Bailey Townsend 🦀 (@baileytownsend.dev)

Bailey Townsend 🦀

@baileytownsend.dev

Bandaid Engineer. I post mostly about coding, ATProto, embedded devices and things like that. Sometimes serious, mostly just killing time.

📍Middle Tennessee

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

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Bitesize Proto: Two PDS containers at the same time; synchronized swimmers

Run two PDSs container instances on the same machine, or if crafty elsewhere.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Jan 23, 2026

Bitesize Proto: Upserting ATProto Records

Tired of creating duplicate records in a repo from your atproto app?

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Jan 16, 2026

Selfhosted Postmortem, Jan 13th, 2026

A trip through relay hell

Bailey's Retrospective

Jan 13, 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

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Jan 6, 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.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Jan 1, 2026

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.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Dec 13, 2025