at:// pizza thoughts

It's time to tackle one of the most unfortunate warts in the atproto specifications: that the AT URI syntax, as currently specified, is not a valid URI or URL.

Labels are a protocol primitive for composable annotation of accounts and content across the network.

The firehose mechanism in atproto has been working well enough for a couple years now, with several server and client implementations and hundreds of active deployments in the wild.

Lexicon publication has been a hit with developers, and powers some cool power tools like lexicon.garden (by @ngerakines.me) and UFOs (by @bad-example.com ).

I've got a bunch of protocol pizza thoughts bottled up.

In atproto, "blobs" are media files stored separately from repository records.

ATProto has shown that competitive "big world" product experiences can be built on an open and interoperable network.

Something I've been noodling on as side-project is improving the Go lexicon codegen ("lexgen") output in indigo.

A couple of weeks ago at Eurosky I talked to some friendly Erlang hackers who wanted to get involved with AT development.

AT has always supported record updates: the clearest example is updating bsky profile records.

When I first started working at Bluesky, the team was all remote and I worked out of a rented office.

AT makes it easy for individual accounts to publish things, and to build global aggregations from them.