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John Whiteside
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Building @atexplore.social. Tinkering with the AT Protocol

👨🏻‍💻 Software Engineer
🍕 Pizza Connoisseur
📍 Flint, Michigan

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I have a project I’ve been working on that I’d like to have some cross-bridge functionality in. Any chance you guys open some APIs?
February 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Focus areas for @atexplore.social this week are performance and UX. I really want to get the performance piece figured out.
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
whiteside.io
And $0.001 per song for the artist.
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 AM
whiteside.io
@atexplore.social also supports this.
rude1.blacksky.team Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 2d
Since the pronouns labeler is gone.
February 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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johnwhiteside.threads.net.ap.brid.gy
😆🤣
#Kid Rock
A social media comment reads: “Kid Rock makes music for folks who know exactly how much Sudafed you can get for a catalytic converter.”
February 8, 2026 at 7:08 PM
whiteside.io
Record creation is now live on @atexplore.social
whiteside.io John Whiteside @whiteside.io · 3d
Hello from AT Explore
February 7, 2026 at 10:37 PM
whiteside.io
Hello from AT Explore
February 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
whiteside.io
Ignore the noise, keep doing what you’re doing. I think most appreciate the work you’re doing.
February 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
whiteside.io
Create is super close, there were some outstanding UX things I didn’t like. If you hit any issues with this let me know.
atexplore.social AT Explore @atexplore.social · 3d
OAuth is now live with support for editing and deleting records. Create is coming very soon.
February 7, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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quillmatiq.com
Not everything being built in the Atmosphere is for you. Those things don't require your opinions and purity checks when they're deeply appreciated by the people it was actually built for.

Build your space.
February 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social
These are rookie numbers
pic of pizza - an american eats 2 million pizzas every day
February 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
whiteside.io
Every once in a while, I open Facebook and immediately regret that decision.
February 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
whiteside.io
Hooking the @atexplore.social MCP into the GraphQL endpoint is pretty cool. It allows the agent do much more dynamic queries.
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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atexplore.social
We've added support for replies on record pages. Now when you're viewing a post, you can see a threaded view of the conversation. This just works on Bluesky posts, but we'll expand this to more lexicons and ActivityPub posts.
February 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Test creating another AT Explore post.
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Testing creating a post from AT Explore
February 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
whiteside.io
I legit thought it was packet, but I guess pocket does make more sense.
February 6, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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johnwhiteside.threads.net.ap.brid.gy
I guess I should’ve shorted when I posted this…
johnwhiteside.threads.net.ap.brid.gy John Whiteside II @johnwhiteside.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · Dec 1
I think Bitcoin will probably drop to $70k or lower. It’s a great buying opportunity.
February 5, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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danabra.mov
i'm pretty excited about this — with HTTP imports, you get typed lexicon codegen from nsid directly in your @val.town vals
danabra.mov dan @danabra.mov · 6d
demo www.val.town/x/gaearon/le...

i think this is very cool actually
import * as Post from "https://lex.val.run/app.bsky.feed.post.ts"; const examplePost: Post.Main = { "$type": "app.bsky.feed.post", text: "Hello from lex.val.run!", createdAt: new Date().toISOString(), }; export default async function (req: Request): Promise<Response> { const result = Post.$safeParse(examplePost); return Response.json({ valid: result.success, lexicon: Post.$nsid, example: examplePost, }); }
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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atexplore.social
Today we’ve expanded support a bit more. ActivityPub posts should now show engagement numbers, we added support for boosted posts, and the view data modal that we have for AT Protocol posts is now available on ActivityPub.
atexplore.social AT Explore @atexplore.social · 7d
Today, we rolled out beta support for ActivityPub posts. We’re still working toward full support, so expect additional updates soon.
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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hanlho.com
AI doesn’t remove quality practices; it raises the stakes if you don’t have them
February 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM
whiteside.io
Woke is just a word they like to use with no meaning. Kinda like socialism.
February 4, 2026 at 12:44 AM
whiteside.io
The last couple of days I’ve hit issues with outages in Cloudflare, GitHub, and Claude. What is going on?
February 4, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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atexplore.social
Today, we rolled out beta support for ActivityPub posts. We’re still working toward full support, so expect additional updates soon.
February 4, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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atexplore.social
Support for @standard.site documents, publications, and subscriptions is now live! This is an extension of the @leaflet.pub support we added last year. Lets us know if you see any issues.
February 1, 2026 at 10:32 PM