AT Protocol
5 mentions across all digests
Open decentralized protocol underlying Bluesky that Attie aims to make accessible to non-developers via natural language app building.
Tangled – We need a federation of forges
Tangled proposes a federated forge architecture using git + AT protocol to decentralize code hosting across independent servers, eliminating OSS's overreliance on GitHub.
voice modems
Hayes Smartmodem's 1981 AT protocol and serial interface architecture remains embedded in modern 5G modems—a 45-year legacy of backwards-compatible constraints that persists despite processor limitations being long obsolete.
Serving the For You feed
A Bluesky power user scaled a custom "For You" feed to 70K users on a gaming PC for $30/month, exposing the massive over-engineering baked into mainstream social platforms.
Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers
DDoS attacks expose the resilience paradox: Bluesky's centralized architecture crashed (99% downtime) while Mastodon's distributed server topology (tens of thousands of independent nodes) weathered the same attack with ~30% impact, showing that network fault isolation—not decentralization ideology—determines survivability.
Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed
Bluesky's Claude-powered Attie AI assistant democratizes AT Protocol development by letting non-coders build custom feeds and apps through natural language.