Paul's Leaflets

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Paul Frazee|January 04, 2026

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

Paul Frazee|November 12, 2025

100% cooked

Some reflections on the product design discussions from the last weekend

Paul Frazee|November 03, 2025

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.

Paul Frazee|October 22, 2025

Social platforms are not neutral

So they need to be interchangeable

Paul Frazee|October 16, 2025

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

Paul Frazee|October 01, 2025

Cool

I'm into it

Paul Frazee|September 28, 2025

Three schemes for shared-private storage

Continuing from my previous leaflet on private data, I want to explore three broad schemes for shared-private storage that I’ve seen emerge in various proposals.

Paul Frazee|September 22, 2025

Private data: developing a rubric for success

What will an effective solution look like?

Paul Frazee|September 22, 2025

Update on Protocol Moderation

Where account takedowns happen is important

Paul Frazee|September 18, 2025

We probably need to rename the AppView

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

Paul Frazee|September 15, 2025

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

It actually calms me down

Paul Frazee|September 05, 2025