Hi, I'm Bryan Newbold! I like to climb things and look around. Most of my work has been dealing with the messy interfaces between information, abstraction, and nature (eg, embedded digital electronics for scientific instruments). You might know me from around Seattle, New York City, or Boston/Cambridge (Industry Lab, MIT).

Where am I Now?

As of Summer 2024 I live in Seattle. I love the volcanoes in this region: climbing them, biking around them, snowboarding down them, paragliding around them, whatever. And the big wet mossy trees!

I work at Bluesky, a startup company building a social web protocol called "atproto". Prior to that I worked at the Internet Archive collecting scientific research datasets and publications, and created scholar.archive.org. And before that I attended the Recurse Center in New York City, and helped start an engineering design company in Cambridge called LeafLabs.  «previously»

Sporadic Writings

• Aug 2024  Progress on atproto Values and Value Proposition
• Nov 2022  What is atproto.com good for?
• Apr 2019  Trip Report: Biking SF to LA
• Jul 2016  What I Learned At JuliaCon
• May 2016  Everything Is Broken (Installing Elm Edition)
• May 2016  New Web Server (2016)