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Brian

@brianell.in
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tinkerer and product builder. working on @doing.tools and making @obob.dog with my kids. helped build twitter, medium, and a couple of ebike businesses. here to learn!

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Brian @brianell.in · 20/10/2025
I've been exploring some ideas for activity sharing and adventure route planning on atproto - will be looking for folks to help start testing soon. Here's a quick look:
Screenshot of doing.network prototype build
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Brian @brianell.in · 17/10/2025
I asked Claude Code to build a joke based network using the atproto skill, and it pretty much one-shotted this app complete with lexicon validation, jetstream integration, etc. Wild.
Screenshot of a joke based atproto app demo.
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Brian @brianell.in · 06/10/2025
Riding bikes with Benson Boone
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Brian @brianell.in · 22/06/2025
Rosie also enjoys “walks”
Dog on walk looking for belly rub and trying to roll in smells
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Brian @brianell.in · 29/05/2025
two trays of homemade granola
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Brian @brianell.in · 21/05/2025
Ah okay. It looks like there may be something wrong with your config or auth given that the call to get-my-handle-and-did call is failing. It should behave like this:
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Last one for today, not on a trail but in the middle of the woods
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 18/05/2025
Going for a walk. Here are some lamps I like in the neighborhood park
Lamp in mt tabor park
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Brian @brianell.in · 04/05/2025
Half the fun of this game is figuring out how to play
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Brian @brianell.in · 29/04/2025
Making cranberry beans in the Rancho Gordo manner. At the “show them who’s the boss” step. #beansky @ranchogordo.bsky.social
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Brian @brianell.in · 23/04/2025
Donuts for the #earthday Glencoe Bike Bus today! @glencoebikebus.bsky.social
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Brian @brianell.in · 10/04/2025
Woof!
Rosie
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Brian @brianell.in · 10/04/2025
My dog Rosie has unique facial markings, and I have been trying various AI tools to make accurate drawings of her. Even the fancy new ones seem incapable of replicating her markings, presumably because they haven't seen dogs like her in the training data? Always a white line that goes to both sides.
Rosie the hound pitbullAI Rosie with inaccurate face markings on a skateboard at burnside skatepark
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Brian @brianell.in · 09/04/2025
Refused party program
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Brian @brianell.in · 09/04/2025
Hardcore date night
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Brian @brianell.in · 08/04/2025
Also added a `get-followers` tool, so now you can do stuff like "Who follows me on bluesky? Who am I not yet following that I should follow back and why?"
Demo of get-followers MCP tool
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Brian @brianell.in · 06/04/2025
It is Trillium season
Wild Trillium flowers in mt tabor part, Portland Oregon
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Brian @brianell.in · 02/04/2025
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 for Switch 2 will have Nora Vasconcellos and an underwater Spongebob level. So good! It's like they called my daughters and asked what they want for their skate birthday. 🤙
Nora Vasconcellos in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 Nora skating bikini bottom in the spongebob world
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Brian @brianell.in · 23/03/2025
It allows you to give MCP clients (like Claude, Cursor, etc) access to "tools" that can interact with atproto/bsky APIs on your behalf (think search, feed reading, profiles, etc). Here's an example with trends:
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Brian @brianell.in · 22/03/2025
Let’s go Thorns!! #BAONPDX 🌹
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Brian @brianell.in · 22/03/2025
I’ll be there as well - will keep an eye out for ya! Here’s a sample interaction, asking to summarize multiple feeds and find a recommended read based on my likes
Interacting with the Bluesky api via Claude
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Brian @brianell.in · 04/03/2025
Hi! Looks like the link you posted isn't working?
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Brian @brianell.in · 21/02/2025
At an @aipdx.bsky.social panel on education, and feel compelled to share a fun milestone for @obob.dog - hundreds of OBOB kids are doing thousands of battles daily to collaborate and study for Oregon Battle of the Books. 2.5k yesterday 📚🐶⚡️
AI Portland panel photo Chart of OBOB.dog usage
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Brian @brianell.in · 19/02/2025
Looks like the meeting is at capacity. Can you open up more space? I'd love to join!
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Brian @brianell.in · 14/02/2025
Mount Tabor ski report #pdx #pdxtst
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Brian @brianell.in · 13/02/2025
Mount Tabor sled report #pdxtst #pdx
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Brian @brianell.in · 06/02/2025
👋 @mrwolfcomics.bsky.social, my daughters go to Glencoe Elementary and together we made a free game for kids to explore Oregon Battle of the Books called obob.dog (@obob.dog). We love your books, and were wondering if you'd be open to helping us draw a logo for the site inspired by our dog Rosie.
Rosie the hound dog (puppy)Rosie the hound dog being silly with glasses on and licking her noseBig rosie sitting in a chairRosie the hound dog chewing a bone
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Brian @brianell.in · 31/01/2025
The bookmarks are stored in a private @notion.com database, which I'm able to add to directly via the @bsky.app ios app share sheet. The share to notion feature lets you pick which database to share to, and then adds a new row with the link.
Bluesky ios app share sheetPick your databaseLinksNewly bookmarked item in the custom bookmarks feed
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Brian @brianell.in · 29/01/2025
It's fun when you make something weird for yourself (and family), and other people end up liking it too.
Graph of obob.dog web traffic, up and to the right.
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