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2024
Farcaster L2s
What could a Farcaster Layer 2 look like? How could we implement them? Is it a good idea?
The Moore-Nakamoto plain
A great tool to map and compare projects, and to analyze how advances in compute and crypto will affect them in the future.
The l--o--l collection
|--o--| is a collection of 10,000 ASCII art spaceships on the Base chain.
2023
Farcaster is a better match for SpaceX than X.
(Or, "How Farcaster hubs sync")
All about Farcaster Signers
Approving, revoking, and using them to re-sign messages.
The Farcaster icon font
I converted the farcaster logo to an icon font.
Welcome to farcaster
New to Farcaster? Here are a few things to help you find your way around.
Goodbye, Twitter
And thank you for the memories.
VisionPro's EyeSight may be a killer feature.
The outward display that reveals your eyes while wearing Vision Pro may be a killer feature.
2022
The dangerous path of OpenSea's blacklisting tool
OpenSea's tool that enforces fees, is much more than this and we are about to make the same mistakes all over again.
ERC721 Subset
A smart contract to create an on-chain subset of an existing ERC721 collection.
Implementing tokenURI as a separate contract
The cost is minimal, and the advantages are significant.
What's the utility of a pfp NFT collection? Signalling.
Why do users spend money to buy a PFP NFT?
Putting an old iMac to use
Configuring an old iMac to run pihole, homebridge, and ipfs, using Siri to turn the brightness on/off and using it as a... "LED panel" light.
2021
Christina's Linux adventures. Part 1.
My 10yrs old daughter got a Linux laptop.
travel3, ένα newsletter για το web3
Σας παρουσιάζω το Travel3, ένα newsletter που θα σας ταξιδέψει στις γωνιές του web3 ακόμη κι αν δεν έχετε ιδέα για το τι είναι αυτό.
web3, ens and trademarks
Claim your brand and trademarks on ENS before it's too late.
Planet LRR
cellular automata + art + NFT
Stories from NFT land #1
8 months ago, I bought my first NFT art.
Leaving ChannelVAS
After 5.5 years, yesterday was my last day at ChannelVAS.
48.
Η χρονιά του COVID-19
The rise of the activist trader (?)
An activist trader is an individual or group that uses trading of public stocks or other financial instruments in order to achieve a cause other than financial profit.
The GameSpot backstory
@endtwist explains the backstory and the technical details of the GameSpot stock.
How can we make ENS in IPFS more distributed?
Some of my thoughts as shared on twitter.
Crypto, blockchains and the next computing paradigm
How blockchains and crypto bring a new paradigm in computing, what this means and how to identify the areas it could disrupt.
My first take on NFC tags
I recently purchased my first NFC tags. Here are my first impressions and my first experiments.
2020
Ανανέωσα το blog μου
το απλό redesign που οδήγησε ως συνήθως σε διάφορες περιπέτειες...
Ευχάριστη έκπληξη: καλάθι Skroutz + ACS + ELTA Courrier
η πρώτη μου εμπειρία από το καλάθι του skroutz.gr ήταν παραπάνω από θετική.
Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
Analyzing scented candles Amazon reviews.
MagicMirror
What an amazing project!
Apple Silicon vs Intel
...through the eyes of Asimov's Foundation.
Digital nomads και Ελλάδα
Μία συζήτηση στο twitter με τον @nikan για το αν αξίζει να προσελκύσουμε digital nomads στην Ελλάδα και τι σημάινει αυτό.
Trump vs Xi
Comparing Trump's and Xi's speaches at the UN General Assembly
Put roller blade wheels on your office chair
Best Internet advice ever.
I like this twitter-to-blogpost format more and more
Converting tweets to blog posts started as an experiment, but I'll probably stick to it.
Creating a blog post out of a twitter thread.
I'm working on a tool that converts a twitter thread to a blog post. This is an example post.
Απαράδεκτη εξυπηρέτηση από την Cosmote, την Vodafone ή την Wind;
Αν έχετε αισθανθεί θυμωμένοι ή ανήμποροι απέναντι στην κακή εξυπηρέτηση πελατών από Cosmote, Vodafone, Wind, ορίστε τι μπορείτε να κάνετε.
HEY does not support IMAP and that's its most important feature.
HEY.com is a new email service. After spending 14 days with it, here is my take on it.
Ο κορωνοϊός και πως αποβλακώνουμε την δημόσια συζήτηση
Προέρχεται ο ιός από εργαστήριο; Εσύ με ποιους είσαι, με τους συνωμοσιολόγους ή τους αντί-συνωμοσιολόγους;
FTTH στο σπίτι
Από σήμερα έχω FTTH στο σπίτι. Yeeeah!
Weekend project: Unifi UDM + RaspberryPi + UnicornHAT HD
Monitor Unifi Dream Machine traffic with a Raspberry Pi and UnicornHAT HD.
my iPod nano from 10 years ago
The iPod nano 2nd gen was released in September 2006.
etc-hosts.com is a dynamic DNS crafted with care.
How does a paid offering makes sense in a market that is niche, over-saturated with free services and not sexy at all?
2019
iOS 13 Books app and parental controls
Is iOS 13 Books a parent's nightmare, or am I missing something?
Thoughts on turtlecoin public nodes
Changes to trtl.nodes.pub, API results and a possible attack vector.
2018
A "dual" SIM setup with older iPhones (not X+).
You can use two iPhones (one can be a quite old one) and carry only one with you.
ο Cory Doctorow για το Άρθρο13
Είπαν στην Ευρώπη: Μπορείτε να έχετε ελευθερία λόγου ή πνευματικά δικαιώματα, αλλά όχι και τα δύο. [...] Βάζετε τους λαούς σε μία θέση που πρέπει να επιλέξουν και θα επιλέξουν.
How to create an ad hoc, private Instagram with iCloud
iCloud Photo Sharing allows you to create a small, private "Instagram". Here's how to do it.
Maybe Facebook is not the way to reach your potential audience.
Your blog has a feature that Facebook does not: discoverability.
“Social Networks” don’t scale socially
Monolithic, centralised social networking sites do not scale socially.
Sao Paulo
Business trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
My Synology DS916+: a year later.
How I set it up, how I use it and my overall impressions after a bit more than a year with it.
Ποιός ο λόγος ύπαρξης των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων;
Είναι σημαντικό να έχουμε κατά νου ότι τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα δεν υπήρχαν από πάντα, αλλά είναι ένα νομικό κατασκεύασμα. Είναι επίσης σημαντικό να έχουμε κατά νου ότι τα δικαιώματα αυτά αλλάζουν συνεχώς.
Print vs online magazines.
Why do I enjoy reading print magazines when I can find the same articles online?
2017
Where is social for podcasts?
Why isn't there a service where I can show the podcasts I'm subscribed too and the episodes I liked most?
Cryptocurrencies and the Labor of Computers.
Crypto is to CPU cycles what money is to human labor.
Digital currency Industries and Indexes
I think we should create some digital currency indexes based on capitalisation, sector etc.
MONODRAW rocks!
A powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.
A kill switch to countermeasure border controls?
Creating a kill switch that will wipe sensitive data from my computer if asked to unlock it.
Θα είναι το 2017 η αρχή μίας νέας περιόδου για το Internet;
Σκέψεις με αφορμή τα 10 χρόνια από το κλείσιμο του monitor.vrypan.net.
2016
My feed reading setup.
If you miss the freedom RSS used to give us before we started relying on Facebook, read on.
A Driver Mode for smartphones.
Let’s use technology to limit -or even eliminate- distracted driving.
The Ultimatum Game
A social experiment that may offer an explanation about the recent political developments in the world.
How to create a simple ASN.1 parser
Step by step instructions to create a ASN.1 parser using asn1c.
Blog posts without titles.
I find blog post titles restrictive. Here is how I got rid of them.
Making GitHub part of my publishing workflow
How I'm using a github repo as a notebook, and the first steps towards hosting my blog on github.
Dear Qatar Airways, you know nothing about customer care.
How Qatar Airways gave my seat to someone else after I had checked in, turned a 17h itinerary to a 30h one, and acted as if this is a normal thing to happen.
Facebook instant articles first thoughts
Facebook opened up Instant Articles to everyone a couple of months ago. I just had some time to give it a try. To be honest, I like it.
Brexit referendum first thoughs.
Such a pity.
UX tip: Users need your feedback too.
Give your users feedback for their actions. Especially if you are the one who asked them to do something.
Simple bash script for encrypted chat over keybase fs (kbfs)
First impressions of the keybase.io filesystem, and a small bash script to implement a secure, encrypted chat service over it.
Not just what you know, but who you are too.
Privacy and identity are hard to separate.
How to bypass the Netflix VPN ban
So, after all, it seems like the recent Netflix VPN ban can be bypassed —at least for now.
A big Fuck Off by the content industry and Netflix to users worldwide.
How Netflix and the content industry is blocking users who are paying 60% more than the rest to access content legitimately.
POSE with IFTTT
Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere with ifttt.com
Comparing my Facebook to my Instagram feed
It seems that the people I follow can express more interesting things using photos than words.
The annoying state of Internet subscriptions
I’d like to see something that would make “subscribe” a verb of the Internet, like "go” and “contact”.
(Re: Audible) DRM is a defect
Follow up to a reply I got for recommending Audible in my last Letter.
2015
How to archive your tweets
Why not take a backup of all your tweets every now and then?
How to archive your Gmail
Why not make a tradition out of archiving your Gmail at the end of the year? See how easy it is.
My post is a required reading for Yale's MGT656
I'm proud and I had to share. :-)
Testing Twitter ads
The results of a small experiment at getting new subscribers to my newsletter using Twitter lead generation ads and MailChimp form integrations.
Support Matthew Ebel on patreon
Matthew Ebel is an American musician, voice actor, and author whose sci-fi performances have made him Guest of Honor at geek conventions nationwide. —matthewebel.com
Your startup’s blog should be on Medium.
Why your startup's blog (at least the first one) should be on Medium.
A newsletter that turned into something more personal.
Overtime, The Letter has turned from a newsletter to a medium of sharing parts of my life I wouldn't share on my blog any more.
Τι χρειάζεται να κάνει κάποιος για να πουλήσει υπηρεσίες μέσω Internet από την Ελλάδα;
Ας πούμε ότι έχω μία εταιρεία με βάση την Ελλάδα που παρέχει ψηφιακές υπηρεσίες μέσω Internet σε ιδιώτες από όλο τον κόσμο. Π.χ. ένα blogging platform επί πληρωμή. Τι ακριβώς χρειάζεται να κάνω για να κόβω νόμιμα αποδείξεις στους χρήστες μου;
How I keep my twitter feed healthy
If you sometimes check your twitter feed and think there's nothing interesting going on, you are probably doing something wrong: Somewhere, something interesting IS going on for sure, you are just not following the right people.
nodeStorage brings simple S3-based storage to applications written in JS that run in the browser.
On Dave Winer's nodeStorage
Using Bitcoin to buy anything
The first experience of using my prepaid VISA card from e-coin.io.
Bitcoin ATM at The Cube Athens
Using the Bitcoin ATM at The Cube Athens to buy Bitcoin with cash.
A geek, capital controls in Greece and bitcoin.
How capital controls in Greece affected my on-line presence and why I'm giving bitcoin a serious try.
Shutting down longaccess
Longaccess is shutting down. This is not where I planned to be when I started Longaccess, 2.5 years ago. The plan was world domination, yet here I am, having to say goodbye to everything I've worked for in the last 2.5 years. Do I regret it? No! The destination is crappy, but the journey was totally worth it.
Τι φοβάμαι και τι ελπίζω.
Ελπίζω, αύριο, όποιο κι αν είναι το αποτέλεσμα του δημοψηφίσματος, να έχουμε υπόψη μας ότι ο συγγενής, ο γείτονας, ο συνάδελφος που ψήφισε το αντίθετο από εμάς, το έκανε γιατί θεωρούσε ότι αυτό θα είναι καλύτερο για όλους μας. Και με δεδομένο ότι οι επόμενοι μήνες και τα επόμενα χρόνια θα είναι ακόμη πιο δύσκολα, πολύ πιο δύσκολα, από τα προηγούμενα πέντε, να δείξουμε ο καθένας μας την μεγαλύτερη δυνατή ευαισθησία σε θέματα δημοκρατίας.
Ψήφισε ΝΑΙ για να πετύχουμε μία καλύτερη συμφωνία.
Το ξέρω ότι ο τίτλος θα φανεί στους περισσότερους παράλογος, αλλά αν έχετε πέντε λεπτά, ακολουθήστε την σκέψη μου.
Social networking services have failed me. I'm going back to my web 2.0 roots.
For the last couple of years, I've been increasingly relying on social networking services to curate, share, discover and even publish content. Looking back, it think they have failed me and that's why I'm looking for ways to reconnect with my web 2.0 "roots".
I like this little guy
A little mantis on the lemon tree in the back yard of our house.
Does Apple have a Search Strategy? I think so.
They want to unbundle search.
A super-minimal, almost "plain-text" email template for Mailchimp.
How I created a very simple email template for Mailchimp that resembles a lot plain text emails, to send my daily digest.
Post to your GitHub-hosted blog using a simple bookmarklet.
jekyll-post-via-web is a simple HTML page that lets you update your GitHub-hosted Jekyll blog using your browser.
A major tlbx.io update
Automatically organise your Camera Uploads, get notified about changes in your Dropbox via email or Slack, and many bug fixes.
Will heartbeat sharing be the new social gesture?
Aggregating heartbeats can be an interesting social gesture. And subscribing to the aggregate heartbeat of a group can be an interesting new way of connecting with it.
testing my webmentions server
This is a test post to try my own webmentions endpoint at www.listnr.net.
I'm so excited about our BigStash launch!
I used to love the few extra days of staying at home, when it snows in Athens, but this year, it's different :-)
2014
ALIVE INSIDE
An amazing documentary about music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity.
Είμαι με το Taxibeat
Uber ή Taxibeat; Από την οπτική ενός Ελληνικού startup.
Stream 2014 was amazing
This was probably the best event I've ever been to.
I enabled SSL for my S3-hosted static blog
How I used CloudFlare's (free) Universal SSL to enable HTTPS for my S3-hosted static-HTML blog, and a few extra notes.
My little daughter’s first secret.
Secrets are part of human nature.
Apple Pay and the heartbeat sensor on Apple Watch.
My theory behind the heart rate sensor built in Apple Watch
Will printed newspapers become luxury items?
And if so, how?
I don't think that's Why Starbucks Spells Your Name Wrong.
But the truth may be even more amazing, from a different point of view.
Τα ενοχλητικά SMS της ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΗΣ
Τα SMS ήταν η αρχή. Η συνέχεια ήταν ο ορισμός της απαράδεκτα αγενούς εξυπηρέτησης πελατών.
How we use Intercom to engage with our users on Twitter.
Intercom.io is full of nice little features and "social profiles" is one of them. Not part of the core product, but at Deepfreeze.io we've found it to be extremely valuable.
Retiring my DVDs.
DVD is a dying medium, at least for me. Here's how I deal with it.
The right to be forgotten vs. Copyrights.
OK, I know it's not the one vs the other. But still.
browser-based notifications for my blog using Roost
Browser-based push notifications is an exciting feature for web publishers. Use Roost to easily enable it in your website.
Google, Facebook, monarchy and democracy.
It’s not how they use the enormous power they have. It’s who controls it.
How we use Intercom in the deepfreeze.io registration workflow.
I will describe here how we integrated Intercom with our invitation and registration workflow at deepfreeze.io to send user notifications, and how this helps us deliver better services.
Could Apple disrupt Search?
Could Spotlight challenge Google’s dominant position?
Offloading unused Dropbox files to deepfreeze.io
How moving unused or rarely used files from Dropbox's hot storage to deepfreeze.io's cold storage reduced my storage costs and made my Dropbox account more manageable.
Google and “the right to be forgotten”.
Could it be that Google Search has reached its limit to scale?
Fuck. I'm starting a newsletter.
Because that's all we have left.
Longaccess για φωτογράφους γάμων και βαφτίσεων
Είναι μία πολύ πιο κομψή λύση από το DVD που πιθανότατα θα χρησιμοποιούσατε για να παραδώσετε ψηφιακό υλικό στους πελάτες σας, με μεγαλύτερη διάρκεια ζωής.
Old blog post URLs as a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
What if we didn't care to make old blog posts easy to navigate to?
Using Longaccess [video]
A short video showing how Longaccess works. It's really easy to preserve your important files for decades!
why blog pagination URL structure needs restructuring
Blogs are read in reverse chronological order, but their archive should be numbered like a diary, in chronological order. Your /page/1 should show the oldest posts, not the newer ones.
Why and how we put our terms of service on github.
It's nice to say that you are customer-centric, customer-first, etc, but what really matters is how much of this you are willing to put down on paper. Your Terms of Service are the actual contract between you and your clients, not your keynote presentations, or your posts on Facebook and twitter.
Social networks with a purpose.
They have a social graph even if we didn’t notice.
"fragmentions" is a cool idea.
A cool idea that allows us to link directly to any text fragmet inside web pages.
Indianapolis
Σκόρπιες εντυπώσεις από το ταξίδι στην Indianapolis. Ένα post που πήρε 10 μέρες για να φύγει από τα drafts.
Εργαστήριο Personal Digital Archiving από την Longaccess
Πώς θα διατηρήσουμε το οικογενειακό ή το προσωπικό μας αρχείο ώστε να καταφέρει να φτάσει στις επόμενες γενιές; Σε τί μορφή να σώσουμε τα βίντεο και τις φωτογραφίες ώστε να μπορούν να διαβαστούν στο μέλλον; Πώς να οργανώσουμε όλο αυτό το υλικό; Τι να προσέξουμε για να μην χαθούν χρήσιμες πληροφορίες; Ποιες υπηρεσίες και προγράμματα υπάρχουν που μπορούν να μας βοηθήσουν; Και από που να αρχίσει κανείς;
my little daughter's scrapbook and digital content.
It's probably the most valuable thing we will carry with us for the years to come -and something we would definately want to pass on to her when she's old enough to understand.
το μικρό βιβλίο της Χριστίνας
Νομίζω ότι έχω πλέον την ιδανική λύση. Από την μία, τα αρχεία είναι αποθηκευμένα κάπου που δεν χρειάζεται να ασχοληθώ ξανά και θα συνεχίσουν να είναι εκεί για πολλά, πολλά χρόνια. Από την άλλη, έχω κάτι χειροπιαστό και όμορφο που όταν θα το πάρει κάποια στιγμή στα χέρια της δεν θα χρειαστεί τίποτα άλλο για να ανακτήσει το ψηφιακό υλικό.
SSH Back to My Mac
How to remotely SSH to your Macs by taking advantage of Back to My Mac.
just an idea: the kindergarten art archive
What if kindergarten had a long term archive of kids drawings? A public one. Imagine the things you could study if you had access to kids drawings over the years...
ο 'απεριόριστος όγκος δεδομένων' του Cosmote Travel & Surf δεν ήταν απεριόριστος.
Τελικά, τα 15 Ευρώ που πλήρωσα για απεριόριστο όγκο δεδομένων σε ένα πρόσφατο ταξίδι μου, ανακάλυψα ότι ήταν μόνο για 150MB. Γιατί αισθάνθηκα εξαπατημένος και μία πρόταση.
Setting HackerNews "new" page as my browser default page
I decided to make new tabs open the HackerNews "newest" section, to help new posts I like get an initial traction.
2013
Why you can't comment here.
It's been a year I removed comments from my blog, and I've done a lot of thinking on it since. Here is why it worked for me.
Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL
Two reasons why I'll stick to my unfriendly, long, Google+ URL.
my vcsh setup
vcsh is a version control system for $HOME. This is how I've set it up.
When it comes to privacy, proof is better than promise -and it helps us sleep better at night.
As a young tech startup planning to offer cloud storage services, we at Longaccess decided to treat our own service the same way we treat any service we use to store our data: with extreme suspicion.
OS X Finder file color labels
How to use OS X Finder color labels from the command line.
DLI: Distribution, Logic, Interfaces
It could be a software architecture pattern.
Crafting a blog
I'm finally happy with my blog. Not the content. The engine that hosts it.
webmention tests
a dummy post used as testbed for webmentions.
tools we use at longaccess: HipChat
One of the tools we use most at longaccess is HipChat. Here is why.
Showing twitter references in a static blog
Weekend project: How to show under each static blog engine post the tweets that mentioned it.
BitTorent Sync is a great tool for startups.
Our experience with BitTorrent Sync at longaccess has been great.
Don't write off Microsoft in mobile
Microsoft is in a tough place, but they may have the chance to disrupt the ecosystem.
Designing a cloud storage service: pen or pencil?
Embracing limitations by design.
Privacy is not dead
Privacy is not dead, it may very well be the next big thing.
public-key cryptography for non-geeks
It's not as complicated as you think.
replacing the search engine: a distributed query system.
Would it be possible to replace centralized search engines like Google, by creating a "smart" p2p search network? I think so, and in some cases, it shouldn't be so hard to.
Ταλαιπωρία χωρίς τέλος για μία starup από τον OTE. (updated)
Σχεδόν δύο μήνες από τη αίτηση μας για VDSL, ακόμη δεν έχουμε Internet στο γραφείο και κανείς δεν μας λέει γιατί ή πότε θα έχουμε.
συνέντευξη στο fortunegreece.com
Συνέντευξη στο fortunegreece.com για την longaccess.
τα νέα μου: longaccess.com
η καθυστερημένη ανακοίνωση της longaccess στο blog μου
Why we started longaccess.
How did we come up with the idea of longaccess? Here is the true story.
They are social places, not networks
Even though the connections of each individual user are his social network, these sites (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.) are not social networks. They are social networking places.
Privacy, Marketing and the NSA
The dominant business model for online consumer services leaves little room for privacy.
Your 2-year old can use the iPad. So what.
I find it amusing when other parents brag that their kids can use the iPad.
on PRISM and US data hosting
A worried tech entrepreneur’s thoughts after PRISM-related news.
My daughter changed my perception of time.
My daughter turned two a couple of weeks ago. Being a parent is an amazing experience, the kind of experience that makes one think of the world and oneself in a different way.
“future-proof” is a feature I want to see more services offer
“Future-proof is a feature, and an important one, when it comes to hosting my digital life, like my photos, my videos, my thoughts, my on- and off-line activity.”
migrating from iPhoto to Dropbox, from feature rich to future proof.
How I moved from feature rich iPhoto to future proof Dropbox.
my post got 63k visits thanks to HN: the aftermath.
One of my posts got to HackerNews #1 for hours. Here is what I’ve learned and some interesting data.
2012
Πού είναι τα σχόλια;
Μερικές σκέψεις σχετικά με την δυνατότητα σχολιασμού στα blogs. Γιατί το blog μου δεν έχει πια σχόλια;