The AT-URI Syntax Mess
Why AT URIs are not valid under IETF RFC-3986, what the impact is, and some possible ways forward.
at:// pizza thoughts
mini-proposals, guides, ruminations, and other AT stuff
Latest posts
Giving Labels More Context
A small tweak to the labeling system to allow richer context and annotations
Firehose cursors could be improved somewhat
Some very in-the-weeds papercuts with event stream sequence numbers, and some ideas to address them
Lexicon Service Docs
Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines
Expanding the Lexicon Language
Proposes some small additions to lexicon schema language.
Blob AT-URIs
mini-proposal for referencing atproto blobs in AT-URIs
Community Spaces on AT Protocol
Scaled-down design patterns
Go Lexicon Struct $type
Hacking in 'const' output behavior
Big Indexing
A couple of weeks ago at Eurosky I talked to some friendly Erlang hackers who wanted to get involved with AT development. The AT network is a big data-intensive distributed system, and it is the sort of thing the BEAM runtime is well-suited for. I know Chad Miller has been using Gleam for parts of Slices , and services like relays, jetstream, and the forthcoming tap tool could all be…
Record Versioning
The people, they want post editing!
What's a Pizza thought?
When I first started working at Bluesky, the team was all remote and I worked out of a rented office. I'd almost always procrastinate lunch and end up walking to a nearby bakery for a late afternoon slice of pizza. Inevitably i'd end up thinking over little protocol warts and design challenges. Sometimes these related to current work priorities, but often they were tangential or just small things…
AT Namespaces for Community Spaces
How should public community-controlled spaces be represented in atproto?