{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"All Play w/ Ryan Hefner","title":"023 — Hacking the Starter Packs","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":876,"description":"So, what do you do when you start to run into walls, or slow downs, on the project you’re working on? I feel like I am at, or approaching one of those slow downs, and am trying to get ahead of it.\nSince my last update when I announced Starter Packs, I have been busy continuing to build the logged out experience of the site. Focusing on gathering as many references as possible to the Starter Packs on Bluesky, and coming up with ways to make the firehose consumption more resilient, while baking in some features into the site that will allow me to capture more Starter Packs instances as people explore the site. So far things have been going great, but I am feeling the resistance creeping in and I am trying to resist it.\nWhere I am at now is that I pretty much has the explore experience dialed in. You can search for Starter Packs, along with Profiles, on the site, and freely explore packs and the people in them, along with being able to explore profiles, the Starter Packs they have created, along with the people they follow, and those who follow them. All in all, I am pretty stoked with where the site has come over a couple of weeks of working on it, and still pretty excited on where I can take it, but I am kind of slowing down a bit due to hesitancy on a few things, and I am not liking it.\nWhere I am slowing down is on the integration of OAuth’ing into the site to allow for authenticated actions to be performed, like following everyone in a Starter Pack, or following individual profiles. In the early days of the project, I created a quick (which actually turned into a multi-day) proof of concept of getting the ATProto OAuth setup working, but I haven’t really touched it since. Fortunately, it looks like it still works, but now I am trying to pair it with my own account handling and authentication and I don’t feel like I have crafted a setup that I am fully confident in, which has made me lose a bit of steam.\nSo, with that said, I am publicly committing to getting...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LYyRvriSni7Y1t-MJA9HyD38LZglGYnuZZf4lLm4Sj4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lOTQz/M2Q0OGRmNTU5MWM3/Y2M4YzM3NzRmNTBk/YWIxNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}