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Arbiter Progress Report 2

A new policy-based arbiter prototype and a draft of an interoperable lexicon for group servers.

Zicklag|May 21, 2026

Arbiter Progress Report 1

Lots of implementation progress & lots of discussion with the community.

Zicklag|May 13, 2026

Zicklag|May 13, 2026

Every App is an "Everything" App In the Atmosphere

This is really just some quick thoughts, but recently I saw a couple of posts / threads about the "everything app" concept.

Zicklag|May 11, 2026

Modeling Software With Quint

I believe having good abstractions is key to writing good code. But as a coder, I often write code in an effort to find those abstractions…

Zicklag|April 22, 2026

Learning To Write Software… Is Hard

But it's also good — Musings about the last year of Roomy development, and more.

Zicklag|April 19, 2026

The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond

The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.

Zicklag|April 18, 2026

Making Roomy More ATProto-Native

We've said Roomy's server was like a PDS, but what if it actually was a PDS?

Zicklag|March 13, 2026

How to Make a PDS - Part 2

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

Zicklag|March 09, 2026

How to Make a PDS - Part 1

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

Zicklag|March 07, 2026