An overview of the last week or so of news related to atproto tech. News about specific atproto software and apps are for another update, as well as the larger socio-economic context of the open social networks. This update is focused on developers and other people who are interested in the more technical aspects of atproto. For more news on the open social web you can check out my writing at connectedplaces.online, or check out my Leaflet for shorter updates.

  • Bluesky has been taking the first tentative steps to submit atproto to the IETF standards process. The company just published their Internet Draft of atproto. Internet Drafts are documents within the IETF process that do not hold formal standings, and are made for the purpose of reviews and comments. The first formal step is via organising a Birds of a Feather Meeting at the IETF Montreal conference this November.

  • Some musings by Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee on the naming of 'AppView', and if this part of the atproto infrastructure should have a different name.

  • QuickDID is a new tool that handles handle resolution for atproto. QuickDID is a resolver that focuses on a single function, resolving atproto handles to DIDs. It is available to self host or can be used at https://quickdid.smokesignal.tools/.

  • PDS Gatekeeper is a microservice that adds 2FA to self hosted PDSes.

  • Previously I wrote about how the different book review platforms on atproto (bookhive.buzz, skylight.my, paperbnd.club) all use different lexicons, which prevents interoperability between then. The developer of Bookhive.buzz wrote a response thread why they chose separate lexicons; the problem is in data standards for books itself. Paperbnd and Skylight use standardised book identifiers (ISBN and OpenLibrary), but as these standards still have ambiguity, Bookhive.buzz stores all the data about the books on the PDS instead.

  • A first pass at making fanfic archives on atproto.

  • An extensive 2-part implementation guide for building OAuth applications on atproto, for both web and mobile.

  • ATPage was a tool to publish HTML website to your atproto PDS. The tool is now sunset, with some reflections by the developer here, and why they are now switching to using Leaflet.

  • Bluesky Jetstream Live is a tool to view relay outputs.

  • More developers are starting to write weekly reflections on their atproto development work. Bailey Townsend writes about updates to AT Toolbox, PDS Gatekeeper and adding a landing page to their self hosted PDS. @bad-example.com writes about microcosms, some hiccups with relays, and a demo app to store small amounts of arbitrary data privately on a PDS.