Starting from scale in the design of the AT Protocol
Bluesky was founded in 2022 to produce a protocol which Twitter could adopt. The product goals changed, but the requirements didn't.
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
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.
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
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.