Decentralised Identity 🤝 Mesh Networking
How you can invite your Bluesky friends into your Tailscale network using an OIDC shim
Thinking with portals
Thinking with portals
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Increasing lot sizes of our digital homes
From GeoCities to Facebook to Open Social and beyond: a history of digital homes, and a thought experiment for what comes next.
Rabbithole
Tabbed browsers have confined us internet users to a reduced representation of our engagement with content online. We are bound to a linear, sequential history with tabs when what we're doing on the internet much better resembles a journey through a sea of information. This is best evidenced when we go down rabbitholes on the internet. We all know how it goes, most recently I was reading about…
[From Medium] Distributed Systems II: Leaderless and P2P Systems
By Govind Mohan and Sajeed Syed Bakht Note from Gov: this is a 2 part article I wrote with a friend on Medium in 2020 In our previous article on distributed systems, we explored the leader-follower paradigm where write requests are handled by a leader and database state updates are subsequently propagated to followers, which handle reads. We saw a drawback of these systems in that they are more…
[From Medium] Distributed Systems I
By Sajeed Syed Bakht and Govind Mohan Note from Gov: this is a 2 part article I wrote with a friend on Medium in 2020 The world of databases can be difficult to navigate whether you’re a student, a fresh graduate, or a seasoned developer. Several paradigms have emerged over the last decade, all embodied by various large projects with eccentric names like Cockroach DB and Voldemort. We are also…