🧵 Could Bitchat have 5x the range and 100x the throughput for the same power expenditure? I explored how Wi-Fi Aware could improve the reliability and throughput of Bitchat and mobile ad-hoc networks in the absence of internet connectivity. #bitchat 👇

1/ Had a great time on the ZK podcast chatting about local-first and emerging use cases for programmable cryptography (ZK, HE, MPC) with @goblinoats.com @arro.bsky.social @nicomnbl.bsky.social . I'm excited for more exploration here & I'd love to hear ideas from both local-first & prog crypto worlds

📝 new blog post! i spent a while looking into homomorphically encrypted CRDTs. spoiler alert: they don’t work super well! (but you should still check it out — i break down what homomorphic encryption is and how it works, and there are lots of explorable explanations along the way!)

Leaflet Publications: blogging on Bluesky — version 0.1 is here! ✅ now: make publications, add posts, publish to Bluesky 🗓️ soon: subscribing, commenting & other social features Try it: leaflet.pub/home We'd love your feedback & ideas for how we can make this great!

We built the DMs we wish existed: a messenger that lets you share what you want people to know, and nothing else. But what if you wanted them to know…your ATProto handle? 🤯

I've been working on a network-local ATProtocol dev environment that gives me end-to-end production functionality for Smoke Signal, including handle resolution and repository access. Here’s how I put it together. 🧵

🧵 The AT Protocol shows the power of a personal data store. All of our public atproto data is easy to find and access. We can interact with it flexibly in myriad ways and combinations. Wouldn't it be nice to do the same for our private and collaborative data? 👇

🧵 The AT Protocol (atproto), which underlies Bluesky, lets us to interface with the same data in as many ways as we can conceive of through AppViews that each provide a different "view" of the network. Can we make our local-first software as interoperable as the AT Protocol? 👇

🧵 I've been experimenting with combining local-first software and the AT Protocol (atproto) to play with the design space of apps that live at both ends of the privacy spectrum - maximally private AND maximally public, without some of the downsides of the modern web.  Why? 👇