My Atmospheric Website

Recently I’ve gotten back into Bluesky and, consequently, the atprotocol as a whole. Whether it be spinning up my own PDS, posting a lot more frequently than I used to, or even hosting my own knot for tangled, I’ve explored a lot of what the AT Protocol has to offer. But it doesn’t stop at just self-hosting my identity. I’ve had this website for awhile now, but I wanted to try out a new way of hosting my content. So, with my self-hosted PDS holding all my data, and with inspiration from Tim, I landed on hosting my blog posts on my PDS as a site.standard.document record.

What is a site.standard.document record?

Prior to standard.site, many atmospheric blogging platforms would implement their own schemas for storing documents. This wasn’t particularly the best for cross-platform interoperability, so a group of people started the standard.site lexicon. The neat thing about this is I can designate this website as a publication, but I can also make any blog posts a record linking to the publication. Because of this, anything that displays standard.site records will be able to display my site and posts! How cool is that?!

What were you doing before???

Prior to this change I was simply storing some markdown files with frontmatter in a dirctory. This was fine, but I would have to constantly move my posts back and forth. This new approach allows me to have the same ownership benefits, while being able to consume it anywhere. In the future I hope to make a proper engine to edit the posts from my site, but I tried that last night and got ragebaited, so I’ll stick with using pdsls.dev as my 'CMS.'