fig (aka:[phil])

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com

art and transistors, they/them plant-mom, community infra for the atmosphere @microcosm.blue

making/running [constellation.microcosm.blue](http://constellation.microcosm.blue ), slingshot, UFOs, spacedust, lightrail, relays, plc mirrors, hubble,

service SLA & atproto consulting available

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Web site: https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com
Link: https://bad-example.com
Link: http://constellation.microcosm.blue

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Last Notes

2026-04-16 23:44:18 UTC

been monitoring all microcosm services through the day and haven't posted much about it because it's been mostly just fine. nobody has been attacking microcosm today.
traffic is up a lot of course but all the little boxes have been chill.
hugops the the bsky folks, this one must have been rough

2026-04-16 20:07:08 UTC

microcosm relays are public and free to use!
it’s cool to subscribe to both bluesky and microcosm relays if your firehose consumer can do multi-relay ✨
SLA available if you’re a business and need that: get in touch!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2zmxikig2sj7gqaezl5gntae/post/3mjn5toe4bs2g
#note1se5…6687

2026-04-02 14:42:41 UTC

psa about covid tests for everyone who was at #atmosphereconf:
if you start feeling anything after your negative test, please take another, 24–48h after the last one.
the rapid tests have a very real false-negative rate, and testing positive has always happened some time *after* symptoms for me

2026-03-31 19:26:45 UTC

someone hold me finishing and publishing this
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreidlaoes54esecnoq3asw4kd4rebhcgek22d5bqm7yber3knj5yiay

2026-03-28 18:29:41 UTC

slides for my talk (now-ish) if you want to follow the small-text (or get spoilers)
[atproto infra](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ug-ld9lFwZNnUTUlo0AIeMSxr5Se1UT2h6vcOVbzrBM/edit?usp=sharing )

2026-03-23 16:49:12 UTC

if you are (or have ever been) a financial supporter of microcosm, can i send you a few questions? (last-minute research for my talk)

2026-03-22 22:57:23 UTC

now that lowercase atproto is settled can we fight about “on” vs “in the atmosphere”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gotnvwkr56ibs33l4hwgfoet/post/3mhoi2rek5c2z

2026-02-18 22:54:35 UTC

it takes work to keep microcosm services not just online, but reliably online, freely available, at low operating cost, without sacrificing performance or capacity, for a growing user-base.
so grateful for the direct support i receive from the community, which still covers all recurring expenses 💪
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/post/3mf64zdf4p22p

2026-02-10 21:09:34 UTC

thinking through the upcoming many-to-many (non-aggregated) constellation query
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreibwxya7sosdtnjojsblmt5afn3tmudoxqd4ljgvnk5osyutb6sdz4
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreibxgbdq7h2alasx5efay6rbjwycthsgm7i5jjdhqozdso3sb74slu
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreie65mculhn4g6bqujgietc77ozdqyi4gs5nmmd6qwmac5hbmahbbi

2026-02-08 18:01:13 UTC

would be cool of bluesky to ship a quick non-perfect display of their already-existing pronouns profile field

2026-02-06 19:11:35 UTC

it’s happening!!! going to be able to share about a big new atproto community infra project very very very soon

2025-12-20 15:35:58 UTC

[debug.hose.cam](https://debug.hose.cam )
[debug.hose.cam](https://debug.hose.cam )

2025-12-02 07:46:55 UTC

gimme your top feature requests and bug reports for [ufos.microcosm.blue](https://ufos.microcosm.blue ), i’m planning a one-week sprint on it in january
[🛸 UFOs: Explore atproto lexico...](https://ufos.microcosm.blue )

2025-11-13 22:05:26 UTC

I think i had some listRepos ordering bias in those numbers. I've now pulled *all* CARs from active repos (~490k) from `morel`:
- 0.5 MiB average CAR size
- 0.015 MiB: median size
top five largest CARs:
1. 650 MiB
2. 490 MiB
3. 330 MiB
4. 290 MiB
5. 260 MiB
(again this is only for morel pds)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid/post/3m5enw7apoc2h

2025-11-12 21:59:30 UTC

yup that's officially 10 billion atproto backlinks
indexed by constellation
across every lexicon
that you can query
at [constellation.microcosm.blue](https://constellation.microcosm.blue )
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreieu2oaghr6y45c3e7h2qmofupnxj3k2a5gxtxhrzoxzq5xc6mnsky

2025-10-16 14:53:38 UTC

how it started
how it’s going
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreicby3m2zrifezvr7b653ejusz64m3rhtn67q7od5vor3u6uagt2om

2025-10-03 19:13:41 UTC

ok we are live! constellation can now count by many-to-many link records!!
motivating example was bluemoji, but it's already usable for some general traversal. you can ask,
> what issues on @npub19y6…yh78 have a "good-first-issue" label?
check it:
[Many to Many counts — Constell...](https://constellation.microcosm.blue/xrpc/blue.microcosm.links.getManyToManyCounts?subject=at%3A%2F%2Fdid%3Aplc%3Awshs7t2adsemcrrd4snkeqli%2Fsh.tangled.label.definition%2Fgood-first-issue&source=sh.tangled.label.op%3Aadd%5B%5D.key&pathToOther=subject&limit=25 )

2025-10-03 02:12:26 UTC

this and: the big bet with microcosm is that we can bridge a *lot* of the performance gap and make client-only apps easy to build, with really acceptable performance.
slingshot still needs a lot of work but it’s part of this: it can learn the graph from active users and pre-cache from the firehose
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fpruhuo22xkm5o7ttr2ktxdo/post/3m2arwuuktk2b
[Slingshot: atproto edge record...](https://slingshot.microcosm.blue/ )
#note1crg…lzwc

2025-09-30 13:46:59 UTC

Blacksky building their own implementations of atproto services is an incredibly good and forward-looking move.

2025-09-29 20:28:49 UTC

[plc.wtf](https://plc.wtf ) reference mirror now has a place for PLC experiments:
- [experimental.plc.wtf](https://experimental.plc.wtf )
experiment #1: upstream op forwarding. submit a PLC op and Allegedly will forward it upstream to `plc.directory` for you.
everything stays in sync, but you don't have to touch the official directory at all
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid/post/3lzorlskrus2d
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreiapssp6z32pnhrm3cvf3nm3qciry3zd2uuzpxdpo6vk6rh6ee33tu
#note1hw8…d57g

2025-09-25 20:19:39 UTC

[plc.wtf](https://plc.wtf )
it's alive. prob don't use it quite yet tho.
https://plc.wtf

2025-09-21 15:54:26 UTC

got postgres writing 262k rows/sec so that's probably good enough for fast plc backfill for now

2025-09-19 20:16:57 UTC

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!!
I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:44ybard66vv44zksje25o7dz/post/3lz6kko5bnc2l
[Adversarial PLC directory migr...](https://updates.microcosm.blue/3lz7nwvh4zc2u )
#note1pj3…ypq8

2025-09-13 16:02:02 UTC

my expectations for atproto doom me to be tired by everything
what’s that thing about overestimating what can be done in the short-term and underestimating the long-term

2025-09-10 21:35:45 UTC

what's the best place to shorthand-link about "credible exit"?
the ethos page on [atproto.com](https://atproto.com ) is great but credible exit is really buried in there.
ideally from an authoritative (bluesky or atproto) source

2025-08-18 18:32:42 UTC

ops gets a little exhausting y’all
it’s expensive in dollars, time, effort, and on days like today, emotion. planning for resilience takes more of all these—more than money but money helps
[github.com/sponsors/uni...](https://github.com/sponsors/uniphil )
[ko-fi.com/bad_example](https://ko-fi.com/bad_example )
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/post/3lwoz4tzia22e

2025-07-26 23:29:12 UTC

whoa, public (no-auth) discover feed is returning empty rn
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreihnldqw2o4vdwqshhm56gnkdediwzfy72wg4muhnq74m4w7t5bbwm

2025-07-25 23:51:52 UTC

friday is for demos [bsky.bad-example.com/zero-bluesky...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/zero-bluesky-realtime-embed/ )
[zero bluesky live-updating pos...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/zero-bluesky-realtime-embed/ )

2025-07-25 17:45:49 UTC

spacedust is an atproto firehose of social interactions on atproto, that you can filter by interaction type and *link target*
currently making a bsky post embed widget with it that updates interaction counts in real-time, using zero bsky infra and no backend :)
[spacedust.microcosm.blue](https://spacedust.microcosm.blue/ )
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreidbxxkrxli23hfg4zue2yrpuqdqeimuvvkncxwheltmhxn4arht6e

2025-07-14 00:59:28 UTC

think i’ll repurpose the other pi zero tomorrow for no reason in particular
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oisofpd7lj26yvgiivf3lxsi/post/3ltv6b5kxv22j
#note1j3k…lfvg

2025-06-12 19:22:59 UTC

Launching: 🛸 UFOs, a global ATProto lexicon explorer! 🛸
Find sample records for every collection NSID ever published!
+timeseries stats, unique user counts, and more!
🛸 App: [ufos.microcosm.blue](https://ufos.microcosm.blue )
👾 API: [ufos-api.microcosm.blue](https://ufos-api.microcosm.blue )
[🛸 UFOs: Explore atproto lexico...](https://ufos.microcosm.blue/ )

2025-06-07 18:48:35 UTC

cannot deal with the fact that people are actually sponsoring me on github 😭
five new supporters this week, thank you so much 💕💕💕

2025-06-03 20:23:08 UTC

dataaaaaaaaa 🤤
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreihj3epx2aqu6v6fqsaotvgcbmwzqaag54t2p22hczubhai7tt4leq

2025-05-21 13:28:16 UTC

proof that all of the almost 5 billion links in constellation are served by a raspi at my home :(
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/post/3lpopc4cxts2c

2025-02-07 22:59:14 UTC

stuff you might want to know about jetstream if you’re building something on atproto that needs to reliably receive all events: [bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-th...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-the-firehose-correctly/ )
[consuming the jetstream fireho...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-the-firehose-correctly/ )