Week 7: Microwaving gravy

There's something about the week after Thanksgiving... as a colleague said to me in a meeting on Monday: it gets kind of sad when you're at the "microwaving gravy" stage of getting through your leftovers.

This week has been a lot of microwaving gravy — maybe feeling a little too sleepy after the four-day weekend, without any one marquee project to announce, but still making sure we're making progress on lots of important, related initiatives. As such, I don't have a single theme to unite this week's post, just a bunch of shout outs here and there that might be of interest:

We've been having some conversations this week about insourcing our website analytics, i.e. rolling our own solution for our forthcoming docs overhaul, and happened to find this great post from Buttondown about them doing the very same thing.

We haven't announced it yet, but there was a new release of our goat CLI tool this week that adds the ability to publish new Lexicons to a registry 👀

Our concept-forward content overhaul of the AT docs website is slowly coming to life (I know a significant part of my blog audience keeps an eye on our work via Skywatch ).

The Blacksky team is starting to work on a payments layer which I'm really excited to see take shape, and they're looking to do some user research!

Our extremely cool friends at anisota put together an end-of-year Bluesky Harvest feature to "discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere." This thing is doing numbers based on our OAuth metrics.

plyr.fm , an AT music app, is putting us all to shame with a very neat use of this blogging platform's canvas element to publish release notes:

new features ▶️

new feature summary Dec 3

Mmmmm. That's some delicious news mushed all together, like trying to warm up cranberry sauce, hamburgers (from an entirely different meal), and cabbage salad all on the same plate at 1pm on a Tuesday.

Probably the biggest news of this week, though, has to do with the 2026 ATmosphere Conference! We are going to Vancouver in March! There will be workshops, birds of a feather sessions, and lots of opportunities to chat with the team and other leading AT devs! It's particularly exciting for me because I lived in Vancouver for several years and late March is a very nice time to visit — the weather is starting to improve and there's still snow in the mountains in case you want to get out of town.

The Conference Call for Proposals opened on Tuesday this week:

ATmosphereConf 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open - ATmosphereConf News

Send in your proposal for presentations, workshops, and discussions. This is your community conference.

and today, early bird registration was opened as well:

Early Bird Tickets and Speaker Announcement - ATmosphereConf News

Buy your tickets now to join us in Vancouver, March 2026

This is a community-run conference, so we are not ourselves a load-bearing pillar (our favorite), but I'll personally be running some workshops on Friday, March 27th. It'll be a great opportunity to get hands on with reading AT records, creating new Lexicons, and all of that good stuff. If this gravy hasn't catastrophically gone off in the fridge, I'll see you there!