technical.scrolls.org#

Prototyping atproto feed/label service

"Test in production"#

1. Make sure FLY_DEV=1 and PROD_PG_URL=xxx is set in your .env
2. Run fly proxy 5432 -a techscrolls-db3
3. Run whatever package that uses our .env file

FLY_DEV=1 bun run xxx

Goals#

• Web service that listens for posts and allows me to add tags to posts. e.g. "#golang" "#tech" to train the classifiers
• Offers a feed to Bluesky powered by classifiers
  • Everything
  • Programming Languages (Go, Python, PHP, TypeScript, etc)
• Produce a feed of pure technical content via classifiers
• Label contributors to that feed with cute labels

Prototype stage#

• Subscribe to the stream
• Authenticate as bsky client
• Introduce self as feed
• Hard code a few posts as items

Training the classifier#

• Idea: Use likes on the account. We can browse some feeds and like what's tech. Then we need the negatives somehow
• Idea: Browser extension that talks to my service
  • Joker: Need to be able to authenticate the user with Bluesky

Platform tasks#

• Service login w. service id/pass
• Basic web-service w. routes
• Allow a user to login w. app password to train the service
• Persistance and hosting (only need that when we do a feed)

Notes#

• Jetstream server https://github.com/bluesky-social/jetstream/tree/main
• Sensible label starter https://github.com/aliceisjustplaying/labeler-starter-kit-bsky/blob/main/src/main.ts
• Leaner SDK https://github.com/mary-ext/atcute/tree/trunk/packages/core/client
• Skyware. Bunch of thin libraries https://github.com/skyware-js/bot