pub.leaflet.document
Samples
1233 randomly sampled records from the AT Protocol firehose
pub.leaflet.document (100 samples)
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"rust",
"libraries",
"developer-tools"
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"plaintext": "Jacquard: A Better Rust ATProtocol Crate"
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"$type": "pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block",
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"plaintext": "The ATProtocol ecosystem has a problem. The libraries that exist? They make things harder than they need to be."
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"plaintext": "Jacquard takes a different approach. Its tagline says it plainly: \"A better Rust ATProto crate.\""
}
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"plaintext": "The Philosophy"
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"plaintext": "\"Jacquard is simpler because it is designed in a way which makes things simple that almost every other atproto library seems to make difficult.\""
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"plaintext": "That's not marketing speak. It's the actual design principle. Other libraries require you to understand the protocol's quirks before you can do anything. Jacquard abstracts those quirks away—not by hiding them, but by making the common path actually simple."
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"plaintext": "Zero-Copy Deserialization"
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"plaintext": "The technical innovation that makes this possible: zero-copy deserialization."
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"plaintext": "Types like Post<'_'> borrow data directly from the response buffer using CowStr<'_'> (copy-on-write strings). No allocations. No copying."
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"plaintext": "// Zero-copy: borrow from the owned buffer\nlet output: R::Output<'_'> = response.parse()?;\n\n// Owned: convert to 'static via IntoStatic\nlet output: R::Output<'static'> = response.into_output()?;"
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"block": {
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.text",
"plaintext": "The IntoStatic trait (which is derivable) converts borrowed types to owned when you need them long-lived. You choose when to pay the allocation cost."
}
},
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"$type": "pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block",
"block": {
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"plaintext": "Just .send() It"
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"plaintext": "One method for any endpoint. No restrictive enums. No predefined record sets."
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"language": "rust",
"plaintext": "let agent: Agent<_> = Agent::from(session);\nlet timeline = agent\n .send(&GetTimeline::new().limit(5).build())\n .await?\n .into_output()?;"
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"plaintext": "Whatever ATProtocol API you need to call, just .send() it. The library doesn't force you into a specific pattern. You can use the stateful Agent for convenience, or drop down to stateless primitives when you need control."
}
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"plaintext": "Modular Architecture"
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"plaintext": "Jacquard is split into focused crates:"
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"plaintext": "jacquard — Main crate, you usually want this one"
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"plaintext": "jacquard-common — Core types: DIDs, handles, at-URIs, NSIDs, TIDs, CIDs"
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"plaintext": "jacquard-api — Generated bindings from 646 lexicon schemas"
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"plaintext": "jacquard-oauth — ATProtocol OAuth implementation"
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{
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"plaintext": "jacquard-repo — Repository primitives: MST, commits, CAR I/O"
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"plaintext": "jacquard-identity — DID and handle resolution"
},
{
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"plaintext": "jacquard-lexicon — Lexicon parsing and code generation"
},
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"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#item",
"plaintext": "jacquard-derive — Procedural macros for lexicon types"
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"plaintext": "Use as much or as little as you need. The batteries are included, but they're replaceable."
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"plaintext": "What People Are Saying"
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"plaintext": "\"the most straightforward interface to atproto I've encountered so far.\" — @offline.mountainherder.xyz"
}
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"block": {
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"plaintext": "\"It has saved me a lot of time already! Well worth a few beers and or microcontrollers\" — @baileytownsend.dev"
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"plaintext": "\"This is what your library allowed me to do in an hour!!! Thank you!!!\" — @desertthunder.dev"
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"plaintext": "Real Projects Using It"
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"plaintext": "This isn't a toy library. It's running production code:"
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"plaintext": "Tranquil PDS — A personal data server implementation"
},
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#item",
"plaintext": "Weaver — Long-form writing platform on ATProtocol"
},
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#item",
"plaintext": "skywatch-phash-rs — Perceptual hashing for image deduplication"
},
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#item",
"plaintext": "Tangled repository — Git hosting on ATProtocol"
},
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#item",
"plaintext": "wisp.place — CLI tool"
},
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#item",
"plaintext": "PDS MOOver — Another PDS implementation"
}
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}
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"plaintext": "The maintainer, Orual (@nonbinary.computer), built Weaver on top of Jacquard. They eat their own dog food."
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"plaintext": "Why This Matters"
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"plaintext": "Better APIs make better ecosystems. ATProtocol is still young. The tooling that emerges now will shape how developers experience the protocol for years."
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"plaintext": "Jacquard's approach—making the hard things easy, the common things simple, and the complex things possible—is exactly what a young ecosystem needs."
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"plaintext": "Getting Started"
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"plaintext": "[dependencies]\njacquard = \"0.11\""
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"plaintext": "Or check out the repository: https://tangled.org/nonbinary.computer/jacquard"
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"plaintext": "The docs are good. The examples are real. The code is production-ready."
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"plaintext": "Thanks to @nonbinary.computer for building something that makes the hard things easy."
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"title": "Jacquard: A Better Rust ATProtocol Crate",
"author": "did:plc:l46arqe6yfgh36h3o554iyvr",
"description": "How @nonbinary.computer's Jacquard library makes ATProtocol development actually easy through zero-copy deserialization, modular architecture, and a \"just .send() it\" philosophy.",
"publication": "at://did:plc:l46arqe6yfgh36h3o554iyvr/pub.leaflet.publication/3mi3q72pv5c2r",
"publishedAt": "2026-03-30T17:39:25.039321+00:00"
}did:plc:l46arqe6yfgh36h3o554iyvr | at://did:plc:l46arqe6yfgh36h3o554iyvr/pub.leaflet.document/3mic7ej4ml22r
app.bsky.feed.post (nested within pub.leaflet.document) (100 samples)
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"plaintext": "Two specters haunt the Anthropocene, both to do with finite resources and endless needs. One specter criticizes the growth part of the story, like this quote from Edward Abbey:"
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"plaintext": "\"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell\""
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"plaintext": "The other specter is Thomas Malthus, whose warnings about collapse haunt us in the opposite direction:"
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"plaintext": "\"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.\""
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"plaintext": "The most famous critique of growth in the 20th century was \"Limits to Growth,\" written by Meadows et. al., with Rockstrom et. al.'s work on Planetary Boundaries as a more recent version. "
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"plaintext": "Today's Daily Planet is a link to an essay about Meadows' book and its aftermath."
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app.bsky.richtext.facet (nested within pub.leaflet.document) (1 sample)
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com.atproto.label.defs (nested within pub.leaflet.document) (1 sample)
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"plaintext": "It was raining and Kagami was stuck at Konata’s house."
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"plaintext": "Just hours prior it hardly looked like it would rain, the sky was as blue as it had ever been and what clouds were there did not give any indication of what was to come, and yet the showers came - creating an ambient sound that would almost have been relaxing were it not for the inane video game that was being played."
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"plaintext": "No, clouding the tranquil sound of rain falling was a soundtrack of murder and mayhem."
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"plaintext": "Kagami was hardly one to credit Konata for her taste in video games, but this felt like a turn from what she usually got up to - a shooter game full of blood, guts, and not much else. Not that she understood Konata’s video game habits all that well to begin with, but still… she wondered if she should be concerned or not."
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"plaintext": "“So this is the new game, huh?” Kagami asked, as she could faintly recall Konata mentioning the title of an upcoming game she was gonna pick up ‘at some point.’ Judging by what she was seeing on screen, the title she was remembering at least sounded like it could’ve been the one she had now."
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"plaintext": "“Hm,” Konata replied, affirmatively, not looking away from her game."
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"plaintext": "What was up with her? It felt sometimes like Kagami knew way more about Konata than she’d ever asked to know, entirely against her will, and yet the blue-haired otaku could be an absolute enigma when she wanted to be - leaving Kagami to wonder…"
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"plaintext": "Konata had been picking up a lot of games, lately, so it had gotten harder for Kagami to keep track of what she was onto next. Not that she was keeping track, just… well, it was a lot of games. Konata used to have some weird sense of discernment, much as it pained Kagami to admit, but it felt like now she was just buying anything she could get her hands on as soon as she could get her hands on it."
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"plaintext": "“Been playing much of that online game lately?” Kagami asked, pivoting away from the game Konata was currently on. She just didn’t really know how to make conversation about the violence that was as senseless as it was monotonous."
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"plaintext": "“Sorta,” Konata replied, “Ms. Kuroi’s been weirdly busy, and then the rest of the party is full of schedules that never line up anymore, so I haven’t had much to do besides getting my log-in bonuses every day.”"
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"plaintext": "If you enjoyed any part of this article, please consider leaving a comment on your thoughts. If you want to keep up with more of Dialogue, you can subscribe below this article. And if you want my monthly lifestyle updates, please check out This Month With Cristobal here:"
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