Mack Hardy (@mackaffinity.bsky.social)

Mack Hardy

@mackaffinity.bsky.social

Founder at Affinity Bridge and worker-owner at CanTrust Hosting Co-operative. Working on responsible AI, self hosted infrastructure, open source

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Boris

@bmann.ca

31 July

There are many things being built on atproto. Many of them won’t get adopted or thrive. And yes, many are built without user research. It’s OK? Don’t use things you don’t want to. Promote things you like. And build something yourself if you feel like it. Do it the way YOU want it to be.

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@chrisshank.com

3 Apr

ATgeo really deserves more visibility for bringing open geolocation datasets into the atmosphere, both through community-governed lexicons and a search API.

Boris@bmann.ca

@schuyler.info shipped an ATgeo server atgeo.org Much like events "being dead" but everyone adopting the community lexicon, geo apps have adopted the community lexicon! The specific thing HERE is having an atproto native venue lookup. Which is shipped and running! We need to announce & socialize!

atgeo.orgATGeo: Places for AT Protocol — ATGeoA Place lexicon for AT Protocol and a lookup service for geographic venues.

Mack Hardy

@mackaffinity.bsky.social

29 Mar

Beyond spec driven development, taking about tracking human intent

Boris@bmann.ca

Chad @chadfowler.com speaking #AtmosphereConf about “The Phoenix Architecture” atmosphereconf.org/event/OD2G9j8 Reference tangled.org/chadfowler.c... Also atproto accounts + irc freeq.at

atmosphereconf.orgATmosphereConf 2026ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

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NorthStar Social

@nstar.social

28 Mar

Hey ATmosphere! Announcing NorthStar Social: a privacy-centered social network built for people, by people! Over the next few weeks we will be teasing our product's features in anticipation of our closed beta. We are excited to get your feedback! #ATmosphereConf

blog.nstar.socialBeta Announcement – People. Privacy. Period. - NorthStar SocialSign-ups now open for NorthStar Social's closed beta.

Mack Hardy

@mackaffinity.bsky.social

28 Mar

Super excited to be at @atmosphereconf.org Boris @bmann.ca welcoming everyone let’s connect

Mack Hardy

@mackaffinity.bsky.social

22 May 2025

I've been working on building AI agents in self-hosted environments, today's announcement about remote MCP support in Claude and OpenAPIs announcement earlier in the week are very exciting to see www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4 community.openai.com/t/introducin...

community.openai.comIntroducing support for remote MCP servers, image generation, Code Interpreter, and more in the Responses APIThe OpenAI Responses API now supports Model Context Protocol! You can connect our models to any remote MCP server with just a few lines of code. In order to best support the ecosystem and contribute t...

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