technology
The death of Jabber
Why federated chat protocol XMPP died and lessons for today's decentralization movement
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china
Buying tea with WeChat Pay in a dystopian future
China's WeChat Pay gives us a glimpse of a dystopian future where your money isn't yours.
blog
Names on plane tickets are for profit, not safety
Names on airline tickets help them make more money, not keep you safe.
blog
Viral growth doesn’t mean writing viruses
The software we write is a guest on our users' computers. It should behave like one.
blog
Opting out of face scanning at Hong Kong International Airport
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blog
Success by removing temptation
How I arranged my life so that healthiness is the path of least resistance.
blog
Building your business on digital quicksand
Domain name expiration and business
startup
New Internet Labs
Building a new browser for the new internet. Creator of the Can't Be Evil sandbox.
identity
Bringing decentralized identity to traditional apps
TL;DR: In this technical post for developers, I walk through how we added Blockstack ID support to the Discourse forum software. At Blockstack, we're building a new internet for decentralized apps. A new internet implies new apps. But what if you've already built a current
blockchain
Product/Market Fit in Crypto Token Projects
Product/Market fit is the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand. Before product/market fit is like playing the game of business on hard mode, acquiring users and making sales goes very slowly. After product/market fit is like playing on easy mode, users are banging
identity
A Guide to Slack Identity Theft
TL;DR: Slack removed usernames enabling easy theft of other users' identities. Read on to learn how... Around the world teams everywhere spend their days (and too often nights) glued to a tool that has done more to enable remote first, distributed collaboration than anything since the advent of
stacks
How I built an Ethereum wallet on Bitcoin with 3 lines of code
This post is a companion to a talk I did at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Hong Kong on November 13, 2017. Cryptocurrency and token wallets are pretty simple. You generate a private key that only the owner of the wallet knows and a public key that's shared