What Torrents Already Proved
Peer-to-peer file-sharing ran the largest decentralisation experiment in computing history before blockchain made it fashionable - and it doubles as a blueprint for resisting centralised power.
Articles
Thoughts on AI, graphics programming, and engineering
No Point Stands Alone
Why peer-to-peer connection — in friendship, in encryption, in blockchain — isn't just the safest architecture, but the only one where anything actually means something.
Built to Last, Not to Last Long Enough
An argument, anchored by an old Lada Niva, that the simplicity of mechanical things used to make them repairable — and that we quietly traded that away.
The Power of Decentralisation
Why handing data and control back to the edges of a network isn't nostalgia for the early internet, but a practical answer to today's privacy problems.
Inheritance Without the Middlemen
What a will looks like if you replace the lawyer, the notary, and the bureaucracy in between with a smart contract - and the one problem that's still unsolved.
Reactions Weren't Built for This
Two small observations about communication tools drifting away from what they were actually designed to do.
Centralised, Federated, or Peer-to-Peer
Power and data can be arranged three ways — and the messiest, hardest option is also the only one that actually protects the individual.
A Node Alone Is Nothing
A node only means something in relation to other nodes — a small idea about graphs that keeps showing up everywhere once you start looking for it.