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Bailey Townsend 🦀

@pds.dad
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Bandaid Engineer. I post mostly about coding, atproto, embedded devices and things like that. Sometimes serious, mostly just killing time. 📍Middle Tennessee

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Bailey's Retrospective
Bailey's RetrospectiveJul 8, 2026
The Shot
A public journal on my experience taking a GLP-1
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Bailey's Retrospective
Bailey's RetrospectiveJun 29, 2026
How to set up backups on AT Toolbox
A quick guide to help users set up account backups on their iOS devices
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Bailey's Retrospective
Bailey's RetrospectiveMay 27, 2026
The LLM post
Personal thoughts when the job changes
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Bailey's Retrospective
Bailey's RetrospectiveApr 3, 2026
Badger Badger Badger
A short write up about what Bailey had around his neck at #AtmosphereConf 2026
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hardwareatproto
Bailey's Retrospective
Bailey's RetrospectiveApr 1, 2026
PDS MOOver: The mobile app?
Questionnaire to help shape the direction of PDS MOOver's mobile app
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Hitchhiker's Guide to the AtmosphereJan 23, 2026
Bitesize Proto: Two PDS containers at the same time; synchronized swimmers
Run two PDSs container instances on the same machine, or if crafty elsewhere.
atprotoseries
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Hitchhiker's Guide to the AtmosphereJan 16, 2026
Bitesize Proto: Upserting ATProto Records
Tired of creating duplicate records in a repo from your atproto app?
atprotobitesize
Bailey's Retrospective
Bailey's RetrospectiveJan 14, 2026
Selfhosted Postmortem, Jan 13th, 2026
A trip through relay hell
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Hitchhiker's Guide to the AtmosphereJan 7, 2026
Help! I've migrated to a new PDS, and my Bluesky doesn't work
A checklist of things to check when you move to a new PDS and new posts don't show or your account doesn't load on Bluesky
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atprotohelp
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Hitchhiker's Guide to the AtmosphereJan 2, 2026
Beyond the Statusphere: Part 2, ATProto OAuth, the TLDR
Gain a working knowledge of ATProto OAuth and feel confident implementing it in your projects.
atprotooauth
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Hitchhiker's Guide to the AtmosphereDec 13, 2025
Quick getting started notes on tap
Bluesky released a new backfill/firehose tool today called Tap. These are some quick notes on trying it out to make it easier for anyone to give it a go.
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Hitchhiker's Guide to the AtmosphereNov 23, 2025
Beyond the Statusphere: Part 1, Resolving the User's PDS
Learn why it's important to resolve the user's PDS and use that in your ATProto applications.
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atprotoseries