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Pieter Montoulieu: From Beacons to Operating Systems

Pieter is coming to AtmosphereConf - ask him about his apps: SkyTube, Nimbus, Aether OS and Beacon Bits

March 05, 2026

Pieter is coming to AtmosphereConf and bringing some custom atproto things for everyone to play with!

Pieter is not giving a talk at the conference (he told us he just wants to listen and propose a talk for next year's conference), but he is a prolific atproto developer with a number of unique apps.

Skytube

Skytube , a YouTube like interface for watching, saving, and discovering videos posted to Bluesky. But also Blacksky, YouTube, and more.

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SkyTube
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SkyTube v0.3 is live! 🎬✨ This update brings: 📼 Playlist creation + management 🎨 Command palette for quick nav, commands, and search ⏱️ Timestamp linking in comments + URLs 🪄 Paste bsky URL to open player ⚙️ Settings page w/ playlist + saved video options 🔗 Better ways to share videos #atproto #atdev

The new edit playlist dialog with options for picking an emoji, setting a title, color and description.The command palette where you can open different parts of the app, run quick commands and search for users, posts and hashtags.

Nimbus

Nimbus is a spatial Bluesky client for visionOS, available via testflight for trying out on your Apple Vision Pro headset.

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Pieter Montoulieu
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Testing some new @nimbus.vision features out. Now you can place widgets in your environment that show top posts from your favorite feeds. Also added: - faster image conversion to spatial scenes - voice controlled search - feed sidebar to timeline view - chat view for sending messages

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Aether OS

Aether OS is a Cyberpunk ATProto desktop environment. App suite + Substrate container for tap/goat indexing and CLI tools.

Not yet launched, but you can see a demo video.

Beacon Bits

Beacon Bits lets you pin in your photos & posts to the map, tag friends, and cross-post to your atproto account. Using the community atgeo lexicon, it also means that venues you have in Beacon Bits can be used to create events in Smoke Signal.

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Beacon Bits
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Some new Beacon Bits updates have landed! Now when you zoom in to the map, photos will show inside of beacon markers. You can customize how your markers display by setting a profile color in settings.

A screenshot of the beacon bits map, showing photo markers at various locations. The info drawer for the beacon is displayed.

One more thing: Anomaly on UBC Campus!

Some of you who follow the account may already be aware that an ANOMALY is forming on the UBC campus where AtmosphereConf is taking place.

More will be revealed closer to the conference, and anyone with an atproto account can participate with a web app on their phone.

Thanks for joining us at AtmosphereConf, and for preparing some fun experiences for us all!


Meet developers like Pieter at AtmosphereConf, the global community conference for the atproto community. Join us March 26th -> March 29th, in Vancouver, Canada. Buy your tickets and see all the talks and activities at https://atmosphereconf.org

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