Articles
Long, considered pieces.
- Prototyping a friendlier frontend for determinate computingArticle
Making determinate computing friendly by building a modular frontend for Nix, Guix, and future reproducible systems.
- Lyceum: A New Ancient Greek Digital Library For A Post-LLM WorldArticle
Building an AI-powered pipeline to generate the largest, richest corpus of Ancient Greek texts with interlinear translations, morphology, and treebank data from a single prompt.
- Introducing Lyceum: A Modern Interface for Reading Ancient Greek TextsArticle
Lyceum is a modern interface for reading Ancient Greek works in their original language, with interlinear translations, morphology, and spaced-repetition vocabulary learning.
- Fear to AttemptArticle
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt
- Payjoin for a Better Bitcoin FutureArticle
Payjoin is a protocol that uses a simple, clever trick in the way Bitcoin creates transactions to solve many of its problems at once.
- Micropayments and the Lightning NetworkArticle
Content monetization on the internet is broken. Credit card fees prohibit the ability to make small payments for individual pieces of content. Creators have to choose between invading user privacy by selling their data, annoying them with a barrage of ads, or putting up paywalls and forcing them to sign up for subscriptions to continue. The Lightning Network offers a new, alternative monetization strategy in the form of micropayments.