#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?

Why is there always "an update available" for every single Electron app on my machine?

Finally feel like I’m starting to wrap my head around #atproto now that I’ve setup a working local development environment. Now to start building things…

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.

Things you don't find out until you deploy:

Error: attaching IAM Policy - LimitExceeded: Cannot exceed quota for PoliciesPerRole: 10

C'mon @amazonwebservices.bsky.social 🤬

#JavaScript is the Schrödinger's cat of programming languages...

Some person on Usenet in the early 90's came up with the term "spam" and we all just ran with it 😳
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

You can use an empty string as the name of a property in JavaScript 🙃