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…May 4, 20222May 4, 20222
Paul FrazeeThe rules to make the rulesMy journey to understand blockchain political systems continues.Jan 24, 20223Jan 24, 20223
Paul FrazeeBack to basics: What is the point of decentralization?There are two kinds of resources in a network:Jan 23, 20221Jan 23, 20221
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…Jan 21, 20221Jan 21, 20221
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…Jan 18, 2022Jan 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…Jan 17, 20221Jan 17, 20221
Paul FrazeeBuilding on BudgetWhat is the perfect programming language? The perfect framework? The perfect CI tool or site generator?Aug 16, 2021Aug 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.Jul 16, 2021Jul 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…Jul 15, 20211Jul 15, 20211
Paul FrazeeThinking about Filesystems, Databases, and HypercoresLately I’ve been thinking about how to represent data on the Hypercore protocol.Jul 8, 20213Jul 8, 20213
