⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ @pnathan@social.seattle.wa.us

worst thing about working near my cat is her insistent desire to be in my face, getting rubs.

she really, really, likes that.

Note regarding information management.

I use org-roam for my long term information store.

I'm using Obsidian as a cross-platform system that I'll be importing into org-roam; I *pay* for the sync service of Obsidian.

looks like Putin has launched war on Ukraine.

what a sad thing.

the explosion of misinformation is going to be spectacular. trying to journal to keep interesting tidbits stored, so that down the road I can read back and reflect on odd bits that come out and then got forgotten/dropped.

apparently truth social, the trump mastodon, has launchedish.

should be interesting.......

working on "caching large immutable data for queries" in golang.

hoping I can make it work this time.

last time I tried it, it was in common lisp, with more aspect oriented programming bits than I could figure out as the nil pointer dereferences flamed around me.

acquired a Cherry MX Brown keyboard - the Kinesis Edge RGB.

its very nice.

I have a MX Blue edition of same, but caught complaints over "clickieness". Sigh.

https://gitlab.com/pnathan/tiaf/

tiaf.

a not-even-currency blockchain.

at some point I will stand up a tiaf endpoint for people to play with and replicate from, but the data system isn't finished (needs spill-to-disk).

So if someone comes to me - or you - and says, I need to share data with other, external, entities, in a tamper-resistant system where both can write - you do not need a blockchain qua BTC or ETH. You don't even need smart contracts. You don't need miners.

You need a way to authenticate that so and so is a member of the organization, and they are authorized to click the "share the data" button. Or, in other words: LDAP, G Suite, Okta, blah, blah, blah.

What I created solves the data part.

I implemented this system, using the perspective of someone that would do this for work, using conventional enterprise/identity tools; using the perspective that insults to the database would be resolved through the courts of law.

that made everything much simpler and ridiculously faster.

I can basically commit data at speed of cpu. Because I don't "mine", I simply command, a block is instant in creation.

thought #1. a trustless/distributed world without contractual enforcement is extremely expensive. That's why "mining" occurs. bitcoin mining is actually how data transactions are committed as well.... in a trustless world.

thought #2. a resilient public sharable database is actually a very good thing.

thought #3. identity is not solved by a private key.

in news that might be of interest to the mastodon world, I decided to implement a coinless, "gasless", blockchain.

"crypto without the currency".

or, if you're being technical: an immutable database with cryptographic hashing of prior blocks, similar to a merkle list.

I developed a lot of thoughts around crypto/nfts etc while doing this too.

@finn I think the images are broken on social.seattle.

just logged in and all images are 404'ing

another rainy seattle day.

grinding away on the big startup project with a deadline of, uh, monday morning biz opening.

and the kid is home sick. :-/

::sticks head in::

hi? how are ya'll?

Hi

I miss sunny days. We've been in Western WA since 2013.

With the covid and the rain and the damp, I am starting to get very antsy. Dreams of the Southwest, where my wife lived for a while before we married.

lets see how fediverse/mastodon is doing these days