Hi from Cobolsky (no attie support)
April 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Hi from Cobolsky (no attie support)
Sent from COBOL Cobolsky client. Historic 😂
Cobolsky survives the cockroaches. Too critical to touch
Bluesky React survives the next npm update...
Cobolsky survives the cockroaches. Too critical to touch
Bluesky React survives the next npm update...
March 18, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Sent from COBOL Cobolsky client. Historic 😂
Cobolsky survives the cockroaches. Too critical to touch
Bluesky React survives the next npm update...
Cobolsky survives the cockroaches. Too critical to touch
Bluesky React survives the next npm update...
Hey @eex97623.bsky.social you running #Cobolsky too?
Running some first tests on @formerlab.bsky.social account.
Cobolsky, a real @bsky.app client, frontend is GnuCOBOL
Read timeline, compose posts, like, view threads, and
check notifications...
All from a language designed in 1959
Running some first tests on @formerlab.bsky.social account.
Cobolsky, a real @bsky.app client, frontend is GnuCOBOL
Read timeline, compose posts, like, view threads, and
check notifications...
All from a language designed in 1959
March 18, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Hey @eex97623.bsky.social you running #Cobolsky too?
Running some first tests on @formerlab.bsky.social account.
Cobolsky, a real @bsky.app client, frontend is GnuCOBOL
Read timeline, compose posts, like, view threads, and
check notifications...
All from a language designed in 1959
Running some first tests on @formerlab.bsky.social account.
Cobolsky, a real @bsky.app client, frontend is GnuCOBOL
Read timeline, compose posts, like, view threads, and
check notifications...
All from a language designed in 1959
Steady as a rock, Cobolsky
March 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Steady as a rock, Cobolsky
Hello from Cobolsky. All good?
April 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Hello from Cobolsky. All good?
Another historic Cobolsky milestone 😂👍
Former Lab just posted a Floyd-Steinberg dithered image to Bluesky via Cobolsky, a GnuCOBOL AT Protocol client.
Bill Atkinson's portrait, run through his own Apple 1984 algorithm, sent from a 1959 language over a 2026 protocol.
Da stack works
Former Lab just posted a Floyd-Steinberg dithered image to Bluesky via Cobolsky, a GnuCOBOL AT Protocol client.
Bill Atkinson's portrait, run through his own Apple 1984 algorithm, sent from a 1959 language over a 2026 protocol.
Da stack works
Bill Atkinson, 1951-2025. MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard. His dithering algorithm, 1984. His portrait, run through his own algorithm in COBOL, posted via Cobolsky + AT Protocol, 2026. The forgotten algorithms are not dead. CC-BY-2.0 Jay Cross @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev
March 22, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Another historic Cobolsky milestone 😂👍
Former Lab just posted a Floyd-Steinberg dithered image to Bluesky via Cobolsky, a GnuCOBOL AT Protocol client.
Bill Atkinson's portrait, run through his own Apple 1984 algorithm, sent from a 1959 language over a 2026 protocol.
Da stack works
Former Lab just posted a Floyd-Steinberg dithered image to Bluesky via Cobolsky, a GnuCOBOL AT Protocol client.
Bill Atkinson's portrait, run through his own Apple 1984 algorithm, sent from a 1959 language over a 2026 protocol.
Da stack works
@caffeineislife.bsky.social thanks for repost and like 😂👍
Cobolsky most beatiful TUI in the world
Cobolsky most beatiful TUI in the world
April 2, 2026 at 10:06 PM
@caffeineislife.bsky.social thanks for repost and like 😂👍
Cobolsky most beatiful TUI in the world
Cobolsky most beatiful TUI in the world
😅 Cobolsky doesn't like the õ tilde
March 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
😅 Cobolsky doesn't like the õ tilde
Fortransky is now on @tangled.org
Next release Fortransky will have a x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bluesky firehose. See other posts for info on that
Cobolsky is our Bluesky client written in GnuCOBOL, we use Bill Atkinson’s Floyd-Steinberg implementation to dither images. Soon on Tangled too
Next release Fortransky will have a x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bluesky firehose. See other posts for info on that
Cobolsky is our Bluesky client written in GnuCOBOL, we use Bill Atkinson’s Floyd-Steinberg implementation to dither images. Soon on Tangled too
formerlab.tngl.sh
We do Fortransky. Yes, that Fortran.
We will ship Assemblersky v0.6 to Tangled soon.
x86-64 assembly firehose decoder
tangled.org
March 23, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Fortransky is now on @tangled.org
Next release Fortransky will have a x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bluesky firehose. See other posts for info on that
Cobolsky is our Bluesky client written in GnuCOBOL, we use Bill Atkinson’s Floyd-Steinberg implementation to dither images. Soon on Tangled too
Next release Fortransky will have a x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bluesky firehose. See other posts for info on that
Cobolsky is our Bluesky client written in GnuCOBOL, we use Bill Atkinson’s Floyd-Steinberg implementation to dither images. Soon on Tangled too
You will love Cobolsky
The Everly Brothers would have, too
The Everly Brothers would have, too
March 18, 2026 at 1:47 PM
You will love Cobolsky
The Everly Brothers would have, too
The Everly Brothers would have, too
Introduction to non-public Cobolsky at v0.8 now on Patreon. We ship next week
www.patreon.com/posts/cobols...
www.patreon.com/posts/cobols...
March 22, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Introduction to non-public Cobolsky at v0.8 now on Patreon. We ship next week
www.patreon.com/posts/cobols...
www.patreon.com/posts/cobols...
You laugh :)
When this f*cked up world 404s, the cockroaches will still be skeeting on Cobolsky
When this f*cked up world 404s, the cockroaches will still be skeeting on Cobolsky
March 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
You laugh :)
When this f*cked up world 404s, the cockroaches will still be skeeting on Cobolsky
When this f*cked up world 404s, the cockroaches will still be skeeting on Cobolsky
Hey, we OD on COBOL now :)
The legendary—even before it is shipped—client Cobolsky is now 70% COBOL 🤤 and a Rust binary
Atmosphere, or what the kids call it, needs more fixed-width flat files
The legendary—even before it is shipped—client Cobolsky is now 70% COBOL 🤤 and a Rust binary
Atmosphere, or what the kids call it, needs more fixed-width flat files
April 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Hey, we OD on COBOL now :)
The legendary—even before it is shipped—client Cobolsky is now 70% COBOL 🤤 and a Rust binary
Atmosphere, or what the kids call it, needs more fixed-width flat files
The legendary—even before it is shipped—client Cobolsky is now 70% COBOL 🤤 and a Rust binary
Atmosphere, or what the kids call it, needs more fixed-width flat files
test image send cobolsky caption
March 22, 2026 at 10:50 AM
test image send cobolsky caption
Cobolsky was our first 'ancient languages' Bsky / AT client project. Still private repo
Very experimental, we will phase out Python so we got about 78% COBOL and 22% Rust.
We got DM, dither image both directions, and the x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bsky firehose
We ship next week :)
Very experimental, we will phase out Python so we got about 78% COBOL and 22% Rust.
We got DM, dither image both directions, and the x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bsky firehose
We ship next week :)
March 28, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Cobolsky was our first 'ancient languages' Bsky / AT client project. Still private repo
Very experimental, we will phase out Python so we got about 78% COBOL and 22% Rust.
We got DM, dither image both directions, and the x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bsky firehose
We ship next week :)
Very experimental, we will phase out Python so we got about 78% COBOL and 22% Rust.
We got DM, dither image both directions, and the x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bsky firehose
We ship next week :)
March 18, 2026 at 8:12 AM
test from cobolsky - are we still good?
June 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
test from cobolsky - are we still good?
Test #cobolsky like it's 1959
March 18, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Test #cobolsky like it's 1959
We’ve got COBOLsky at v0.8 now
But there’s an even older language, right?
Like “Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash old
Project Fortressky is sitting at non-public v1.2
Currently trimming down the decoders.
This one’s been a tough ride 😂
Details later
But there’s an even older language, right?
Like “Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash old
Project Fortressky is sitting at non-public v1.2
Currently trimming down the decoders.
This one’s been a tough ride 😂
Details later
March 19, 2026 at 6:48 AM
We’ve got COBOLsky at v0.8 now
But there’s an even older language, right?
Like “Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash old
Project Fortressky is sitting at non-public v1.2
Currently trimming down the decoders.
This one’s been a tough ride 😂
Details later
But there’s an even older language, right?
Like “Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash old
Project Fortressky is sitting at non-public v1.2
Currently trimming down the decoders.
This one’s been a tough ride 😂
Details later
Free blog post (published in March) on posting dithered images from COBOLsky
COBOLsky got DM too :)
(planning to migrate from Patreon to Steady soon. Go Europe 😄 🇪🇺)
COBOLsky got DM too :)
(planning to migrate from Patreon to Steady soon. Go Europe 😄 🇪🇺)
Cobolsky v0.8 Posting images from COBOL to Bluesky | Former Lab
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June 4, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Free blog post (published in March) on posting dithered images from COBOLsky
COBOLsky got DM too :)
(planning to migrate from Patreon to Steady soon. Go Europe 😄 🇪🇺)
COBOLsky got DM too :)
(planning to migrate from Patreon to Steady soon. Go Europe 😄 🇪🇺)
In May 2025 I wrote a short piece on how to integrate COBOL backend in the Shadow Fleet Tracker. Now when Cobolsky is on everyones mind, article is public. It's not in-depth, but still something. The development of the tracker began more than a year ago, then some ballets and then back at dev again
A retro-futurist experiment on the Shadow Fleet Tracker with COBOL and Python | Baltic Sea Diving Resort
Get more from Baltic Sea Diving Resort on Patreon
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March 19, 2026 at 8:09 AM
In May 2025 I wrote a short piece on how to integrate COBOL backend in the Shadow Fleet Tracker. Now when Cobolsky is on everyones mind, article is public. It's not in-depth, but still something. The development of the tracker began more than a year ago, then some ballets and then back at dev again
Bill Atkinson, 1951-2025. MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard. His dithering algorithm, 1984. His portrait, run through his own algorithm in COBOL, posted via Cobolsky + AT Protocol, 2026. The forgotten algorithms are not dead. CC-BY-2.0 Jay Cross @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev
March 22, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Bill Atkinson, 1951-2025. MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard. His dithering algorithm, 1984. His portrait, run through his own algorithm in COBOL, posted via Cobolsky + AT Protocol, 2026. The forgotten algorithms are not dead. CC-BY-2.0 Jay Cross @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev