The Atmosphere needs a front door - We Can Just Do Things
The Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.
Reintroducing Spaces - Daniel's Leaflets
Zooming out and re-motivating the design of spaces, the new primitive for non-public data on atproto.
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live - AT Protocol
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.

Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere
I've been working on a new project called Radial, a collaborative coding-agent orchestrator built on atproto (the protocol behind Bluesky and the broader Atmosphere). It's a bit like a team issue tracker that works with your favorite harness/model and turns what your agents learn into durable, reviewable team memory. I'm very excited about it.
What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes
An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.
Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

atmo.pub — notifications for the atmosphere
Let any AT Protocol app send you notifications — via web push, Telegram, email, Bluesky DM, or a webhook — all kept in one inbox. Every app asks permission; revoke anytime.

ATProto in Practice #1: Identity
I’m starting a new blog post series that I’ve named “ATProto in Practice”. I want to go through some practical tasks that you’re likely to need when working with the protocol, using Ruby and my Ruby gems for the examples. These will (hopefully) be a bit shorter than my standard book-length blog posts here 🫠

Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums - Nick's Blog
A forum with public categories, private categories, and one set of record shapes across both: members own their posts, the forum owns the submission wrappers that admit them into categories, and moderators deactivate into tombstones instead of deleting.
