Rob Cannon

@robpc.com

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Occasionally make small games on itchio, part-time dance and concert photographer. Creator and maintainer of the F1 feed. Sr Principal Software Eng @yahoonews.com | Former Sr Tech Arch @washingtonpost.com

Screenshot of the F1 Bluesky feed at 2000 likes
Zoomed in screenshot of the date for a post on the F1 feed. It says "now".
Profile image of the Carl bot from discord.
Two panel meme from the TV show Breaking Bad. Panel 1: Marie says "You're ordering a new rock?" Panel 2: Hank replies: "I am bidding on a new mineral"
Based on the "I don't think about you" meme from Mad Men. My timeline: I feel bad for the discover feed. Me: I don't think about the discover feed at all.
Yuki Tsunoda wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap
Screenshot of the video post this is replying to where the video starts in the Bluesky app. The framing of the video makes the initial image look like an actual post in the UI.
Screenshot of the new F1 video feed
Video of the a Bluesky visualizers where the profiles of new Bluesky users fall through the screen and animate as they take their first actions on the platform.
Screenshot of a recursive function using a map to cache the results
Terminal screenshot where rows and rows of hex codes are printed to command line.
Screenshot of Go language code with two structs Position and Grid and some helper methods.
Screenshot of a YAML file that defines an Advent of Code feed
Screenshot showing the context menu in a random post with a Translate option.
Screenshot of the lastest F1 feed post showing a post from "now"
Race week in big letters where they look like they spell Rawe Ceek
Screenshot of a RangeError thrown by Javascript trying to parse a bad post.
Screenshot of a yaml config file with many lines of regex and string matches.
Selfie of me in front of the Washington Post sign on top of the current building.
Screenshot of an example javascript code that uses the atproto libraries to subscribe to the firehose and decode the CARs.
Screenshot of the Threads app with recent changes but no following tab
Meme image of two astronauts in space looking at earth in the distance. The first one says "Wait, F1 is on Bluesky?" The second one floats behind them with a gun pointed at them and says "Always has been"
Screenshot of the keywords used in the Formula feed. It includes drivers names and other F1 related terms.
Screenshot of a webpage with a list of trending topics on Bluesky
Sunrise over the beach with a silhouette of a kid jumping.
Screenshot of a 7-day graph of posts to blusón from the firehose. Today has a sharp spike with double the average posts.
Screenshot of a webpage that shows the top 25 phrases, mentions and links on Bluesky.
Screenshot of a website that lists the top twenty-five topics on bluesky. The top of the list has several references to the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics.
Chart with a list of common words in posts on Bluesky. This list for today has a lot of variations on "creating threads"
Screenshot of a simple web app that lists popular phrases in posts.
Screenshot of a code editor. The code uses the Subscription class from the official xrpc-server package to create the websocket connection and parse message frames.
Photo of the hover.com DNS record control panel with the edit window for an AT Protocol TXT record
Close up portrait of a cat. The cat in profile staring to the left of the photo.
Photo looking over the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. The cherry blossoms are in bloom and the Washington Monument is in the background.