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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 

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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere

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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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere
Dec 13, 2025
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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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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere
Nov 23, 2025

AMAA

Ask me anything AT Protocol, with guests!

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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere
Nov 13, 2025
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A blob in the bucket

Learn how to setup your self hosted PDS to use an S3 object store for blob storage.

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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere
Nov 11, 2025

Host a PDS via a Cloudflare Tunnel

Learn how to use a Cloudflare Tunnel to host your PDS on a local network.

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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere
Nov 11, 2025

What the hell is a rotation key?

Why it's important that YOU should have a rotation key and backups for your Bluesky/AT Protocol account that is hosted on a third party PDS

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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere
Nov 3, 2025
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Oct 26th 🎃 - Nov 2nd 🦃

What if PDS MOOver was in SvelteKit?

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Bailey's Weekly Retrospective
Nov 2, 2025
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PDS MOOver: The Next Generation

PDS MOOver now supports automated backups and account recovery

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Bailey's Weekly Retrospective
Oct 20, 2025
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Sept 21st - Sept 27th 2025

Easy goes it

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Bailey's Weekly Retrospective
Sep 26, 2025
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Sept 14th - Sept 20th 2025

Stitches and missing blobs

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Bailey's Weekly Retrospective
Sep 20, 2025
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Sept 7th - Sept 13th 2025

The rest week that wasn't

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Bailey's Weekly Retrospective
Sep 14, 2025

What the hell is the atmosphere anyway

A slightly less technical intro to the technical side of Bluesky

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HItchhikers Guide to the Atmosphere
Sep 13, 2025
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