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BEP44 For Decentralized Applications
In 2014 Arvid Norberg and Steven Siloti came up with a BitTorrent extension called BEP44. The basic purpose of BEP44 is to allow people to store small pieces of information in a part of the BitTorrent...
View ArticleHacksilver: new algorave album
HackSilver 💀 ⚔ by chr15m I just released Hacksilver, a new album of procedurally generated music. It uses a whole slew of weird tech to generate the beats, melodies, synth sounds including...
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Hacksilver: technical details
Yesterday I released Hacksilver, an album of procedurally generated "algorave" music. Some people had questions about the technology used to write it so I thought I'd write this up. The beats and...
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Joplin With Self-hosted Sync
For some time I have been looking for a writing solution with the following properties: Lets me review and make minor edits on my phone. Is synched to my laptop where I can write longer form. Supports...
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ClojureScript Pixel Game Engine With Blender Live-reloading
Recently I've been hacking on a game engine for infinitelives called px3d. It's built on top of ClojureScript, Blender, and Three.js and it runs in the browser. One feature I'm particularly happy with...
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Notes on "History of the Blockchain" by Nick Szabo
In November 2015 Nick Szabo gave a talk on the history of the blockchain which was dense with useful ideas. Here are some notes I took on his talk: Philosophical inspiration to Cypherpunks who...
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Speaking schedule 2019 and beyond
I've got three conference talks coming up in Perth (Australia), London, and The Gold Coast (Australia). If you're nearby let me know - I would love to buy you a coffee/beer and hear what you're up to....
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How To Make Hy-lang More User-Friendly
Hy(lang) is a LISP-family programming language built on top of Python. You get the rich Python language & library ecosystem, with a LISP syntax and many of the language conveniences of Clojure,...
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How I built an Excel add-in to export HTML tables
An economist told me the worst part of her job is turning Excel data into HTML tables, so I built an add-in to fix it. Many software developers probably don't realise that Microsoft Office add-ins...
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Announcing The Bugout Box
A few weeks ago at the BSides Perth conference I announced this piece of hardware I've been tinkering on. The Bugout Box is a decentralized web appliance. Its a Raspberry Pi that any browser can...
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A Week in Singapore
Last week I was in Singapore with my friends PVI Collective, consulting with local artists Ekamatra and Drama Box. We were hacking on eachother's artworks in their studio loft above Chinatown....
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A Clojure-like Lisp That Runs In Bash
Fleck is a Clojure-like LISP that runs wherever Bash is. Get it here. This is a little experiment I hacked together from the amazing make-a-lisp project. My hard drive is littered with attempts to...
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The Only Truth Will Be Cryptographic
Photographs are easy to fake. So much so that there is a turn of phrase to describe it. People say something is "'shopped" when they are skeptical regarding the veracity of an image. This refers to...
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Linux Conf AU 2020 Talks
Last week I was on the Gold Coast for Linux Conf AU. I gave two talks: Piku: git push deployments to your own servers px3d: a free software browser based pixel 3D nano-engine in ClojureScript Other...
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Sub-Dunbar Software
I've been thinking about this idea lately of software written for small groups of mutually-trusting humans, like families. I like to think of this type of software as "sub-Dunbar software", named...
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The Forest Moons of Yendor
Last week I entered the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge. I used the the px3d game engine with Blender and ClojureScript to build a game prototype. The Forest Moons of Yendor by chr15m
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Slingcode: Personal Computing Platform
Recently I was teaching one of my kids a bit of web coding. This is way more complicated than it should be. There are so many moving parts - configuration, build systems, editors, hosting...
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