Tara Vancil
Hi. I'm Tara.
I'm the co-founder of Blue Link Labs, the team behind Beaker, a peer-to-peer Web browser, and Hashbase, a cloud peer service for files hosted with the Dat protocol.
I'm currently reading:
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A Game of Thrones
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Democracy and Its Crisis
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Feudal Society Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence
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The Storm Before the Storm
by Mike Duncan
Recent posts
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Organizing my kitchen with Airtable
My kitchen is by no means a shipwreck, but there’s definitely room for improvement. I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about Airtable which proclaims to help you “organize anything”, so I thought “hey some organization can’t hurt” and spent Sunday inventorying my entire kitchen. I've spent the day putting my entire kitchen inventory and my recipes into @airtable and this is one of the best Sundays I've had in a while. Read more »
- How I publish taravancil.com on the peer-to-peer Web
- 2017: Year in review
- The Beaker team's response to Dat organizational changes
Speaking
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A brief history of the Web and how one architectural choice got us into a very big mess
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Re-decentralizing the Web with a peer-to-peer browser
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The peer-to-peer Web
Bleeding Edge Web — Slides | Video -
The peer-to-peer Web and open data
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Verifiable, versioned, peer-to-peer websites
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How Merkle Trees Enable the Decentralized Web
!!Con — Slides | Video
Selected projects
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Beaker
Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer browser built with Electron. Beaker implements Dat, a BitTorrent-style protocol for syncing and sharing files on a peer-to-peer network.
With tools for staging and reviewing a project’s changes, viewing a websites at any point in its version history, and secretly sharing files without using a third-party service, Beaker aims to be a powerful toolset for publishing files and websites on the peer-to-peer Web.
An experimental peer-to-peer browser built with Electron.
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beakerbrowser.com
The website and documentation for the Beaker browser.
With@pfrazee, I designed and built the website for Beaker.
The website and documentation for the Beaker browser.
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Hashbase
Hashbase is a service for rehosting files published with Dat, a peer-to-peer data syncing protocol.
Hashbase is the counterpart to Beaker and Dat — because Dat archives are hosted directly from the user’s device and by peers on the network, files are not download-able if no peers are actively hosting them. Hashbase acts as a “super peer” guaranteeing uptime and availability.
A service for rehosting files on the peer-to-peer Web.
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Nippler
A satirical tool for replacing female nipples in photos.A satirical tool for replacing female nipples in photos.
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PIXEL-EYEZ
Tool for pixelizing images and converting images to PXONConvert images to PXON
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