Bailey Townsend 🦀 (@pds.dad)

Bailey Townsend 🦀

@pds.dad

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

Bailey's Retrospective

Bailey Townsend 🦀

Bailey Townsend 🦀 (@pds.dad) - Leaflet

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Social Capital

The problem Atproto is solving

Aug 11

Bailey's Retrospective

The Shot

A public journal on my experience taking a GLP-1

Jul 8

Bailey's Retrospective

How to set up backups on AT Toolbox

A quick guide to help users set up account backups on their iOS devices

Jun 29

Bailey's Retrospective

The LLM post

Personal thoughts when the job changes

May 26

Bailey's Retrospective

Badger Badger Badger

A short write up about what Bailey had around his neck at #AtmosphereConf 2026

Apr 2

Bailey's Retrospective

PDS MOOver: The mobile app?

Questionnaire to help shape the direction of PDS MOOver's mobile app

Mar 31

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

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

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

Jan 23

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Bitesize Proto: Upserting ATProto Records

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

Jan 16

Bailey's Retrospective

Selfhosted Postmortem, Jan 13th, 2026

A trip through relay hell

Jan 13

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

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

Jan 6

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Beyond the Statusphere: Part 2, ATProto OAuth, the TLDR

Gain a working knowledge of ATProto OAuth and feel confident implementing it in your projects.

Jan 1

Hitchhiker's 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.

Dec 13 '25

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

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.

Nov 23 '25

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

AMAA

Ask me anything AT Protocol, with guests!

Nov 13 '25

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