Zicklag's Leaflets

Zicklag's personal leaflets.

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…

April 22, 2026


Learning To Write Software… Is Hard

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

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.

April 18, 2026

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Making Roomy More ATProto-Native

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

March 13, 2026

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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.

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.

March 07, 2026