12 posts tagged with "popular"

PUB (Prosperous Universal Backports) is a proposal to fork the most important open source packages that the world's economy runs on, maintain them with agents, and serve them through a drop-in registry mirror. When a critical vulnerability lands, every widely used package version should be patched in hours, not whenever an unpaid volunteer gets to it. This post covers how we would pick which packages and versions to fork, what an agent is allowed to ship on its own, and why this has to be a public commons rather than another security product.

An opinionated answer to what open source becomes once the AI writes the code: how it will grow in importance as the caching layer for technological breakthroughs, and why a sea of solo open source developers with superior taste will out-innovate their closed counterparts.

Revolutionize the data industry with open source principles

Since the 2017 ICO boom, the crypto industry has navigated countless hype cycles and narratives. Through it all, my conviction in one core thesis has only strengthened: Blockchain is inevitable.

Bringing sustainable funding to public goods by revenue-sharing towards dependencies

After a long 2.5 years of training to get to our H3 rating, we thought it would help to share our journey and what we wished we knew when we first started; advice that could have helped us finish in <1 year. Of course this is our limited opinion, so take it all with a grain of salt and get advice from other pilots you trust.

These are the things I wish I had known before deciding to go to grad school. Obviously take these with a grain of salt, as they just represent one man's opinion.

The AutoDapp project aims to automatically convert any existing web or mobile application into a decentralized application (DApp) by changing just a single line of code, starting with Discourse and MediaWiki. This blog post outlines a high-level approach to instantly decentralize popular applications by interposing on the SQL connection between its web server and database. With the unified effort of the open source community, we can accelerate the advent of the decentralized future for millions of users -- this is what we’re calling our “One Million” mission.

In this blog post, I'll show you how to setup a Yubikey with both signing and authentication keys. As a driving example, I'll describe how to use a Yubikey to sign your git commits and authenticate via SSH with GitHub. Of course you can reuse this guide to authenticate with any other SSH server as well.

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." Theophrastus

With only so much time on this world, it's in our best interest to use it wisely. Even with best intentions, I often find myself feeling like I could have spent my time better. These thoughts typically fall into one of three categories:

1. Missed goals: You wanted to get something done this week/month/year, but it didn't happen. Now you find the task repeatedly slipping to the next week.
2. Lost time: It's a long day, and hour 5 fades into hour 6. Next thing you know it's the end of the day and you wonder where the time went.
3. Poor Use: People need you, emails need responses, events run over. By the end of the day, you've spent your time on a bunch of things you never intended to spend time on.

In this blog post, I'll show you how to configure a Docker-based personal server, running each service in a separate Docker container. Modern devops tools have made it easier than ever to run your own server and for anyone with basic familiarity with Linux, it's worth a try. In this tutorial, we'll use Gitlab as a running example.

For years, my website was a single gigantic HTML file. Adding content and making edits felt a lot like stacking Jenga blocks a mile high. While that was fun in many ways, it is 2015 and it is time to move to some form of automated system like Jekyll.