got postgres writing 262k rows/sec so that's probably good enough for fast plc backfill for now

so zeppelin.social is coming to an end was going to do a longform post but this'll hopefully help me keep it concise tl:dr; not a matter of expense or difficulty or anything, it's just done what it was meant to & I'd like to move past it now

this is a great and important effort! even with PLC moving out of Bluesky PBC it is important to have more replicas, especially with regional diversity and the ability to "step in" and accept ops if needed. strong endorse work in this direction.

it’s pancake day

💫 excuse: mount jetstream as a userspace character device on linux. src: tangled.org/@oppi.li/exc... here's a breakdown of atproto collection usage in a 5s live tail of the network using only coreutils and jq:

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sparse MST repo sync is anyone doing this yet

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btw we got the @upcloud.com sponsorship credits!!!!!!

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!! I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!

coneflower visitor (posted from @anisota.net )

microcosm.blue/Allegedly Public ledger tools, including a PLC copy machine: upstream /export -> PLC db ⭐️ 3

allegedly installable with `cargo install`, now more CLI-ish: allegedly tail | jq -r '[.did, .operation.alsoKnownAs[]] | @csv' allegedly --upstream plc.directory bundle --dest weekly

just realized you can throw `time` before `caffeinate` to record how long a command takes from the-time-you-remembered-you-had-wanted-to-time-it. i'm always caffeinating anyway. `time caffeinate -w <pid>`

I’ve also been looking at vertical scaling as well

horizontal scaling strategy for atproto infrastructure

one-liners from plc research dig +short plc.directory | xargs -I_ curl -s "https://ipinfo.io/_" | jq -r .hostname echo | openssl s_client -showcerts -connect plc.directory:443 2>/dev/null | grep issuer= curl -Is "plc.directory:80/foo" | grep Server (plc runs on aws behind elb, tls 2048bit rsa)

motivation to finally add host diffing to compare.hose.cam

Shout out to @str4d.xyz for shipping this for rsky-relay. 🦀 We do in fact have limited time and appreciate all the help we can get engineering-wise. List Hosts endpoint merged: atproto.africa/xrpc/com.atp...

full network backfill for constellation might be coming sooner than expected

parakeet.at/parakeet Parakeet is a Rust-based Bluesky AppView aiming to implement most of the functionality required to support the Bluesky client ⭐️ 24

(might have just made my most expensive ever domain purchase, ty friend-who-covered-it)

dolly the sheep was cloned 🥲

iiiiit's dolly! everyone, say hello to dolly. 🐑

didn’t know i needed curl-friendly record-as-json fetching, i am going to use this SO much

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just reminded of this, so great

for atproto devs, all the atproto tech news of the last week or so

working on "allegedly": some public ledger (PLC) tools, so you can just `tail` PLC, forward it, whatever. (...uhhhh so i guess PLC is currently getting spammed with trumpy ops)

PRs to this list of public relays are greatly appreciated if you find out about any others btw

Happy 1 year to me on Bluesky/ATProtocol 🥳. It has been a fun year and I am excited to see what the next one brings.

looking at about 3hrs for this PLC backfill run, down from ~12 if you only use bluesky’s /export i bet sub-one-hour is doable

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this is the big reason i think we need more people working on alternative appviews, alternative relays, and relay-less appview architectures and why im incredibly happy to see zeppelin be a thing and why i have the ideas i have and want to explore for lite selfhostable appview setups

double gzip 🫨

okay this is my weekend project. two days to spin up an appview indexing non-bsky PDSes only - shouldn’t be *too* bad I run a PLC mirror already, I’ll use relay.feeds.blue, and then my own appview code.

blacksky.app → pds atproto.africa → relay blacksky.community → app @blackskyweb.xyz → moderation @tektite.cc → migration assembly.blacksky.community → governance blackskyweb.xyz → marketing website rsky.satnav.dev → exported data explorer

I feel the same way a lot when deciding what open source project needs my energy to help the atproto ecosystem. I’ve been approaching it as “what comes first the chicken or the egg” and thinking “well we need both, so might as well work on one or the other and the rest will come”

fs.blog/gates-law/ It gets around! This gets into the sourcing and history.

my expectations for atproto doom me to be tired by everything what’s that thing about overestimating what can be done in the short-term and underestimating the long-term

postgres identifier case sensitivity is weird

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common nodejs

Reminder PDS MOOver is open source and all the atproto logic is in a single js file with imports. It is also only 2 methods. One to handle migration logic, then one to handled the PLC op. I tried to make it in a way that you can take that and make your own importer with a better UI if you'd like

1,000 repos on blacksky.app 👀

If you ignore invalid operations, the resources go way down This is from the PLC ddos/spam event earlier this year

dammit vultr

look i was gonna do it anyway but every step toward feels more urgent sheesh

plc.zeppelin.social, only serves /:did though

🎊 (i think we just doubled the number of indie public plc mirrors)