Coronavirus
Masks Mission Accomplished!
Masks are mainstream. The authorities have admitted they were wrong. We won the Battle of the Masks.
blog
technology
We aren’t ready to own our own data...yet
We talk a lot about users owning their own data. Data ownership means control. Having control means taking responsibility. Responsibility is a lot of work! Let me explain… For the past year, this blog made a temporary move over to the salibra.com domain. The reason for this move was
lifestyle
Not in my backyard: a tool for living beyond your means
Not-in-my-backyard-ism functions as a tool for financial leverage and taking what one can't afford.
technology
The death of Jabber
Why federated chat protocol XMPP died and lessons for today's decentralization movement
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
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