Off Protocol

Episodes

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  The Code is the Easy Part 14.10.2026 1h 6m

  Lessons from building the EmDash CMS, a “spiritual successor to WordPress” from principal engineer Matt Kane.
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  Crab Bisque-y 09.10.2026 39m

  Jim and Alex are back on the livestream for the first time in a while to cover the latest news in the Atmosphere.
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  The Only Moat is Taste 02.10.2026 52m

  Ricardo Méndez is a technologist, advocate and investor who’s been working on the decentralized web for years. He joins for a conversation about how to think about building sustainable businesses on a network that upends all of our assumptions.
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  Stroopwafels for Everyone! 29.09.2026 36m

  The Atmosphere Conf 2027 organizers joined the livestream for some announcements about when, where, and what you can expect from next year’s conference.
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  Make Your Own Thing 11.09.2026 1h 33m

  John Gruber has been writing Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter of a century, analyzing and cataloging a distinct array of internet ephemera, designer nerdery, and, of course, the meteoric rise of Apple. He joins Jim to talk about what the pre-platform internet felt like, the oppressive sameness of contemporary web publishing, the creation of Markdown, and covering Apple for half of the company’s life.
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  A Bad Idea Until You Think About It 04.09.2026 47m

  Paul Frazee and Daniel Holmgren return to the livestream to discuss their recent posts that got them thinking a bit more deeply about work on the protocol and just what atproto is building towards.
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  Not Just Us: An AMA with Toni Schneider 26.08.2026 47m

  Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider sits down to answer your questions about composable moderation, how Bluesky (and the Atmosphere) plans to make money, what makes atproto spaces a true differentiator, and where AI fits on the protocol.
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  Own Your Own Destiny: An AMA with Jim Calabro 24.08.2026 47m

  Jim Calabro, Head of Platform at Bluesky, joins to answer your questions about running what is, for now, the biggest node on the atproto network
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  Waterwheel Logic 17.08.2026 57m

  Eve Osman on building Northsky, creating a love letter to the web with Twinkl, approaches to private data on the protocol, and why a Nubian waterwheel is a model for building sustainable technology.
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  Shinkansen Mindset 06.08.2026 47m

  News from the Atmosphere, including Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider’s interview with Nilay Patel at The Verge, three big referece PDS improvements shipping very soon, an atlas of Atmospheric apps, and more. (Livestream, recorded August 5, 2026)
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  Designing for Uncertainty 03.08.2026 44m

  Ethan Marcotte, who first coined the phrase Responsive Design, joins to discuss how to operate in a world defined by uncertainty.
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  Protocolly Atmoseed 23.07.2026 36m

  News from around the Atmosphere, including a proposal to fix localhost, more webdevs getting into atproto, Mu Social’s opinionated news feed, and more.
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  “Nothing Is Ever Over” 22.07.2026 1h 16m

  Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.
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  Sometimes You Just Want to Hold the Entire Network in Your Hand 10.07.2026 33m

  Jim and Alex are back on the livestream. The permissioned data proposal has shipped, updates from Tangled, Roomy, and Anisota, and a look ahead at Jetstream v2.
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  The Iron’s Still Hot 26.06.2026 46m

  Daniel Holmgren joins the livestream for an AMA on permissioned data.
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  “Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry” 16.06.2026 19m

  Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation
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  The Cobbler’s Kids 15.06.2026 40m

  Jim and Alex are back on the livestream at a new time to discuss personal websites, Coop 1.0, exciting announcements from Eurosky, a new OAuth scope builder, and more news from the Atmosphere.
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  In Our Timeline 11.06.2026 46m

  Paul and Daniel are on the livestream this week with a look at the new Standard.site integration, updates from permissioned data, and news from around the Atmosphere
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  Why Don’t We Just Do This Together? 28.05.2026 1h 4m

  Jim sits down with members of the core team building and governing Standard.site, the shared Lexicon for publishing longform writing on atproto. Brooke from pckt.blog, Jared from Leaflet, and Miguel from Offprint cover the design tradeoffs in creating a new shared format, tales of data migrations, strategies for shared governance, and why you shouldn’t buy a premium domain name.
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  The Puppy Problem 15.05.2026 33m

  Jim and Alex are live with the first live episode under the new Off Protocol name. Protocol meetups are happening everywhere, Alex and Jim were both in Portland, the Ozone moderation tool has some new features, and Bluesky is considering an edit button. Plus a few of your questions.