Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does. Doing better matters, and it's right within reach.
Interoperable Serendipity
If you had asked my thoughts on interoperability some years ago, I wouldn't have had much to say. Nowadays, it has become one of my most revered ideals. And today, I want to take you along for a journey towards its summum: Interoperable Serendipity.
Radical Interoperability is a Political Agenda
Model the world you want to live in.
Eventual Interoperability – Pieter Colpaert
A pragmatic approach to interoperability: model your data richly for your own needs, then allow the eventual creation of one‑to‑many alignments.
Adversarial Interoperability
“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish
Web Components Interoperability | Unpacked
Web Components Interoperability — explained clearly with diagrams.
Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes
Sharing lexicons is not the only way to leverage atproto’s interoperability
Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes
Sharing lexicons is not the only way to leverage atproto’s interoperability
Reflections on Declarative Configuration
Advantages and pitfalls of Infrastructure as Code, and the distinction between IaC and Declarative Configuration.
Who understands alignment anyway
I remember watching many in the HCI community bristle when in 2016 Michael Jordan wrote a blog post calling for the creation of a new “human-centric engineering discipline.”
In policy circles I keep hearing about "horizontal" and "vertical" interoperability, notions that I haven't encountered in tech standards. I sat down to write about why it's a limiting understanding of interoperability and how we can do better. berjon.com/interoperability/
The Direction of Interoperability
berjon.comA while ago, I came up with the term Interoperable Serendipity. I was thinking of Solid at the time, but it totally applies to ATProto as well, and I'd love to see it embraced there! I just opened a discussion in the community forum to talk about it: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/interoperable-serendipity/1…
Interoperable Serendipity
discourse.atmosphere.communityEasier interoperability between these two open protocols is exciting.
A New Social
Today, we're launching the ability to Bounce from Mastodon to any Atmosphere PDS you have access to, whether it be @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @transrights.northsky.social, @selfhosted.social, or even your self-hosted option! You can also bring an invite code when necessary 🎟️ 1/
"Teams working across organizational boundaries, sharing structured data, and building on each other’s work with ease." I know it's called "adversarial interop", but it actually feels like "community interop", at least right now
Toni Schneider
Conference Takeaways I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I'm processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. ... toni.org/2026/04/03/conference-takeawa…
