My talk from #Atmosphereconf is available to watch! There has been so much energy around groups/communities on ATProto and I'm SO excited to see how things transform in this space!! youtu.be/GVOywon3X-Q?...

Since getting back from #AtmosphereConf I've spent days reading my notes and some of the material I’d bookmarked, posts I’d saved and photographs I’d taken, trying to get my thoughts into some sort of order. Still working on that, but managed to get out this: 🧵 experiments.myhub.ai/five_days_in...

What's coming is Stuxnet as a service, wielded by people with the impulse control of a bored teenager and the capability of a nation-state APT team. We have one to two years to pwn day.

Interesting paper from CMU, recapped by Mark Headd: the initial "sugar rush" of AI-enabled dev velocity creates tech debt, slowing feature development back to baseline after 2 months. (Mitigations include clear agent instruction files & agent-assisted review.) allthingsopen.org/articles/ope...

Next week on Friday I'm doing my first ever office hours! If you have questions for this is your chance! atmo.rsvp/p/thisismiss...

We’ve got not one but TWO special guests for office hours this week. atmo.rsvp/p/jimray.loc...

If you can't get enough of me up in your choobs, my Cirrus talk is now up

My AtmosphereConf '26 talk is available on YouTube.

Jim's talk is extremely useful to anybody doing backend work on atproto. He gives a lot of insight into what it takes to run our dataplane

Third parties from whom I’m inspired: @baileytownsend.dev for user agency and accessibility (what are the things people are going to want to do) @ngerakines.me for systems architecture and config @bad-example.com for protocol engineering “I should see what ${x} says. They think of everything”

who is developing a reputation for taste in atmospheric design? eg, in the 2010s era, I would refer back to Github URL path structure, APIs, and product design (even though I didn't use github directly very much). who is doing that for atproto lexicons, apps, etc?

Check out my short talk on some details on how we do systems at Bluesky! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T15...

I just thought of @brittanyellich.com 's article again. +1; a time of opportunity. brittanyellich.com/embrace-the-...

tfw @aaronstevenwhite.io brings an analysis as sharp as a knife to your half-baked Saturday-morning thoughts: aaronstevenwhite.leaflet.pub/3miwsz2hdv22i 🤯 If we're going to own our data, let's actually own our data. Which is to say: No, really, y'all, we're doing this. 💖🧠

Does @grain.social have their own backend, meaning different PDS, or does it re-use bluesky's?

📍 Oakland Oakland, California, US Bath time for the pugs, roommate dogs. https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:s53e6k6sirobjtz5s6vdddwr/gallery/3mix67ymdlh2m #grainsocial

Don’t miss this - it’s gonna be FIIIIIIIIRRE cc: @christian.bsky.social

We heard there's some atproto fans in Seattle? 🤔

TFW you are building a new web app, and you notice the placeholder content. #devlog

a new embed type lexicon is coming: `gallery` it will allow more images per post – perhaps up to 10 and it will eventually allow a mix of media types, e.g. videos as well as images this would be a great opportunity to allow optional license and attribution metadata, as @bnewbold.net has proposed

blog.railway.com/p/moving-rai... interesting

Some personal news: I've signed a contract for a book! It's called REGIME CHANGE and it's published with Princeton University Press. More details as they become available.

particularly excited about this because webrtc data channels mean you can add just about any p2p functionality. for example, you could get around the latency issues with my yjs demo by exchanging updates peer-to-peer rather than using the firehose.

The experiments that @jakelazaroff.com is doing around CRDT syncing and WebRTC signaling is pointing towards a future where the PDS is a server-based user agent. There's no reason that the PDS needs to be limited to storing static data.

Looking at github with someone new to it. "How can my branch be both ahead and behind?" Seeing things through fresh eyes, it is confusing. Probably could have found better language than "3 commits ahead, 3 commits behind source-repo/main" #devlog

Devs in the atproto community! I will be organizing some meetups in the near future and will be reaching out Also- don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to discuss the state and future of the ecosystem, what we’re doing with attie, or anything else. I can’t just … open my DMs but we’ll find a way

I made a thing

This is amazing: somebody has built the first hosting platform for EmDash. This is exactly what I hoped would happen. dashhost.io

this is so painful to read, i love it github.com/stephenturne...

One of the hardest things to get across to most software people with great intentions is *how strong defaults are* and how tired everyone else is of dorking around trying to get things to work, but this understanding is the thing that made Apple, for all its many flaws, such a giant.

frontendmasters.com/blog/the-dri... via @cassidoo.co 's newsletter Have been wondering how to do that. #devlog

This is good. www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode... #ai

did a little writing about Atmosphere Conf, hopefully ur not sick of reading about it yet 🙂‍↔️ brookie.pckt.blog/state-of-the...

Even when making "boring" web apps, there is enough new stuff to keep it interesting, imo. Not using passwords is my favorite. I have not seen this done really well in any app, honestly. Meaning linking multiple devices to a single user/account -- an opportunity for extremely good & new UX. #devlog

Trying grain.social , @grain.social grain.social/profile/did:...

I was going to go for a walk, but @rude1.blacksky.team nerd-sniped me into writing this, instead. I'm not upset, though. It turns out collective governance questions are a great lens for grounding/scrupling how we might do on-protocol collective governance.

Incredible article for UI developers: jakub.kr/writing/deta...

A question for people who think about these things -- what if i did passkey-only login? Meaning no password. Is that ok in 2026? #devlog

Since bluesky charts are going around again, here's some about non-bluesky atproto activity that I had buried in the middle of my talk. 1. Users: 2025 slowed, then recent growth. the atmosphere is *small*. it's *early*. 2,3. Development activity: constant steady growth user growth follows dev

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...

I've been working with @pvh.ca on a local-first task framework at @inkandswitch.com. It distributes computation across users' computers, keeps working while you're offline, and syncs results back to everyone when you reconnect. First lab note is up. www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

Some thoughts about AI-assisted coding and how it affects my brain. I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time. marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...

As promised, here's a quick write up of how my eink badge from @pimoroni.com that I wore at #AtmosphereConf worked.

I'm going to "Office Hours with Emelia". atmo.rsvp/p/thisismiss...

Always nice to see encryption in a mainstream publication. www.404media.co/a-secure-cha... via @404media.co #reading-list

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Is anyone running a local (disconnected from the public relay) PDS for "local stuff" and then shipping "public stuff" to a public 'mirror' PDS? I've been playing with some [new project] things and then realized that this is what I'm doing in a really organic / unintentional way.

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