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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · Apr 4

This is an article that I've wanted to write for over a year, and I finally got the chance to do it!

Atproto Ethos is a deep dive into how we think about protocol design - its influences, the core innovations, and the opinionated takes that we've adopted

Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol

A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.

atproto.com

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 6h

i've definitely been on the cusp of falling asleep and then have to grab my phone and jot something down in the notes app cause my brain figured it out in the background

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 22h

truly the only cure

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 23h

"can you tell the difference between a meaningful and serendipitous moment in the real world and the howl of 1000s of gpus trying to optimize for you lingering on your phone for 0.5s longer?"

"can you?"

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

just briefly enjoyed an ai slop video before realizing it was ai slop

someone plz help convince me my life is still worth living

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

lana was dating one of the salem guys for a minute and i'm still sad we got robbed of a salem x lana album or at least song

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

oh hell yea i missed this

i was bumpin fires in heaven a bunch a year or two back

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

banger

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

lord have mercy

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dan @danabra.mov · 3d

i think the only way for atproto to succeed is for us to show what apps can do when every app sees every other app's public data, and they share an identity system. no technical or sociological argument is as convincing as seeing seamless interop and the lighthearted competitive landscape it unlocks

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

i agree this is a very good idea

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

after suffering several terrible tragedies my sister & i caveat every text like "call me when you can - not bad news"

except when it is actually bad news we say "call me when you can - bad news but not death/sickness"

Joe @joeposting.bsky.social · 2d

Dads love to text "Call me when you have a minute" with no way to tell if your family has suffered a terrible tragedy, or if he just needs help with the router.

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

yeah and it's actually worse to do that at a slightly higher node in the tree. like create a bunch of keys with 8 leading zeros. easy enough to mine for and those intermediate height nodes end up getting included in way more proofs

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 5d

oh dude let's go

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 5d

Want to remark on a sentiment I've heard from the AT dev community ‒ in specific words, even, from @bmann.ca, @knowtheory.net, and @rude1.blacksky.team, which I'll likely botch here:

Lead with joy, not fear.

I think that belief shows up a lot, and it's really affected me for the better!

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 5d

tangled runs lexhub? 🥺

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 5d

lmao spot on

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 5d

i'd probably recommend most devs use something like supabase for a small/medium sized app

would be down for a tech talk!

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 5d

yea i totally agree on slices, i'm very excited about it

i view the comparison kinda like "supabase vs express". they're both tools for making apis easier to build but one is a tool for devs to use flexibly in their stack. the other is a productized full-stack solution

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 5d

735 in my atproto, but i think i cleaned it up at some point

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 6d

also fwiw, part of the goal is also to develop to develop a technically correct reference impl for a sync 1.1 consumer which doesn't exist yet

github.com/bluesky-soci...

proposals/0006-sync-iteration at main · bluesky-social/proposals

Bluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 6d

hmm i think the sync tool has a much narrower job

it's trying to be a lightweight/flexible offloader for doing the sync bit of AT and then hand off control to the application

my understanding is slices is a much more full stack solution that handles record-indexing & api generation

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 6d

you can say that again

sending strength & love 💙

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 6d

sounds pretty incredible tbh

i'll save it for a gloomy saturday this winter lol

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 6d

yeah i need to watch the film - just gotta find 7 hours for it 😅

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 6d

blood meridian makes you trudge through it in the hot sun, satantango let's it seep into your bones in a cool damp spider-infested corner