Interests in ML and social aspects of tech. Building For You feed: https://foryou.club https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you Hobby project: linklonk.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.socialhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mtrmyh4y222hWhat do custom feeds like For You look like for permissioned spaces?23 Aug 2026 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrmyh4y222hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mtokuq6k5224I finally looked into why the For You sqlite db file has been growing to be quite large - 589GB. To prevent the unlimited growth I regularly delete likes older than 90 days. The size of the "ratings" table should be stable (there are ~20M likeds per day). Turns out another source of growth is...22 Aug 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtokuq6k5224https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mtncvsutfc24When you complain about discourse you are participating in it. Wait...22 Aug 2026 03:19 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtncvsutfc24https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mtn75xapsc2gAhh, For You is returning errors because Bluesky added another ip address from which to make requests (38.142.8.130) and I need to give it a higher QPS limit in nginx. I wonder why nobody mentioned this yet...22 Aug 2026 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtn75xapsc2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mtfoo4bvok2xI showed this survey post to For You users over the last 9 days. 1099 people submitted their response. Thanks everyone who participated and replied to the post with more details! I will spend some time analyzing the numbers and will publish the results on blog.foryou.club [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfoo4bvok2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mta4oy6fvs2bIt looks like we are back for real this time. Curious to read the postmortem. Here is the shape of the outage from the perspective of the For You feed. There were a couple of recovery spikes. Jetstream was also down and recovered a bit after the app started working again.16 Aug 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mta4oy6fvs2bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mt7ie34mrs26It looks like the outage is slowly recovering?16 Aug 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt7ie34mrs26https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mt4pis6esc2aTrying out another idea to make For You more balanced with respect to your past likes. https://blog.foryou.club/3mt4pirfqpk2a?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=publish&utm_content=did%3Aplc%3A3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk%2F3mt4pis6esc2a15 Aug 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4pis6esc2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mswiumvefc2zFor You but cross-lexicon: find people who liked the same Bluesky posts as you and show you what they: - liked on standard.site - starred on tangled - rsvp'ed on atmo.rsvp - saved on semble.so - listened to on teal.fm - etc [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 01:34 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswiumvefc2zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3msnuruy3g222Suppose there is a version or a mode of For You that works twice as hard to find good posts. 1. What would you name it? 2. What emoji would go well with it?09 Aug 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3msnuruy3g222https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3msjyn2hjys2uI want to do some user research. Is a "cup of coffee" the most universal measure of value? Or is there anything better?08 Aug 2026 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3msjyn2hjys2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mrdqgkoc722mThis is why we have "For You Rewind": https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you-rewind [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2026 21:04 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdqgkoc722mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mqeom2gls22iIf you in the same boat as @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz and wish you could stop seeing someone's posts in For You then now you can! Got to foryou.club/profile/mutes and add accounts that you don't want to see specifically in For You. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jul 2026 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqeom2gls22ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mq76yu2wmc2iFor You is down because the hosting provider (OVH) seems to have issues.09 Jul 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq76yu2wmc2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mptmbrqsed2nFor You now onboards new users with a curated list of interest posts to like. It's an upgrade over: "go like some posts elsewhere and come back".04 Jul 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptmbrqsed2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mplhgwmpjk2vThe change is live! Thanks @samuel.fm for getting it in and fixing the unit test! @devingaffney.com @aendra.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplhgwmpjk2vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mpivlhc4pc2cCustom feeds can mark some posts as pinned. For You uses it for system messages like "Welcome to the feed" and such. But AppView ignores that flag when it hydrates the feed and the client app does not know which posts should be displayed as pinned. This should fix it: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/516330 Jun 2026 11:29 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpivlhc4pc2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mpho57slts2xOk, Bluesky does not pass the user's selected interests to custom feeds like For You. But what if For You has it's own interest picker - show a list of canned posts that name an interest: - art - gaming - tech - atproto ... [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpho57slts2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mpefptn4bs2xFor You will be down for ~20-60 minutes - I will be upgrading my computer's ram from 96GB to 192GB. I've been hitting uncomfortably high memory usage levels (90%+) and it is time to bite the bullet. I bought an identical kit a year ago and the new kit is exactly 7x more expensive.28 Jun 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpefptn4bs2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mookvrepbk2cIt is easy to assume that everyone who follows you has already heard about For You. I wrote a tool to get the % of your followers who have opened For You at least once. For me it is 85% - and all I talk about is For You 🤔 Reply if you want to see your result.20 Jun 2026 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mookvrepbk2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mobu35otrs27Have you accidentally pressed "show less like this" when you meant "more like this"? Or liked a post that you feel ruined your For You? You can now correct that in foryou.club/profile You can delete your "show more/less" and likes there.14 Jun 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mobu35otrs27https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mobfoy2e4k2hFor You seems stuck. Looking what's wrong...14 Jun 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mobfoy2e4k2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mo65dtbrql2hYou can let others view your For You feed: 1. Open foryou.club/profile 2. Press "create peek link" 3. Copy the link and share it with others They would: 1. Open the link and confirm that they want to turn their For You feed into yours 2. Open For You and see what you see until they decide to stop13 Jun 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo65dtbrql2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mo5b2rmklc2hLaunched an improvement to how "show less like this" works in For You. Results from the A/B test: - 7.3% fewer people press "show less" on a given day - 15.5% fewer "show less" interactions Details below 🧵13 Jun 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5b2rmklc2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mnwpf65oak2kSo close10 Jun 2026 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwpf65oak2k