Tanuj

Each app builds a moat and walls to protect the hoard of data its peasants produce. This is both for reasons of protection, and power. How did this condition emerge?Before the advent of the internet, apps ran on your computer and saved data to your computer. The internet flipped this around. Web software ran remotely on server computers, and saved... See more

Take a look at what the Arc browser is doing with Boosts as an example of what DevTools could be; experimental, fun, and downright cool. In Arc’s vision of the web, websites aren’t this thing you build in between meetings with your manager, but are instead toys that you can mold and reshape in the palm of your hand. Arc brings back the spirit of... See more

Understandability is a form of beauty, virtual does not mean immaterial and doing things with less is not a return to the past.

These poems are written with an open-source library for representing text that changes, morphs, and evolves with the attention of the reader.

The immutability of this new world means that if you send someone your tokens, no centralized authority can come in and decide the transaction was invalid and wipe it from the ledger (unless, of course, there is a hard fork). But it also means that there’s no way to undo fraudulent transactions and return funds to their rightful owners. It means... See more

A technologist makes reason out of the messiness of the world, leverages their understanding to envision a different reality, and builds a pathway to make their vision happen. All three of these endeavors—to try to understand the world, to imagine something different, and to build something that fulfills that vision—are deeply human.