Bailey Townsend 🦀

Bandaid Engineer. I post mostly about coding, ATProto, embedded devices and things like that. Sometimes serious, mostly just killing time. 📍Middle Tennessee

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Longform Stories

Badger Badger Badger

A short write up about what Bailey had around his neck at #AtmosphereConf 2026

Apr 3·5 min read·934 words

PDS MOOver: The mobile app?

Questionnaire to help shape the direction of PDS MOOver's mobile app

Apr 1·6 min read·1026 words

Bitesize Proto: Two PDS containers at the same time; synchronized swimmers

Run two PDSs container instances on the same machine, or if crafty elsewhere.

Jan 23·5 min read·892 words

Bitesize Proto: Upserting ATProto Records

Tired of creating duplicate records in a repo from your atproto app?

Jan 16·7 min read·1224 words

Selfhosted Postmortem, Jan 13th, 2026

A trip through relay hell

Jan 14·2 min read·254 words

Help! I've migrated to a new PDS, and my Bluesky doesn't work

A checklist of things to check when you move to a new PDS and new posts don't show or your account doesn't load on Bluesky

Jan 7·9 min read·1723 words

Beyond the Statusphere: Part 2, ATProto OAuth, the TLDR

Gain a working knowledge of ATProto OAuth and feel confident implementing it in your projects.

Jan 2·14 min read·2684 words

Quick getting started notes on tap

Bluesky released a new backfill/firehose tool today called Tap. These are some quick notes on trying it out to make it easier for anyone to give it a go.