Controlled Atmosphere – a WordPress plug-in for creating standard.site records for Bluesky posting

I’ve been reading about neat ideas people are trying with the AT protocol, the tech behind Bluesky. For a bit of clarity, AT Protocol is the set of rules for how identities, repos, and records work. The ATmosphere is what people call the ecosystem on top of it. Bluesky is one app on the ATmosphere, and there are many others. ATmosphere is not a blockchain. There’s no ledger. It’s more like a GitHub repo that you can control and move. In fact, on the ATmosphere, your data is referred to as your Repo. The funky DID string is your identity on the ATmosphere, which can point to your personal repo of data. The key idea behind this is that you can move your data around without having to ask any permission of anyone. With that context in mind, in the past I’ve seen posts with View Publication on them and wondered what it was all about and if links to my weblog posts could appear this way. I looked into the existing WordPress -> Bluesky plug-ins, but they are all focused on auto-magically…