https://pfrazee.com/blog Random dev notes about work at Bluesky by Paul Frazee en-us pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralization https://pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralization The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) atproto https://pfrazee.com/blog/atmospheric-computing https://pfrazee.com/blog/atmospheric-computing Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward. Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:00:00 GMT pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) atprotobsky https://pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance https://pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance At last weekend's Atmosphere Conference, there were a lot of questions about how author Lexicons. I thought it would be a good idea to share some guidance. Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) atprotobsky https://pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-p2p https://pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-p2p Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky choose not to use a peer-to-peer network when designing the AT Protocol? Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) atprotobsky https://pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-rdf https://pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-rdf Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky create a new schema language, Lexicon, for the AT Protocol? Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) atprotobsky https://pfrazee.com/blog/why-facets https://pfrazee.com/blog/why-facets Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown? Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT pfrazee@gmail.com (Paul Frazee) atprotobsky