Coprocessors & Data-rich Applications
Web3 Apps Generally SuckThe notion of "put everything onchain" has always felt like a weird hill to die on for me. There was no reason to put a lot of things onchain because outside of permanent storage, there wasn't much you could do with this data. While The Graph and similar protocols enable the querying of onchain data for front-end integration, complete with features like full-text search and filtering via GraphQL, these operations occur at the client level. This means you couldn&ap...
Coprocessors & Data-rich Applications
Web3 Apps Generally SuckThe notion of "put everything onchain" has always felt like a weird hill to die on for me. There was no reason to put a lot of things onchain because outside of permanent storage, there wasn't much you could do with this data. While The Graph and similar protocols enable the querying of onchain data for front-end integration, complete with features like full-text search and filtering via GraphQL, these operations occur at the client level. This means you couldn&ap...
The Developer's Guide to Building Cross-chain Dapps
Overview and step-by-step developer quickstart.TLDR: In the future of widespread consumer adoption, users will need the freedom to select their chain based on what they value: speed, security, fees, decentralization, UX, etc. So, instead of choosing the chain based on the ecosystem of applications, users will choose the chain to optimize for the things they value. Although there has been a shift from "one chain to rule them all" to a multichain future, it is still unclear who will be part of ...
The Developer's Guide to Building Cross-chain Dapps
Overview and step-by-step developer quickstart.TLDR: In the future of widespread consumer adoption, users will need the freedom to select their chain based on what they value: speed, security, fees, decentralization, UX, etc. So, instead of choosing the chain based on the ecosystem of applications, users will choose the chain to optimize for the things they value. Although there has been a shift from "one chain to rule them all" to a multichain future, it is still unclear who will be part of ...
The Deadend of Eurocentric Crypto
I’m just going to say it: there’s been a ton of money thrown into blockchain, but the results have been pathetic in comparison. https://twitter.com/apolynya/status/1576056718810705920?s=20&t=5XbHj1XqRbRpIlE6JSIPnQ The tweet above by Polynya frames this post perfectly: what we have done until now might be all we ever accomplish with blockchain. The technologies we’re working on teeter on the edge of either changing the world or forever remaining a nerdy fad. We’ve succeeded at capturing the wo...
The Deadend of Eurocentric Crypto
I’m just going to say it: there’s been a ton of money thrown into blockchain, but the results have been pathetic in comparison. https://twitter.com/apolynya/status/1576056718810705920?s=20&t=5XbHj1XqRbRpIlE6JSIPnQ The tweet above by Polynya frames this post perfectly: what we have done until now might be all we ever accomplish with blockchain. The technologies we’re working on teeter on the edge of either changing the world or forever remaining a nerdy fad. We’ve succeeded at capturing the wo...
The Developer's Guide to Getting Started with Livepeer
Getting Started with LivepeerTL;DR: Livepeer is a decentralized video processing network and developer platform which you can use to build video applications at a rate of up to 10x cheaper than web2 service providers. The network of distributed Orchestrators provides transcoding, the process of formatting your video to be optimal for all devices and network speeds, and enabling applications like Glass.xyz, a creator-owned video platform. Livepeer has a Livestreaming API where a broadcaster ca...
The Developer's Guide to Getting Started with Livepeer
Getting Started with LivepeerTL;DR: Livepeer is a decentralized video processing network and developer platform which you can use to build video applications at a rate of up to 10x cheaper than web2 service providers. The network of distributed Orchestrators provides transcoding, the process of formatting your video to be optimal for all devices and network speeds, and enabling applications like Glass.xyz, a creator-owned video platform. Livepeer has a Livestreaming API where a broadcaster ca...
My Villain Origin Story: The Reality for Latino/Black Kids In Silicon Valley
How Public School Fails Students of ColorFor as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a teacher. My mom tells the story of how I would sit all my teddy bears down, facing a whiteboard, and stand up there and teach them. I never considered another career, much less a career in STEM. I have always been bad at spatial stuff (building legos, drawing, etc.), so I never could imagine myself as someone who could create things. While I was in high school, my history class participated in...
My Villain Origin Story: The Reality for Latino/Black Kids In Silicon Valley
How Public School Fails Students of ColorFor as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a teacher. My mom tells the story of how I would sit all my teddy bears down, facing a whiteboard, and stand up there and teach them. I never considered another career, much less a career in STEM. I have always been bad at spatial stuff (building legos, drawing, etc.), so I never could imagine myself as someone who could create things. While I was in high school, my history class participated in...
