Ryan for helping us win. I knew you worked miracles with Bridgy, but I didn't know your divine powers extended to Premier League matches!

I've been using @talat.app for a few weeks for transcribing meetings locally on my Mac. Works nicely with my Claude workflow via its MCP connector, calendar integration and speaker detection. One-off payment, no subscription. Recommended.

@talat.app

v0.11.0 is out, and since we were too busy to announce v0.10.0 properly, let's do that too: hellooo new design! There's too much to cover in a single post, but you can read the details over at talat.app/changelog, and take a look at some of the updated screenshots below 👇

Because GitHub Actions have become so unreliable, I've moved a site's scheduled tasks from a scheduled workflow to use Cloudflare's cron triggers. They now correctly run every 15m on CF rather than (maybe) every 2-4h on GH.

I took my kids to see Super Mario Galaxy today. We all loved it. It’s light on storyline, but it’s fun, well-paced for children and packs in so many characters and little touches from the games.

Giving Zed another try as my IDE/editor. I knew it was fast, but what's really impressive is the polish.

Zed @zed.dev

Zed 1.0: Your last next editor.

Visited the @tessl.io office yesterday for @guypo.com presenting on using agentic engineering across teams, hosted by #CTOCraft. Good networking chat before about engineer concerns, AI-related burnout, metrics and security.

Man standing at podium presenting slide on Agentic Development

In reply to @fastmail.com

This is a huge improvement and something I wished for whenever replying to emails. Thank you!