# bryan newbold (@bnewbold.net)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/bnewbold.net
Headline: Social Web Protocols and Standards

## About

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## Career

- **Protocol Engineer at Bluesky Social PBC** (Jan 2023 - Present)
- **Scholarly Web Archiving at Internet Archive** (Apr 2017 - Dec 2022)

## Publications

- What is a Group Host? — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Sep 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3mw5al7ocuk2t
- The AT-URI Syntax Mess — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3mph4hzvbdc2v
- Giving Labels More Context — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3mpagrjdl5k2o
- Firehose cursors could be improved somewhat — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3mngmjniwlk2l
- Lexicon Service Docs — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Apr 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3mishgmvjes2i
- Expanding the Lexicon Language — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Apr 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3mimokt4o5c2f
- Blob AT-URIs — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Mar 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3mg25i5na5c2a
- Community Spaces on AT Protocol — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Feb 2026) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3me3ea64bhk26
- Go Lexicon Struct $type — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Dec 2025) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3m7tlzbuph22u
- Big Indexing — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Dec 2025) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3m7e3hk57rs2u
- Record Versioning — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Nov 2025) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3m5jsx7qrws2n
- What's a Pizza thought? — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Nov 2025) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3m5igneopac2u
- AT Namespaces for Community Spaces — bnewbold.leaflet.pub (Oct 2025) https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3m2x7bilyrc23
- Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media (Dec 2024) https://doi.org/10.1145/3694809.3700740
- Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media — ACM (Oct 2024) https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.113050
- Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media — arXiv (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
- Perpetual Access Machines: Archiving Web-Published Scholarship at Scale — Zenodo (Oct 2019) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3497351
- Perpetual Access Machines: Archiving Web-Published Scholarship at Scale — Zenodo (Oct 2019) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3497352
- A direct-to-drive neural data acquisition system — Frontiers in Neural Circuits (Sep 2015) https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2015.00046

## Skills

### Technical
- AT Protocol
- Go
- Python

## Education

- **MIT** — Bachelors, Physics (Jan 2009)

## Links

- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8593-9468 (verified)
- github: https://github.com/bnewbold
- activitypub: https://social.coop/@bnewbold