The AT protocol is interesting

Although I have had a bluesky account for almost a year now, I have not really given the technology it is built on, AT proto, much thought. Until yesterday⁰.⁰ This surge is likely because I enabled pi-hole on my local network and immediately blocked *.ycombinator.com. I suddenly have a lot of free, productive time.

These three resources whet my appetite to learn more:

• "Open Social": I thought this explained the core of "Why AT proto" so well, I read it to my (non-technical) wife, and even she started to get it. I really think the ability to take your social media connections, likes, follows, media and general digital belongings elsewhere is appealing to regular folk.
• "AT Proto for Engineers": This is a wonderful high level view of how the protocol works. Lots of diagrams. Clearly explained. 10/10 have read through 3 times. It's titled "for distributed system engineers", but I think that's misleading; I think any software developer generally familiar with how web apps & backends & databases work would understand this.
• "Turning a database inside out": A talk on applying database implementation details to general application design. If you liked the previous link, then this is good supporting material.