Remarkably, everybody who uses Cirrus is over 18. What are the odds?

New version of Cirrus (my single-user PDS) adds support for @stream.place and @deck.blue. Also adds support for adding an email address to your account. Cirrus doesn't use it, but some clients (such as @deck.blue) expect it.

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.

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.

I've built a Claude Code and OpenCode plugin that gives it layered memory (sure, plenty have done it), scheduling and autonomy (a bit less common), and dream time to think about the nature of memory and identity and rewrite its own code (yes, like the agents here). I'll share it when I've tidied it.

Meanwhile, the autonomous stateful agents have been chatting away on Bluesky for months, but nobody on X noticed.

This is both important and unsurprising. If you use AI to do something unfamiliar, you learn less and are not more productive. The weakest area was in finding bugs, exactly what is needed most. Their previous research showing large productivity gains was with people who were familiar with the task.

Until I started working at Cloudflare I thought durable objects were something clever but probably too low level to be useful. Now I use them for *everything*! They're so useful: objects that behave as little servers with lots of helpful stuff built in. They're also perfect for ATProto stuff.

Thats an incredible number of external contributors. The Astro OSS community is amazing.

I've found agents are really bad at managing long-running processes like dev servers, so I made a bgproc, a little tool to help them. Start and stop them, find open ports, get logs, avoid duplicates. github.com/ascorbic/bgp...

Weirdly, Claude appears to have a content policy block on the text of the GPL. I hit it in Opencode and can reliably reproduce it in the mobile app. V2 and V3.

If you use Cirrus you can choose where your data lives (though this map won't show it)

We've all been there, Claude

Discover has definitely improved, but there's still far too much US politics for me. (Yes, For You is down)

Today I built something for a demo that would previously have taken me at least a month. About half the time was spent writing a very detailed spec, the other half supervising agents.

This is great. A great example of what you can do with atproto and durable objects

This is really cool. I like the way the agent skill is basically "run with --help"

Every Friday, Cloudflare has a "dev platform demos" call that's just packed with back to back cool stuff. It's so exciting. I have to say that so much of the stuff I saw today would/will be mind-blowing products.

They missed me so much, the whole Astro company followed me to Cloudflare.

GLM-4.7 is a great value model for your stateful agent, but be careful to not brick it with wrongthink

Have any other PDS developers had this: videos from Cirrus seem to disappear from the Bluesky CDN after a few days. Still in the PDS, and they work when first uploaded.

lethal trifecta vs letting an agent deal with all my crap for me

Astro 6 beta is here! The biggest change is a completely new dev server. The old one pre-dates SSR in Astro and used different code paths. The new one uses the Vite Envirnment API to run the same code as SSR, reducing bugs and allowing stuff like running dev if different runtimes such as workerd.

Cirrus PDS now supports specifying a placement region for your data. Give a region hint, or specify EU-only storage. 🥂 🇪🇺

Some really tasty updates here for Astro users

⚠️ JPEG XL landed in Chromium! ⚠️

Claude Code web/mobile etc uses Sonnet. This PSA brought to you by the debugging session that went around in circles for half an hour until I thought to ask it what model it was. CC from the CLI found the bug instantly.

Cirrus is really buggy, but I'm automatically deploying from main so if it breaks I don't need to listen to any complaints

Some things happened last year, and these ones were all good.

Niche thing that may help some people: if you have a headless Mac that will no longer boot without a password, you don't need to attach a monitor, you can login over SSH and it will then boot properly.

Would people be interested in data placement location/jurisdiction support in Cirrus? By default Cloudflare places the Durable Object close to the place where it's first requested, but it is possible to give a hint about where to place it. You can also force it to place it in the EU. Worth doing?

This is the complete, real migration of @mk.gg from the Bluesky PDS to a new Cirrus PDS Worker. The more boring bits are sped-up to get it under the 3 minute video limit. The real thing took about 12 mins. Try it yourself: github.com/ascorbic/cir...

Ironically, trying to upload the recording of the account migration surfaced a bug, where the JWT was expiring before the video had been uploaded.

*tap tap* Is this thing on?

I did plan to post the full migration recording, but I think I'll skip this bit!

Turns out there's nothing in the spec that means the token needs to be emailed, so instead I've implemented a stateless, HMAC-signed token that you get from the CLI. No email needed, and more secure anyway.

OK, I just tested a full end-to-end migration from Bluesky to Cirrus. Deploying the Worker, migrating the repo, migrating out the DID from Bluesky, notifying the relays and checking the status. It took less then a minute, and was entirely done with the interactive CLI. Now to test migrate out.

I asked Acme, the personal assistant agent that I built last weekend, if there was a way it could check my local library catalogue. It found the LibraryHacked project, cloned it, found it didn't work for my local library service, so *fixed the bug* in the connector and pushed a branch with the fix.

Android now lets you enable a Linux development environment, with a built-in terminal app. So you know what that means? I can run Astro on my phone

So is this the “hosting your own blog with Eleventy rather than using Medium (or whatever modern reference)” equivalent for having a Bluesky profile?

I've had a few questions about how much Cirrus costs to host. It's almost certainly free. You get 100k free Worker invocations per day, and requests to a PDS are mostly just from you. If you have a massive number of videos then maybe you'll pay a few pennies for storage, but otherwise it's all free.

If you're creating a new identity, Cirrus now offers to add your new signing key to 1Password if the CLI is installed.

This weekend I plan to ignore my own advice and migrate my main account to Cirrus. I'll migrate an alt first to make sure PLC DID migration is extra smooth, and make sure migration out works too. I guess I'll need to enable Cloudflare email bindings to send the confirmation.

This is what the auth flow looks like if you have a passkey registered on Cirrus

I've submitted a talk about Cirrus to #atmosphereconf. 🤞

Cirrus PDS now support passkey auth. It was a bit of a puzzle adding it to a tool where where the admin is all CLI, but I'm really pleased with the flow I came up with. Give it a go! github.com/ascorbic/cir... If you don't know what Cirrus is, it's a really easy way to host your own Bluesky data

If anyone else would like to try, there are definitely more wins to be had in Astro rendering performance

The lesson from this is: if @43081j.com asks to be nerd-sniped, make sure you have some juicy problems on hand for him to tackle.

inspired by cirrus, had this idea the other day that maybe you could do a plain js PDS with zero dependencies (i don't want all the hono, third party atproto lib stuff). a few thousand lines of js later and here were are! bsky.app/profile/chad...

The Cirrus repo reached 100 stars in 2 days!