Building on top of ATProto
Jan 28, 2025
An exploration about building a side-project app on top of ATProto. I’m saving this since at some point, I want to integrate fika with Bluesky.
I enjoy a lot the “captain-log” kind of articles. It’s always interesting to see how people build and learn. As usual, it’s also comforting to see people sharing the same struggles:
As always, the hardest part of this project, as with any project, was understanding the data model and the business logic, and parsing out those objects correctly. The second-hardest was aligning elements in CSS.
Like Scratch, but textual!
Very interesting project to teach programming to kids. The main difference with Scratch is that Hedy uses Python (yuck!) on a textual environment. To be able to reach kids around the world, they’ve open sourced a python-like language that is multi-lingual. There is of course the eternal debate to whether kids should learn to program or not, exacerbated by the advances in generative AI. But I still…
Platform teams: the eternal debate
As a CTO, one of the unsolved challenges is whether to have a platform team or not. This article explores the downside of building platform teams. I think the article is a little bit biased and presents only one way of implementing platform teams. I still believe that platform teams are a net-positive, but only when they use golden paths to achieve their goals.