aelitneg

@aelitneg.bsky.social

Software engineer, music technology advocate.

#atproto trades a centralised identity authority (PLC) for decentralised and portable user data. #activitypub decntralises the identity layer, but centralises the user-data portability to the app provider. The question is would we rather own our identities or our data?

Two things we learned today: 1. NextJS + Prisma + SQLite is not the way. Just use Postgres. 2. localhost and 127.0.0.1 are not the same. These are two separate jars of cookies 🍪

Learning a ton from @pfrazee.com and friends following Statusphere as a guide to my first attempt at an #atproto app. The tutorial makes it seem so easy, but there is so much more going on when you actually build it from scratch. If you do web dev, do yourself a favour and give it a read.