Numergent
Ricardo J. Méndez's notes on decentralization, technology, open source, and privacy.
Articles
100 articles
Death of the Killer App
IDE unbundling
ATProto's Application Primacy
Cuckoo begets Offshoot
A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications
Democracy, Kleptocracy, Dictatorship
Does Bluesky hold a monopoly on the ATmosphere?
Fast Fash
Hate as a signal
Vibe investing
Threat models
Unstoppability depends on mutual aid
Passion Plays
GPT Cloud Cover
Parsing existing systems
Narrative encroachment
Entrepreneurship in fast forward
RedNote migration
Memecoininess rating
The Looming Stupidity Bubble
Centralization Is A Fragile Thing
Approaching jackpot
Internet speed
Outside Context Problems
Where Prediction Markets Break Down
Data ownership and layer fungibility
Intolerance aggregation
Small input tweaks go a long way
The Spelunking Podcast - Episode 31
The nature of a system is what it enables
The Spelunking Podcast - Episode 29
Libra, Facebook, and greed blindness
Future shock inoculation
Avalanche subnet changes
Cleanest unbundling wins
Subversion to capitalization
ZKP Bridging
No Layer-2 Bets
Money is memory
Privacy and memory
BlueSky's federation sandbox
Backlash technology
Wormhole hacker hacked
Identity as a Big Iron thing
NFTs are typewriters
Bridges, not platforms
Replacing existing systems
TVL is not for platforms
How distributed[C] handles identity
Bridged volume as a metric
Meta labels
Global Latin America thesis
Impermanent file systems
Designing for personas
Small world
About distributed[C]
The Netflixification of digital money
The Skeuomorphic Stage of Crypto
Are we financially inclusive yet?
Bowie, Music, and the Internet
System complexity
Supporting the randos
Identity, Privacy, and the Edge
The Truth of The Thing
The Arrival of a Train
Ledgers - When would you even
Elegance as a razor
Remember the rubber hose
Stories we tell ourselves
It's about the curry
Fast is not enough
Preemptive commoditization
Learning Through Mentoring
Interruptions: A User's Manual
Be Transparent
Reading Clojure, part 2
Reading Clojure
Branching workflow: git-flow and github-flow
HTML parsing in Clojure
Deploying a Clojure application from Gitlab CI to Heroku
Using Gitlab CI with a Clojure project
Clojure, Cursive and Emacs
Tip: Uncaught Invariant Violation
Stop abstracting early
Learning Clojure Fast
ClojureScript tip: mind the Clojure version
Complexity is the mind-killer
Relevance is now open source
Drifting away from .Net
Flexibility Through Immutability, part 2: How and When?
Flexibility Through Immutability, part 1: Why?
The framework mirage
Flexibility Through Immutability
What are contracts useful for?
AWS Lambda, Clojure and ClojureScript
UnitySteer 3.1 released
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 4
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 3
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 2
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 1