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Nate Spilman

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Standard.site blog posts now render on my personal website

I hadn't touched natespilman.com in a while, which felt silly and a little embarrassing, as my bsky handle is @natespilman.com. I've been poasting on Leaflet and Pckt (currently writing this on Pckt.blog), but my markdown based based blog site on my personal website has remained untouched. This morning I updated my blog to render standard.site documents and interweave them into my markdown based blog posts! It's so cool that this is all out in the open like this! edit: here is the commit on Gith...

Nothing here feels zero sum

Every time someone builds something cool on ATProto, it makes it easier and more appealing to build the next thing on ATProto. I'm writing this because I set up my new https://blento.app/, and it's beautiful and I love it, but I hadn't posted anything on standard.site in a minute. So here I go - posting from pckt.blog. Gushing over the incredible state of the ATProto we're in now, and excited for the future.

Further ATProto exploration activity log

I've done a decent amount of digging around and creating in the ATProto space over the last few days. Quickly, and in no real order:

RFC: plyr.fm JavaScript SDK & Embeddable Web Components

Authors: Nate Spilman, Claude 4.6 OpusStatus: DraftDate: 2026-03-15 This RFC proposes a JavaScript/TypeScript package that provides: The headless SDK enables developers to build custom music UIs on top of plyr.fm data. The Web Components provide the canonical plyr.fm player experience as embeddable elements that work in React, Vue, Svelte, plain HTML, and any framework that renders DOM.

The Bluesky ecosystem has the juice (ATProto for normies)

An explanation for people who don't care about software protocols Bluesky is built on top of a new software protocol - https://atproto.com/ - for building distributed networks. If you're coming to Bluesky from X with zero care about the underlying tech, that's chill. Right now, your experience is basically the same. Under the hood, Bluesky is hosting your account information and everything. Just like X would. So, so far, same same. But here's where it starts getting cool.

This is a Canvas test

Can I really post a Leaflet canvas to my pckt blog?!

This is my first post on pckt.blog. My first impressions are positive. Things look nice. Everything seems to be put in an obvious place. Like, i click a dropdown and see my options and think "Right - that makes sense to be there." Here's an image. It's only here to demonstrate image add. It IS missing alt text adding, though, which feels like an oddly large accessibility miss.