This is a proposal carrying on discussion from this closed PR: bluesky-social/atproto-website#709. There is also a corresponding open issue, bluesky-social/atproto-website#699. Currently, http://12...

This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that pro...

This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.

The third in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We look at two different models for where buckets live and why the simpler-looking one doesn’t work out.

The goal of this PR is to make @atproto/lex-schema compatible with Standard Schema. This is done by defining an ~standard adapter on the Schema class. The change is pretty straight forward and most...

Protocol Engineer at Bluesky. Building the open social web on AT Protocol. Into web standards, OAuth, TypeScript, and quality code. Dad, sailor (crossed the Atlantic once), gamer, Dire Straits fan, an...

We are planning on releasing a new version of the PDS that contains this change. Once that has been merged, visiting a getBlob endpoint with a browser will force the browser to download the blob, i...

The official Lexicon code generation tooling hasn't evolved much since its initial release. While it serves the core atproto codebase well, third-party developers face significant challenges with bundle size, manual maintenance, and architectural constraints that make building production-ready applications unnecessarily difficult.

a short guide to using @atproto/oauth-client-expo

Today I just launched support for BlueSky as a new authentication option in IndieLogin.com!

The following was written by the Bluesky team as an overview of OAuth client security considerations, especially for client app developers or readers of the ATProto OAuth profile specification. Set...

Starts at 04/24/25 08:00 am CEST. Join us in Hamburg on April 24, 2025 to build the future of a cooperative, European open social web—a paradigm for a better internet built on decentralization and use...

Today we are excited to announce the availability of version 0.14 of our TypeScript SDK on npm.

Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.

One of the missing pieces in atproto is a mechanism to resolve NSIDs to Lexicon schema definitions. While there are existing workarounds, such as just publishing schemas on projects websites or git...

An informal overview of what an AppView does. Similar to #2350, which discussed PDS implementations. This document isn't "normative": AppView implementations are not required to do all of this. It ...

AT Protocol is the tech developed at Bluesky for open social networking. In this article we're going to explore AT Proto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.

Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re op...

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