AI & potatoes

niiice www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I22...

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @dholms.at, Head of Protocol at Bluesky, with a talk about the ATproto Ethos.

Have you seen the new blog post? It's on pckt. It's literally on bsky. It's a standard dot site record. It's literally on Offprint. You can probably find it on Margin. Dude it's on your pds. It's a Leaflet original. Go to atproto. Dive into atproto. Atproto has it for you. Atproto has it for you.

Interop is the future, once you taste it you can't go back to walled gardens Also - it was really inspiring & fun to work with @margin.at - happy to be building the Atmosphere's annotation layer together ;)

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

who's building this for atproto?

one of our competitors is now a major US military contractor with a global constellation of space lasers, whose leader chums around with heads of state, the international financial elite, and other members of a sprawling pedophilia conspiracy. so cool! 🚀📈✨

"brew install goat, goat firehose" is an activation phrase for sleeper agents

2026 is the year Bluesky and the Atmosphere really come alive here's what's next bsky.social/about/blog/0...

atprotoans using tap, important update here! if you build from source from indigo: git pull && git checkout tap-v0.1.4 go build -o tap ./cmd/tap <redeploy> if you run with docker: docker pull ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest <redeploy> (ensure to replace container!)

I second this. If you are running a tap instance if you could please update to this. If you have heard me talking about @selfhosted.social's high CPU usage, it was this. There was a bug where when a tap instance subscribed to a repo and the repo changed in any way, tap would download the whole repo

just published a fix for a bug in Tap that was causing over-fetching of repos when filtering based on collection if you're using Tap, strongly encourage upgrading (to v0.1.4)! you can upgrade to the latest by pulling ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest

Another perk of running your own appview, PDS and relay: When Bluesky goes down for others, it doesn't go down for you.

The killer app of atproto is interop

remixable social

The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/01/20/open_web

This is the most succinct version of a post I've been trying to write for two months. When I stop for just a sec to think about the possibilities of The Atmospheric web, I'm a little overwhelmed by how exciting it is. Come build it with us!

p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶t̶e̶ permissioned data

How to invent MST from first principles: 1. Start with a content-addressed data store i.e. a k/v store where values are immutable data and keys are hashes of the values. 2. Build a mutable k/v store on top of that. 3. Make it have nice sync properties (CRDT w/ structural {unicity, sharing})

oh yeah starting to feel like the atmosyear

The tools, apps, and features that AT Protocol allows are so radically different from what has existed so far It’s exciting to see the ecosystem evolving like this

i’d tell you what we’re working on but it’s private (data)

an everything app tries to do everything. an everything ecosystem lets everything get done

“the everything app” is a stupid, hopeless, harmful, no good, toxic, impossible idea “the everything ecosystem” is good, natural, resilient, attractive, sustainable, achievable, and currently within reach thanks to @atproto.com

the @dholms.at ideal diet is olives and ham

As I keep saying, the speed with which AT Protocol tooling allows people to move is impressive.

Thanks to Tap, I have a live, full database of all @standard.site publications and documents in... 250 lines and a couple hours, not having ever written code for AT. The rest is just serving an Atom feed from a local database. Kind of incredible! (But now sleep.) github.com/FiloSottile/...

okey actually published this one @atproto/[email protected]

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

gonna miss hailey big time. one of the best and most badass people i've worked with and genuinely inspiring to work alongside thanks for rockin with us the last couple years 🙏💙

good thread on syncing the entire atmosphere!

fun lil project for the last day before christmas this one goes out to everyone that put up with our shitty dx for the last couple years 💙 github.com/bluesky-soci...

Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >

gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr

lol my friend said to me that the ai coding tools are like if you got into being an accountant because you really liked doing math by hand and then the calculator came out and it's like well cool i guess i'm technically more productive but i don't get to do the thing i enjoyed anymore

rant nate.leaflet.pub/3mac4dcsums2h

I think this is far enough along to post about now pegasus, a pds implementation in ocaml, ~feature parity with the bluesky pds (minus app passwords because those are gross) repo includes various other atproto-relevant libraries in ocaml for interested sickos tangled.org/futur.blue/p...

Responding "but it's Christmas, sir" to literally everyone until Jan 2nd

Last week we released Tap, a tool to help you sync the Atmosphere, and it got me thinking about how revolutionary backfillability really is.

took a cue from @hailey.at & got a new handle 😎

I knew a protocol would be cool bro I told you bro

wow tap & quickslice in the same day. there's never been a better time to sync the atmosphere

If you want to make a copy of the entire Bluesky network (or some subset of it, or some other app built on atproto), Tap is now the best way do do it. I hope this will enable more people do do, for example, interesting social network analysis research

'tap' is a big deal for backend devs! it gives you more of the benefits of AT, and makes the interface simpler at the same time. it makes backfill easy enough that you can re-index the network as part of your ops workflow. handles re-synchronization so you never miss a record event...

finally landed it! Tap is your all-in-one sync tool for the Atmosphere: webhooks, backfill, filtering, signaling collections, no cbor/msts/signatures/cursors. this thing's got it all! give it a go and let me know what you think & if you run into any issues docs.bsky.app/blog/introdu...

everybody should be able to get through their day safely without faustian privacy bargains and barrages of targeted ads and adversarial slop

to sincere post a bit: the ability to receive important timely updates like this one, from regional govt and institutions like this over an open protocol (vs closed/proprietary platforms) is a huge part of why I work on AT

log in to any(?) atproto oauth app with handle "rr.dev.retr0.id" for a surprise