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Notes on using a PDS as Content Infrastructure

Content addressing with normal web requests, identity baked in, delivery over boring HTTPS.

What's the $POINTS?

$POINTS was deployed on December 13th, 2023 and made a lot of people very angry

My office as entropy

Turning my office's environmental data into verifiable randomness.

Take Your Network With You

Bring your home network anywhere with the tiny Beryl AX router.

Single-origin deployment with bhvr

Fried my Pi using a 10V solar panel without a buck converter.

Breaking the AI in Parallax

I used simple jailbreaks to extract information that Parallax's AI mystery-game characters were not supposed to reveal.

Create and Use Farcaster Signers

Code and Cloth

The loom is an old model for programmable work, and a useful way to think about what AI changes in software craft.

Pure Internet: no-html

A plain Markdown file hosted on Bluesky's blob storage and rendered directly by the browser.

Scalability → Buildability

A system scales internally when each feature leaves behind primitives that make the next one easier to build.

Who Really Wants Carbon Offsets?

We expected electric-vehicle drivers to engage most with carbon-offset messaging. The strongest response came from truck and SUV drivers.

AndreiBot-3000

A GPT-2 system trained on approved Aspiration emails generated additional variants for the existing A/B testing program in 2020.