Think of this like the cloud, but inside out.
Instead of spraying data into a million corporate databases, your data would *mostly* live on a single device within your own control, whether hosted in your own home (easy + safe to do with Tailscale so long as it's private access)... or a similar […]
Real personal computing would probably mean getting rid of applications and services entirely in the traditional way.
You'd have your home "computer" -- you'd connect to it from whatever other devices you wanted that are all thin clients to it.
And that computer would read/write messages over […]
A thought experiment in the form of a simple question that has been yielding lots of weird but useful ideas for me...
What if personal computing truly was personal, in the sense that it was completely tuned to what you need without having to worry about anyone or anything else... how might you […]
Shear layers to get a better mental model of things you often take for granted.
For example, right now I'm building a rapid prototyping tool that so far I've not introduced a database into, it uses direct reads/writes to files instead.
This immediate brings some concurrency fundamentals as […]
This is doable, and likely on hardware costing hundreds of dollars at most.
For the better part of a year I've been tinkering with architecture based on these ideas with Raspberry Pi, and even with the gobsmackingly inflated pricing due to shortages, the costs are low enough that it puts you in […]
If you're interested and within easy commuting distance of New Haven, get in touch. Also likely will do some remote events or have a discussion group setup online that are open to non-local folks so it's ok to reach of if that's you too.
Send PMs or email [email protected] with […]
If you've got a personal website where you blog, share your learnings, or do other cool stuff, drop it in this thread.
It doesn't even need to be software development specific (but if it's not, mention the theme in your reply)
The open web of "people doing cool stuff" is something worth […]
People who build software often think of software as an asset or an artifact, regardless of what terms they use for it.
But that is increasingly feeling like a flawed mental model. The idea of a "program" is the actual asset, software is just a building material.
Seeing it that way isn't at […]
a second personal computing revolution is about the only way other than throwing all electronics into the sea that world will ever heal from the damage tech bros did and continue to do.
Thinking of starting up a "Rapid Application Development" meetup group in New Haven CT.
Inclusive of various forms of tech and mostly just seeking to explore the question of "How do we put real working software in the hands of people who benefit from it as quickly and safely as reasonably […]
