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he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app

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Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogJul 17, 2026
Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks
A self-only space is the smallest shape permissioned data can take: one authority, one member, one repo, and private bookmarks that share a record shape and a write path with public ones.
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atprotopermissioned-data
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogJun 24, 2026
Reading Proposal 0016: What atproto’s “Permissioned Data” Actually Does
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atprotospaces
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogApr 13, 2026
Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol
attested.network is an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol, built on what we learned making atprotofans.com. It formalizes the three-party attestation model and opens it up for any app to implement.
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atprotoattested.network
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogApr 4, 2026
Signaling AI Preferences on ATProto
Atproto users need a way to express granular AI preferences and carve out exceptions for specific entities or content types. This post introduces community.lexicon.preference.ai, a lexicon schema that decomposes AI usage into distinct categories and adds a scoped override mechanism built on top of Bluesky's User Intents proposal.
atprotoLexicon Community
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogApr 2, 2026
Payments on Protocol
atprotofans.com was a proof of concept for payments on ATProtocol built at Graze Social. This post is about what we built, why proof of payment on protocol matters, and what it makes possible.
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ATProtocolatprotofans
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogApr 1, 2026
Graze Social and the IETF
Graze Social sponsored my first in-person IETF meeting in Montreal last November. This post is about what it was like to be there and why standards participation matters for small companies.
ATProtocolIETF
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogApr 1, 2026
If This Then AT: Automation on Protocol
IFTTA is an automation platform built on ATProtocol at Graze Social. It started as a hack-day idea and became a working system for event processing on protocol.
ATProtocolGraze Social
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogApr 1, 2026
Building AIP: An ATProtocol Authorization Gateway
OAuth is the first challenge developers face in the atmosphere. This post is about AIP, the authorization gateway we built at Graze Social to alleviate some of the pain.
ATProtocolGraze Social
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogMar 26, 2026
Spaces as Layers
Public anchor records paired with sidecar records in permissioned spaces give ATProtocol apps a composable pattern for blending open discoverability with controlled access.
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ATProtocolpermission spaces
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogMar 4, 2026
ATProtocol Patterns: Record Elicitation
Record elicitation is a pattern where a client asks an AppView to construct a record from the user's intent, rather than building it locally. This lets the AppView handle business logic, validation, and schema complexity while the client retains full authority over what gets written to the user's repository.
ATProtocol
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogFeb 20, 2026
CIDs: What You Need to Know and Why, Part 2
How ATProtocol uses Content Identifiers to create a versioned, verifiable, and portable data model.
ATProtocolDASL
Nick's Blog
Nick's BlogFeb 20, 2026
CIDs: What You Need to Know and Why, Part 1
A deep dive into Content Identifiers, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints that form the foundation of ATProtocol’s data model.
ATProtocolDASL