My website is atmospheric

In recent years, I'd tried building my own version of this using WordPress, Astro, 11ty, and others but never quite got it right. Enter the AT Protocol.

mikeApr 5, 2026

As someone who is both a collector and terminally online, I've always enjoyed keeping somewhat of a record of the things I find while browsing. It's probably one of the reasons I enjoyed Tumblr so much throughout the 2010s; it was a place to save and share links or artwork without adding too much friction to my routine. In recent years, I'd tried building my own version of this using WordPress, Astro, 11ty, and others but never quite got it right.

So, rather than take another swing at it with a static site builder or CMS, I've recently decided to lean into the growing group of services leveraging the AT Protocol to power my website. Here are some of the apps I'm using and how.

  • Microblog posts and reposts: Bluesky
  • Bookmarks, annotations, and highlights: Margin
  • Images: Currents
  • Longer posts (like this one): pckt
  • Manga updates/tracking: Bookhive & Yomu (private)
  • Video game tracking: postgame

So now I can save a bookmark or a highlight from an article to Margin, mark the manga I've completed as "finished reading" in Bookhive, write a post on my pckt blog and have it appear using Standard.site, add a game to my backlog on postgame, repost something I see on Bluesky, and the result is a constantly flowing stream of my activities across the web, no pushing to git or playing around with databases required.

You can use tools like this to see all the records on my account (or yours). Essentially, all I'm doing is rendering the records I choose visually in a grid on my page. Speaking of records and apps available, if you're curious about what's all available at any given time, check out at-store.