The Evolution of Internet Persistence Since its inception, the internet has been a stateless entity, relying on servers for the persistence of data. This design has enabled a plethora of functionalities, but it also brought challenges, especially when it comes to persistent storage. Initially, solutions were predominantly centralized, with servers being the primary data repositories…

I explain what DWN is about in my previous article What is WEB5 about, and why does it matter in the post-AI and post-blockchain world? The ultimate challenges of modern WEBvolodymyrpavlyshyn.medium.com But in tweet size, DWN is a decentralized relay-driven data layer with permissions, synchronization, and data protocols. Earlier days of SSI. Is everything a VC? It was a boom of self-sovereign identity projects around 2018–2020. All of them had one common bias. Everything was viewed as a…

Path to personal and private internet Introduction What is the hidden price of Internet products? Now, it is even more vivid with AI-based products. The cost of chatGPT is not just $20; it is much, much more. We fail to transfer the pseudo-anonymous and private nature of inter-human relations on…

Today I have four amazing Open source products that could be used independently or glued together and accelerate each other. Obsidian for note-taking. Excalidraw for whiteboarding and visual thinking, and a super powerful ExcaliBrain That replace expensive TheBrain software and lift a visual graph and Personal Knowledge Graphs to the…

Introduction In the era of data-driven applications, the need for a more flexible, secure, and decentralized approach to data management is more pressing than ever. The Data-Driven Manifesto aims to shift the paradigm from application-centric to data-centric architectures. One technology that aligns closely with this vision is Decentralized Web Nodes…

OBSIDIAN and Progressive summarization I work with tons of PDFs and research papers on my PC. It is really hard to keep all of them in order. With a Kindle it is much easier — you buy a book you Highlight and make notes and it becomes an integral part…

How to bring types and rusty flavor to a vanilla js We have all struggled with a JS for almost 3 decades. Big Dream is a better language with types and nice features but we are all locked in a backward-compatible trap. Fists and quite common idea was to…

Data is ubiquitous and integral to various aspects of our lives in the modern digital landscape. However, the current approach to application development often places the application at the center rather than the data. This video titled “Data-Centric Manifesto” argues for a shift in mindset, advocating for a data-centric…

In an era where data is the new oil, the way we manage, store, and access data has never been more critical. Traditional databases have served us well but are centralized by design, posing challenges in terms of scalability, data sovereignty, and offline access. Enter Gun, a decentralized, offline-first…