Chris van der Loo

@tynanpurdy.com told me that "imgur on ATProto" would be really simple to build. So, here's my "hello world" of ATProto projects: a free image upload service called @pixl.pics. Try it out at pixl.pics. It's simple: view all of your images, and upload more.

My first open source release: Tiny Tells! Six small status characters in one <tiny-tell> tag. They're animated like little cartoon characters, so a state change is a reaction, not an icon swap or a spinner. MIT licensed, 14 KB, no dependencies. tinytells.dev

The new documentary “You Can See Everything” places Nathan Fielder in an unsettling game of cat and mouse with Elizabeth Holmes—and unpacks whether she’s a master manipulator or just unable to distinguish fiction from fact, @davidlsims.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/9PCZ8ubX

I drove to the movie theater to watch a three hour documentary let’s go!!

Hi protocol friends! I've been cooking up a Very Large PDS (vlpds) implementation capable of scaling up to billions of accounts and down to just one. It uses Object Storage as its only state, supports HA operation, live scaling up and down, is feature-complete with the reference PDS, and is FOSS.

I’ve joined OpenAI! 😊

Finally built out a typeahead UI. I built an Astro component with limited JS and published it with npmx.dev/package/at-a....

Continuing my love affair with @astro.build, I built `at-astro`. It's an integration for Astro that manages the entire OAuth setup for ATProto AppViews and makes it easy to get an authenticated client. I just migrated @pixl.pics over to it!

Is ATProto private data usable for secrets?

My first conference is a wrap, what an amazing experience. The talent density of this community is amazing, and thanks to @tigerbeetle.com for bringing together these living legends to present!

I am really enjoying @tangled.org's CI setup. Nix pkgs, simple dependencies setup, and SSH progress is all very well done. I'm using Wrangler to deploy to @cloudflare.social, hoping that eventually there is a way to do OIDC with Tangled instead of long-lived tokens.

Our bonus July meetup recap is up, this time by @chrisvanderloo.com!

DOOMSDAY!

I would like to compliment @zschamis.com on his regular bathroom schedule, you have a very healthy gut flushes.app/profile/zsch...

SURPRISE EVENT. Boston is back for round 2 in July with a full on hosted Meetup. Talks, pizza, DJ, mingling. The whole deal. RSVP and let us know if you'd like to present!

What a week! 1.0 launch on Monday, 10k stars by Thursday. Thank you so much everyone for all of your support 😊

hello, world

new social engineering exploit just dropped

@hankgreen.bsky.social you keep getting SO CLOSE! It's AT Proto my guy!

Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/

I like that rewriting it in Rust has remained the goal just faster now

Finally!

coming soon: automatic PDS detection. selfhosters rejoice!

i am chris and im a vanderloo (dot com)

GOOD MOARNING #WWDC

I blew my entire signing bonus for my first job on this thing It was the worst financial decision of my life and I have no regrets

I believe I ran the first Bluesky-first congressional campaign in the country. Some folks thought I was nuts. But it was absolutely the best move. Bluesky has better fundraising metrics and engagement for candidates, and the site isn’t overrun with Nazis. Take note. youtu.be/XOfkMBMpw3s?...

this is my kind of company motto right here

@pfrazee.com Apple always does the hashmoji thing leading up to any event, hashmoji on Bluesky when 9to5mac.com/2026/06/01/w...

@brittanyellich.com congratulations, well deserved!

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

Introducing marque.at, a domain registrar built on the AT Protocol, made by the creators of @margin.at Check it out: marque.at

Wait until you’re questioning consciousness, you’ll finally understand why I had an existential crisis my entire first year studying cognitive science

Now, my personal blog includes posts from @offprint.app, @pckt.blog, and @leaflet.pub! And you can have that too, if you use Astro, `at-astro-loader`, and the standard site renderer.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there- also cat moms and dog moms I see you

I didn’t know it would declare my character across Bluesky. How fun!!

I don’t know why but I didn’t expect it to move that fast

Oh my god, I can’t wait. Biggest missing feature so far for me.