WhiteWind is an atproto blog service that anyone with a Bluesky account can use for free, without providing any personal information. You can write blogs in Markdown syntax and publish them on the internet.| whtwnd.com
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These are some informal notes on setting up a full-network atproto Relay, using the bigsky relay software developed by Bluesky. This is the same software we run ourselves at https://bsky.network. The focus here is on the compute resources necessary to replicate the type of full-network, full-feature...| whtwnd.com
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This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required a cache of the full network on local disk to validate data structures. With the Sync v1.1 updates, relays don't need all that disk I/O. What impact does that have on hosting setup and operating costs? Turns out the d...| whtwnd.com
When I saw the the prospero challenge by @mattkeeter.com, it looked right up my alley. If you haven't read that yet, go read it before proceeding. You can find the finished source code for this here. I've been working on a Cranelift frontend for a toy programming language as part of an honors proje...| whtwnd.com
This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her thoughts and put them out in public. Her writing sheds light on substantive differences between protoco...| whtwnd.com
