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As we had mentioned on Designing for Personas, we want people to feel comfortable creating multiple pseudonymous identities on distributed[C].

On Beyond The Wormhole, Meltem talks about bridges and mentions that < 1% of bridged assets are going through Wormhole (as of 202111).

Facebook’s rebranding is the smartest, landgrabbier case of cultural capture I’ve seen.

Last year, after seeing this Washington Post chart, I became convinced that we were likely headed into a Global Latin America.

d[c] uses OrbitDB and IPFS under the hood to store its data.

There are two gigantic issues with social media as we have it now.

We do not intend to enforce any sort of identity verification or unique identities in distributed[C].

(This post is about distributed[C], an experimental decentralized publishing platform Haad and myself were running through 2021-2022.

I think crypto is past the PGP point, where individuals controlled how to communicate with and how, but it’s still at the Bittorrent stage of chaotic yet mostly permissionless exchanges.

We are in a skeuomorphic stage of crypto and decentralization, where people try to directly translate the old world into the new medium.

“And how do you get Euros out of this thing?”

David Bowie on an interview with Jeremy Paxman from the BBC said that in the 80s and 90s music started becoming more about the subgroups and the communities than the artists.

Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Let’s talk about some things that we as open source creators need to get better at, including supporting other developers ourselves.

Introduction My goals for this talk are to: Give a small taxonomy going into categories and labels that I think are useful when talking about identity; Walk you through what a layered conceptual model for identity could be like; Talk about the privacy imp…

A talk on conceptual accessibility being fundamental for adoption, while discussing mistakes I’ve made.

Creativity, innovation, mash-ups, and science fiction writers… as a lens on lessons from the software industry.

I delivered this talk at SAP Inside Track Berlin in September 2018.

After going through a lot of startups at NEXT, I realized the hardest thing about the job was separating the ideas that are unlikely to work from the ideas that I just don’t get.

I delivered Remember The Rubber Hose, a talk on privacy and distributed applications, at DappCon Berlin 2018.

Last week I had the privilege to speak at infiniTIFF Summit, a part of the Transylvanian Film Festival dealing with technology, storytelling and experimental narratives.

I got invited to speak at Monkigras 2018, a superb conference on software, technology and craft.

I’ve been advising a startup on the data transformation space.

Note: I wrote this in 2018, while I was helping a young startup and convincing them to open source their core application.

On Wednesday, April 26, I gave a talk at Webit 2017 in Sofia about mentoring and movies.

Interruptions are one of the best ways to squander time and money, but the value chain is not always obvious.

This is something of an open letter to team leads and managers out there: you need to be as transparent with your team as you are legally and contractually allowed to.

Welcome back Have you gone over the fundamentals on Reading Clojure?

Preamble Back in early December I held a Clojure workshop for the Bucharest Functional Programming meet up.

Choosing a branching model for macchiato Lately, I’ve been working on Macchiato to bring web application development libraries for ClojureScript on Node.js.

Once again I’m doing a personal project that requires me to do some HTML parsing.

Now that we have our Clojure application tested every time we push it to Gitlab, let’s configure another stage to deploy it to Heroku.

Gitlab allows you not only to have free private repositories, but also to test them using free runners.

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Uncaught Invariant Violation: onlyChild must be passed a children with exactly one child.

When I started working with Clojure, I wanted everything to be Clojure.

There have been several questions floating lately to the effect of “How do I get started fast?”

Updated the ClojureScript version, and now you’re getting build errors?

Chess moves Last week I read an article from the MIT Technology Review that looked into what causes people to make mistakes.

I’ve released Relevance, my smart tab organizer for Chrome, under the MIT license.

Fatigue?

The second part of the original text for “Flexibility Through Immutability“.

Here’s the original text for “Flexibility Through Immutability“, for those of you who prefer reading to watching a video.

OK, this is going to be a tough one.

While functional programming has a lot of advantages, the more I worked on the paradigm, the more surprised I was at how much thinking in a functional manner made refactoring easier.

During this year’s I.T.A.K.E.

Introduction In case you’re not familiar with them, AWS Lambdas are a fascinating idea - they are server functions you can create and run without first provisioning servers: you write your code, upload it, and pay only for the time that is executed.

UnitySteer 3.1 is out on GitHub.

Update and friends This is the final part of the series where I convert Amazon’s Getting Started to Clojure with Faraday.

Welcome back In part 1 we went over the basic table creation operations, as well as writing data, and on part 2 we looked at getting, querying and scanning data.