Paul Frazee

@pfrazee.com

CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.

If Tron was real do you think the little computer guys would judge us. Probably, right? They'd have nothing to do but see our terrible code running. They'd watch a memory leak like "umm hello?"

Okay so you know how Venmo showed what you're buying to your friends & the world, but how it always felt like it was missing something

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Welcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️‍⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:

Me: The new agent harness is great. You feed your tokens into the machine. Then you run simulations which, if successful, produces tickets. If they fail you have to buy more tokens and keep running the sims. Once you have enough tickets you can redeem them Boss: are you at dave & busters, yes or no

PDS folks! Working on a redesign of the authentication and dashboard screens for the reference PDS, bringing in a proper component library and consistent patterns across the UI. One notable change: customizable light/dark backgrounds on the auth screens. Let us know what you think! #atproto

pds sign in screenpds sign in screen focused on the password inputpds sign in screen with an illustrated background of people playing in a park at nightpds account dashboard

I wrote up my talk at @localfirstconf.com as a blogpost The AT Protocol is a high-scale network by design. It works by codifying proven architectures into a protocol. If you've ever used kafka to connect some backend services, then you basically know how atproto works.

Starting from scale in the design of the AT Protocol

Bluesky was founded in 2022 to produce a protocol which Twitter could adopt. The product goals changed, but the requirements didn't.

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the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.