Andy Piper<p>Quick post, mostly to journal things. This evening, I went along to an interesting talk about <a href="https://atproto.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ATProto</a> and its ecosystem, that was held at <a href="https://newspeak.house/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Newspeak House</a> in Shoreditch. This was a presentation by <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Dan Abramov</a>, one of the developers over at Bluesky1.</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/andypiper.me/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I’m on Bluesky</a>, and I use it from time to time. I’m interested in a couple of aspects of the underlying protocol, particularly the elements around data portability and the way that usernames are essentially tied to domains. </p><ul><li>I was also intrigued to learn about some of the services that are starting to build on the protocol, including <a href="https://smokesignal.events/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Smoke Signal</a> (in fact, <a href="https://smokesignal.events/did:plc:lehcqqkwzcwvjvw66uthu5oq/3l25s4podw32r" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here’s the event listing for the talk this evening</a>) – by contrast, I’ve been looking at similar services built on ActivityPub, such as <a href="https://gath.io" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gathio</a>2.</li><li>Dan showed <a href="https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a web-based explorer for ATProto objects</a>, which he described as an unofficial third party app. I thought that looked really nice, and useful, and had a nice fit with his description of the way that the data stores are organised.<ul><li>On the ActivityPub side of things, last week I came across <a href="https://browser.pub/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BrowserPub</a> which is a similar sort of tool built by <a href="https://podcastindex.social/@js" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">John Spurlock</a>.</li></ul></li></ul><p>Overall it was a good talk and event and very useful overview of the current state of ATProto (for me anyway – someone with an interest, but not the time to spend immersed in that world). Thanks, Dan!</p><p>Oh, and the <a href="https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/26/mnt-pocket-reform-a-literal-field-test/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Pocket Reform</a> drew a few curious onlookers and conversations 😄️</p><ol><li>I met <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bnewbold.net" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bryan Newbold</a>, one of the tech leads at Bluesky, at an event in Princeton back in the spring, but sadly didn’t get too much time to talk to him. ↩︎</li><li>We now use this for organising the <a href="https://techgrumps.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Techgrumps</a> podcast recordings; and, I had <a href="https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio/pull/172" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a contribution accepted</a> for Gathio earlier in the week. ↩︎</li></ol> <p><strong>Like it? 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