Essays

Long-form writing on technology, society, and ideas.

• On Knowledge unfinished 2025-09-05

  What happens when our social graph becomes too dense

• Notes on NixOS 2025-08-24

  Things I wish I knew when I started with NixOS in 2019

• Crafting Collective Meaning in a Digital World 2025-05-06

  An opinion piece for a book club in the AFK world

• Building Webapps in 2024 2024-10-24

  Creating apps is about to get very different

• Rules of the Game 2024-07-21

  Winning in a game is leaving it a little wiser than when you started.

• Thoughts on the Davos 2022 World Economic Forum 2022-07-04

  Reflections from a Decentraland co-founder on attending Davos, the metaverse conversation, and coordination problems

• On Computing & Trusting Information 2020-12-01

  A mental model of computers, humans, and interactions between them for the near future

• Sherlock: Writing a Single-Page Application in 2016 2016-01-28

  Building a Bitcoin wallet SPA with Redux — exploring real-world challenges with React and state management

• We Need More CoinJoin 2015-03-29

  Privacy in Bitcoin is not improving as fast as it should — advocating for CoinJoin and transaction privacy