The politics of purely client-side apps

There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere

100% cooked

Some reflections on the product design discussions from the last weekend

Aggregate effects of processing load in a distributed physics simulation

Describing general relativity as a quirk of distributed computation is satisfying to me as a distributed systems engineer.

Social platforms are not neutral

So they need to be interchangeable

Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society

A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately

Cool

I'm into it

Three schemes for shared-private storage

Private data: developing a rubric for success

What will an effective solution look like?

Update on Protocol Moderation

Where account takedowns happen is important

We probably need to rename the AppView

It should be called an API server, App server, or backend.

Do I have a problem, or do I have ants in the pants

It actually calms me down