Carson Farmer on IPFS — The essential reading list
How IPFS works and how to build on it.
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3 min readMar 18, 2019
I recently traveled to #EthDenver with Carson Farmer and among many things I learned, I learned that Carson has fans. People popped by our table just to say “hi” and thank him for his blog posts on IPFS. If you are getting started with IPFS or already using it but hitting speed bumps, you should look through his work, it contains a ton of great information to help along the way. That’s why today, I’ve decided to put together the Carson Farmer anthology.
Part I — The Essentials
Enabling the distributed web
What’s really happening when you add a file to IPFS?
How IPFS peer nodes identify each other on the distributed web
Swapping bits and distributing hashes on the decentralized web
Part II —Running IPFS
Tutorial: Setting up an IPFS peer, part I
Tutorial: Setting up an IPFS peer, part II
Tutorial: Setting up an IPFS peer, part III
Tutorial: Setting up an IPFS peer, part IV
Part III — Build Stuff
The definitive guide to publishing content on the decentralized web
From Zero to Interplanetary Hero
A short trip to Jupyter via the Inter-planetary File System
This single-page web app can edit itself
Building an interplanetary ĐApp from scratch
Part IV — A Touch of Textile
Building a simple decentralized version control system with IPFS + Textile
Easy personal IPFS pinning service with Textile
Quick Look: Textile Files and Schemas
Be sure to find Carson on our developer Slack channel, just pepper him with your questions 🤘. Or if you want him to speak at your next tech event, just shoot him a tweet 🙌. Speaking of which, don’t forget to apply to IPFS Camp today!
