e551 — ATProto Socials

Photo from the International Space Station 1 April 2026 of the exhaust plume from Artemis II in Earth’s atmosphere – NASA ID: iss074e0431736 Published 20 April 2026 e551 with Michael, Michael and Andy – a tour of the Atmosphere with ATProto, Sifa, Eurosky, Leaflet, a LEGO cacophonous karaoke of “Mad About Me” and a whole lot more! Michael, Michael and Andy get things started with a series of applications powered by ATProto, the protocol powering Bluesky and many more.  Andy shares his experimentation & experiences with several of these applications, including a set curated on portal.Eurosky.tech such as Leaflet, Popfeed and Sifa. Andy also shares Anisota, which is a gamified approach to Bluesky social media browsing where you may collect photos of moths and start expeditions.  Andy learned of Aetheros from from whitep4nth3r.com and takes Michael and Michael through it.  There is a nice capability in this service called Deckard, which provides a columnar view of Bluesky posts. Rounding out the episode for this week, the co-hosts take a look at Aadam Jacobs’ collection of recordings on the Internet Archive. This is an impressive set of hundreds of live music recordings from 1984-2019.  Check it out in the show notes below.  And for a little more contemporary musical example, have a listen to a cacophonous karaoke of “Mad About Me” created with 7 of the Mos Eisley Cantina SMART Brick sets.  And to continue to set the mood for the upcoming #StarWarsDay, give a listen to the original via the YouTube embed.  Also, managed to get in an Artemis II reference for the third straight episode with the hero image. What is your favorite Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes song?  Have your droids 🤖 drop our droids 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know!  These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AT Protocol AT Protocol AT Protocol post: Understanding Atproto The ATmosphereConf 2026 Bluesky Wikipedia article: Personal Data Service (PDS) Equals Drummond blog post: The Difference Between a Personal Cloud and a Personal Data Store Smoke Signals leaflet.pub  Eurosky Portal Eurosky’s Introducing Portal blog on leaflet sif