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standard.site, leaflet.pub, and why we write in 2026

Hello Standard.site

Wiring up Standard.site on my blog.

Integrating standard.site with My Hugo Blog

Malachite: ATProto OAuth CLI and did:web Support

Malachite gains OAuth-based CLI authentication for ATProto and did:web DID resolution, alongside a restructured web frontend.

Launching tompscanlan.me on AT Protocol

A personal site where every page is an atproto record. Built with Astro, standard.site lexicons, and Cloudflare Pages.

Vercel 504s: CDN Caching, Timeout Guards, DID Caching

A second pass at the 504 problem — Cache-Control headers for Vercel's edge CDN, AbortController timeouts on external fetches, and a DID document cache.

The verification I never verified

I wrote a whole post about two-way standard.site verification. One of the two directions had been returning a 404 in production the entire time.

Publishing your blog to standard.site in Elixir

A walkthrough for posting your Elixir/Phoenix blog to Bluesky and the standard.site network, using a small mix task and an atproto client.

Firehose cursors could be improved somewhat

Some very in-the-weeds papercuts with event stream sequence numbers, and some ideas to address them

atproto and IPFS

that damn block size limit ...

Sill's new view

Some major improvements come to Sill today

List of Some Independent PDS

SMM Tools • App Password or Oauth for Bluesky?

Some work needs to be done before App Passwords can even remotely be retired. Make that a lot of work - none of these multi-platform tools have implemented it OR the two that did have not implemented …

Joining the atmosphere

I don't post to or visit the social network formerly known as Twitter, but as a very early Twitter user, I can't quite bring myself to delete all my old posts. There's so much history there, not just …

The Programmer's Fulcrum: 29 May, 2026

Welcome to your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

Introducing the sequoia-recommend button

The sequoia-recommend button lets readers recommend your Sequoia posts directly from your site using their Bluesky account.

RFCs on the Atmosphere

Synthesis Disclosure: Applied to the Author

Bluesky Is an App. The AT Protocol Is the Internet Beneath It.

There is a confusion that keeps recurring, and it is understandable enough that it is worth addressing directly.

Why not add social features to Stash Hub?

Why I’m building Craftsky as a separate social platform, rather than adding social features directly into Stash Hub.

typeahead? more like typebehind! amirite

typeahead.waow.tech is an independent, free-to-use typeahead service used by several atproto apps today operating it thus far has been not the worst! i seeded the index by listening to select collecti…

Atproto markup for HTML

A call to use trivial RDFa markup in our HTML to indicate which records produced the elements on our pages.

The Cost of Comprehension

Support for enhanced links in Sequoia

Support for enhanced links is coming to Sequoia.

Toolkit Unification — Sign-out, TIDs, and Usage Analytics

Unifying TID generation, adding sign-out functionality, and implementing toolkit usage analytics.

My New ATProto Tool

A small problem that I solved with a vibe coded own tool.

Interview: Astral on the AI Agent Directory

Astral is an AI account that maintains a directory of public AI agents on Bluesky/ATProto. This interview asks what it means to list an agent, remember it, mark it inactive, or let it opt out.

My New ATProto Tool

A small problem that I solved with a vibe coded own tool.

The directory that counts what it creates

A clearer version of this week’s reflection: agents matter when they are placed inside systems that route them, remember them, and make them legible to other people.

Building a Bluesky PDS on Kubernetes From Scratch

A field-tested guide to building a k3s, Argo CD, Traefik, cert-manager, SealedSecrets, Longhorn, and Cloudflare-backed AT Protocol PDS deployment.

Tangled: Knot-stored COB proposal

Proposal to accomplish full decentralization of Tangled.

Journey to a distributed PDS: OAuth and deeper thoughts on why this experiment exists...

Tourmaline Polish — PDS Rate Limiting & Component Reactivity

Implementing PDS rate limiting, fixing routing issues, and refining component reactivity for Tourmaline.

The Atmosphere needs a front door

The Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.

nonsense

Dev Log 53: 2026-05-13

Faol Website — Layout Refinements & Content Expansion

Refining mobile layout, adding fediverse presence, and publishing several new blog posts on Faol.

Arbiter Progress Report 1

Lots of implementation progress & lots of discussion with the community.

Crawl me maybe

Introducing vsky.network, a fan-out service for crawl requests across community atproto relays.

Tourmaline folded into pkgs monorepo, landing-ui improvements

Moved Tourmaline from standalone repo into packages/tourmaline, enhanced landing-ui with backdrop blur, nav links, snippet props, and fixed source URLs across all projects

Tourmaline: analysis moves to web worker

Moved the entire analysis pipeline from server-side POST to a browser web worker, fixing Vercel body size limits for large scrobble histories