the Olympics and the World Cup are both gonna be quasi disasters and the airport train is way behind schedule but LA has still added more metro rail than anywhere in NA in the last decade and it rules that they’re approving the K line through Weho this week 🙂

I go to a *lot* of museums — it’s a perk of having to travel for work — and it’s always so nice to see school tour groups and families taking it in together. this is my local Armory arts center in Pasadena on open gallery night; great turnout. It’s not always so rough out here 🙂

between this and tranquil, reference PDS is getting scooped on account mgmt functionality (we are working to get that in!)

someone on marketplace has been trying to sell this couch for weeks and the price keeps getting lower and I just don’t think thats the issue

In honor of the upcoming motion picture Toy Story 17, I've started a new account called "GET IPAD" that documents the first time fictional characters from the past come across a smart device.

Saw this on the other app, made me chuckle. Who needs Claude Code when Chipotle's support bot is free

oh good they re-funded global entry!

OK! Thanks to @flo-bit.dev we have a styled workshop listing for Thursday / Friday up on the website atmosphereconf.org 🪿🪿🪿 Here's a quick look at the beauty, we'll do a longer news update with details and directions, and update with more links and content corrections.

continuing to build up our permissioned data protocol! this one asks what a bucket actually is and where the data that constitutes a bucket is stored. it argues for maintaining the atproto ethos in the permissioned data protocol as always, looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

This show's ability to make every cast change an event two years into its run continues to amaze. deadline.com/2026/03/maya...

I made this back in 2021 about the Ever Given but with the current news I keep having this horrible "Fitzcarraldo / Why don't you come to your senses 🎵" earworm (and I hate the eagles!) anyway, enjoy, still applicable webambler.com/kinski.html

introducing 👀 💨 atproto-smoke 💨: one of the most comprehensive smoke/e2e test suites, primarily for PDS developers clone the repo, write a very small adapter, give it two accounts and start the test! tangled.org/alice.mosphe...

intrusive thought: I should go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of cans of chili and pour them into my house’s gutters and then post a picture claiming I’ve blocked the Strait of Hormel

Added a little kapa.ai integration to the docs, please kick the tires for me!

"a mix between Amelia Bedelia and the guy from Memento" is possibly the greatest description of AI agents we will ever get

We were 179 last year and like ... 50 of those? were in the last week. We have two weeks to go...

I'll never forget the time I unthinkingly called @ruralindexing.bsky.social one of my favorite "bots"—then discovered that the proprietor chooses and posts each of these perfect photos individually!

Added a little kapa.ai integration to the docs, please kick the tires for me!

okay awesome! videos now no longer do the horrible dynamic audio adjustment, which should make music and other videos with dynamic ranges much more pleasant. I also fixed quiet videos getting boosted to oblivion enjoy this peaceful and quiet bird video!

perfect timing on this! we were just talking about putting together more complex learning examples for custom feeds 🙂

We're testing a *Pro* plan for publishers ✨🌱 One big feature to start — analytics (views, referrers, subscribers) — and adding more soon. Also just a great way to support Leaflet! $12/m or $120/y We'd like to test the signup flow with a few early adopters. If you're interested please reach out!

Hi! The Onion and Bluesky are throwing a party at South By Southwest in Austin on Saturday. It's free and spots are limited, so sign up nowish. We did this last year and only a handful of people died, so we're hoping to keep those numbers down once again! anormalfuckingparty.splashthat.com

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

do you want to go to ATmosphereConf this month, but can't make it to Vancouver? here's an interest check for hosting something in either Boston or NYC on the same dates to meet other ATproto developers!

Who is making this??! 👀

getting pumped for this — thanks @chaosgreml.in for all your organizing work! come meet the local community here in LA before AtmosphereConf! March 23rd!

Jay seized a historical moment and speed-ran Bluesky through some wild times. I'm glad she's found her own way back to the big picture. have had great conversations with @toni.bsky.team about standards work and open source governance. very important to have continuity of clueful leadership!

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

Jay built Bluesky from scratch and gave it a reason to exist. I'm excited to see what she'll do as Chief Innovation Officer, where she'll be able to focus on what she does best: pushing the vision of an open protocol forward.

Just merged a nice big Korean translation bring-up for atproto.com! Huge thanks to github.com/huketo

intrusive thought: I should go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of cans of chili and pour them into my house’s gutters and then post a picture claiming I’ve blocked the Strait of Hormel

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

feeling reluctantly glad right now that I am in fact the kind of person who books flights six months in advance

Somebody recently posted here about how people ai coding are able to solve their own needs but not make good software for other people. That tracks to me. That's where I think dedicated professionals could still be very necessary. Again, at the current model abilities.

both of these proved absolutely spectacular btw. super strong recs

huge news for games on atproto — noticed the @puzzmo.com lexicons on UFOs, their lexicons are currently the 3rd most-used lexicons in the atmosphere today, around 200-300 active users

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

a couple great surprises from this week that are brand new to me and will probably consume my weekend: - Medium Rare by A. Natasha Joukovsky (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813956...), killer read so far - Esoteric Ebb by Christoffer Bodegård, basically Discworld Elysium treasures everywhere 😊

just by coincidence my last two conferences have been Fosdem and SCaLE and it’s good for the soul to get the real open source roughage. gotta love a RISC-V booth

Smaller invite batch going out, plus a reminder to all folks who have invites and haven't used them yet! Apologies for the slowdown on invite pacing, the team has been busy preparing for ATmosphereConf, as well as on-boarding to a local co-op accelerator! Thanks for your patience! 🙏✨

The first at://news weather report is here, learn about what happened across the atmosphere this week and how we are exploring how to collectively-source future newsletters with your help!

Hit some point at the age of 38 where if I don't have a good night's sleep it's not that my performance at work will suffer or my concentration will slip. It's that I will not start up at all. Like an old lawnmower

Here are some @eurosky.social testimonials from Germany: "Since I joined Eurosky, I've been promoted, my wife and I sleep in the same bed again, and my children are talking to me again.“

I feel like every other day there's a new *thing* in the atmosphere. The academic publishing world is, by all accounts, pretty broken. Chive feels genuinely exciting, with all sorts of amazing possibilities opened up by atproto.

more good and sensible LLM coding takes from community implementers :)

This can't be the same brain that knew all the channel numbers

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