Episode 2641:45Conversation
Somewhere We Have Some Agency
Edward Niedermeyer joins to share his insight into how covering Elon Musk for a decade-and-a-half prepared him to go all-in on atproto.
With Edward Niedermeyer
Off Protocol
Conversations about AT Protocol and the open social web with the people working to build a better internet. Brought to you by the Bluesky DevRel team.
Episode 241:06:48Conversation
The Code is the Easy Part
Lessons from building the EmDash CMS, a “spiritual successor to WordPress” from principal engineer Matt Kane.
With Matt Kane
Episode 2252:46Conversation
The Only Moat is Taste
Ricardo Méndez is a technologist, advocate and investor who’s been working on the decentralized web for years. He joins for a conversation about how to think about building sustainable businesses on a network that upends all of our assumptions.
With Ricardo Méndez
Episode 201:33:04Conversation
Make Your Own Thing
John Gruber has been writing Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter of a century, analyzing and cataloging a distinct array of internet ephemera, designer nerdery, and, of course, the meteoric rise of Apple. He joins Jim to talk about what the pre-platform internet felt like, the oppressive sameness of contemporary web publishing, the creation of Markdown, and covering Apple for half of the company’s life.
With John Gruber
Episode 1657:08Conversation
Waterwheel Logic
Eve Osman on building Northsky, creating a love letter to the web with Twinkl, approaches to private data on the protocol, and why a Nubian waterwheel is a model for building sustainable technology.
With Eve Osman
Episode 1444:37Conversation
Designing for Uncertainty
Ethan Marcotte, who first coined the phrase Responsive Design, joins to discuss how to operate in a world defined by uncertainty.
With Ethan Marcotte
Episode 121:16:25Conversation
“Nothing Is Ever Over”
Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.
With Erin Kissane
Episode 919:42Conversation
“Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry”
Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation
With Juliet Shen
Episode 61:04:11Conversation
Why Don’t We Just Do This Together?
Jim sits down with members of the core team building and governing Standard.site, the shared Lexicon for publishing longform writing on atproto. Brooke from pckt.blog, Jared from Leaflet, and Miguel from Offprint cover the design tradeoffs in creating a new shared format, tales of data migrations, strategies for shared governance, and why you shouldn’t buy a premium domain name.
With Brooke, Jared, Miguel