Articles
Publications
Standardizing Bookmarks in the Atmosphere
a mini proposal for a shared bookmark lexicon7
May 2025's Recap
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Permissioned Data Diary 6: Boring Auth
In which we resist the temptation to invent a clever authorization model & pick the boring one instead.17
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Firehose cursors could be improved somewhat
Some very in-the-weeds papercuts with event stream sequence numbers, and some ideas to address them6
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Sill's new view
Some major improvements come to Sill today10
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Modeling communities on permissioned data
Arguing against "universal spaces" and raising a couple questions that come up as a result.7
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The End of Textuality
Authenticity in the age of GenAI9
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In Search of Podcasts
"Wherever you get your podcasts" represents the interoperable utopia of the podcast world. How do we bring that magic to the atmosphere?7
The LLM post
Personal thoughts when the job changes28
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Ecosystem Plugins
Bridging the interop gap and addressing the long-tail of user needs9
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Speeding up and slowing down
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The Atmosphere needs a front door
The Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.18
Flashcards as Notes
Effortful reading habits and resisting the urge to defer attention4
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name?
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.41
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On atmospheric generatives…
How can we build moats on an open network? How can we make money when all the data's free? Here, I sketch some ideas for new generatives — contextualization, fluidity, aggregation, and relationality — for value creation in the atmosphere.10
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Affordances of the Atmosphere
My talk at the 2026 ATmosphere Conference4
Consent Before Cryptography
My talk for Atmosphere Conference 20262
Ecosystem updates / small stuff
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On verification and coordination authority
Who verifies the atproto developer community, and why can't it be the community itself?atprotoverification
Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol
attested.network is an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol, built on what we learned making atprotofans.com. It formalizes the three-party attestation model and opens it up for any app to implement.1
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