Hose Race

Guess which words will appear the most on English-language Bluesky in realtime.

This was a learning project for me to get comfortable with React and play with the Bluesky firehose.

Stack

• React (only client-side)
• Typescript
• Vite
• Deno (for data folder only)

Status

This was a learning project for me and I'm not actively maintaining it.

Data

In order to make the game fun I needed to match up sets of words ("leagues") that appear at roughly the same rate of occurence on Bluesky. For this I periodically took "sips" from the firehose and analyzed the top words used. I then aggregated this data, manually eliminated some words, and grouped words by their median occurrences across all of the sips. The result is in data/leagues.json. I've also copied this file into the public folder so the app can access it in the frontend.

Getting Started

To run the web app locally:

First clone this repo, then:

cd hose-race
npm install
npm run dev

To explore the data folder, you'll need to install the Deno runtime.

Then:

cd hose-race/data
deno run --allow-read --allow-write --allow-net name_of_file.ts