Tag: pds

An Accidental Universe

How a simple registry became a way of deciding which part of Bluesky Skysquare would follow.

Self-hosting your PDS

How to set up your own atproto Personal Data Server using tranquil-pds and docker compose, walking you through it step by step.

MetalBear gets a local dev instance and fixes its own did:web self-resolution

Standing up a real localhost-only PDS surfaced two bugs -- did:web never resolved its own DID document when the DID encoded a port, and account creation had no way to avoid minting a real did:plc on the live PLC directory. Both fixed. 0.39.0 to 0.39.1.

MetalBear's frontend becomes a self-service console, and CI starts testing the containers it ships

The frontend grew from bare login/OAuth-consent pages into a full account console -- passkeys, password/email/handle changes, data export, guided migration, an admin dashboard -- while a separate thread found the shipped Docker image had never actually been able to start, and fixed the release pipeline that let that ship three times. 0.7.0 to 0.38.2.

MetalBear hardens OAuth, session scopes, and identity against the reference PDS

An unauthenticated login_hint could mint an OAuth code for any account, app passwords and full-access OAuth grants could reach account-deletion and email-change endpoints, and DPoP was optional everywhere it mattered -- all closed, alongside a run of PLC identity bugs and a new WebAuthn/passkey login path. 0.7.0 to 0.38.2.

MetalBear closes its reference-parity gap on server, admin, and repo writes

A sustained audit against the reference PDS fixed admin field gaps, repo write-path error codes, blob and repo store concurrency bugs, and split a sprawling server.c into domain-scoped files. 0.7.0 to 0.39.0.

PDS GrandPerspective: Visualize your Atproto account

Visualize (and edit) your Atmosphere account's stored data.

Progress on a PDS

My work-in-progress PDS is now available on GitHub Container Registry.

MetalBear goes from single-account prototype to a federating PDS

MetalBear rebuilt its account model twice, migrated storage off wolfram, validated records against the lexicon corpus, and is now crawled by Bluesky's relays and indexed by the AppView. 0.2.0 to 0.7.0.

MetalBear

An AT Protocol Personal Data Server written in C and built on Wolfram. Provides multi-account hosting, admin tooling, and a dynamic landing page.

pds-dash

A frontend dashboard with stats for your AT Protocol PDS, built with Deno and SvelteKit.

pds-status

A SvelteKit status page for your AT Protocol PDS, showing health, account count, and real-time metrics.

Making it stupidly easy to get your own PDS

Why should protecting your data privacy require a computer science degree? From vintage Instagram filters to the AT Protocol.

Don't Migrate Your Main. I Did, and Here's What Happened.

I pointed early software at the one account I couldn't afford to lose. It went exactly how you'd expect.

My website is ATmospheric.

This website is now a renderer over my PDS - posts, notes, knitting and all. What atproto actually gives you, and whether you should bother.

My PDS migration worked. Sort of.

My PDS migration worked perfectly but my rotation keys were still all Bluesky's. This is how I got them back!

Putting a UI on PDS account management

Getting AT Protocol account management out of the terminal.

私のきのこを教えて！ - フィーナビ！

Blueskyのサーバーにはきのこの名前が付けられています。いったい私はどの“きのこ”にいるの?

Journey to a distributed PDS: OAuth and deeper thoughts on why this experiment exists...

It's been a while since my last update, or even any progress, on the distributed PDS. I started looking into it again last week though and have hit quite the show stopper... OAuth 🫠

中級者向け PDSガイド（2026年5月時点）

自分で立てるのはハードルが高いけれどもBluesky以外のPDSを検討したい方のためのご案内

Crawl me maybe

Introducing vsky.network, a fan-out service for crawl requests across community atproto relays.

within my ken

fuzzy find my breadcrumbs

The journey to a distributed PDS

Hopefully this is part 1 of many posts, describing my progress into running a PDS across many nodes or devices.

Remember Timehop?

Created my own version from my PDS records

Making Roomy More ATProto-Native

We've said Roomy's server was like a PDS, but what if it actually was a PDS?

AtmosphereConf Afterparty Sponsor: Cloudflare

Welcome Cloudflare as a Major Sponsor, helping us host the afterparty

Welcome to Perlsky

The first atproto PDS in Perl 5

How to Make a PDS - Part 2

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

How to Make a PDS - Part 1

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

I Built a Personal Media Diary From My PDS Repository

All my records are in one place, might as well use them

I have all my data now

At least my movie and book data

My first document title, but how does it show up in my PDS?

A test document to see what happens to my PDS

AT Protocol Infrastructure Growing Pains

Lex make a registry

Introducing lexicon.store - an unconventional ATProto Lexicon Registry