Kuba Suder's blog on Mac/iOS & web dev
I’m starting a new blog post series that I’ve named “ATProto in Practice”. I want to go through some practical tasks that you’re likely to need when working with the protocol, using Ruby and my Ruby gems for the examples. These will (hopefully) be a bit shorter than my standard book-length blog posts here 🫠 If you’re new to the AT Protocol and you haven’t…
I had a comments section on this blog since the beginning . I always felt like a comments section was kind of a requirement for a blog: it’s not just a website where you publish posts, it’s a website where you publish posts and other people can comment on them. I strongly disagreed with bloggers who openly declared that they’re removing comments from their blog because their blog…
A bit over a year ago, in the first week of January 2025, I migrated my main Bluesky account to my own PDS on a Netcup VPS. It’s been quite easy to set up using the official installer, and it’s been running pretty much without any problems or maintenance the whole year. Despite that, I haven’t been 100% happy with this setup for one reason: Docker. So I decided to try to take it…
(Last update: 16 Aug 2026.) I come across a lot of blog posts about the AT Protocol and Bluesky technicals – both on Bluesky official blogs and those of the team members, and by independent developers from the community. So many people are blogging now (especially now that Leaflet got popular in these circles) that I started using an RSS reader again just to keep up with everything. These posts…
Since June 2023, I’ve been running a service written in Ruby (Sinatra) that provides several Bluesky custom feeds (initially built with a feed for the iOS/Mac developers community in mind, later expanded to many other feeds). If you don’t know much about Bluesky feeds, you make them by basically running a server which somehow collects and picks existing posts from Bluesky using some kind of…
(Last update: 16 Aug 2026 .) Some time ago I wrote a long blog post I called “ Complete guide to Bluesky ”, which explains how all the user-facing features of Bluesky work and various tips and tricks. This one is meant to be a bit like a developer version of that – I want to explain in hopefully understandable language what all the pieces of the network architecture are and how they all fit…
So here we are, halfway through 2025, a bit over 2.5 years after the Eloncalypse… For better or worse, the Twitter as we knew it in the 2010s and the communities we had there are mostly gone. But it doesn’t feel like we’ve all settled on anything comparable. If you’re a software developer who was active on Twitter before, by now you’ve almost certainly tried at least one of the alternatives –…
Update 17.11.2025 : I’ve migrated this journal blog now from Micro.blog to Leaflet , a new blogging service built on top of Bluesky’s ATProto. I wrote about this here , the new URL is https://lab.mackuba.eu (I’ll add a redirect from ‘journal’ later). Just a quick update, if you’re following this blog via RSS: I’ve started a separate “journal”…
I’ve been still pretty busy with various Bluesky- and social-related projects recently, so here’s a small update on what I’ve been working on since my November post , if you’re interested: Skythread – quote & hashtag search I was missing one useful feature that’s still not available on Bluesky: being able to see the number of quote posts a post has received and…
(Last update: 16 Aug 2026 .) I’ve been a pretty active user of Bluesky since spring 2023. I enjoy it a lot, and I’ve managed to learn a lot about how it works, what works well and what doesn’t, and also what’s likely coming next. I’ve decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I invite them there, or the advice and answers that I…