Many existing ATProto developers have gotten to know Alex & Jim over the past couple of weeks: they're the founding members of Bluesky's new Developer Relations team.
Part of their role is to make building on ATProto approachable to as many developers as possible. They are also here to listen and learn from your experience to make the protocol better in every way.
In addition to getting to know the ATProto community, they've been wrangling PRs, writing new docs, blogging, measuring growth, and making lots of plans. 2026 is going to be huge!
Alex and Jim will be coming to ATmosphereConf, and delivering two workshops. Thanks for joining us!
Meet the team
Alex
Alex is Bluesky Devrel! Previously, he was a Staff Developer Advocate at Temporal, before that a Senior Technical Writer at DigitalOcean, and before that a digital archivist for many years, which led to him knowing too much about ffmpeg. He is terribly passionate about baseball and documentation. Follow him at
Jim
Before Bluesky, Jim spent time moving back and forth between media and tech, including a little over nine years at Slack where he most recently lead Developer Experience. Before Slack he helped build a media startup, was a front-end engineer for the most opinionated design agency in San Francisco, built digital editorial projects and NBC News and the Chicago Tribune. He is almost certainly thinking about what he's cooking next at this very minute. Follow him
Workshops
These two workshops both take place on Friday, March 27th as part of the pre-events and activities ahead of the main conference days. One will be in the morning, and one in the afternoon, so you can attend both if you like.
Consuming the ATmosphere
This will be an introductory workshop for developers who may have some JS/TS experience but almost no AT experience, who want to learn how to and read posts and other data from the Atmosphere.
We will review community tools for engaging with PDS data, as well as the core design principles of the Atmosphere. There will be a mix of hands-on exercises and open-ended discussions. Workshop participants will come away with all they need to use the data from the Atmosphere in their own applications.
Presented by the Bluesky DevRel Team, Alex & Jim.
Creating the ATmosphere
This will be an intermediate workshop on designing AT Lexicons to support new apps, with an emphasis on reusing the social graph data that already exists in the network.
We will begin by building and deploy bots that post to the Atmosphere, and then contextualize the Bluesky Lexicon alongside other published Lexicons (and demo the new Lexhub interface). There will be a mix of guided exercises and open-ended design sessions. Come with ideas in mind! Frontend design ability not required.
Presented by the Bluesky DevRel Team, Alex & Jim.
Register to Join Us
The workshops are filling up quickly (we're going to figure out what our max capacity is and/or make sure we can schedule in good sized rooms), so buy your tickets now to make sure to grab your spot.
After you fill out the initial purchase info for your registration, you'll see several options for opting in to Thursday and Friday activities, from multi-hour workshops to all day events like ATScience.
These are included in the base price of your ticket!
Yes, space is limited, and yes, these are in-person workshops. Right now the plan is that we will definitely record all the workshops. We're going to focus on delivering and supporting people in the room, and will make all the material available so people can go through the training on their own.
We may be able to add some online-only workshops depending on time zones and interest.
Thanks to Bluesky for being the ATmosphereConf title sponsor and committing to creating workshop material and bringing your team to help grow the community.