here you may find rambling thoughts, assorted collected information, incomplete research and creations, and admirations from trystimuli. below are some recently updated pages for your perusal.
maine, where i live, passed a ranked choice voting referendum six years ago. when the folks pushing it called me, i remember saying that, while it’s better than plurality, i preferred approval voting.
that’s still true.
A technique to generate a secret-public key pair bound to an arbitrary verifying key, so that the verifying key may certify a key rotation.
Converge is the prototype exchange format for versioned node. It provides fully featured blobs and versions, including braid finalization, in encrypted and unencrypted flavors. The encoding with atlv is compact and simple to parse and build. And the cryptography is arranged to be compact and efficient.
atlv is a generic binary data encoding that preserves the data’s
leaf-spine structure while providing customizable tags and dictating
minimal semantics.
Versioned nodes is a computer storage paradigm enabling distributed collaboration, either in real time or with disconnected operation.
the being i make things. mostly functional, sometimes pretty. spectra, rainbows, and gamuts are ofttimes pretty! my current functional project is versioned nodes, distributed tools to enable collaboration without the constant connectivity or privacy violations that centralized tools require. i live in a housing coop, participate in buying coops, and am trying to form a worker coop. i’m also fascinated by the details of how cooperatives function and how that affects the resulting collaborative effort - especially consensus building.