I’ve been playing around with AT Protocol. The posts on this site are now published to standard.site, and I’ve written a (very basic) WordPress plugin to display posts from my PDS on the Now page of this site.

As a developer, I’ve spent a good chunk of my working life building apps that stored things in databases, and dealing with the pain of migrating things from one database to another. With that background I’m excited about the ways atproto can solve the many pains I’ve encountered, but I also had a bunch of questions as I started to build things. For example, what do I store in my app and what goes into the PDS? What is the relationship between Bluesky and my data? What about big files like images or video?

If you are asking similar questions, I’d recommend listening to the recent episode of Syntax.fm with Dan Abramov, who very clearly articulates the answers to all of these questions, and more. I’d figured a lot of these things out, but after listening to Dan I’d be much more confident in explaining how this works to someone else, without a lot of handwaving!

If you are interested in what else I’m reading while learning about AT Protocol, I’ve just started a collection on Semble (another atproto app) to store interesting atproto links I find.