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· Jun 17, 2026
· 550 words
IDE unbundling
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· May 20, 2026
· 472 words
ATProto's Application Primacy
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· 1,078 words
Cuckoo begets Offshoot
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· Apr 30, 2026
· 1,758 words
A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications
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· Apr 3, 2026
· 1,361 words
Democracy, Kleptocracy, Dictatorship
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· Mar 22, 2026
· 324 words
Does Bluesky hold a monopoly on the ATmosphere?
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· Nov 28, 2025
· 591 words
Fast Fash
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· Sep 19, 2025
· 386 words
Hate as a signal
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· May 11, 2025
· 53 words
Vibe investing
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· May 5, 2025
· 549 words
Threat models
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· Apr 29, 2025
· 744 words
Unstoppability depends on mutual aid
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· Apr 18, 2025
· 186 words
Passion Plays
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· Mar 30, 2025
· 4,040 words
GPT Cloud Cover
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· Feb 12, 2025
· 243 words
Parsing existing systems
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· Feb 6, 2025
· 118 words
Narrative encroachment
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· Jan 25, 2025
· 321 words
Entrepreneurship in fast forward
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· Jan 21, 2025
· 289 words
RedNote migration
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· Jan 15, 2025
· 321 words
Memecoininess rating
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· Jan 13, 2025
· 377 words
The Looming Stupidity Bubble
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· Jan 5, 2025
· 165 words
Centralization Is A Fragile Thing
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· Nov 15, 2024
· 2,332 words
Approaching jackpot
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· Oct 29, 2024
· 198 words
Internet speed
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· Oct 26, 2024
· 316 words
Outside Context Problems
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· Oct 21, 2024
· 601 words
Where Prediction Markets Break Down
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· Oct 16, 2024
· 408 words
Data ownership and layer fungibility
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· Sep 19, 2024
· 882 words
Intolerance aggregation
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· Sep 5, 2024
· 320 words
Small input tweaks go a long way
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· Aug 23, 2024
· 154 words
The Spelunking Podcast - Episode 31
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· Aug 12, 2024
· 116 words
The nature of a system is what it enables
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· Jul 6, 2024
· 133 words
The Spelunking Podcast - Episode 29
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· Jun 13, 2024
· 77 words
Libra, Facebook, and greed blindness
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· Jun 4, 2024
· 240 words
Future shock inoculation
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· Apr 3, 2024
· 122 words
Avalanche subnet changes
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· Mar 15, 2024
· 124 words
Cleanest unbundling wins
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· Feb 20, 2024
· 75 words
Subversion to capitalization
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· Sep 16, 2023
· 70 words
ZKP Bridging
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· Sep 2, 2023
· 283 words
No Layer-2 Bets
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· Aug 30, 2023
· 308 words
Money is memory
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· Aug 24, 2023
· 372 words
Privacy and memory
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· Aug 23, 2023
· 121 words
BlueSky's federation sandbox
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· Jun 22, 2023
· 118 words
Backlash technology
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· Mar 8, 2023
· 139 words
Wormhole hacker hacked
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· Feb 27, 2023
· 144 words
Identity as a Big Iron thing
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· Feb 2, 2023
· 157 words
NFTs are typewriters
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· Mar 24, 2022
· 260 words
Bridges, not platforms
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Mar 13, 2022
· 334 words
Replacing existing systems
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· Mar 5, 2022
· 55 words
TVL is not for platforms
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· Nov 24, 2021
· 138 words
How distributed[C] handles identity
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Nov 19, 2021
· 321 words
Bridged volume as a metric
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· Nov 18, 2021
· 53 words
Meta labels
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· Nov 16, 2021
· 118 words
Global Latin America thesis
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· Nov 12, 2021
· 198 words
Impermanent file systems
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· Oct 2, 2021
· 380 words
Designing for personas
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· Sep 14, 2021
· 341 words
Small world
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· Sep 14, 2021
· 422 words
About distributed[C]
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· Sep 10, 2021
· 578 words
The Netflixification of digital money
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· May 14, 2021
· 163 words
The Skeuomorphic Stage of Crypto
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· May 14, 2021
· 128 words
Are we financially inclusive yet?
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· Oct 19, 2020
· 1,857 words
Bowie, Music, and the Internet
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· Oct 13, 2020
· 291 words
System complexity
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· Mar 25, 2020
· 183 words
Supporting the randos
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Aug 30, 2019
· 2,668 words
Identity, Privacy, and the Edge
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· Jun 14, 2019
· 2,746 words
The Truth of The Thing
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Mar 10, 2019
· 2,910 words
The Arrival of a Train
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· Dec 2, 2018
· 2,547 words
Ledgers - When would you even
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Sep 4, 2018
· 3,092 words
Elegance as a razor
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Aug 19, 2018
· 107 words
Remember the rubber hose
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jul 21, 2018
· 2,001 words
Stories we tell ourselves
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jun 4, 2018
· 3,352 words
It's about the curry
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Feb 5, 2018
· 2,644 words
Fast is not enough
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jan 29, 2018
· 394 words
Preemptive commoditization
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· Jan 20, 2018
· 469 words
Learning Through Mentoring
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· May 24, 2017
· 2,805 words
Interruptions: A User's Manual
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· May 8, 2017
· 650 words
Be Transparent
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· Feb 3, 2017
· 196 words
Reading Clojure, part 2
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· Jan 23, 2017
· 761 words
Reading Clojure
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jan 16, 2017
· 2,219 words
Branching workflow: git-flow and github-flow
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Dec 22, 2016
· 673 words
HTML parsing in Clojure
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· Oct 31, 2016
· 279 words
Deploying a Clojure application from Gitlab CI to Heroku
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· Oct 17, 2016
· 382 words
Using Gitlab CI with a Clojure project
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Oct 10, 2016
· 278 words
Clojure, Cursive and Emacs
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Sep 28, 2016
· 275 words
Tip: Uncaught Invariant Violation
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· Sep 26, 2016
· 97 words
Stop abstracting early
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Aug 29, 2016
· 403 words
Learning Clojure Fast
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Aug 15, 2016
· 431 words
ClojureScript tip: mind the Clojure version
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jul 13, 2016
· 88 words
Complexity is the mind-killer
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jul 11, 2016
· 955 words
Relevance is now open source
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· Jul 4, 2016
· 208 words
Drifting away from .Net
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jun 20, 2016
· 1,224 words
Flexibility Through Immutability, part 2: How and When?
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· Jun 15, 2016
· 1,895 words
Flexibility Through Immutability, part 1: Why?
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· Jun 13, 2016
· 2,177 words
The framework mirage
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jun 6, 2016
· 1,391 words
Flexibility Through Immutability
Ricardo J. Méndez
· Jun 1, 2016
· 326 words
What are contracts useful for?
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· May 30, 2016
· 681 words
AWS Lambda, Clojure and ClojureScript
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· Jan 18, 2016
· 1,350 words
UnitySteer 3.1 released
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· Jan 15, 2016
· 106 words
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 4
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· Jan 13, 2016
· 465 words
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 3
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· Jan 11, 2016
· 427 words
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 2
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· Jan 7, 2016
· 863 words
Clojure and DynamoDB with Faraday, Part 1
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· Jan 4, 2016
· 901 words