Jim Ray

Legend has it that there's going to be a robust tech-in-journalism track at Atmosphere 27. A community of hundreds of the most cutting-edge builders and thinkers on the internet will be there. You should probably apply to speak and share your work. Yes, you. atmosphereconf.org/speak

The Call for Participation for AT Protocol Devroom at #FOSDEM 2027 is open! 🥳 We invite builders, operators, researchers, skeptics and community members alike, regardless of background and past speaking experience, to submit a talk. More info 👇 discourse.atmosphere.community/t/call-for-p...

Creatives!! Artists, musicians, writers, game designers, content creators, culture makers and culture experts, members/curators of fandom! Please consider submitting an application to speak as part of the CREATE track at Atmosphere Conf 2027! atmosphereconf.org/speak

Do you, too, want the internet to be better — and have some ideas for making it happen together? Great post *and* a great example of our new "replies" block in @leaflet.pub! Reply with your own blog post (Leaflet or any @standard.site post) to extend the conversation in the atmo/blogosphere!

Would you look at that!

Webnerd.ai now supports Standard.site, @skyreader.app and @standard-reader.app across feed discovery, PDS ingestion, endorsements, and subscription syncing. Thanks for the push @captaincalliope.at!

Sign in and verify via ORCID and OpenAlex for the best experience. Lea is in open beta and is built by @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social and me. It's powered by the AT Protocol, so your social network on Bluesky already exists on Lea, and we can leverage it for the features you see above!

I sure did! It's an incredibly fast and light link aggregator, all data on protocol. It's got Bluesky post backlinks, upvotes, comments, all that good stuff. Let me know what features you'd like to see!

You know what the Atmosphere tab really needs, though, is a wealth of Atmospheric records. A surfeit even. @grain.social photos, @pckt.blog posts, @leaflet.pub letters, @offprint.app printoffs, @atmo.rsvp events — lexicons we haven't even dared to dream of yet.

Just remembered I recorded a delightful chat with the even more delightful @danhon.com then promptly went on vacation and forgot to promote it so here you go www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sid...

All I see on Bluesky right now: Ko-fi, Patreon, PayPal, Substack buttons 😅 No complaints. People leaving X built Bluesky's first wave. Creators who can make a living here will build the next one.

SW friends, OnlyFans and Fansly profile links should work now! Refresh or force-quit and reopen your app a couple times so you get the update

Exercise your writing muscles, delight your subscribers, and make new connections with creators. What’s not to like? buttondown.com/blog/nationa...

We're shipping CoPE-B-S1, an open-weight decision model tuned for safety use cases. It's a significant step forward for our CoPE family of models in a few ways. A thread: blog.zentropi.ai/meet-cope-b-...

NNW is one of my longest and most-used apps, this is amazing (for me personally at least)

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For anybody old enough to remember an "iPad" is like a big iPhone Duo that doesn't fold in half unless you *really* want it to.

You contain multitudes. Show us. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

🪐 spaces alpha release 🪐 folks, this is the big one! lots of updates across pretty core protocol mechanisms. hopefully the last/only of it's kind (tho we are planning another release next Thurs)

I'm going to be hosting a session at TPAC next week in Dublin to have an open discussions on how browsers could help with atproto, activitypub, lws, indieweb, more specifically with identity! www.w3.org/events/meeti... I'd love to see you all represented there, remotely or in person!

Happening now at Code BEAM: Chris Beck on "ATProto on Elixir"! Elixir + Rust scaling ATProto's DataPlane to millions of users on a fraction of the resources. Live demo on stage right now.  #CodeBEAM #Erlang

the last hour in the atmosphere, as detected by the new @atpota.to weather report ⛅️ 1. @standard.site 2. @grain.social 3. @sprk.so 4. delve.town 5. @puzzmo.com atpota.to/weather

Great to see the Coral Project extended to use atproto, it's a perfect use case. And a timely reminder to re-read bell hooks (always re-read bell hooks friends) www.justpolythings.com/product/appa...

That's right.

AT Protocol devroom is coming to FOSDEM 2027 🎉 @edouard.paris and I will open the CfP by October 27, mark your calendars ✍️

Atproto enjoyers: if I wanted an online multiplayer game to use atproto in some way, what might it look like? The most obvious/basic idea is login with atproto/bsky. What else might I consider? Ideally if scores are stored (for a leader board or something) they are tamper proof

the new atpota.to is out today!! ╰(◕ᗜ◕)╯ it comes with 4 new things to try: ⛅️ live atmosphere weather report 📬 a weekly atmosphere dispatch 💬 play/chat with @poe.atpota.to 🪴 gardens you can plant in more on each below 🧵

GM. We are going to win. An internet where 4 corporations wall us all into their surveillance state and make us pay rent forever is just incompatible with human flourishing. The only question is how long it takes everyone propping up history's worst billionaires to figure this out.

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

Programming note I’m on vacation through Tuesday 10/20 please route your replies and requests accordingly

Why Wednesday? Why indeed.

The last atproto spaces office hours was a success! Lots of good conversations. We'll be hosting another this Thursday. Come give your thoughts and feedback on the alpha!

I never need a reason to follow a new @jennschiffer.com joint, these are very good reasons nonetheless fridge-cigarettes.pckt.blog/ai-thought-d...

This is what I’m saying: AT Protocol isn’t a product feature. It’s a path for developers to promise credibly not to screw over their users.

Our sign-off for this one has been called "unhinged" but the only way for you to know is to listen to the full episode yourself. Are you up for it?

That's right.

I love this new feature we built for Roundabout. Our community members needed a way to message each-other with personal information, but no-one needed a new way for someone to slide into their DMs, or a new inbox to check.

If you're not tuning in for the livestreams (on @stream.place of course) you really are missing out

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

Now is a great time to let everyone know our VOD of last night's meetup with @pfrazee.com is available on @stream.place 💫 + a @nstar.social demo!

Spaces are, of course, being designed on top of atproto spaces. Give these early explorations a look, think of them as a starting point for Atmospheric communities that could begin in the app, then integrate atproto apps to build completely custom experiences for the people you care about.

and if you love our "What We're Reading" section (know you do!) it's now easier to see on the @niemanlab.org homepage good work by @joshuabenton.com www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/niem...

at a time where social media platforms encourage more performative and one-sided sharing than ever, we're excited to be launching features for more generative, participatory, and fun conversations. looking forward to everyone's feedback and to seeing what Discussions come 💬💜

Robin just gave the best pitch for the atmosphere that I’ve heard to date and put it in very understandable terms. Also the suit is even more incredible in person

If you're in Vienna and interested in the open web, I can *highly* recommend coming along to @atproto.wien meetups! The first three have been really fun, and we're starting to get a really awesome local community going 🦦