







Urban flair meets unspoilt nature.
The Unsolvable Dilemma: Open Networks vs. Economic Sustainability - Nightflight
The Birth of the Gentle Meme - Nightflight
Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight
What Is Bluesky?—A Landscape Revealed by the Diffusion Experiment - Nightflight
Reflections on AtmosphereConf
A reflection on AtmosphereConf, understanding this network as a subculture, joy, and what "We Can Just Do Things" actually means

Studying the "Air" of Bluesky: Proposing a New Research Field Called Network Perception in ATmosphere - Nightflight
Mezzanine: An Information Network Built on Bluesky's Cashtags - Nightflight
SELECT * FROM internet.blogposts - Paul's Leaflets
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
Defining data agency - building [at] habitat
& more reflections from Habitat's summer in Berlin
Why I Call Myself a "Bluesky Research Fellow" - Nightflight
One Morning at Lake Tūtira · Jos Buurmans Photography
Landscape Photography in the Fog
Credentials, Rooms, and Walls: Mezzanine Meets Composable Trust - Nightflight
nothin' but blue skies from now on
Some of you know that I work part-time with the team at Graze Social. It seems gauche to talk about a day job in your passion project newsletter, but in this...

Rethinking Bluesky's "Decentralization": An Assessment as of January 2026 - Nightflight
January 19, 2026
A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications
Last week I spent an energizing, educational, occasionally infuriating week in Vancouver around the ATmosphereConf, a community event gathering developers, investors, data scientists, the odd academic