Kicks Condor's #beaker

#beaker

I use three main tags on this blog:

hypertext: linking, the Web, the future of it all.
garage: art and creation, tinkering, zines and books, kind of a junk drawer - sorry!
elementary: schooling for young kids.

02 Oct 2018

Private Dat Issues

The issues with Dat as an e-mail analogue.

Perhaps Dat simply isn’t designed for privacy—but it’s so close that I think it’s very useful to talk about the gaps. This is a very solid list of how Dat measures up for private groups—compared to an e-mail newsletter.

It seems to me that the main sticking point is that Dat is always accessible to the main network, whereas e-mail is inaccessible to the main network (except through windy routes.)

It occurs to me that maybe this is what Hyperswarm (a project by some of the Dat team) is attempting to add. If you can run a private Dat network, then you could have a shared folder detached from the main network that would be inaccessible. You’d probably need a password on top of that—but that seems analogous to, say, IMAP. You’d still need tools to access it, so it’s all entirely hypothetical, but yeah—cool thoughts, thank you!

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10 Sep 2018

Quick thought about @beakerbrowser: since there is no ‘server’, this improves web app development hugely for learners. It is the difficult problem of: where does the server start and the client begin? (Big problem with interleaved PHP, for instance.)

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30 Jul 2018

A Web Without Servers

This is a tremendous talk, given so casually! I previously thought Dat was the exciting part of this story—but Beaker is incredibly elegant, now that I step back and survey the scene. At this point, I don’t care what kind of traction Beaker gains, I just want to use it for the sheer fun. (In olden times, the phrase was “get my jollies,” but I don’t know if that expression has taken a turn for the perverse.)

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Private Dat Issues

A Web Without Servers

PLUNDER THE ARCHIVES

BUT WHAT IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?

PLUNDER THE ARCHIVES

MOVING ALONG LET'S SEE MY FAVORITE PLACES I NO LONGER LINK TO ANYTHING THATS VERY FAMOUS

BUT WHAT IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?