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Guido X Jansen

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Bullish on atproto & the open web 🏗️ sifa.id | barazo.forum | singi.dev 🪿 * 20+ years community building (Joomla!, Magento, Spryker, CRO.CAFE) * Cognitive Psychologist turned DevRel * Open source & automation * Former competitive swimmer 🏊‍♂️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 🏡 gui.do

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Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenJul 1, 2026
Your identity isn't your username
Your handle is a label; your identity is a key you own. atproto splits who you are from what you're called, so you can rename freely, prove who you are with a domain you control, and carry one identity across the apps you use. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.
AT ProtocolIdentity
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenJun 25, 2026
Who actually owns your network?
Every time I moved a community to a new platform, the exit cost members and history. Platforms come and go; the lock-in architecture underneath is why. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.
AT ProtocolCommunity
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenJun 1, 2026
Outsource your GitHub CI to a VPS: cheaper, faster, and a free backup server too
Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on a small Hetzner VPS cut my CI wall-clock from ~12 minutes to ~3 minutes for about half the price of the GitHub-hosted minutes I was burning. Here's the full setup.
TechnologyDevOps
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenMay 31, 2026
Make links to your blog render the custom "View publication" card + CTA
Short guide. The mechanism is simpler than it looks, and it doesn't involve any /.well-known file or DNS TXT record.
TechnologyAT Protocol
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenMar 31, 2026
ATmosphere Conf 2026: the internet built for people, not platforms
370 people in Vancouver, 500 online, all working on the same question: what does the internet look like when users own their data? Highlights from the AT Protocol community conference.
TechnologyAT Protocol
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenMar 30, 2026
Running Doom over the AT Protocol
Every keystroke becomes a record. Every frame becomes a blob. A technical walkthrough of making the AT Protocol do something it was never designed for.
TechnologyAT Protocol
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenMar 6, 2026
AI slop is drowning communities. Verifiable track records can fix it.
AI-generated junk content is flooding every community platform. Traditional moderation can't keep up. Portable, cross-platform contribution history is a structural fix that addresses the root cause.
AICommunity
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenFeb 14, 2026
Barazo: community forums where members own their data
I'm building an open source forum platform on the AT Protocol. Members log in with their Bluesky account, posts live on their own data server, and reputation follows them across communities.
CommunityOpen Source
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenFeb 4, 2026
Better Not Waste It
A story about token limits, AI companions, and the sunk cost of unused mana.
AIFiction
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenJan 5, 2026
BigTech independence update: cleaning house for local AI
Three months after my original BigTech independence article, here's what changed and why I'm building infrastructure for local AI.
PrivacyOpen Source
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenDec 4, 2025
A practical guide to building your own antifragile tech stack
Seven principles for evaluating technology choices, reducing vendor lock-in, and building a more resilient digital setup. The decision-making framework behind the tools.
PrivacyOpen Source
Guido X Jansen
Guido X JansenOct 29, 2025
Start building Anti-Fragile communities, your community deserves it
Over 20 years building communities around open-source platforms, I've watched a pattern repeat. Communities feel invincible until the moment they collapse. Learn how to build anti-fragile communities that gain strength from change instead of breaking under stress.
CommunityDevRel