known as @hacdias
I gave a lightening talk ⚡️ at IPFS þing 2023 on the 19th of April, about the progress we have made over the past months on building a website for the InterPlanetary Specifications of the IPFS ecosystem. Here’s the slides deck and the video.
I realize I spoke a bit too fast. It was supposed to be a lightening talk, but not necessarily a lightening² talk.
This is a good post about the experience of putting that massive amount of books, and therefore data, and the challenges that come with it.
Anna’s Archive claims to be “the world’s largest open-source open-data library”. As far as I understand, this shadow library does not, by itself, host any of the content. Instead, it is a massive search engine with the collection of the metadata of all these books. Nevertheless, it seems that the authors are invested in seeding the content too.
A few days ago, on the 30th of November, I gave my first talk at BarcampLX, which is a really nice and open event you can go to and present! If you’re interested, you can read more about the concept. Here’s the slides deck and the video.
It was about two years ago, in 2017, that I got to know IPFS through David Dias. This is not the first time I talk about IPFS here, in my website, but here’s a brief description of what it is: IPFS stands for InterPlanetary File System and it is a peer-to-peer, content-addressed and decentralized protocol.
As many of you probably know, xkcd is a web comic created in 2005 by Randall Munroe. Its tagline is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”. You can read more about the web comic itself on their website.
