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In a very hot and humid Berlin for the CSS Working Group meeting. I've missed the last couple of meetings as America keeps inventing new ways to put me off visiting, so I'm excited to be in person for this one.

Went to a country fair today, there was judging of all kinds of animals, vintage cars, and baked goods.

Apologies for Bluesky spam, while debugging my standard.site integration I got it working rather too well, and have now backfilled about 25 years of blog entries.

How do we talk about atproto to non-developers? The beauty of AT Protocol is that all of your data from different apps is available on your PDS, your own folder on the internet containing your stuff... https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/07/31/how-do-we-talk-about-atproto-to-non-developers/

How do we talk about atproto to non-developers?

The beauty of AT Protocol is that all of your data from different apps is available on your PDS, your own folder on the internet containing your stuff as JSON. This means that you can switch which app you use to view that data, without losing anything. It also makes it very easy to make...

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Had to reroute our run today due to cows all over the path. I'm not a fan of cows when they have calves with them.

Looking at the weather forecast for the South of the UK I'm proposing, "Come to the North, we're cool and damp" as a tourism slogan.

Following a bunch of folk hacking on atproto has made my Bluesky feed far less depressing. At least the doom and information about well known horrible people and newly identified horrible people is interspersed with people excited about the cool thing they just built.

I'm thinking about how non-developers will feel about atproto. For example, will it take people by surprise that data entered into one app can show up somewhere else? More thoughts in this post.

How do we talk about atproto to non-developers? | Rachel Andrew

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Recommending an episode of Syntax.fm with Dan Abramov if you want to better understand atproto.

I have a new Macbook Pro, it's been a while since I set up a new non-corp-controlled Mac. Is Homebrew still the way to go? Anyone got any good Mac tips? I code mostly PHP and Python, do local WordPress dev, prefer the cli.

It's a stressful time to be a person who likes things to make some sort of sense.

For some reason cosmos never grew in my Bristol garden, I'd just get one rubbish stalk. Here they are popping out flowers all over the place.

I live in a small town surrounded by other small towns and villages, and everyone cross posts their events to the other Facebook groups. All the AI posters for summer fairs and such are the same few weird styles. I think I preferred it when Joan from the parish council used her clip art CD.

Showing this to my biters as a warning.

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When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector

At the weekend I had a go at putting a feed of my Atmosphere posts on the Now page of my WordPress site. It's fairly basic but it's a start rachelandrew.co.uk/now/

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I've been meaning to put my conference badge collection on the wall for years, and finally did! It brought back a lot of memories of all the events I've been part of.

Cats are essentially covered in cat spit. I can generally ignore this fact until I plant my hand on a freshly licked, somewhat soggy, part of a cat.