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Bluesky is a microblogging social network, which got popular in 2024 after Elon Musk bought Twitter. My Bluesky profile is alexwlchan.bsky.social, although I rarely use it.

• TIL: Get the avatar URL for a Bluesky user

  Make a request to the app.bsky.actor.getProfile endpoint, passing their handle as the actor parameter.

• TIL: Looking up posts in the Bluesky API

  Install the atproto package, construct a client with your username/password, then call the get_post_thread method with your at:// URI.