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Building Skysquare

Building Skysquare

@simpsontw.bsky.social

Notes on building a social layer for the open web—and what the process is teaching me about software, public discourse, and the future of reading.

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An Accidental Universe

How a simple registry became a way of deciding which part of Bluesky Skysquare would follow.

Reasonable Assumptions

How plausible answers became infrastructure decisions—and what I learned about trusting the agents helping me build.

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A Working Application

How a working prototype built in an afternoon became a bet on a different kind of future.

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How AI gave me the means to build, and the broken social web gave me a reason.

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