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January 04, 2026

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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

November 12, 2025

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100% cooked

Some reflections on the product design discussions from the last weekend

November 03, 2025

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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.

October 22, 2025


Social platforms are not neutral

So they need to be interchangeable

October 16, 2025

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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

October 01, 2025

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Cool

I'm into it

September 28, 2025


Three schemes for shared-private storage

September 22, 2025

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Private data: developing a rubric for success

What will an effective solution look like?

September 22, 2025

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Update on Protocol Moderation

Where account takedowns happen is important

September 18, 2025

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We probably need to rename the AppView

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

September 15, 2025

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

It actually calms me down

September 05, 2025