A Domain-Hoarder’s Guide to Bluesky Custom Handles

A Domain-Hoarder’s Guide to Bluesky Custom Handles

I’m a little bit of a domain-hoarder.  I admit it.  And it shouldn’t be much of a surprise given how many jokes there are about developers buying up domains for projects that they’re never actually going to do. This puts me in a good place to talk about the domain acquisition process and how it […]

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BlueskyApi 2.0

BlueskyApi 2.0

I mentioned over the summer that I’d thrown together a quick PHP wrapper class for interacting with the Bluesky API / AT protocol.  And by quick, I mean quick.  I wrote it one night, did a blog post on it in the early morning the next day, and called it good. Different issues with it […]

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PHP and the Bluesky API

PHP and the Bluesky API

Note: The following code examples were accurate as of when this was written, specifically for v1 of my BlueskyApi class. Version-accurate code samples can be found in the README file for the class. Much like last fall’s version of the Twitterpocalypse saw people running to Mastodon (and, seemingly, quickly running back to Twitter) as a […]

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Randomizing Mastodon Max Post Length

Randomizing Mastodon Max Post Length

I’ve been really bogged down on a couple personal development projects lately so yesterday I gave myself time to tackle a different problem. Namely, Nora Reed’s idea for randomized maximum post length on a Mastodon instance. Yes, I know it’s kind of funny to link to a Bluesky post talking about Mastodon. But I love […]

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