Paul FrazeePaul’s notes on how JSON-LD worksWe all know what JSON-LD is: JSON with a @context field tacked on top, right? That’s pretty much all it is. Except sometimes you see an @id…8 min read·May 4, 2022--2--2
Paul FrazeeThe rules to make the rulesMy journey to understand blockchain political systems continues.9 min read·Jan 24, 2022--2--2
Paul FrazeeBack to basics: What is the point of decentralization?There are two kinds of resources in a network:8 min read·Jan 23, 2022--1--1
Paul FrazeeExecution Transparency — Hosted smart contracts using secure, append-only logsThe Vitra research project now has a whitepaper¹ and I wanted to give a high level of what it’s on about, a premise I call Execution…6 min read·Jan 21, 2022--1--1
Paul FrazeeICANNs vs BlockchainsThere’s a running “joke” (using that word generously) that techies will use blockchains when they really want to make ICANNs. The point…4 min read·Jan 18, 2022----
Paul FrazeeSmart contracts without blockchainsI’ll cut to the chase: this post is not about a novel breakthrough. This is existing techniques applied in a pretty straight-forward way…8 min read·Jan 17, 2022--1--1
Paul FrazeeBuilding on BudgetWhat is the perfect programming language? The perfect framework? The perfect CI tool or site generator?4 min read·Aug 16, 2021----
Paul FrazeeTransactions: MVCC or a query language?As I have been thinking about a database design on Hypercore, I’ve been drawing from my experience on the now-closed CTZN project.4 min read·Jul 16, 2021----
Paul FrazeeData layout and schema agreement on Hypercore protocolLately I’ve been exploring data models on the Hypercore Protocol. In this post, I’m going to talk about approaches to schemas and semantics…7 min read·Jul 15, 2021--1--1
Paul FrazeeThinking about Filesystems, Databases, and HypercoresLately I’ve been thinking about how to represent data on the Hypercore protocol.9 min read·Jul 8, 2021--3--3