PROTOCOLS

Dan Abramov's explainer on ATProto architecture is making the rounds. The core insight: Bluesky's protocol separates hosting from applications in a way that Mastodon-style federation fundamentally cannot. Here's what that means for developers.

MCP isn't just a plugin format - it's a full JSON-RPC protocol for connecting LLMs to tools, resources, and prompts. Here's how it works under the hood, sourced from the official spec.