Marc Köhlbrugge

23 Nov 2024

blueskycounter.com is back online! It now shows historical follower growth all the way back from when you firsted signed up to Bluesky Reposts appreciated 😊

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Evil Martians

@evilmartians.com

29 Apr 2025

Martian CEO @inazarova.bsky.social is talking to founders choosing Rails and @marckohlbrugge.com was an obvious success story. And his advice isn’t about “hustle” or “grit” ...but curiosity, speed, and a willingness to be publicly wrong.

8 Dec 2024

I'm looking to get some press coverage for BlueskyCounter.com Who should I talk to?

I converted BlueskyCounter.com 's codebase from Node to Ruby on Rails. It should be more reliable now and I can add more features quicker 🙌

I used Express which reminded me of Sinatra in Ruby. Easy to understand, but got messy quickly having almost everything in one file. Wasn't sure how to better organize into MVC. Also realized how much I love Ruby's syntax and Rails' ActiveRecord.

Shout out to @mackuba.eu and @frabr.lasercats.fr for their work on their Ruby gems. Couldn't make this migration without those 🙏

Some recent improvements: - Followers are now updated in real-time using firehose data - Fixed some bugs causing incomplete data - Fixed some bugs in chart rendering - Switched default period from "all" to "last 3 months" - Added ability for me to manually add accounts w/o OAuth

Marc Köhlbrugge@marckohlbrugge.com

I converted BlueskyCounter.com 's codebase from Node to Ruby on Rails. It should be more reliable now and I can add more features quicker 🙌

I converted BlueskyCounter.com 's codebase from Node to Ruby on Rails. It should be more reliable now and I can add more features quicker 🙌

Nothing wrong with Node. But I have ~20 years experience with Rails and almost zero with Node. I find Rails much easier and pleasant to work with. Had to temporarily go with Node because it has better SDKs for Bluesky and I wanted to ship fast. But now Ruby has SDKs too, so switched back :)

5 Dec 2024

Testing images uploads via Ruby

5 Dec 2024

It works!

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Jean Meijer – 🇪🇺 eu/acc

@jeanmeijer.com

4 Dec 2024

Replying to @marckohlbrugge.com

it's just because the post US-election boom, all those new users. new follows are down way more than new likes and posts. we're just reaching a different phase where starterpacks are less of a growth source. (graph from bsky.jazco.dev/stats)

justinjackson.caBest Bluesky apps, projects, tools I've foundA collection of cool apps and projects built on the AT Protocol: analytics tools, dashboards, and custom feed builders.

4 Dec 2024

Noticing the same trend. Seems like either growth is slowing down a bit

Justin Jackson@justinjackson.ca

Browsing profiles on blueskycounter.com it looks like most accounts hit "peak daily new followers" between Nov 20-25. (@marckohlbrugge.com might have a better dataset)

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Frabr

@frabr.lasercats.fr

29 Nov 2024

The atproto omniauth strategy is out ! And thanks to @marckohlbrugge.com and @mackuba.eu's didkit it can now resolve its endpoints dynamically (it's not a bluesky only strategy anymore)

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Justin Jackson

@justinjackson.ca

29 Nov 2024

I keep finding cool 3rd-party apps and projects built for Bluesky, so I've started to collect them all here: justinjackson.ca/best-bluesky... Did I miss any?

You can now track your Bluesky followers from your iPhone home screen 👉 blueskycounter.com/scriptable

Big number: total number of followers Small number: new followers in last 24 hours Background chart: total followers over last 7 days

You can now track your Bluesky followers from your iPhone home screen 👉 blueskycounter.com/scriptable

@neilsardesai.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Thank you to @gondo.bsky.social for suggesting this idea earlier today 🙌 bsky.app/profile/gond...

𝚐𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚘@gondo.bsky.social

ios widgets, maybe push notifications for a post that gains certain traction

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Neil Sardesai

Thought he could be a lil more cozy :)

What should I add to BlueskyCounter.com next? 💡 Track posts/follows in chart as well 💡 Detailed post analytics (likes, replies, etc) 💡 Browser extension (see stats in bsky.app sidebar) 💡 Trends/predictions (see when you reach milestone, etc) Any of this? Something else? Let me know 👇

Lmfao

BlueskyCounter is starting to use up my full database capacity 😅 Time to learn how to implement caching in Node Express. (I normally use Ruby on Rails for all my projects, but decided on Node here cuz of the libraries).

blueskycounter.comblueskycounter.com

CSS question: When loading blueskycounter.com/marckohlbrug... for a fraction of a second, the sidebar is hidden. It appears shortly after page load. Anyone know why? I expect it to be shown immediately

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Ilias Ism

@il.ly

Replying to @marckohlbrugge.com

Paid!

You can now easily share your follower chart to Bluesky. Make sure you're logged in and click "Share to Bluesky" 😊 https://blueskycounter.com/marckohlbrugge.com

I think everyone should have Bluesky analytics free of charge, so BlueskyCounter.com main features will be free. To monetize, and support continued development, I’m exprimenting with “Featured Profiles”. If you want to promote your account and get more followers, you can pay to be in the sidebar.

You can now download your charts as PNG to share on Bluesky or wherever else :) (thank you to everyone who requested this)

I’m learning to accept “bugs” like these. Yes they are easy to fix, but if you’re not careful you find yourself pursuing 100 “easy to fix” things, instead of making real progress on the stuff that matters.

I will fix it eventually, but by that time the relevant code and design might have changed many times over already. If I were to fix it now, that fix would have been in vain.

this street cat visits me everyday. we hang out on my doorstep and I feed it some snacks 😊

haha yes. everybody telling me to adopt it, but I don’t want to take on the responsibility 😂

1-click follows on blueskycounter.com are live now what else should I add?

blueskycounter.com now tracks 200+ profiles 🙌

23 Nov 2024

I’ve been rebuilding blueskycounter.com to support historical data. Finally got it working locally 😊 Had to switch from Ruby to Javascript, as there’s no proper Ruby libraries for AT Proto yet and man the protocol is complex 😂

22 Nov 2024

Does anyone have a working OAuth code example for Node JS and AT Proto? I tried the official docs, but they are incomplete

22 Nov 2024

For example I tried the code from here but running into one issue after the other www.npmjs.com/package/@atp... Looking for a working repo ideally

20 Nov 2024

A lot of people on X state that saying something along the lines of “there are only two genders” gets you banned on Bluesky. Is this true?

20 Nov 2024

Please resist the urge to comment on the statement itself. That’s not what this post is about. I’m merely looking to collect evidence to prove/disprove what people say about Bluesky.

github.comGitHub - marckohlbrugge/omniauth-atprotoContribute to marckohlbrugge/omniauth-atproto development by creating an account on GitHub.

16 Nov 2024

Here's how far I got: github.com/marckohlbrug... It accepts a handle (e.g. marckohlbrugge.com), finds the right auth server to redirect to (looks at TXT records, etc). Redirects you there. Finally redirects you back to the app. That's where I hits an error

Marc Köhlbrugge@marckohlbrugge.com

ok I've given up on this 😅 too complicated. hope someone can figure it out someday or that bluesky invests into developing some more open source libraries

ok I've given up on this 😅 too complicated. hope someone can figure it out someday or that bluesky invests into developing some more open source libraries

Marc Köhlbrugge@marckohlbrugge.com

For any Ruby devs interested in Bluesky OAuth, here's my current work: gist.github.com/marckohlbrug... Logging in works, but refreshing tokens doesn't yet. And access tokens tend to expire in 30 minutes.

Any help is very welcome. I'm way in over my head 😂