AtmosphereConf Interactive Transcripts using Hyperaudio by Mark Boas
Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social saw our 2025 AtmosphereConf talk archive, and suggested that his Hyperaudio transcript tool could be used as part of…
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Atproto NYC Community Day 2026 Happening Next Month
Last year we had an atproto aligned Protocols for Publishers event at Betaworks, followed up by a full #Atproto_NYC community day and evening event…
Support Erin Kissane in making "A Cloud Atlas"
Erin Kissane is going to be conducting a series of interviews and research to produce A Cloud Atlas, an ecosystem map of atmosphere apps beyond…
Continue reading on Unthread
The design rests on three layers:
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…
Looking Ahead with HappyView
HappyView is a hell of a project. It's ridiculously fast, it's chock full of big features, and it does an excellent job of providing the tools you…
HappyView v2.10
This one's been a long time coming. HappyView finally has a real AT Protocol identity, can do service proxying, and permissioned spaces got a big…
ATmentions
Webmentions for the ATmosphere — a tiny open-source widget that shows how the atproto network reacted to any page, with no accounts and no lock-in.
Skyreader update - Bookmark syncing to Semble/Margin and Standard Reader Collections support
Sync your reading list across the Atmosphere. Read magazine-like collections.
Some thoughts on extending lexicons
Good write up with an example of mu’s editing extension of how to extend lexicons.
In Search of Podcasts
HappyView v2.9
2.9 is a big one. Scripts got an overhaul, backfill got way faster, and there's a mountain of bug fixes and performance improvements across the board.
ATStore, the Atmosphere Directory, and Community Involvement
A couple weeks ago, Andrew Lisowski launched ATStore, an app directory for the Atmosphere. He’d begun work on it 04/08/26 as he, just as many of us,…
HappyView v2.8
v2.8 is mostly bug fixes, but Backfills did get a serious overhaul. The permissions page was also rebuilt to be much more useful, and the docs site…
HappyView v2.6 + v2.7
Two releases in two days. v2.6, followed closely by v2.7. Neither one has a single marquee feature like Permissioned Spaces, but together they make…
The Atmosphere in Berlin this July
The atmosphere community is descending on Berlin this summer, with two back to back events happening. Let us know if you're coming, and let's find…
Every App is an "Everything" App In the Atmosphere
HappyView v2.5: Permissioned Spaces
HappyView 2.5 is out, and it ships with one of the most anticipated features in the atproto ecosystem:
What my chess app taught me about the future of multi-user software
Reminder: Open Social Awards Deadline this Friday, May 1st
New_ Public @newpublic.org , PublicSpaces @publicspaces.net , and Waag Futurelab @waag.org are hosting the first Open Social Awards.
Releasing HappyView 2 Into the Wild
I originally built HappyView because I needed it for my own atproto project, Cartridge. v2 is still built for my needs, but now I can hand it to…
New blog and first release of Atmosphere Community
We are in the midst of making a bunch of changes, so your first intro to the new blog was likely the August 2024 Tech Talk introducing Frontpage,…
Using @semble.so for link blogging
Proof of Work
When I published The Marshmallow Test, I expected some engagement. What I didn't expect was how many Atmosphere builders would reach out saying it…
Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)
I'm coming home from ATmosphereConf filled with hope and a renewed sense of purpose. I want to talk about why. But first, some context. The problem…
W for ATProto
A new platform, W, aspires to be European alternative to X. This has a lot of people annoyed that more silos are being created, rather than choosing…
Announcing ATmosphereConf: Vancouver, March 2026
The next ATProto Community Conference is coming to Vancouver, Canada, March 26th to 29th, 2026. You can read the full announcement on Leaflet, and…
The First Indiesky Grant: Northsky
Today we’re announcing our first Indiesky grant, a $5000 USD contribution to NorthSky, their PDS migration tools and the migration efforts for their…
ATProto NYC Community Hack Day & Evening Social
We're hosting an all day community hack session in East Williamsburg on Friday, August 22nd for the ATProto community, plus an evening social of…
Tech Talk: Smoke Signal Turns One
It's been a while since we've done a Tech Talk, and we're going to celebrate the Smoke Signal re-launch, open sourcing, and 1 year anniversary. Nick…
IndieSky working group, 50K donation from Free Our Feeds
We're pleased to announce the kick off of the IndieSky working group, including an initial donation by the Free Our Feeds team to support…
Notes from Ahoy IndieSky Europe
After a high energy day at the first Ahoy conference in Hamburg, Germany, we hosted a day of discussions about IndieSky: running independent…
ATmosphereConf Follow Up: Feedback Wanted!
We're almost two weeks post ATmosphereConf Seattle and it's been so great to see the continued momentum and energy of the community that gathered. We…
Location Data on AT Protocol, the second Community Fund project
Foursquare has recently released OS Places, a no-charge, openly licensed high-quality point of interest (POI) data set. There are over 100M+ global…
Introducing the AT Protocol Community Fund
As part of organizing the first ATmosphere Conference, we have been accepted by the Raft Foundation as our fiscal host. The project is called the AT…
Kicking off the ATproto Swag Team
The first ATmosphereConf is quickly approaching and we would love to have some swag to remember it by. The conference is organized by a team of…
Bluesky talks and additional sponsors
Yes, of course the Bluesky team is joining us in Seattle! We've got a couple of talks to share and more sponsors to thank with this post. Bluesky…
ATmosphereConf Call for Presentations & Initial Speakers
Welcome to the end of January in the ATmosphere and Happy Lunar New Year! The ATProto community's enthusiasm has been fantastic and we've connected…
Tech Talk: PMsky, enabling Peer Moderation on Bluesky
Drew McArthur is building PMsky, a tool for peer moderation on Bluesky, where users can participate in voting on labels that have been applied to…
ATmosphereConf: Confirming Seattle, Organizers, & first sponsor
We're about 2 months away from ATmosphereConf, so it's time to provide some updates! We're confirming two important things:
Tech Talk: ATMosphere Experiments for Fujin and Beyond
Join us for a presentation by Ms. Boba, founder of FujoCoded. FujoCoded teaches the fanworks community web, programming, and git fundamentals, as…
Tech Talk: Building Long Form Blogging with WhiteWind
Yes, you can post more than 300 characters to Bluesky! WhiteWind is a Markdown blog service built on AT Protocol by K-NKSM. You use your atproto…
ATmosphere Conf Call for Interest
The ATmosphere is what we call the wider network of AT Protocol based data, with many of the early builders including Frontpage Links, Smoke Signal…
Tech Talk: Trezy and the Games Industry Labeler & Game Dev Feed
Trezy runs the Games Industry Labeler and a Game Dev feed. What does that mean??? It means that he has created and manages a custom feed, and is…
Building Transparent Algorithmic Filters in AT Protocol with Sky Feeder
If the original sin of Web 1.0 was the pop-up ad, the original sin of web 2.0 was the move to algorithmic feeds. Opaque optimization strategies aimed…
Tech Talk: Rudy Fraser on implementing AT Protocol in Rust for Blacksky
Rudy Fraser has implemented AT Protocol in Rust to support the Blacksky project: Building custom social media algorithms to promote and amplify Black…
Tech Talk: Builders of ATProtocol v1
Welcome back to ATProtocol Tech Talks! For the November 7th edition, we'll be hearing from a number of builders who are creating on top of…
Tech Talk: From Feeds to Labelers with Ændra Rininsland
Ændra Rininsland is joining us to talk about her work on Bluesky and AT Protocol, including running Bluesky's largest News feed and implementing the…
Tech Talk: Smoke Signal Events
We'll be hosting developer Nick Gerakines, creator of Smoke Signal, an Events and RSVP protocol. Nick has has an extensive background in social…
Tech Talk: Frontpage link aggregator
Welcome to ATProtocol Development's first tech talk, and thank you to Tom Sherman from Frontpage for being our first presenter.
Bluesky and DID PLC
Bryan Newbold, protocol engineer for Bluesky, joined us to discuss DID PLC, a self-authenticating decentralized identifier that is key to account…
Bluesky and DID PLC
Bryan Newbold, protocol engineer for Bluesky, joined us to discuss DID PLC, a self-authenticating decentralized identifier that is key to account…
Tech Talk: Frontpage link aggregator
Welcome to ATProtocol Development's first tech talk, and thank you to Tom Sherman from Frontpage for being our first presenter. Join Tom for a…
Bluesky and DID PLC
Bryan Newbold, protocol engineer for Bluesky, joined us to discuss DID PLC, a self-authenticating decentralized identifier that is key to account…