Off Protocol

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

A Bad Idea Until You Think About It

Paul Frazee and Daniel Holmgren return to the livestream to discuss their recent posts that got them thinking a bit more deeply about work on the protocol and just what a

Not Just Us: An AMA with Toni Schneider

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider sits down to answer your questions about composable moderation, how Bluesky (and the Atmosphere) plans to make money, what makes atproto spaces

Own Your Own Destiny: An AMA with Jim Calabro

Jim Calabro, Head of Platform at Bluesky, joins to answer your questions about running what is, for now, the biggest node on the atproto network

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 buil

Shinkansen Mindset

News from the Atmosphere, including Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider’s interview with Nilay Patel at The Verge, three big referece PDS improvements shipping very soon, an atlas

Designing for Uncertainty

Ethan Marcotte, who first coined the phrase Responsive Design, joins to discuss how to operate in a world defined by uncertainty.

Protocolly Atmoseed

News from around the Atmosphere, including a proposal to fix localhost, more webdevs getting into atproto, Mu Social’s opinionated news feed, and more.

“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.

Sometimes You Just Want to Hold the Entire Network in Your Hand

Jim and Alex are back on the livestream. The permissioned data proposal has shipped, updates from Tangled, Roomy, and Anisota, and a look ahead at Jetstream v2.

The Iron’s Still Hot

Daniel Holmgren joins the livestream for an AMA on permissioned data.

“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 m

The Cobbler’s Kids

Jim and Alex are back on the livestream at a new time to discuss personal websites, Coop 1.0, exciting announcements from Eurosky, a new OAuth scope builder, and more new

In Our Timeline

Paul and Daniel are on the livestream this week with a look at the new Standard.site integration, updates from permissioned data, and news from around the Atmosphere

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, Ja

The Puppy Problem

Jim and Alex are live with the first live episode under the new Off Protocol name. Protocol meetups are happening everywhere, Alex and Jim were both in Portland, the Ozon

Why a New Protocol? The History and Future of AT Protocol

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Head of Protocol Daniel Holmgren join for a wide-ranging conversation about what atproto is, why it exists, how it got built, and where it’s g

Blacksky As a Service

Rishi Balakrishnan joins to talk about the work that went into building Acorn, Blacksky’s new platform for creating moderated communities on atproto — and why the landing

Slowly, Then Quickly: What AtmosphereConf Made Visible

With AtmosphereConf 2026 wrapped, Boris Mann and Ted Han join to talk about what the gathering surfaced in the ecosystem. From the IETF working group, the move beyond a s

A Thousand PRs in Two Weeks

Daniel Roe, Matias Capeletto, and Zeu join to discuss how their frustration with JavaScript packaging went from a Bluesky post to one of the most successful new community