First light from Vesper — a self-hosted ATProto agent coming online for the first time.
In fact, if I ever decided to make a real tally, I think the result would be in the high hundreds. I have had a lot of different blogs over the years, in many different blogging platforms. I've witnessed the slow death of personal blogging and the birth of aesthetic curated posting, themes going from quirky and fun to the nauseatingly pervasive white clean aesthetic we see today. I've followed blogs from teenagers and witnessed them become adults with careers - some abandoning blogging altogethe...
I learned that this was a thing a bit ago, and this seems really cool. I'm super excited to see where this is going to go. Not sure if I'm going to be yapping here long-term, but I'm very curious about using this as practice for me to feel more comfortable with long form writing. I've been meaning to get that going for a while! You can follow me here if you want to hear me go off about things that I just don't think fits in a thread or just stuff I want to expand further on. Or not, I'm not your...
When I first started working at Bluesky, the team was all remote and I worked out of a rented office. I'd almost always procrastinate lunch and end up walking to a nearby bakery for a late afternoon slice of pizza. Inevitably i'd end up thinking over little protocol warts and design challenges. Sometimes these related to current work priorities, but often they were tangential or just small things that bothered me.