Bailey Townsend

Bandaid Engineer and open source software developer. I work mostly with atproto, as well as a hobbyist with embedded firmwares in Rust 🦀. Sometimes serious, mostly just killing time.

Open Source

A few things I'm building and sharing with the community.
PDS MOOver

PDS MOOver

A tool kit to help you migrate between atproto PDS instances as well as recover and restore your atproto account.

npmx

npmx

I am a member of the core team of the npmx project. A fast, modern browser for the npm registry. I host the pds npmx.social and help with atproto social integrations

PDS Gatekeeper

PDS Gatekeeper

A sidecar service (a microservice if you will) that sits in front of the PDS to provide extra security in the form of 2FA for users, captcha, on signups, and customizable rate limits.

Rusty Badger

Rusty Badger

A simple Rust firmware written for the Badger 2040 W from Pimoroni. Counts wifi networks found, reads a shtc3 sensor for temperature and humidity, and displays the results on the Badger display.

Writings

My long form writings found across the atmosphere
Bailey's Retrospective

Bailey's Retrospective

Writings about anything. Sometimes hardware, sometimes web development, sometimes personal. Usually, everything is a retrospective on something. The week, a project, or something I learned.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

An Encyclopedia Galactica with various guides and writings to help you understand the atmosphere(atproto ecosystem).

Latest Posts

My most recent posts

As Seen On

Talks, videos, and places I've shown up.
CodeTV Web Dev Challenge with ATproto
YouTube

CodeTV Web Dev Challenge with ATproto

I was on an episode of CodeTV where me and 5 others rebuilt our personal websites (again) but using ATproto.

at://advent, an atproto adventure
Workshop

at://advent, an atproto adventure

Me and Fig hosted a workshop at the Atmosphere Conf 2026 where we showed off at://advent, an atproto adventure and a fun way for developers to learn atproto.

Free Time

What I'm reading & listening to right now