







Software Engineer at Bluesky specializing in developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and accessibility. Creator of The Balanced Engineer newsletter and co-host of the Overcommitted podcast.
108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering
Software Engineer at Bluesky specializing in developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and accessibility. Creator of The Balanced Engineer newsletter and co-host of the Overcommitted podcast.

Paul Frazee on Bluesky and the AT Protocol
Podcast Episode · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · January 17, 2025 · 1h 8m
PassiveModding/BlueskyFeed
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Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

PassiveModding/BlueskyFeedGenerator
Contribute to PassiveModding/BlueskyFeedGenerator development by creating an account on GitHub.
Free Professional Bluesky Handles | academics.blue, creator.blue & More
Choose your professional handle: academics.blue, programmer.blue, creator.blue, investor.blue, datascience.blue, developer.blue. No technical setup needed. Stand out from standard bsky.social handles.

Overcommitted | Software Engineering and Tech Careers Insights
Overcommitted is where passion for the craft meets real talk about software engineering—from pull request philosophy and technical debt strategy to imposter syndrome and continuous learning, we are engineers committed to growing together and sharing the honest, thoughtful conversations that make you better at your job and your life.

Vibe Maintainer
Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…

Vibe Maintainer
Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…

Time to switch? A university’s guide to Bluesky
Bluesky’s growth offers academics, departments and institutions the chance to build engaged communities. Here are some tips on setting up a profile

Dewaffling the tech industry | deadSimpleTech
This raises so many questions. Does Bluesky have a communications team (apparently not)? Why do so many of the Bluesky staff treat their (very queer, very trans, very liberal) userbase with open contempt? Why are they so attached to having bigots on their platform? And does this perhaps indicate that a fair part of the Bluesky staff have fascist sympathies (unclear, but we would do well to assume the worst)?


Has This Report EXPOSED THE TRUTH About AI Assisted Software Development?
SF: A Birds of a Feather on Agentic Engineering
I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.

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Bluesky Communities Research 2026
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