Bluesky Mapping / / No Comments Update: I got busy and created a second map. Social Media Locations (comment below with suggestions for a better name). This map allows you to search for real-time Bluesky mentions of locations around the world. To start a search you just need to click on a map label for a country, state, city, town or neighborhood. Once you click on a place name messages will (often very slowly) begin to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bluesky, Mapping
Automatically Posting to Bluesky on New RSS Items / / No Comments Hey folks – just a quick warning. This post is kind of a mashup/update of two earlier posts. Back almost two years ago I talked about this process but used Twitter and Mastodon: "Automatically Posting to Mastodon and Twitter on New RSS Items". Earlier this year I first talked about using the Bluesky API, with a very appropriately named post: "Using the Bluesky API". As I said, this post is going to mash up bits from both, and include new things I’ve not covered before, but for those of you who have been around here for a while, some of this may be repetition. For this solution, I’m using Pipedream. I’ve blogged for years now and love it. Their free... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: automatically, Bluesky, items, Posting
How to Use Your Domain on Bluesky / / No Comments Bluesky is a hot new social networking platform that functions like Twitter from Twitter’s original founder. New users are flooding into the platform as a respite from Elon Musk’s vision of Twitter and the fumbles that have happened since his takeover. Upon signing up for Bluesky, your username defaults to {yourdesiredhandle}.bsky.social, but there’s a better and more secure option. One of Bluesky’s awesome features is the ability to base your username on a hostname’s DNS record. In short, if you control a hostname’s DNS, you can essentially verify yourself. For example, my Bluesky username is davidwalsh.name. Let’s look at how you can base your username... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Bluesky, domain