Tag: #atproto
Proving the Firehose: I Audited 2.9 Million Bluesky Messages and Found What the Relays Don't Show You
On February 9th, 2025, during Super Bowl LX, I ran an experiment. While my Ryzen 5 3600 hummed away running the Truth Engine, I wasn't watching the game. I was watching YouTube, listening to music, and occasionally glancing at terminal output as my system processed 1.5 million AT Protocol events in real-time.
30(ish) Days of Protocols
I have been doing 100 days projects once or twice a year since 2022, with varying degrees of success. I've written about the value of this practice so I won't go too deeply into it here other than to say that it remains the most effective method I've tried of "just getting things done". You commit to something and you do it every day, whether it's for 5 minutes or four hours. So why am I doing a shorter version? Mostly because my last two attempts at a 100 days project failed. Both were writing