Some unusually shaped data enraged the Bluesky relays and they proceeded to attempt to murder my server.

standard.site is a huge success as an atproto community lexicon, but there's some stuff we can improve, let's talk about it!

I built an atproto backlink index using Latch for primitives and Kite for the jetstream, and I sped it up with some neat bloom filter and erlang atomics action.

As a little passion project I built an atproto link aggregator service in Elixir and this post goes into some detail about why I'm doing this and how it works.

After 1Password's recent political statement, I canceled my subscription and switched to Bitwarden.

LLM agents can write a lot of code for you very fast, but they also take away opportunities to learn and grow.

I used the goat command line tool to migrate my main Bluesky account to a new server and survived to tell the tale.

You can register a process name globally in Elixir and OTP will ensure it's unique, but there are some surprising edge cases. This shows a pattern for safely defining cluster singletons.

cove.town consists of a PDS, a knot, a spindle, and a hold, and is fully built on itself. The source code is hosted on the knot, updates trigger workflows running on the spindle that build container images hosted on the hold, and the accounts that own the services live on the PDS.

Serve your assets on a CDN sub-domain to speed up a Phoenix LiveView web app. All the payoff, none of the effort.

How to get the atcr.io hold component up and running for atproto container registry fun.

Tangled is a Github alternative built on atproto. I've previously shown you how to set up the self-hosted repo server, here I go through migrating to knot2.

Tangled is a Github alternative built on atproto that lets you self-host your own repos and workflows, while still participating in a shared community. Here's how you get set up.

How to set up your own atproto Personal Data Server using tranquil-pds and docker compose, walking you through it step by step.

Setting a rotation key on your atproto (Bluesky, Eurosky, etc) account means you can recover it even if the account provider shuts down.

Why generating code makes it meaningless, why writing code by hand has value, and why toil is a critical part of the human experience.

Introducing Latch, an idiomatic elixir atproto OAuth library and client, built for flexibility and correctness.

Great startups don't win because they write more code, they win because they think differently.

Building the classic distributed rate limiter, using the HRW library instead of the traditional ExHashRing.

For better or for worse the things you create with LLMs are your responsibility, just like with any other tool.

A practical guide to clustering your nodes and tracking the cluster state for real use cases.

Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.

A gentle rant on the topic of libraries that run as Elixir applications and why that's an anti-pattern for library design.

How to set up CI workflows on Tangled for Elixir, with specific Elixir and Erlang versions, and a PostgreSQL service.

Kicking off a little side project for automatically discovering content through blog post feeds and syncing to atproto and standard.site.

A little love letter to the small web, to the now classic technology of RSS, to the future of atproto, and to the people who share for the joy of sharing.

Thoughts on an approach for using LLMs effectively for coding without losing engagement and cognitive effort.

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

Generating OG images for your static pages and blog posts in Elixir

About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.

A description of HRW/rendezvous hashing and the HRW elixir library.

A best-practice Elixir library for interacting with the bunny.net API

My path into programming and why I've been obsessed for 20 years.