Zicklag's Leaflets

Zicklag's personal leaflets.

Learning To Write Software… Is Hard

But it's also good — Musings about the last year of Roomy development, and more.

April 19, 2026

The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond

The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.

April 19, 2026

Making Roomy More ATProto-Native

We've said Roomy's server was like a PDS, but what if it actually was a PDS?

March 14, 2026

How to Make a PDS - Part 2

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

March 10, 2026

How to Make a PDS - Part 1

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

March 08, 2026