Bluesky's source code is widely open source, so you can run your own social network with it. What's missing? A performant DataPlane implementation. Closing this gap would be an important step towards building digital independence. We wanted to contribute our share and decided to work on a performant DataPlane for Bluesky. When we started the project, we expected it to be a Go, Rust or even Node project. Instead, we landed with Elixir. Here is why and how we made that decision.
The details of our Proof-of-Concept dataplane in Elixir
How weʼre extending Discourse with two plugins and a custom theme to build Wiblio, an open source social platform for the communities meeting at Berlinʼs public libraries.
We moved the test suite of a large legacy Rails app from Selenium to Cuprite and celebrate its reliability since then.
Let's explore understanding a codebase like it's 1999, and compare it with how coding agents work.
Legacy software is the code we lost confidence in. We have build Surveyor, a tool that lets you extract specifications from legacy software. See how Surveyor allows you to reclaim ownership of legacy projects
Let's explore how we demystify redesigns, what strategies work for us and where the challenges are.
Will your atproto project survive the next user surge? Weʼve built the toolkit for you!
Learn how we managed to reduce large PDF files render time from minutes to a few seconds in Rails.
A behind-the-scenes dive into a project at bitcrowd: how we broke down the planning, implementation and release of Charger, the replacement billing service of our client Steady Media.
