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bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)

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oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects. protocol engineer @bsky.app (on 2026 summer sabbatical). formerly archive.org elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop

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at:// pizza thoughtsJun 29, 2026

The AT-URI Syntax Mess

Why AT URIs are not valid under IETF RFC-3986, what the impact is, and some possible ways forward.

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsJun 27, 2026

Giving Labels More Context

A small tweak to the labeling system to allow richer context and annotations

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsJun 4, 2026

Firehose cursors could be improved somewhat

Some very in-the-weeds papercuts with event stream sequence numbers, and some ideas to address them

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsApr 6, 2026

Lexicon Service Docs

Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsApr 3, 2026

Expanding the Lexicon Language

Proposes some small additions to lexicon schema language.

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsMar 2, 2026

Blob AT-URIs

mini-proposal for referencing atproto blobs in AT-URIs

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsFeb 5, 2026

Community Spaces on AT Protocol

Scaled-down design patterns

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsDec 13, 2025

Go Lexicon Struct $type

Hacking in 'const' output behavior

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsDec 6, 2025

Big Indexing

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsNov 13, 2025

Record Versioning

The people, they want post editing!

atproto

at:// pizza thoughtsNov 13, 2025

What's a Pizza thought?

pizzaintro

at:// pizza thoughtsOct 11, 2025

AT Namespaces for Community Spaces

How should public community-controlled spaces be represented in atproto?

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