It's that time of the week again! Today, we're sharing Chalk, a document editor that shows how apps that need fine-grained permissioning can be built on spaces. Chalk is built on our last three releases!
Habitat's road to release: 04 Chalk
The one where we don't release an API :)
habitat.leaflet.pub
Software factories are a bad analogy that completely misunderstand the nature of software engineering. Wrote some thoughts on a better analogy, which also helped me think through where coding agents work well and where they don't. dajin.dev/posts/software_factory
Software factories are a bad analogy
Fully automated “software factories” are allegedly right on the horizon. Some companies claim their factories are “dark,” a phrase borrowed from manufacturing, where fully …
dajin.dev
At Habitat, we've been thinking about what apps might need to build rich permission-ed interactions and interoperate. Here's our take ⤵️
Habitat's road to release: 03 ReBAC on spaces
Fine-grained permissioning on top of spaces.
habitat.leaflet.pub
@tynanpurdy.com is anyone building a Beli alternative on the protocol? @dajinchu.bsky.social is looking for a project for the nyc community day #atprotonyc
Over the next few months, we'll be spotlighting parts of Habitat one at a time as we work through our roadmap to a stable release in ~6 months. Here's a little preamble to that!
Defining data agency
& more reflections from Habitat's summer in Berlin
habitat.leaflet.pub
Catch us at our next meetup in just under two weeks, featuring @ronentk.me, presenting on @semble.so and @atproto.science!
ATProto Boston Live
Join us at CarGurus HQ in Back Bay for our first ever, full-fledged, ATProto Boston meetup! We have talks, we have pizza, we have great folks working on the open social web and putting agency back in ...
atmo.rsvp
Just saw a post on here about reciprocal AI norms, and how it is not appropriate to send people AI generated code without validating it yourself. I've been thinking the exact same thing recently, but now I can't find the post! Seriously I've been searching for an hour, does anyone have the link?
as a little pre-show surprise, here's an early draft of the permissioned data proposal! github.com/bluesky-soci...
Permissioned data by dholms · Pull Request #94 · bluesky-social/proposals
This is an early draft of the proposal for permissioned data. Please do not over-index on this. Details, terminology, and behaviors are all likely to change. For a friendly introduction to the prot...
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AT Protocol Developers@atproto.com · 2mo agoDon't forget, @dholms.at is joining us for the livestream TOMORROW for a permissioned data AMA.
@chris.pardy.family wrote some thoughts on using CRDTs in atproto: leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:dp... He's looking for feedback and thoughts, I'm formulating my own, but I think it's an excellent start!
CRDT's on ATProto
leaflet.pub
We've spent the last couple weeks deep diving on the permissioned spaces proposal and what it means for Habitat's use case! We plan to release a formalized spec on what we're building soon, but in the mean time appreciate any thoughts on our design.
Habitat & permission spaces for organizations
Our plans for organizational permissions on spaces
habitat.leaflet.pub
Do you like coding and music? We're going to @codeforboston.bsky.social TOMRROW to hack together on Porchfest using @atproto.com. Bring your laptop and your ideas!
Porchfest Hack
What if porchfest and atproto? Join us and Code for Boston at the Cambridge Innovation Center where we will build together and play with the possibilities of experiences for porchfest on the open soc...
atmo.rsvp
Today is the day! We're meeting up at Democracy Brewing at 7PM. Come hang out! We've got Scoiattolo of Skywatch, Ethan Graf of Habitat Network, max of Lichen Wiki, and more! See you there 🫶🏻🍻
atmo.rsvp
discover and attend events
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Heading out to #somervilleporchfest today? @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz put the whole schedule on the atmosphere. Use any atmospheric events app to discover bands and plan your day! More might be coming in the next three hours…
atmo.rsvp
discover and attend events
atmo.rsvp
hi! i'm looking for projects in the ATmosphere whose users are people in *organizations*. if that sounds like you or something you know about please reach out!
Hello Boston! Our next meetup is next Thursday at Democracy Brewing. Join us to share a bev and chat all about atproto, the internet, communities, and civic agency! Featuring @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz @eagraf.dev @notplants.bsky.social and @tynanpurdy.com There’s even special @rpg.actor swag
May Meetup - atproto boston
Come on out for our May monthly meetup, this time at the great Democracy Brewing. We'll be discussing the social web, developments in the world of AT Protocol, our own projects, and the future of the ...
atmo.rsvp
To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.
As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
techcrunch.com
Tonight!!! We are seeing some issues with the event link originally posted. Good thing we're in the Atmosphere! See the event here on Smokesignal with all details and RSVPs preserved.
protocols for pubs ⋅ atproto boston meetup
Atproto Boston meetups every month! Come gather for a brew and friends as we chat about atproto, civic technology, the internet, and more. Location will rotate to different breweries all around the .....
smokesignal.events
ATProto Boston@atproto.boston · 5mo agoOur next meetup is coming up in just a couple days. This is your chance to pick up stickers from the conference! See ya there. #atproto.local
Our next meetup is coming up in just a couple days. This is your chance to pick up stickers from the conference! See ya there. #atproto.local
protocols for pubs ⋅ atproto boston meetup
Atproto Boston meetups every month! Come gather for a brew and friends as we chat about atproto, civic technology, the internet, and more. Location will rotate to different breweries all around the ci...
blento.app
Had a great call with @offline.arushibandi.com who is building @habitat.network The team has launched the first version of their Habitat Hub, and their first local first **private data** app - a collaborative notes editor, Habitat Docs habitat.network/habitat/docs
I’ve been using Habitat Docs all day to take notes on all the great #ATscience talks. Hope everyone at the conf gets a chance to check it out! 📝 🔬
Habitat@habitat.network · 5mo agohi #ATmosphereConf and in the spirit of ABL: we built a local-first p2p markdown editor on our private data implementation: habitat.network/habitat/docs/, it permissions p2p connections in addition to records find @offline.arushibandi.com @sashankg.bsky.social @eagraf.dev to ask us more!
I am really looking forward to Arushi's @offline.arushibandi.com talk. As we were wrapping #AtmosphereConf 2025, she said thank you & a few other kind words on her way out the door. So I'm very pleased to see this talk, "in conversation with several of the talks from last year"
Rewilding the internet with ATProto
So far, many of the projects in the ATProtocol ecosystem have focused on bringing parity—making projects that replicate our existing tools and platforms, but with the affordances of the protocol inste...
atmo.rsvp
In part 2 of our calendar series, I explore what it would actually take to build a permissioned data app without AppViews. There are a couple twists and turns along the way, but in the end, we got a fully functional app 📆
Habitat@habitat.network · 6mo agospaces, meet cliques! how we built a minimal calendar on pear (our permission-enforcing ATProto repo) and what we had to build to get there.
spaces, meet cliques! how we built a minimal calendar on pear (our permission-enforcing ATProto repo) and what we had to build to get there.
calendar pt. 2: buckets spaces, meet cliques!
permission-ed data without AppViews
habitat.leaflet.pub
Check out my first blog! As the ATmosphere moves towards permissioned data, how do we make sure privacy is really preserved? Can we build a permissioned data app today? All that and more in the post 👀📅
Habitat@habitat.network · 6mo ago@eagraf.dev with part 1 of how we're building a personal calendar on ATprotocol and what we're thinking about (differently!) for permissioned data
happy friday folks! had to get this out, give it a go :)
greensky: what does permissioned data feel like?
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