Technometria By Phil Windley I build things; I write code; I void warranties 34 issues Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Technometria will receive your email address.
#31 Nov 4, 2021 Identity and Consistent User Experience; Technometria - Issue #31 – Consistent user experience is key enabler of digital embodiment and is critical to our ability to ope
#30 Oct 27, 2021 Picos at the Edge; Technometria - Issue #30 – The future of computing is moving from the cloud to the edge. How can we create a decentralized, gene
#29 Oct 20, 2021 Token-Based Identity; Technometria - Issue #29 – Token-based identity system move us from talking about who, to thinking about what so that people can
#28 Oct 6, 2021 NFTs, Verifiable Credential, and Picos; Technometria - Issue #28 – The hype over NFTs and collectibles is blinding us to their true usefulness as trustworthy persistent
#27 Sep 27, 2021 Ugh! There's an App (or Three) for That; Technometria - Issue #27 – Interoperability is a fundamental property of tech systems that are generative and respect individual
#26 Sep 16, 2021 JSON is Robot Barf; Technometria - Issue #26 – Why do we use JSON when a more human-friendly notation would be more readable, more maintainable, and
#25 Sep 9, 2021 Toothbrush Identity; Technometria - Issue #25 – Identity is everywhere. Even in your toothbrush!
#24 Sep 1, 2021 Fluid Multi-Pseudonymity; Technometria - Issue #24 – Fluid multi-pseudonymity perfectly describes the way we live our lives and the reality that identity
#23 Aug 24, 2021 Seeing like the TSA; Technometria - Issue #23 – Corporate and hierarchical, bureaucracies strive for legibility. But people aren't corporate or hiera
#22 Aug 17, 2021 Life Will Find a Way; Technometria - Issue #22 – Decentralization is hard. But the result is resilience in the face of adversity.
#21 Aug 11, 2021 Clean Sheets and Strategy; Technometria - Issue #21 – Most of the activities IT performs aren't strategic. Like clean sheets, they're important, but not di
#20 Aug 3, 2021 Ephemeral Relationships; Technometria - Issue #20 – Many of the relationships we have online don't have to be long-lived. Ephemeral relationships, offeri
#19 Jul 26, 2021 Smart Property; Technometria - Issue #19 – Smart property is much more than the anemic connected things we have now. Smart property imagines a w
#18 Jul 19, 2021 Ten Reasons to Use Picos for Your Next Decentralized Programming Project; Technometria - Issue #18 – I didn’t start out to write a programming language that naturally supports decentralized programming
#17 Jul 1, 2021 Alternatives to the CompuServe of Things; Technometria - Issue #17 – The current model for connected things puts manufacturers inbetween people and their things. That mod
#16 Jun 23, 2021 Building an SSI Ecosystem: Health Passes and the Design of an Ecosystem of Ecosystems; Technometria - Issue #16 – Ever since the Covid pandemic started in 2020, various groups have seen verifiable credentials as a m
#15 Jun 15, 2021 Reciprocal Negotiated Accountability; Technometria - Issue #15 – The self-sovereign internet underscores a tension between those who desire perfect oversight of socie
