Many of the ideas I've been playing around with lately are of the distributed, secure & networked kind. Since distributed asynchronous networks are tricky beasts, I want to leverage the existing network of such nature commonly known as email. This que... (more…)

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Back in 2008 Natalie Downe and I deployed what today we would call a microservice: json-head, a tiny Google App Engine app that allowed you to make an HTTP head ... (more…)

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Read online: Chapter 1 - Making Paper Cryptography Tools...