Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 10hOnce you've branded an "official" Atmosphere icon, add it to the Bluesky profile page for any app/site which: • publishes its own lexicons, +/or • lists other lexicons it supports The former can be done immediately (via DNS lookup), while the latter would rely on a new com.atproto lexicon (TBD) 100
Reposted by Paul Rohrjustin from the internet @threlk.net · 30/09/2026the path to broad adoption is, somewhat definitionally, mundane use cases like this 184
Reposted by Paul RohrAshleigh Lambert @ashleighlambert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Holly the bear mom doing more to advocate for her disabled child than the US govt does for disabled people 031
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Positioning seven use cases for code generation along two axes of autonomy -- participatory vs. consequential 100
Reposted by Paul Rohrbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.blog.plcred.orgFirst steps of the PLC organization 1425666
Reposted by Paul RohrVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026'You'll choke too' - I wanted to reshare my wildfire aerial embroidery now summer is finally over as it really meant a lot to me. Autumn is here but as the fruit ripened much earlier than normal, I worry the little birds and animals won't have enough for the winter... 5433122
Reposted by Paul RohrMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 25/09/2026I only just found this post by @joehellerstein.bsky.social from February on how waiting, ordering, and commitment in distributed systems are all ways of looking at the same underlying idea: coordination. Good post, matches with how I think about it jhellerstein.github.io/blog/three-s...jhellerstein.github.ioThree Lenses on CoordinationThree Sets of Specs (for Staying in Spec) In the last post I talked about how systems formalisms are like sculpting with a chisel: we remove behaviors we don’t… 0383
Reposted by Paul RohrEvelyn @kandake.africa · 25/09/2026Dead serious I think Atmosphere in a Box might be one of the best DevEX things I've ever created. Dropped it in to remove a railway dependency on one product already. Released 0.7.0 last night adding dynamic network allocation, wildcard domains, jwks secret generation, and stronger CI examples.tangled.orgkandake.africa/atmosphereinaboxAll in one local private environment for operating PLC, PDS, and whatever you need for ATprotocol development 813922
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fascinating social experiment which combines three underappreciated skills: - knowing interesting people - asking them great questions - publicly sharing the answers Bravo! 011
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Annoying composer bug in 1.132 on Android for @esb.lol et al Looks like the line wrap logic goes kablooey if you have more than one linked facet (hashtag or link) + then keep typing. Only takes one more character -- in this case, a question mark -- to cause disruptions to an earlier line 100
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tip for lexicon designers Notice how certain club.papers.entry fields (github.com/be-green/pap...) are defined as a subset of the corresponding CSL-JSON schema used by a wide range of bibliographic software github.com/citation-sty... No need to reinvent the wheel if reuse can make interop easier 100
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026👀 Dunno why -- maybe the open-ended interactivity, maybe the sparse design -- but this faceted #UX (for browsing RDF graphs) kinda reminds me of sifting through: • tabular data with rowboat.net • AT records with @pds.ls • etc. 000
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Today's snazzy new #AtmosphericUX shows how far you can get by combining: • a public dataset (tmdb) with • lexicons from an existing app (@popfeed.social) 130
Reposted by Paul Rohrdaniel wraith @danielroe.dev · 22/09/2026I'm really delighted to announce that 🎂 `unifont` has turned 1.0 … and it finally has a home! ✨unifont.devEvery font CDN, one lookup · unifontunifont reads font metadata from Google Fonts, Bunny, Fontshare, Fontsource and npm through one API. Look up a family, see what it really offers, and copy the CSS. 413418
Reposted by Paul RohrDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. More here for the incredible piece:hamiltonnolan.comEveryone Into The GrinderIt is good to make powerful people participate in public systems. 111
Reposted by Paul RohrMorgan Moschetti @morganmp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026More than 10,000 PhDs have left the federal government. Much federal research now works within an actionable science framework. More can be done to support science-to-society pathways; however, basic research, which requires high risk and some unsuccessful efforts, remains extremely important. 034
Reposted by Paul RohrGraham Webster @gwbstr.com · 21/09/2026Let’s be conservative and say the average PhD takes five years of training in a specialized field. (Estimates vary online.) Thats 50,000 years of training lost, not to mention any other experience these people accumulated. 012
Reposted by Paul Rohrconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026nice post from Daniel Litt on the same www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/... 1132
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Excellent essay on the relative value of proofs vs. "motivated explanations" 000
Reposted by Paul RohrMarisa @marisa.blacksky.team · 18/09/2026"We work too hard. We're too tired To fall in love. Therefore we must Overthrow the government. We work too hard. We're too tired To overthrow the government. Therefore we must Fall in love." - Rod Smith 182
Reposted by Paul RohrHenry @henryfellerhoff.com · 17/09/2026Ink & Switch's approach of being forward-looking while staying uncompromising on both the value of intention in what you make and the necessity of shaping the world to match your and your community'´s system of values is (in my opinion) the most essential message in software right now 0266
Reposted by Paul RohrDavid @noz.am · 30/08/2026So I made an uptime monitor because the pricing for monitors out there is stupid Uses Cloudflare Workers for multi-region support, and has a lot of latency stats. Naturally made an alternate Bluesky status page as example, with 9 region check uptime.noz.am/status/bskyuptime.noz.amUptime monitor 263
Reposted by Paul RohrTrezy @trezy.codes · 15/09/2026Also, we need more standardization around PDS errors. Route doesn't exist? 404. Route doesn't exist yet but should? 405. Route exists but I'm not allowed? 401 or 403. I currently have to account for several weird 400s and 500s because there's no consensus on error responses. #atproto 161
Reposted by Paul Rohrcharlotte 🐇 @char.lt · 14/09/2026new blog post char.lt/blog/2026/09/atproto-full-net-backlinks/ + new service backlinks.cerulea.blue + demo bsky-thread.bun.howchar.ltdesigning a storage engine for AT Protocol backlinks - charlotte!economical full-network-scale application-agnostic data storage 46515
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Nice example of a simple UX pattern for onboarding new users. Three choices: 1. Create a new account for this app 2. Use another existing account 3. Play as guest Note how the up-front wording focuses on identity + handles instead of techie terms like Atmosphere or PDS 110
Reposted by Paul RohrDebbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 13/09/2026Reminder to ATproto/Atmosphere app developers out there: I recently had yet another conversation with someone who has been curious about one of your apps but intimidated by all the tech jargon & lack of non-techie user documentation. PLEASEplease read my post: debbieohi.leaflet.pub/3mrpuaxmkw22idebbieohi.leaflet.pubWhy good non-techie user documentation is vital for a wider embrace of the ATmospherePlus tips on writing good user documentation 36214
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Making it even easier to store personal data in the existing PDS powering your Atmosphere account 081
Reposted by Paul Rohrdaniel wraith @danielroe.dev · 14/09/2026🙋♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for itgetair.spaceairspaceThe database you already have. 1950990
Reposted by Paul RohrBailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 13/09/2026Sneak peek of a new Rotation Key editor I'm playing around with for pdsmoover.com 61014
Reposted by Paul RohrRob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A proposal for funding OSS developers by charging at the registry level. 0282
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's really cool to see folks playing around with alternate UX presentations for depicting layers of infratext ... even if it's just cut+paste paper mockups for now 100
Reposted by Paul RohrSteven Clontz @clontz.org · 09/09/2026"We spent $22 million to solve a problem mathematicians say is only worth $1 million" seems like it should be bad PR, even before you consider the academic dishonesty accusations. 1101
Reposted by Paul RohrJoshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And you have to ask yourself: why was it worth $22M to them? Because to them math is just their most successful PR bid, (since the claims of AGI aren't sticking). They are betting that the (false) claim "We solved math, so we can solve everything" will gain them way more than $22M in market share. 518565
Reposted by Paul RohrTiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 09/09/2026At ~$0.07/kWh for electricity alone, $22M buys ~310 million kWh. A human spending 100W on average consumes ~64,000 kWh in 75 years. So $22M corresponds to the lifetime metabolic energy of roughly 4,800 people. This is brute force, not intelligence. 0103
Reposted by Paul RohrAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I hinted at this in the attached piece and @bretdevereaux.bsky.social has done a great job drawing out even more historical conclusions, but the OP’s point bears repeating: Liberalism is absolutely a military advantage angrystaffofficer.com/2025/02/12/d...angrystaffofficer.comDiversity: The U.S. Military’s Not-So-Secret WeaponIn the woods of northeast France, a group of American artillery officers watched their olive drab-clad batterymen set up their tents in a peaceful glade. It would be the last such quiet the battery… 326456
Reposted by Paul Rohrbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 09/09/2026made a post in the atmosphere developer forum about timelines for rolling out spaces (aka permissioned data) and community groups to the full network. tl;dr: a couple more months of iteration and prep, then major PDS operators could coordinate to go "general availability" around mid-Novemberdiscourse.atmosphere.communityPermissioned Data Spaces Protocol TimelineThere has been a lot going on in protocol design land around non-public data and community groups this year. The permissioned data proposal was published back in July, an atmospheric groups proposal f... 513533
Reposted by Paul Rohrc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026At exactly 24 hours after their last feeding, the bees awoke, ready for their daily repast, their internal clocks still set to Paris time. They were JET-LAGGED BEES. And that proved it. The clock was INSIDE THE BEES. Today we know about 'circadian rhythms', genetic machinery to measure time.nytimes.comSTUDY FINDS BEES HAVE TIME CLOCK; Experiments Conducted Here and in Paris Disclose They Learn to Eat on Schedule (Published 1955)Dr Schneirla repts Natural History Museum and Paris U feeding tests show bees have time sense; Dr Renner role revd 28814
Reposted by Paul RohrLachlan Kermode @ohrg.org · 06/09/2026More sage thinking about LLMs and the symbolic function of writing from Cantrill: "to use an LLM to write is to void the social contract between writer and reader: we readers shouldn’t be expected to labor to understand a sentence that the writer themselves didn’t work to create." 121
Reposted by Paul Rohrspacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 06/09/2026PSA: you can find out which of your likes caused For You to show any given post at foryou.club/explain Just enter the post URL and hit "Explain": 931146
Reposted by Paul Rohrboltless @boltless.me · 06/09/2026We should be more brave on saying "Atmosphere Account" regardless of people understand it or not. Just like Fediverse bros did. Atproto can't be a common thing if people are too afraid to say it. 41049
Reposted by Paul RohrSri @sri.xyz · 02/09/2026at.new = new at://sri.leaflet.pubWhat's new?Launching at.new - a new way to create atproto records and share drafts 79923
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026👀 Asks three fascinating questions: 1. What might it look like for bots to each have their own stable did:web identity? 2. What policy controls should exist on a custom PDS which provisions + supports those identities? 3. When 2 fails, to what extent can you contain the blast radius? 220
Reposted by Paul RohrAnisota @anisota.net · 28/08/2026FULL MOON Did you know our brand logo changes every night to stay in sync with the phase of the moon? There’s a dedicated moon tracker page in the Lab as well that lets you interactively explore and preview the phases. Take a look: anisota.net/lab/moonanisota.netFull Moon, 100% lit — the Moon on AnisotaWhere the Moon is right now: 14.7 days into its cycle, 391k km away, with Full Moon in 2 hours. Watch it turn around the Earth, and scrub it through the month, in the Anisota lab. 17813
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Evangelizing like a #devrel: 26Q3 = egg on innovative AT devs by humorously dissing Dropbox 27Q? = recruit a dev inside Dropbox to seamlessly integrate spaces into their product 100
Reposted by Paul RohrDan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 27/08/2026This is excellent. There's a huge AI PR campaign using academics. The least we can do to minimise this is to NOT disclose which brand and model of LLM was used. Unlike measuring equipment, if you're using LLMs responsibly it doesn't matter what produced it because you will have verified its accuracy 0194
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026True services focus on value ADD, not just value CAPTURE: "... their value does not come from us using these services as we wish, but from how they dictate we must." 000
Reposted by Paul RohrMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution 694119858
Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Sanity-saving tip for long-distance drives. When you can't find an interesting local radio station along interstate highways, take advantage of their excellent cell/internet coverage + fire up Radio Garden Voila, instantly transported from northeast Colorado to Yaoundé, Cameroon!radio.gardenListen to Balla Radio from Yaoundé live on Radio GardenListen to Balla Radio from Yaoundé live on Radio Garden 000
Reposted by Paul RohrAturi @aturi.to · 21/08/2026You can now edit your atproto spaces data with Aturi! Try it: aturi.to/explore/spaces If you’re already signed in, you may need to re-authenticate to pick up the new permission scopes.aturi.toAtproto spaces · aturi.toBrowse your permissioned atproto data: records kept outside your public repo. 1198