A slightly less technical intro to the technical side of Bluesky

import { BlueskyPost } from "astro-embed"; Have we yak shaved enough yet on comments? I don't think we have, what's one more post among friends. The problem As mentioned in Bluesky Comments, my posting workflow doesn't allow me to know the Bluesky post ...

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash for decentralized social networks, implemented natively within AT Protocol.

Having comments on my blog with Bluesky is pretty nice, but what's not so nice is having to bring in the entire @atproto/api package. It seemingly can't be tree shaken down via Vite, so you end up with a massive JS file for comments. How massive is it? Mo...

Imagine it's the late 90s, and you want to see what the New York Times has to say about your favorite political topic this week. Now you've heard they've finally gotten on the InterNet? The World Wide Web? You're not quite sure what to call it, but you hav...

After being inspired by Emily Liu's post on how to do Bluesky comments, I thought I could add it here too, but with one minor plus to it. Emily's method was great, but required hardcoding the atproto URI into the post itself. That's a little hard to do wi...

26 November 2024 In the discourse it's pretty well established by this point that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralised, with Christine Lemmer-Webber giving us the most comprehensive breakdown. I've always been a little prickly about this. I like dec...

All the dust _should_ have finally settled from the tweaks I've made to the site. Now everything is one page which allows for fancy view transitions from my links right to the blog. I did break RSS again (sorry Joshua) but no way to do that migration nicel...

So, Bluesky is now a thing. I mean it was a thing before today, but the past week or so seems to have been the "screw it i'm outta here" moment for a lot of folks on ~~X, the everything app~~ Twitter[^1]. I made my account long before this Eternal Septembe...