Beyond the shouting match: what is a blockchain, really?

Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular, and excitement for its underlying protocol, ATProto, is growing. Since I worked on ActivityPub which connects together Mastodon, Sharkey, Peertube, GotoSocial, etc, etc, etc in the present-day fediverse, I often get asked...

I got my MNT Pocket Reform. In short, it's an absolutely gorgeous device and lovely for doing some light hacking or chiptune tracking or etc. It's incredibly built and also feels like it has a lot of potential. It's very clearly upgradeable which is a refreshing change of pace from modern electronics. On the downside, if you get an MNT reform...

Recently I've been making some music in Milkytracker, a decidedly oldschool piece of music tracking software. I've made two songs which I am proud of, one of which is original, the other is a cover.Here's the original piece, titled "A Fairy Leaves Home" (released as CC BY-SA 4.0, source file):I'm fairly proud of this one. It's the first ever...

I appeared on a PBS's NOVA documentary, Secrets in Your Data! (It's also on YouTube and, well, on broadcast television I suppose!) This actually aired a few days ago but I hadn't really had time to write anything about it and well, I still don't, but I wanted to mark the time before too much time passed and I never wrote anything.The documentary...

My moon and my stars Guided me through dark nights My moon and my stars Sang me sweet songs I had found my muse I found my song My moon and stars were there One night the clouds came, darker than before My moon and stars she called for me to help My moon and stars called out How to help, how to guide that which guides you, finds you peace? The...