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Trezy

@trezy.codes

Making genre-bending video games at @birb.house plus feeds and tools for the games industry. When I'm not doing that, I'm building my overlanding rig to explore remote corners of the map. Oxford comma defender. He/him.

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<trezy-who/>Oct 6, 2026

Am I Building the Torment Nexus?

I built a tool that lets HappyView operators browse the contents of atproto spaces, and the moment I saw it working I got a pit in my stomach. Here's what the community had to say about whether it should exist, and what it needs to look like if it does.

<trezy-who/>Apr 24, 2026

Releasing HappyView 2 Into the Wild

HappyView v2 ships as a single binary with native OAuth, built-in backfill and real-time indexing, SQLite support, and a new WASM plugin system. No more companion services required.

<trezy-who/>Apr 14, 2026

What If Lexicons Knew How to Look?

The Atmosphere is growing beyond 'one app per lexicon.' Here's a thought experiment on shared rendering context.

<trezy-who/>Apr 1, 2026

Proof of Work

After my critique of Bluesky's 2026 Report resonated across the Atmosphere, the company's new interim CEO reached out. We talked about what went wrong, what collaboration should look like, and why private data is the next test of whether the words match the work.

<trezy-who/>Mar 31, 2026

The Marshmallow Test

At AtmosphereConf, Bluesky celebrated its community, then signaled it's willing to eat them alive. No context. No acknowledgment. I was in the room.

<trezy-who/>Mar 2, 2026

ATProto Has a Profile Problem. Lexicon Generics Could Help.

As the Atmosphere grows beyond Bluesky, assuming every user has a Bluesky profile won't hold up. A base profile sounds like the fix, but the UX gets weird fast. Lexicon generics — a pattern built from existing ATProto concepts — could make profile-type records discoverable and translatable across apps without flattening them into a single record.

<trezy-who/>Feb 10, 2026

Discord Isn't Requiring a Face Scan — Your Legislators Are

Yesterday's headline in The Verge had people planning their Discord exodus overnight. But the real story isn't about Discord — it's about legislators demanding surveillance infrastructure.

<trezy-who/>Aug 4, 2022

Searching through Dev Documentation Straight from Discord, Powered by Algolia

Managing the communities around open source software is a full time job in itself, and we maintainers can use all the help we can get.

<trezy-who/>Jun 28, 2022

"Tabs vs Spaces" Is All Sorts of Messed Up

The debate about tabs vs spaces is as old as the internet itself (I assume), and the way that we go about deciding which one to use is far more selfish than you realise.

<trezy-who/>Apr 4, 2022

Melody: A New Way to RegEx

Writing RegEx has always felt like using blood to draw runes in the dirt for the purpose of enacting an arcane incantation, but... maybe it doesn't have to be that way. 🤔

<trezy-who/>Jan 21, 2022

It's Time to Move On From Twitch...

Twitch has treated me well, but it's time to try out some greener pastures.

<trezy-who/>Jul 23, 2020

What would you do if your computer caught on fire?

Have you ever wondered what you'd do if you spent the day working on a huge new feature, only for your machine to catch on fire before you push the code? Well… I'll bet you're wondering about it now. 🙃