- Author
- Paul Frazee
- Published
- 31 December 2025
- Kind
- Personal blog post, advocacy with a short technical section
- Original
- www.pfrazee.com/blog/atmospheric-computing
- Subject
- Future of computing
What it is
Paul Frazee wrote this on Paul's Dev Notes. The post says cloud computing left personal computers as mere portals. It proposes connected clouds as the fix and explains how the AT Protocol is built.
What it says
- The author says the cloud turned personal computers into portals to other companies' servers.
- The author thinks things went wrong when XMPP and Google Reader died.
- The author defines atmospheric computing as a paradigm of connected clouds.
- The post says one Bluesky account works on other Atmosphere apps such as Leaflet.
- The author says each user's data sits in a personal data store that apps read.
- The post suggests websites can reuse Atmosphere data, such as Bluesky posts as comments.
- The author wants a personal AI running on a personal cloud.
What evidence it gives
The post offers argument, named examples such as Leaflet and Tangled, and a design summary. It gives no benchmarks, usage numbers or tests. Its claim that For You is the most popular Bluesky algorithm has no figure.
Interests and limits
The author writes that the author works at Bluesky. Bluesky runs on the AT Protocol. The author therefore has an interest in the conclusion. Nothing was tested, and the post does not address drawbacks. The standards work with the IETF is mentioned only in passing.