Interestingly, today's fediverse arguably decentralises apps but not data — you can't use any app with any data, your data is held by one copy of an app

Atproto decentralizes data not apps, and that’s very confusing to a bunch of people

Did anyone try to build atproto gravatar yet?

People don't actually participate in democratic processes in their real life. The mess of it. The sense making. The emergence. Part of becoming a virtual third place is creating opportunities for that. It is one of our pillars.

I've been looking at `html` tagged template literals again and man the state of things sucks. I'd be so happy if @developit.dev `htm` was the accepted format and we could just get typing going, but as usual there are competing standards and in a lot of ways it makes sense.

Exciting stuff! This would be a game changer for frameworks. I have been hoping this cow path could be paved for a long time 🙏

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

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I wrote about how to cajole a LLM into referencing the APG in a way that doesn’t make things worsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ericwbailey.website/published/he...

Genuinely incredible deep dive into ASCII rendering optimization. At a certain level of polish, the line between engineering and art gets very blurry. The superb writing is just a cherry on top.

Astro clack PR merged! 🎉 Very good work by @florian-lefebvre.dev , this helped us put a bunch of fixes in clack too

it is infuriating that agentic development is finally forcing people who lack empathy to take documentation seriously because the pain new contributors feel is just now impacting them for the very first time, but let’s take the w and refuse to surface info exclusively for agents

Hoping to write up an article on this soon. Despite our communities currently operate in multiple closed ecosystems, the atmosphere allows us to bring valuable signal from those ecosystems out into the open

It looks like it was just a matter of time before AI agents began contributing to open-source projects. Since there's no way to flag them yet, I built an app that flags bot-like behavior using the GitHub API and an opinionated scoring system. agentscan.netlify.app?user=matteog...

super happy to see @bomb.sh clack hitting 5M downloads/week this month! its been great getting 1.0.0 released after all this time

So @bomb.sh clack accepted a PR here—the fix was legit, the PR included respectful back-and-forth, with only one red flag in retrospect. Automated reputation farming like this has an extremely high abuse potential with very low chance of detection. Maintainers are not equipped! See for yourself.

You can thank @erika.florist for researching and writing @astro.build's guide to writing error messages!

Imagine paying for a Super Bowl ad full of puppies and having it backfire this hard

Twice a year I get contacted by someone who believes they've solved open source funding. It's usually a new app or licensing scheme. Both miss the point. Most companies see sponsoring open source as "charity" or an unnecessary expense, and until that changes, no solution will make a difference.

it worked! keytrace.dev/@danabra.mov

Soft launching my Keybase on atproto alpha: @keytrace.dev Basically the identity verification system from keybase/keyoxide but storing the identity claims on your registry and signing them based on keys in mine. It is not focused on PGP, but on making it possible for social apps to handle identity

Feels like now might be a good time to point at the sign that says “Just because you're part of one marginalized group doesn't mean you understand all marginalized groups” The more poignant of that is that yes, trans women can be racist, and yes, black people can be transphobic.

fwiw @piccalil.li is a shining example of how to build communal infrastructure that supports fellow open source engineers/educators 💛

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

I guess we gotta repeat it for the folks in the back: I've never seen a project like Blacksky over years of watching social platforms. It's remarkable in many ways. That Blacksky is out in front on both community and technical leadership is something the Atmosphere is incredibly fortunate to have.

Yeah if you want to make an atproto app that has other off-protocol features that’s fine If you want to have private posts exclusive to your app like Blacksy did that’s cool You don’t need to slippery slope everything

I've been trying to figure out how to pitch Bluesky integration for @puzzmo.com - I have 4 main goals: - Follow @puzzmo.com - Sync your bsky + puzzmo followers - Use a bsky labeler for a 'streetpass' for Puzzmo users - Put streak/stats in user registry so other apps can use it Interested in ideas!

AI is great because it brings the terror of getting hit with a massive surprise cloud bill to the practice of writing code on your own machine. That’s innovation baby!

extremely common green bros w, and a move that shall henceforth be known as the "reverse openai"

service + lexicon that enables verified linked account claims with attestation - sign into verification service with your atproto handle - oauth into third-party services - signed attestation written to your repo - apps can trust links w/ one xrpc call to verifier #atdev #stealmyidea

Thought I'd talk a bit about npmx likes and how they work. - They are on atproto - The source of truth is from constellation 🌌. We get the total distinct did count, and if you have liked it - Likes are cached server side for 5 mins. - Uses the package url as the key to the record.

Processing instructions are back baby! Fun fact: my first islands prototype abused processing instructions for island boundaries so HTML minifiers wouldn’t strip them like comments. And HTML parsers convert them to comments anyway. 🙈

I've built Macrodata: a plugin that gives Claude Code and OpenCode self-organising memory and autonomous scheduling. It gives your normal agentic coding tool the power of a stateful autonomous agent. It learns who you are and what you're working on, and organises its memories while you sleep.

using claude code at a standing desk feels like DJing

*Great* example.

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Absolutely worth the read! Docs are the heartbeat of your community.

Another 🚀 performance for Astro in the new State Of JS survey. Number 1 metaframework for interest, retention and positive sentiment for the third year running.

ATProto is now in IETF standardization process. BOF stage passed at IETF 124 Dublin. Working group formation is next. datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

New Node.js codemod ✨ Migrate from Chalk to Node.js util styleText nodejs.org/en/blog/migr...

I loved working full-time on @vite.dev hired by StackBlitz. High praise to companies hiring OSS devs! But as I did when starting @vitest.dev with @antfu.me, for this new community adventure, as project steward of @npmx.dev together with @danielroe.dev, I'll be going independent. Here we go again ❤️

there’s never been a better time to switch to Progressive Web Apps on your phone, from Apple’s out-of-control fees, to removing public safety apps like ICEBlock, to apps accessing more of your data than you realize. odds are that “native” app is just a webview anyway 😉 www.pcmag.com/explainers/h...

It's been a fun week or two - @npmx.dev launch - @bomb.sh launch - @e18e.dev project leads team created - Google sponsors e18e Much more to come I'm sure!

All my projects tend to have the same redirects /chat -> discord /on/:platform -> other social /gh/:repo -> repos Put together a lil @bomb.sh page to surface these!

zero context spoilers 📈🦀🌊💥

In case you missed it: we published an overhaul of the old Mocha website. It's on @astro.build Starlight and has most of the same contents as before, just separated into granular pages. 🤎 Next up will be auditing those pages to be more comprehensive and correct. Voila!

adding social features to our websites will accelerate atproto adoption faster than building pure atproto apps

trying something out