Random dev notes about work at Bluesky by Paul Frazee

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky create a new schema language, Lexicon, for the AT Protocol?

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown?

// slightly simplified
{
  text: "Hello @bob.com",
  facets: [
    {feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
  ]
}