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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 25/08/2026

I want to add "intermodal" to atmosphere jargon. intermodal groups intermodal social graph intermodal notifcations intermodal moderation and trust signals

photo of a rail/truck intermodal container facility

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20/08/2026

smoke (and active fire?) in PNE cascades, I-90 corridor east of Snoqualmie pass

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17/08/2026

sabbatical has been great! touched grass, flossed, rode bikes, got married to @lucylw.bsky.social, climbed volcanoes in Indonesia, did an @ietf.org, read a lot about LBJ, and drank some beers and stared at the horizon.

sunset photo of mountain ridge line with lake in front, and cloud formation. sky is blue to orange color

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17/07/2026

america contains multitudes

boisterous pickup truck with many american flags, sparklers, and a minion on top

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17/07/2026

two years ago today, @dholms.at riffing on group permissioned data URI schemes

dan sitting in a chair, indicating at a paper note board he is holding, with a bunch of "at://" URI strings with different syntax

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 25/06/2026

still on a high from knicks game 4 and biking around nyc

beer garden shed with many folks watching basketball

four bikes on a pier, with bridge in the background

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 16/04/2026

it's never fun being up all night trying to keep systems online, but it is great to see co-workers shine and just bulldoze through it. we are not fully out of the woods on this incident, and it will probably be a while before there is any sort of post-mortem. but not, it's not from vibe coding.

anime screenshot of computer systems having a bad time

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 16/04/2026

big boys coming down in Seattle

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 31/03/2026

hanami wind-down back in Seattle after a very full and wonderful few days in Vancouver. love the whole atmosphere community, thanks for all the organizing, hope everybody has smooth travels home ✌️

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 27/03/2026

hanami track just outside the building at #atmosphereconf

blooming cherry blossom tree with building behind

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 27/03/2026

@mariaa.bsky.social showing Lea, an atproto/bsky power client. designed for scientists, but a bunch of features and ideas very relevant to other users and communities: rich verification signals, better notifs, mod features, feeds, etc!

Maria in stage with lea intro slide behind

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20/03/2026

some compact PLC and atproto summary slides

slide diagram showing atproto network architecture: multiple relays, mulitple appviews,

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20/03/2026

vegan dim sum at Sun Bo Kong a couple weeks ago. this is the "gluten plate". not everybody's jam but I love the vibe at that place

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 13/03/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_pu...

screenshot from linked wikipedia article of a "christmas pudding"

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 27/02/2026

are you telling me I don't need these optical delay lines any more (you handle blobs! the tricky bit)

set of fiber optic delay line spools, which look like cylinders

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 13/02/2026

it is in there, just small. sometimes a couple dots, sometimes nothing, sometimes a full hash

screenshot of ASCII globe, with just a small dot on NZ

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 09/02/2026

pretty huge spike in atproto firehose during Bad Bunny superbowl half-time show; much larger than overall superbowl coverage. also more 2x API request rate on bsky services

chart showing firehose event rate, going from around 500/sec to over 1100/sec

chart showing green area roughly doubling

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 27/01/2026

this is from the UpScrolled FAQ (upscrolled.com/en/faq/) I pretty strongly disagree! atproto works great for short-term video, with low latency and flexible discovery/feeds. dealing with raw video and CDN costs can be challenging, but no different from a proprietary system

Why isn’t UpScrolled a decentralized platform?
Because it doesn’t work for what we’re trying to build.

UpScrolled isn’t decentralized (yet) because today’s open protocols (e.g., ActivityPub, AT Protocol) don’t reliably deliver what we need for a mainstream, video-forward app: fast global discovery, stable search/ranking, and smooth media. In practice, these stacks still lean on centralized indexing to work well, so we’re shipping the experience that works now—not a theory.

We keep things open and simple with lightweight, common-sense protections—spam/bot filtering, straightforward reporting, and consistent deletes when people remove their own content. We’re building interoperable by design (clean exports, stable APIs) and will add optional bridges to open protocols as they mature, so you can reach more people without sacrificing speed or simplicity.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 24/01/2026

network activity is way up today, presumably driven by ICE shooting Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. this hasn't been showing up in Bluesky Trending Topics. that is not intentional, and we are still trying to debug why it hasn't.

graph of relay event bandwidth, showing high rates for last 8 hours

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 24/01/2026

what a great little rabbit hole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandato...

diagram of a person throwing the angstrom A symbol in the trash

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 03/01/2026

train irrigation! in Tokamachi

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 31/12/2025

初めておせち料理を作る

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17/12/2025

definitely need to touch more grass next year though

summary stats about posting; active 326/365 days, and longest absence was 2 days

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 19/11/2025

incredible atproto-tier slide from @atconnect.eu tag yourselves! #euroskylive

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 27/10/2025

"The Setting Sun" looks cool, but pretty meh. sake, grenadine, etc

cocktails being prepared: red on bottom, cloudy white on top

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17/10/2025

you can do that on a per-reply basis if you are the OP of a thread (not sure if that is what you meant)

list of options including "hide reply for everyone"

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/08/2025

left: fresh-faced @matthieu.bsky.team setting out on the atproto OAuth adventure right: @matthieu.bsky.team wrapping up permission-sets implementation

fresh-faced Apsley Cherry-Garrard setting out on Terra Nova expedition winter egg hunting side-quest

Cherry-Garrard after the side-quest with crazy hair and lots of facial frost-nip

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 23/08/2025

huh. do you have this old experimental toggle set, by any chance?

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