Articles on dpk.io

• Failure modes of decentralized systems (July 2023)
• Make the VAT threshold progressive (November 2020)
• How to save Mozilla (August 2020)
• I’m transgender (April 2019)
• How to Implement Regular Expressions in Functional JavaScript Using Derivatives (December 2017)
• What to do if someone sues you for something you posted online (November 2017)
• On the Web standards process (May 2017)
• Stop Comparing JSON and XML — No, Really (February 2017)
• Black Mirror episode notes (November 2016)
• How (not) to rip a music CD (May 2016). Since writing this I’ve been successfully guilt-tripped about how buying CDs to rip essentially makes them single-use plastics, and now download from lossless online stores.
• Autobiography of Aaron Swartz: Bonus Chapter for The Boy Who Could Change The World (December 2015)
• PageRank described in Python (April 2015). This explanation and implementation could be significantly improved now that the patents have expired.
• Storing data durably (March 2015)
• Super-small Brainfuck compiler in sh (November 2014)
• The JavaScript metalanguage (June 2014). To my pleasant surprise, JavaScript itself now fulfills the most important points of this.
• Psychology and Economics (June 2014)
• Towards a Superdictionary by Computer Lexicography (April 2014)
• English Spelling Reform (March 2014)
• The Word ‘Cholarchy’: An Obscure Etymological Curiosity (March 2014)
• On Block-chains and Bitcoin (December 2013)
• Modern computing: A short history and a shorter rant (November 2013)
• Why was the Web a success? (June 2013)
• Use pax (March 2013)
• A scene in San Francisco (January 2013)
• Samphire soup (May 2010)