Eric

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

we're testing a new beta version of the Notifications tab! it has new tabs to help you notice priority notifications, and it uses new grouping logic to reduce noise (e.g. when one person likes a bunch of your posts). disclaimer: it's a beta, not a final version. send us your feedback! :)

The beer gods have blessed me

quite the week

✨ New feature: you can now sign in to your personalized BallotReady voter guide to save your choices for later, so you'll be able to pick back up right where you left off. You can even use your existing @bsky.app account to sign in! Learn more: support.ballotready.org/article/841-...

Just got my ballot ready for tomorrow and was able to save it to ballotready.org with my Atmosphere account as a login 👀

End to End, DID to DID payment with @atcash.app Here’s a teaser. Lots more to come.

It started with a dream 20 years ago... 10 months of work with a lot of help from the AT Proto community, Bluesky, and friends. FreeMix is live!!! Open to all and all genres welcome. Free to join. I can't wait to see what you create. (oh and some exclusive tracks by me ready to be remixed)

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

Hi, we're HappyProto. We help you build on atproto... without the hard parts. You create the app, we'll run the backend: auth, private data, scripting, and an API over 46 million accounts. Welcome to atproto on easy mode. Join the waitlist at happyproto.at. #atproto

PSA it's important to take little bites and chew very slow

that basically explains why AI stuff blows it’s like auto-tune for ideas, like yeah you hit the note but you lose the subtlety, the richness, the soul

Thanks @jimray.bsky.team for having me on the pod to talk about @emdashcms.com, how I use AI coding agents, and why atproto is mostly an excuse to buy domains

What's more important in a mobile app: animations or features? Animations Features Animations are a feature Features are an animation Mountain Dew Baja Blast™ tap to vote anonymously results

If anyone is having issues loading Bluesky on web, lmk 🤔

The new revolution in democracy has arrived. Play The Onion Voting Simulator 3D Now available here: theonion.com/voting-simul...

we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀

wow

Use Attie to catch up on your Bluesky lore, and now share it with a card like this one

advice for junior developers: you are no longer a developer you are a builder you are a solution provider enter every room and make things happen learn when no one is watching create because you can fix problems because they offend you bend the world to your will and take credit

We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.

Ok, how are we feeling about the at-tags proposal? Small core, open to extension, seems like it's a good starting point to me 🤔

Sunday shopping

what a day what a day ☀️

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

ooooh shit this is fire 👏👏👏

Beer Tour of Europe 2027 starts here

Y'all ready to do some good this week? How I'd Fix Atlanta has once again partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help out a bunch of our neighbors. As always, we need your help. Please give what you can and tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...

Hey @iame.li am I right in assuming that a `place.stream.livestream` record without a end timestamp is still active? Or is there a better way to know which records represent currently active streams?

my two brains

common misconception: the human in Ratatouille (2007) isn’t called Ratatouille. he’s Ratatouille’s Monster

we're working on the v2 of our standard.site link cards. these cards currently link to both the article (top part) and publication (bottom part). they show a "Subscribe" button when possible, otherwise a "View Publication" button. what changes would you all like to see in the next version?

mmygod

We should really get an avatar made up for the atproto publication 🤔

there are currently 2,891,241,622 bluesky posts in the network what's a cool $14.5M to export between friends