Find Me in the Atmosphere

This weekend, I wired my website into the AT Protocol. It took an afternoon and one stubbornly old config file, and now my writing lives on the network itself. The short version: Bluesky rolled out support for Standard.site, a set of shared lexicons that let long-form writing live on the AT Protocol itself. In plain terms, a blog post stops being just a link you paste into an app and becomes real data on the network, discoverable and portable across the whole ecosystem people have started calling the atmosphere. The piece that makes this work is the ATmosphere plugin. I installed it here on pixelflips.com, pointed my Bluesky handle at my own domain, and now posts publish as Standard.site records straight to the protocol. My handle is @pixelflips.com — same as the site, which is the whole point. I won’t pretend the install was frictionless. This site’s config file turned out to be old enough to predate a security setting the plugin needed, so getting it running involved more spelunking than I planned on. Worth it, though. Once it was in, it just worked. So if you’re reading this, you can find me on Bluesky at @pixelflips.com, and anything I write here now travels with me into the atmosphere instead of sitting parked on one platform. Follow me there, or keep reading here. Same address either way. I’m looking forward to poking around the rest of this ecosystem. If you’re out there in the atmosphere already, come say hi.