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Niall Bunting

@niallbunting.com

Working on: localpds.at (better website coming soon) Generally, working on way too many projects at the same time. niallbunting.com

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 18/08/2026

Kinda extends the idea that I had about how would sync between devices

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 18/08/2026

I was working on similar but mine was a Chrome extension, i think some of the ideas could translate really well with a phone app As it was designed were nothing needs to directly contact the Chrome extension. I may have a look into this and try a POC

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 15/06/2026

I suppose that can happen to all PDS's this one is way more likely though...

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 15/06/2026

Thanks very much for you help! Yeah, I probably should sort the health check.

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 15/06/2026

Potentially so! 😂 This whole thing is an experiment in this sort of design, what happens if you break the uptime agreement Things that are more live I would expect to break more

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 15/06/2026

I do notice that something is happening with getBlob and we are returning a 502. Potentially an issue with that.

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 15/06/2026

Interesting, yeah we hit the normal relays at least the ones in this list (atproto.at/pds/localpds...). Otherwise posting etc doesn't work on Bluesky. I'll have a look into it. I wonder what's gone on there, let me have a look. If I update my character, will hit the relay again?

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 15/06/2026

If anybody knows any more ATProtocol services I can test with LocalPDS (A PDS that runs in your browser), please let me know! Just cracked some of the DPoP auth issues - turns out that 'fragment' means you shouldn't send the OAuth code/iss as query parameters. #atproto #pds

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 11/06/2026

Haha, I think it's just cool that you own all your data. I also think when private stuff comes along I can bring my browser PDS and store files in there. It never needs to be open to the internet if I don't want it to be.

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 11/06/2026

Yeah, maybe so. It does need a public server to bounce some requests eg. to handle things like OAuth. When the requests happen on the client sites (like bsky.app) it can intercept all the requests which is really nice.

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 04/06/2026

According to this: localpds.at was trending. I think that's the first time anything of mine has trended haha

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 03/06/2026

Is that a local PDS? 👀 If it is i've been working on something similar the last week or so localpds.at. Mine does not look as shiny as that though!

localpds.at

Local PDS - Building a PDS on hardware you own

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 03/06/2026

LocalPDS is live on the Chrome store! The PDS where the data lives on your machine and the server is stateless. This is very much a work-in-progress proof-of-concept and only really works on bsky.app. Expect OAuth to be added and breaking changes. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/local...

chromewebstore.google.com

LocalPDS - Chrome Web Store

LocalPDS is a Personal Data Server that runs in your browser

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LocalPDS @vwgjo4bk5hsu7vw7qw9ty8ax6yzyz9w2efd2c9qd0x84b0pn2q1l52.localpds.at · 03/06/2026

Looks like I have OAuth working. Working in the sense it functions not that it's secure. But it's a start! Discovered some interesting security "things" along the way. leaflet.pub/p/did:web:vw...

leaflet.pub

OAuth with stateless servers

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 31/05/2026

Submitted the first @localpds.at draft to the Chrome store. It's pretty basic at this stage mainly can login and post on Bluesky. Upcoming stuff is a better website blobs, oauth. Pretty interesting stuff. Also pushed the repo on tangled.org/niallbunting...

tangled.org

niallbunting.com/localpds

An in browser local PDS

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Niall Bunting @niallbunting.com · 30/04/2026

👋

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