Nick Gerakines

Smoke Signal is now officially open source! It’s an event and RSVP management and discovery app built on ATProtocol. I chose the MIT license because it keeps things simple and open. No gatekeeping, no restrictions—just build, share, and remix freely.

Open Source License

I chose the MIT license for Smoke Signal because it aligns with the project’s goals of openness, accessibility, and community collaboration. Smoke Signal is an event and RSVP management and discovery ...

Grateful to announce that Bluesky Social PBC has awarded me a small grant to continue building in the ATProtocol ecosystem!

Building decentralized infrastructure is a team effort. Thankful to everyone who has contributed directly and indirectly.

Excited to keep shipping. 🚀

AWE YEAH

Tabletop creators leave X for Bluesky in droves

Bluesky has already grown to to 21.2 million users

we can just do things

Introducing at://work: A Job Board That Puts You in Control - Nick's Blog

at://work is a modern job board built on ATProtocol where your profile and job listings are stored on your own Personal Data Server, giving you true ownership of your professional data. As a full AppV...

Show me a picture where power is afraid, without telling me that power is afraid.

I built @lexicon.garden , a discovery platform for ATProtocol lexicon schemas. If you've ever hunted through repos or old posts trying to find schema definitions and documentation, this is for you. #ATProtocol

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Lexicon Garden - Nick's Blog

Lexicon Garden helps you browse, view, and understand ATProtocol Lexicons.

Writing about attested.network, an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol. It builds on what we learned making atprotofans.com. Draft is up and feedback is welcome.

Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol

attested.network is an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol, built on what we learned making atprotofans.com. It formalizes the three-party attestation model and opens it up for any app to implement.

I'm on my way home from Vancouver and have so many feelings. Grateful, a certain amount of loss, and a whole lot of excitement. #AtmosphereConf 🧵

I wrote a deep dive on CIDs, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints behind every record, blob, commit, and Merkle tree node in ATProtocol. Part 1 covers the history, the encoding primitives, and the specific constraints ATProtocol applies.

CIDs: What You Need to Know and Why, Part 1

A deep dive into Content Identifiers, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints that form the foundation of ATProtocol’s data model.

I'm very pleased to announce that my app, Oh Crap Hey, is officially approved and live on the Apple App Store.

Life gets busy. Friends and family slip to the bottom of the pile. Oh Crap Hey helps you catch yourself before too much time goes by without reaching out to those you care about.

Oh Crap Hey App - App Store

Download Oh Crap Hey by Nicholas Gerakines on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Oh Crap Hey.

Check out at://work, a job board built on #ATProtocol. It's not just another platform, it's professional networking where you actually own your data. Sign in with your ATProtocol handle and your profile lives on your PDS. 🧵

Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me

we can just do things

Introducing at://work: A Job Board That Puts You in Control - Nick's Blog

at://work is a modern job board built on ATProtocol where your profile and job listings are stored on your own Personal Data Server, giving you true ownership of your professional data. As a full AppV...

Permissioned data is here, today, serving communities, creating space and agency. It just wasn’t done by the people you first think about. @blackskyweb.xyz and @transrights.northsky.social build against real, current need. #AtmosphereConf

Great talk @kandake.africa

Been thinking about how we could support access-controlled blobs in ATProtocol. Right now, all blobs are public - anyone can fetch them with a CID. But what if we could gate them? #atproto #atdev 🧵

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They need to spend some time on that "separating fantasy from reality" muscle. That's some real fantasy-prone personality shit.

Hello! I'm pleased to announce github.com/astrenoxcoop..., a configurable feed generator. This is the system behind @smokesignal.events feeds.

GitHub - astrenoxcoop/supercell: A lightweight and configurable atproto feed generator.

A lightweight and configurable atproto feed generator. - astrenoxcoop/supercell

🚀 Can't contain my excitement about If This Then AT anymore! What started as a hack-day project at the ATProto NYC Community Hack Day has evolved into something pretty wild. Imagine IFTTT but native to the AT Protocol ecosystem, running on real-time Jetstream events.

Here's a sneak peak 🔍

I have a hard time keeping up with friends sometimes. Between being a full-custody parent, work, atproto and open source stuff, community organizing, swing dancing, hobbies, and partners, things slip.

I made a thing for myself a while back and turned it into an app. It's called Oh Crap Hey.

I'm full of joy seeing all of the cool atproto projects lit up with user activity and contributions from so many wonderful people. Ya'll are all doing great. ♥️

Spent some time collecting and refining my low-level polyglot (rust + go + ts) ATProtocol skills into a repository to make them available (MIT license) to others. Pull requests are welcome. Looking at publishing with vit and getting them on-protocol soon.

github.com/ngerakines/a...

GitHub - ngerakines/atproto-skills: A collection of ATProtocol agent skills

A collection of ATProtocol agent skills. Contribute to ngerakines/atproto-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

New blog post is up! When we talk about controlled data on ATProtocol, we focus on users and who they grant access to. But there's always a third party: the applications that store, relay, and render the data.

Permissioned data is a love triangle

Permissioned data is a love triangle between the user, the identities they grant permissions to, and the applications everyone uses to view controlled data. We don't need to change or reinvent the protocol to have it, because ATProtocol already supports it.

atproto.camp has a renewed purpose.

Cursed polycule

Tracy Chou @triketora.com

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

Excited to announce Acudo: a new ATProtocol app that brings cryptographically signed RSVPs to your events. It bridges traditional ticketing (like Ti.to) with the decentralized web, creating verifiable attendance records that actually mean something. 🎫

Taking a small mental health break from social media for a bit.