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Lessons from building the EmDash CMS, a “spiritual successor to WordPress” from principal engineer Matt Kane.

Jim and Alex are back on the livestream for the first time in a while to cover the latest news in the Atmosphere.

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.

The Atmosphere Conf 2027 organizers joined the livestream for some announcements about when, where, and what you can expect from next year’s conference.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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

News from around the Atmosphere, including a proposal to fix localhost, more webdevs getting into atproto, Mu Social’s opinionated news feed, and more.

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.

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.

Daniel Holmgren joins the livestream for an AMA on permissioned data.