Internet

How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play

The Blockchain Is a Reminder of the Internet’s Failure

The same utopian promises that bloomed during…

How To Design Interplanetary Apps

What does the internet look like when we’re scattered across the solar system?

Neopets as We Know It Is About to Be Obliterated

When Adobe Flash dies, so will your childhood memories

Why do we Choose to Emote all Over the Internet?

Radical honesty isn’t emotional incontinence.

Why Decentralization Matters

We’ve forgotten there’s a better way to build internet services

Why should I care about HTTP?

HTTP are the four letters at the beginning of your URLs, right? By…

My Affair With the Intellectual Dark Web

Meet my new friends. I found them on Free Speech YouTube.

Fighting the Algorithm (and The Man)

Hacking the System the Old Fashioned Way

I Was the Face of an Online Romance Scammer

How I fell into what may or may not have been a meta-scam