Bluesky... without Bluesky What if we could use Bluesky without touching any Bluesky servers? What about if we avoided touching their code, entirely?

Finally time to drop the thing I've been working on for weeks: Bluesky without Bluesky – I ran a full stack PDS/Relay/AppServer/Client stack using no bluesky code!

👋 card carrying member of the 'AppServer' gang here

next parakeet update post soon (tm) - feel like I’m getting somewhere again now.

oh god maybe I should think about actually implementing the small world stuff then lmao.

re “w/o touching Bluesky servers”: doing something interesting in this space atm (tangentially related) and I think I’m going to run a parakeet because I think I could get all the way to no bsky **code**

Service update for Parakeet PLC (and other services):

Service update for Parakeet PLC (and other services):

Mia's Roundup 2025 - Mia's Blog

I did the annual roundup thing!

(ignore any incorrect tense, I've been working on this for a good three weeks)

mia.leaflet.pub/3mba5xywer22u

parakeet is going to be a bit slower for a few weeks whilst I crunch on my other project (which I need to finish by the end of the month), and start learning nix ahead of my escapades over Christmas.

should be working now - lmk if i need to tweak it

oops, no, lol - will fix tomorrow. just didn’t test that.
(sorry for not seeing this ping earlier too)

quick update time:
- getPostThreadV2 now works!
- post, postgate, threadgate improvements are in, including threadgates that actually work

Coming up:
- currently tracking down an annoying car repo issue that (may) be my naive code
- maybe profiling if I can get Grafana back up?

Also in the process of spinning down issues and MRs on GitLab, trying to go full in on Tangled apart from CI and Containers for now.

not 100% on Taiga, but it works. Linear doesn't have a free public board option, and todoist doesn't really have useful tags or extra fields.

Spent some time today coming up with a proper todo list for Parakeet. Don't read _too_ much into the ordering, although the order for Planning and In Progress is the order I intend to work in.

tree.taiga.io/project/mia-...

also added some for the plc-mirror repo:

tangled.org/@parakeet.at...

Got a few in here for the Parakeet repo - ping me @mia.pds.parakeet.at if anything takes your fancy.

OoO for a week, but here's a progress update:
- viewer states merged
- new profile fields done
- pinned posts done
- kicked off some improvements on posts and threading: getAuthorFeed doesn't quite work the same as bsky currently, and I could do with tweaks before getPostThreadV2 and notifs...

made an appview that only has me on it
social.shatteredsky.net/profile/quil...