Tour: I re-organized my kitchen
We just finished a three-day re-organization of our whole apartment. I got some new appliances and pans for Christmas, so I had to figure out how to fit them into our tiny galley kitchen. I’m really pleased with what I came up with. Here’s a tour of my kitchen that nobody asked for. The stove First up: the stove. I leave my four most frequently used pans on the stovetop. Read more →I'm leaving Beaker!
I’m leaving Beaker!
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.
Read more →How I publish taravancil.com on the peer-to-peer Web
Updated August 31, 2018. Originally published on January 4, 2018.
I publish this website on dat://
and https://
. As of August 31, 2018, my publishing workflow involves three tools:
2017: Year in review
2017 was my most productive year yet. Not because I achieved superhuman levels of productivity, but because I made the transition between figuring out what to do with my life and doing something with my life. It feels damn good.
Read more →The Beaker team's response to Dat organizational changes
Today Code for Science and Society (CSS) announced that its Executive Director, Max Ogden, will step down from all leadership activities related to CSS and the Dat Project.
Read more →Towards a more democratic Web
In the aftermath of the recent Harvey Weinstein revelations, Rose McGowan was suspended from Twitter for breaching its Terms of Service. Twitter made an unusual move by commenting on the status of a specific user’s account, which it normally publicly declares it does not do.
Read more →Book Review: On Writing by Stephen King
On Writing is part-autobiography and part-styleguide, and much less tactical writing guide than one might expect from a book about writing.
Read more →Building a peer-to-peer Photos app with Beaker and Dat
Inside of the Beaker browser, we’ve implemented a set of new Web APIs for connecting apps to the peer-to-peer network. This is part 1 of a series about how to build peer-to-peer Web apps.
I recently published a peer-to-peer Photos app using the Beaker browser. Today we’ll step through how the app was built, and how you can make other peer-to-peer Web apps like it.
Read more →Introducing Hashbase
We’re Blue Link Labs, the creators of Beaker, a peer-to-peer Web browser. Today we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve launched Hashbase, a fungible hosting service for the peer-to-peer Web.
Read more →Forking websites on the peer-to-peer Web
One of the most interesting phenomena on the Web is the popularity of services like GitHub, CodePen, and Glitch, which provide tools for sharing, duplicating, and remixing other people’s projects. The practice of learning from and using existing code as boilerplate is a critical piece of what’s made innovation on the Web platform so open…
Read more →View source on the peer-to-peer Web
The spirit of openness has been baked into the Web since its formation. The Web was built to share documents written in plain text that could be downloaded and viewed transparently…
Read more →Building Markdown sites with Beaker
We’re big fans of Markdown, so we’ve built in support for Markdown formatting to Beaker…
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